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There is beauty all around us.
ADAM ?
It’s as if leaving Buzzfeed already made him a better artist.
Adam Ellis Renaissance 2018
2018 is the year of artist rebirth
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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!
- Add everything said! No line is too unimportant to be skipped or shortened!
- If everyone is talking at once, add [Name], hyphens to show an interruption, etc.
- 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.
Ditto to all the above.
Don’t rely on auto-generated craptions. Sometimes they fool you: they can seem okay for a few lines, then suddenly have all kinds of weird transcription errors that only a human being can recognize and correct. If you genuinely care about enabling people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have auditory processing disorder actually understanding what is said or done in your videos, then use HUMAN edited captions.
In addition to the tips shared by @plap-slap above:
Also include information on tone of voice, especially in circumstances where the tone of voice conflicts with the facial expression/body language, or where the person’s body language can’t be seen because they’re off screen, or if the tone of voice conflicts with content of what is said. For example, someone says “I’m fine” but they sound angry or sad, then indicating their tone of voice matters in how the viewer interprets the scene. Tone of voice can be indicated in parentheses.
During conversations, be sure to indicate who is speaking, ESPECIALLY for off-screen speakers, but even for on-screen speakers. I can’t count the number of times I have had to re-watch and re-watch a poorly captioned video before finally making sense out of a conversation where it wasn’t clear who was saying which line. Or the number of times that I have belatedly discovered that I had completely misinterpreted what was happening because I thought one person said a thing, when it was actually the other person who said it. You can indicate the speaker similar to how it is done in a script, for example:
Victim: Help, save me!
Supergirl: I will save you!
(Except you might use the victim’s name, if the character has a name.)
It helps if you put a line break and start a new line each time that a different person is speaking. Don’t mush one person’s line into the line of the next person, even if there’s still room to fit it in. START A NEW LINE. This will help signal that the person speaking this sentence now, is not the same person who said the previous sentence.
YES, do indicate noises that are happening, particularly sounds that tell you what is happening off screen or that are not otherwise obvious from the action that we can see on the screen. (Sounds usually go inside parentheses, so they won’t be interpreted as lines being said by people.)
I once watched a scene at the start of a comedic show with Spanish subtitles instead of English captions (for reading practice in Spanish). Foreign translation subtitles usually leave out sound descriptions, so in this scene I just saw a woman who was trying to sleep but tossing restlessly in bed unable to sleep. I thought she just had insomnia and thought the rest of the episode was going to be a series of hilarious attempts to solve the insomnia or something. But then when I got to the next scene, I realized part way into the woman’s conversation with her friends about her restless night that something was REALLY OFF in how I had interpreted what was happening when she was tossing so restlessly in bed. So I went back to re-watch this scene, this time with English captions written for deaf viewers, which meant that it included references to what sounds were happening in the background. This is when I finally understood that there were a lot of random noises in the background–and from the way the woman kept reacting exactly as each sound was reported in the captions, it was so clear that she was reacting directly to each sound, being annoyed and distracted by the sound. So she wasn’t struggling with insomnia, she was struggling with the annoyance of these noises keeping her awake.
Leaving the sounds out of the captions can in some cases COMPLETELY TRANSFORM how deaf/HoH viewers understand or interpret what’s happening on the screen. Sounds convey a lot of information that might not come through in dialogue alone: someone slamming a door off screen or slamming plates or whatever onto a table tells us a lot about their mood, for example.
Is someone knocking at the door? Or calling out someone’s name off screen? Put that in the captions. Are there footsteps being heard in what is otherwise a seemingly empty parking garage? Say that in the captions! Phone ringing? Microwave dinging? Say it in the captions! Any sound that helps us understand what is happening in the environment should be indicated (in parentheses) in the captions.
Any sound that a person reacts to should be indicated in the captions so we understand what they’re reacting to. I have often been confused by characters who just randomly stop talking and look at the door for no immediately apparent reason. Sure, I do usually figure out there must have been either a knock or a doorbell once I see them open the door and see that someone is there. But it would save me that annoying/frustrating moment of confusion if the captions could just SAY that there is a knock or ringing doorbell.
Any important sound that the character is ignoring should also be indicated, so we know the sound is there and realize they’re ignoring it. For example if someone knocks at the door but the character maybe looks at the door but otherwise just ignores it, that tells us they’re either avoiding people in general or maybe ignoring one person in particular who they think might be at the door.
