#ryann graham

[wearewatcher]

and my flight was awful, thanks for asking

[magnus-is-swagness]

Matching icons for when you and your bestie find out that a singing cloud knows who committed the JFK assassination 💕🥰

[marksandrec]

Marks and Rec: Misc #2517

Ryan: "Dude, come on." (Dialogue from tumblr.)

[fandoms-unite]

[trans-pilled]

i’m just like ryann

[sweetaspiesammy]

it’s back!! ​the c dogs bit has returned!!

[lumiereandcogsworth]

shout out to the fake!professor’s evil joker laugh that will now forever haunt my dreams

[watcherwatts]

SHE CAME BACK TO US !!!!!

[ostensiblynone]

Prof: YOU STEP AWAY! Ryan: Oh, you think that's - that intimidates me? I could be silent too, watch. [staring contest ensues] Prof: (screaming)

America’s First Black Aviatrix • Puppet History Season 5 Episode 4 Dec 2, 2022

[justthewayitbe]

*Opens up Tumblr*

Alright are we ready to freak out over the new Puppet History episode? It's been 5 hours now

[between-awake-and-asleep]

c dogs bit is back everybody

[wearewatcher]

another addition in the puppet history game we like to call WHAT’S IN THE BOX

[magnus-is-swagness]

If you ask me, they are cut from the same cloth

[a-mild-malady]

my grandma: what are you listening to?

me, pausing the hannibal asmr of will talking about murder that i play to relax:... taylor swift.

[acespeon]

did. did they just pan up to the fucking asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs????

[spillingthefarm]

Ok but the issue is that these captions lose sight of who and what captions are supposed to be for. Captions are supposed to be there to ensure an equitable viewing experience for d/Deaf/HoH/APD viewers-- an experience as identical as possible to the hearing viewer's experience. When you have a different "cutesy" caption for the same logo ping in each video, Deaf people are EXCLUDED from the full joke. A Deaf fan may remain forever unaware that it's just the same trademark logo ping being played each time and may really believe that a different funny sound is being played each time. Who actually has access to this joke? Only people who can hear. So instead of creating an equitable viewing experience for Deaf people, the inequity is actually Exacerbated instead. These captions are not being written for Deaf people's Needs in mind; they are being written for hearing people's Enjoyment.

Also I can think of one other sound that did get censored in favor of cutesy captions. There was a Too Many Spirits episode where someone said "meow." The captions, instead of printing like four characters for meow, said something like "the sound that Shane's good boy OB makes" which took up Significantly more space on the screen in the very short time it took to say meow; thus it was this huge line that just flashed there and would have made anyone who didn't hear and couldn't read fast enough Very confused. This example is even worse than the logo ping because it is not only a joke, it is an inside joke that requires requisite knowledge that Shane has a cat and that the cat's name is Obi. If you did not have this knowledge and could not or did not hear the audio, you would have No Idea what had just been said. It also gives me the uncomfortable impression that the subber gets very bored while working on subtitles, wish they didn't have to do it, and is trying to blow off steam lol. That's just the impression it gives, not saying it must be true. I really hope they have replaced this bad sub with meow by now. If I find it again I'll link it.

If Watcher really wants to continue with jokey subs that only hearing people and some HoH/APD people can enjoy, they can-- but they must provide alternate, true CC as well. I am referring to the fact that you can have multiple versions of subs on a YouTube video. You can provide English: Winky Face as well as English: CC for Deaf and hard of hearing. This is common to see on home media/streaming platforms, where people who can hear but need a lil help at times can select regular English, which only describes dialogue, not sound effects, while d/Deaf people or anyone else who needs it will select English: CC, in which non dialogue sound will additionally be described, and accurately. Although the easiest and best solution is to just stick with a single track of subs and have it be as accurate CC as possible. The goal of your CC should be to make sure d/Deaf/HoH/auditory processing disorder folks can derive the same amount of enjoyment from your content as a hearing viewer would-- not to turn to your hearing viewers and be like here, these extra jokes are just for you. Because that results in hearing people who have the subs on getting More content and enjoyment from that content than Deaf people. When hearing people somehow end up with even More access than Deaf people to what is supposed to be the same content, that defeats the purpose of providing CC in the first place. Closed captioning is about providing equity to the people who need it, not about winking at the people who don't.

Also it's not lost on me that providing any official subs at all is already above and beyond what most YouTubers do for accessibility. Thank you Watcher. I am grateful, but also tired of seeing hearing fans praise the subs when they're not fully accessible to the people who actually Need them lol.

Some more on issues in Watcher video subs (mysterious new character Dix that only subs-on fans know about). Some of their series do CC better than others, so it's probably multiple people who work on subs.

@wearewatcher

@everwizard feel free to hook me up with those mutuals, I would love to hear what they have to say about this kind of issue and what their experience with watching Watcher content has been.

Whoever makes these little subtitles c’mere let me give you a lil kiss on the head