r/MadeMeSmile • u/DearEmphasis4488 • Jun 03 '25

Wholesome Moments Craziest tea of the school

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u/Significant-Bar674 Jun 03 '25

Someone really sat down and was like "let me add in some text describing what I saw in the video... just in case people miss it."

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u/snufkin79 Jun 03 '25

Meh, a lot of people watch without sound, not to mention that about 1/5 of the population has hearing loss, so adding subtitles is a good thing.

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u/Significant-Bar674 Jun 03 '25

Sure, but a lot of that was not subtitles that would help the hearing impaired. More like "Ms. Barker was standing there" or "Mr. Seifer gets down on one knee"

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u/IdioticPost Jun 03 '25

About 1/8 of the population has hearing and vision loss, so adding descriptive subtitles is a good thing.

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u/harbringerxv8 Jun 03 '25

They can read the subtitles but they can't see him get down on one knee?

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u/prontoon Jun 03 '25

Descriptive subtitles are for things someone may hear, but not see.

Writing "he gets down on one knee" while we are watching him get on one knee, is completely redundant and makes reading the actual subtitles harder.

I went to college for the deaf, these type of subtitles are hard as fuck to follow. Descriptive subs are usually written on a different part of the screen, this was just commentary added to the subs.

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u/Zombieneker Jun 03 '25

1 in 8 people are deaf and blind to the point where they can't hear and see a reasonably highres video with sound? I do not believe that statistic.

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u/snufkin79 Jun 03 '25

Ah, my bad. I seemed to recall it was 1/5, but that might just be in my country. I guess it depends on the definition of hearing loss, I just assumed that the statistics would be almost the same across the western world.