Also: if you see any garbage in the captions, go to edit it, and click the little flag. I don’t know what it does, but I’m pretty sure if a caption YOU write gets flagged enough, you can’t make them anymore.
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do you ever wonder how many strangers hate you because of how someone else described you to them
So I met this girl and we really hit it off. She was so funny, so sweet, so kind. And just had a real gentle way about her. We quickly became friends. A week later, the guy I was dating found out and was furious. Apparently this was his Evil Bitch Ex he had told me allll about.
I was shocked. This sweet wonderful girl didn’t match at all the picture of the Evil Bitch Ex he had described. Turned out, what made her an evil bitch was that she finally got tired of being walked all over and left him. She wasn’t hateful, cruel, selfish, anything like that.
Sometimes I wonder if I am the new Evil Bitch Ex, and I’m so glad I got away lol.
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Kin? No reverse kin. That character is me now, accept it bitch.
dave strider has kin memories from my childhood of getting beat up by the neighbor kids
new ask meme what characters would kin me
(Source: d1nosaurs, via newbarrk)
1r7:
QUICK TELL ME A BULLSHIT ARGUMENT YALL SEEN UP HERE
Tide pod jokes are appropriative of ND culture.
Telling people to go outside is abelist.
“Black washing”
I’m gonna list the best of the best:
Trans men can say dyke
Anorexics have thin privilege
Telling people to not drink soda too much is classism
St*pid is a slur
Not explaining AAVE is ableist
Personal hygiene is misogynistic
Lotioning skin is a result of the patriarchy
The n-word can be reclaimed by non-black groups who’ve been called slurs that have the n-word in them.
Telling radfems to bathe they stank ass coochie is misogynistic.
if you masturbate youre a pedophile
playing minecraft is problematic
ace/bi people have “passing privilege”
(Source: yeezy-nation, via newbarrk)
Saying ‘you shouldn’t be sad because other people have it worse’ is the same as saying ‘you shouldn’t be happy because other people have it better’.
(Source: reddit.com, via mbulteau)
Tbh I think that we just need to acknowledge that there isn’t just some strict binary between “slur” and “not a slur,” like not all words are either slurs 100% of the time or completely safe to use.
I think a lot of the time, whether a word is a slur or not is contextual. Like, who is using this word, and why are they using it? What are they referring to?
Is “cunt” a slur when hurled at female politicians? Usually! Is it a slur when it’s used in erotica because the word “vagina” feels too technical to be sexy? I wouldn’t say so.
“Queer” is a slur when it’s being used by a group of high school football players beating up a GNC kid behind the gym. That doesn’t mean it’s automatically a slur in a college classroom when you’re discussing history.
“Bitch” can be a slur when a guy says it to a woman who turns him down at a bar. It’s not a slur when my friend goes “B I T C H !!!” in excitement when we’re talking about fanfic ideas.
Someone talking about how “The Jews” control the banks is probably using it as a slur. Someone casually referring to their roommate as a Jew just as a factual observation, isn’t necessarily using it as a slur.
And like, this is gonna vary, and people are going to have their emotional reactions to certain terms. That kid who got beat up might be made uncomfortable by the word “queer” even within that college setting. A woman might not like conversations where the word “bitch” is thrown around neutrally.
And that’s fine, that’s understandable, but that doesn’t actually mean that the word in question is always a slur (which goes back to the whole idea that being triggered by something means it’s always inherently bad, which is just an impractical way to conceptualize triggers in general.)
Plus there’s regional differences between what’s a slur and how severe it is.
Like Americans see “cunt” as a very severe, very misogynistic word. Whereas a lot of flavours of british people use it in the same way we do “bastard” and “fucker”, and even endearingly sometimes towards friends. It doesn’t have the same shock value to a lot of people here, you’ll hear someone call their mate “a bit of a daft cunt” on the bus and if you’re under 50 and not very middle class, it barely registers.
The regional differences thing is exactly why I find “but i’m nonUSian and only assholes use the q slur here!” incredibly weird.
Okay, but I’m not telling you to be an asshole. I’m telling you that a USian who posts about “queer rights” isn’t necessarily an asshole, so don’t ride them like one.
This might be the most reasonable post I’ve seen on this topic to date.
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*gets home*
*breaks knuckles* time to shit myself to sleep again bohswait no its cracks knuckles
wait no its cry myself to sleep
dont reblog this stop it