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

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I don't understand how it makes people more attentive to have this text.

Marketing 101: design for sound off.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago

I hate subtitles incrusted in the video itself, like Tiktoks style on youtube shorts etc.

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).