• Ech@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Stop

    captioning

    every

    word

    individually.

    It

    is

    absolutely

    useless

    and

    distracting.

    • HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s a built in CapCut captioning effect widely used by video editors on TikTok.

      Speed reader applications have demonstrably proven that people can process word sequences MUCH quicker when you show sentences to them this way.

      You can be annoyed by the style and how obtuse it looks in scale relation to the actual video content, but utility-wise, it’s objectively the “easiest to digest” way to display subtitles / captions.

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        3 days ago

        Seriously. By the time I could actually focus on the word, it was on the screen for 2 more frames before disappearing.

    • _cryptagion @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      This is the better way to caption things, actually. It improves both your reading speed and comprehension, especially when it’s something like this where the person is talking quickly. Something about how your brain recognizes words.