This is discriminatory against those who need the captions to use this platform. Thank you for spreading the word and I will definitely be signing the petition.
5 years ago
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Why would they take them off? It makes no sense and would just anger a lot of people
5 years ago
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Sign it, I need them, English is not my mother language and some pronunciations are hard to catch for me, I believe that a lot of people in the same position as me need them as well.
5 years ago
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signed. those captions genuinely help people and I can't imagine having to put up with yt without them.
5 years ago | 4
This is terrible omg why the heck would they think this is a good idea
5 years ago
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Deaf people and anyone that need captions exist YouTube: Were just going to ignore that-
5 years ago | 99
Thank you for this, I sent it to some friends to spread the word. Hope they dont take 'em away 😥
5 years ago | 0
? Youtube, what’s the reasoning behind this? What about people who need captions to understand like deaf people and people who speak different language from the video?
5 years ago | 65
Not only would this be a loss for those who are impacted in some way but also for those who are learning a new language / are looking to train their translation abilities. Overall I don’t see any benefits to getting rid of this function and a bunch of downsides.
5 years ago | 6
That's absolutely disgusting, why would they do that? I use them all the time wtf
5 years ago | 13
At this point it's like YouTube has nothing to do, and they just did this....what's the point of getting rid of captions...
5 years ago | 27
I love watching shows, videos and music videos from other countries. I would hate it if I couldn’t do that for free anymore.
5 years ago | 3
How can they have such a dumb decision??? I'm literally freaking out. Dude, why??? I literally only met musicals like Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Heathers etc BECAUSE OF THEM. I discovered a whole new passion and then they do that. I "manage" with my level of English, but what about people who don't know anything? How are they going to deal with this? This is horrible. I was even subtitling videos, like yours from Six and Beetlejuice and I love it. I don't want to stop anytime soon. After all, who knows if anyone saw my subtitles and fell in love with musicals like me? I really hope they’ll come back with that. Oh, and sorry for my bad English, I'm a Brazilian :) kkkk. Well, that's it. I just wanted to express my frustration. Oh, and i LOVE your videos! Keep up the good work!
5 years ago | 0
Thanks for sharing!! signed and shared. As a paid professional caption editor, you'd think I'd be all for the end of community captions, but I'm firmly against the decision to revoke the feature. I got started in my career thanks to my volunteer experience creating captions on Youtube! Not only do community captions allow greater accessibility to HOH and deaf audiences, the program within Youtube is an incredibly useful educational tool. Small creators likely CANNOT AFFORD to pay for captions, the automatic captions are not very accurate or easy to read, and if people are willing to volunteer their time to help others Youtube should NOT take that opportunity away from them!! Of course if creators are capable of paying captioners, they SHOULD as it isn't easy work, and generally you get what you pay for as the saying goes. That said, volunteer subtitles on a platform like Youtube built by small creators is incredibly important. Nothing about this decision makes any sense and I am firmly against it. 6 months of Amara is nice but absolutely a band-aid solution to make people less angry.
5 years ago
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Oh no 😭 I love the captions! They help me focus on the videos because I space out a lot (dunno why) :/ and I love making them for other people (especially for non English videos making English captions
5 years ago | 0
i didnt know about this til now, thank you for bringing this to my attention. ive signed and WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOUTUBE THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA!?!?!
5 years ago | 2
Ok at this point I feel like YouTube wants less people to watch videos if the ya re getting rid of captions like come on!!!! So many people need them!
5 years ago | 11
definicious
hey u guys!! apparently youtube is gonna get rid of community captions for all videos on september 28 and i know the effects will be horrible for everybody who uses captions/subtitles for videos
i think accessibility to videos for everyone is important and the people who take the time to make the subtitles are beyond helpful and honestly its annoying that theyre trying to dismantle that work by having people pay for something that should always be free :/
theres a petition going around, if u could read/sign it, it would be appreciated !!
chng.it/XMjHmrpGbS
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