Keep the circus music. It's infinitely better than the brain rot TikTok music that's everywhere. But I thought we were past the mid-2000's laugh tracks glued over videos.
Even just sitting there and assessing the composition of the video, it's an abomination. 50% of the screen is white, actual video is for some reason relegated only to the bottom half of the screen. Useless caption with emojis. That wasn't enough to get a point across so here's 3 more laughing emojis overlaid on the video content. Stupid persistent laugh track.
We're going to be watching videos the size of a postage stamp with 95% of of the screen dedicated to solid colour and an army of emojis, mispelled useless text and multiple deep fried, distorted hysterical laugh tracks.
I've been thinking about this. Non-english speakers who are learning through immersion by consuming a large amount of videos that have these crappy auto-generated subtitles are a little bit fucked in the long run. It struggles with British and Scottish accents, generally will butcher a turn of phrase or things like a place or a persons name.
They're not reliable but the learner may not know any better, and I get the feeling in a few years time there'll be a few conversationally fluent people who will carry and exhibit these mistakes without even realising it.
The annoying thing for me is that subtitles in general are for people who are hard of hearing/deaf, yet this trend of single word subtitles makes them next to useless for their primary purpose. The fact that they are plastered right in the middle of the clip, forcing me to watch for their inevitable self butchery, is the crappy icing on the crappy cake.
Agree that they're a terrible way to learn another language.
Watching The Simpsons while on holiday is far superior :D
FYI: Often these crappy subtitles are not auto-generated. They're wrong on purpose to bait some engagement in the comments trying to point out how bad they are or to correct them. It's a pretty common engagement bait tactic, same with censoring a random word like saying "ban*na" to spark controvery in the comments as to why it is censored.
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u/KFizzleKyle 9d ago
Keep the circus music. It's infinitely better than the brain rot TikTok music that's everywhere. But I thought we were past the mid-2000's laugh tracks glued over videos.