A Very Important PSA To The Youtube Community!!

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I’m going to make this as quick as possible before you scroll by this with boredom, I swear to you it’s very important. 

Please end craptions.

I was just watching the “Who Killed Markiplier,” series and being very hard of hearing, use closed captions for everything I watch. In this case, the captions ruined some of it for me. 

Very few Youtubers caption their own videos, even less have good volunteers for it. Please don’t scroll by just yet, and remember that you’re not the only one who enjoys watching videos. 

Many captions are awful, spoiling, or downright ableist with several slurs. Here is an example that actually makes me sick to my stomach. 

If you have to time to help out the Deaf/Hard of Hearing community by captioning videos, here are some examples of what not to do.

• Please do not add your own commentary. 
  
• Please don’t put your own sentences in parenthesis. 
  
• Please no “That’s what she said,” Lenny Faces, or XD’s in your captions. 
  
• Please don’t add actions if they’re visible on camera. 
  
• Please don’t add things such as “*Sassy face.* “(Bye Felicia!)” etc. 
  
• Don’t add things such as  [ ___ is tired of ___ shit.]
• For things like Antisepticeye, or Darkiplier, don’t type  ļị̱̙k͇̺͚͜e̫ ͙̩th̞i҉̭̯̙s͕̠̪͍̤͞, it’s too hard to read and captions go by fast.

Things you can do!

1. Add everything said! No line is too unimportant to be skipped or shortened! 
2. If everyone is talking at once, add [Name], hyphens to show an interruption, etc. 
3. Add [Offscreen] and the noise heard/things said. 

Just remember this, if it’s not in the video, don’t put it in the captions!!

Thank you, and love from this HoH kid.