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Anytime I watch anything these days
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Why would you hate forced subtitles? How many languages do you speak to beg annoyed by that??
I hate having subtitles when I don't want them. My eyes keep being drawn to reading them and it's very distracting when you want to concentrate on the content itself.
Yeah, I think there is a misunderstanding.
You are probably talking about hard-subs or full subtitles that are enabled by default.
"Forced subtitles" specifically refers to subtitle that translate only non-default language or signs (like when someone speaks Spanish in an English movie).
Hate both types of forces subs
Can you elaborate on why for the later?
If you're watching a movie in English and the bad guys are suddenly speaking a few lines of Russian to each other, why would you not want subtitles for that? Or if the movie shows a sign in a foreign language? It's often integral to the plot to have that information.
The key is "forced". I want to be able to choose.
Not in my experience.
Forced Subs are just that - substantial are always forced on.
Now which ones are forced on depends in the video and player.
I hate subtitles incrusted in the video itself, like Tiktoks style on youtube shorts etc.
If I want subtitles, I'll click sur subtitles button. Now there is this giant text flashing in the middle, that I absolutely no need to read to understand as I understand well enough; but that flashing text make me not see what is shown.
I don't understand how it makes people more attentive to have this text, because of these I focus on the text itself rather than what it's talking about or what is shown on the video; and CAN'T F*CKING ignore them cause of TDAH wanting me to see that moving thing just here
Marketing 101: design for sound off.
Those are "hardsubs" and they are indeed the worst.
But "force subtitles" is something you actually want to have by default. They are the ones that translate languages other than the default languages (like when someone speaks Spanish in an English movie).
I hate the opposite: on some streaming plateform when you're watching something in original version + subtitles(also original) and the forced subtitles aren't showing.