Five Things You Can't Do On British Television
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2020
- Pull down this description for information on all the shows I mention, plus all my references, and some advice if you're looking to subtitle your videos!
🔤🔤 SUBTITLES 🔤🔤
15% of my viewers watch with subtitles! They're helpful for folks without headphones, or in loud environments, or who can't hear well, or who just like subtitles. More people will watch if subtitles are an option.
Before 2020, UA-cam had a volunteer community-captions system. Alas, due to spam (and, I suspect, the difficulty of porting it to the new Studio), UA-cam turned it off. So your options are:
OPTION 1: DO IT YOURSELF
If your video is one or two people talking, you can add subtitles easily with UA-cam's tools: support.google.com/youtube/an... - that's also possible for more complex videos, but it can be time-consuming.
OPTION 2: PAY A SMALL AMOUNT
If you can afford an editor, you can afford subtitles! They only cost $1-2 per minute of audio.
For simple audio, try Rev: www.rev.com/blog/coupon/?ref=... To be clear, that's an affiliate link: you get $10 of captions free (enough for up to an 8-minute video), and I get a kickback from them. However, my opinions of Rev are mixed. They have downsides, and they may not be the right option for you!
Advantages of Rev:
✅ Extremely fast turnaround
✅ Easy, simple, automated, self-service
✅ Reasonable price
Disadvantages of Rev:
🚫 Rev is a gig-economy company, with everything that entails. In 2019, transcribers raised issues including low pay. www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/2...
🚫 Accuracy is usually acceptable for clear speech, but not the near-perfect results you'd expect from a more high-end subtitle company.
🚫 They're limited to their simple, narrow, house style. That isn't ideal for videos with long sentences or many speakers.
For more complicated audio or for multiple speakers, try Caption+: caption.plus -- a small company that produces extremely high-quality subtitles for a reasonable price.
Advantages of Caption+:
✅ Exceptional subtitle accuracy.
✅ Hand-tweaked broadcast-standard subtitles that are perfect for accessibility, and which the audience love.
✅ Can use positioning and per-speaker colors, and match other style requests.
✅ Still a reasonable price.
Disadvantages of Caption+:
🚫 Not automated: you're dealing with a human by email, and paying invoices.
OTHER COMPANIES: I also used 3PlayMedia once, but unfortunately can't recommend them based on that experience. UA-cam also mention ceilo24 and Amara, neither of which I have experience with: cielo24.com/ amara.org/
📺📺 SHOWS 📺📺
Here's a list of all the shows mentioned, with links where available. (Where Amazon links are listed, those are affiliate links, where I earn a commission from sales.)
The Demon Headmaster is available on DVD from Amazon UK: amzn.to/37Cb68U - and the 2019 revival is available in the UK on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...
Derren Brown: The Events: How To Control The Nation is available for free on UA-cam: • Derren Brown | The Eve... - although it lacks the live broadcast cut-ins.
The pilot episode of Crisis Command: Could You Run The Country? has been uploaded to UA-cam here: • BBC2 3rd February 2004... - normally I wouldn't link to an unofficial upload, but the series will likely never be repeated or see a commercial release.
Ghostwatch is available on DVD from Amazon UK: amzn.to/3kweAgL - I should absolutely have put the ghost in the background of one of my shots here, I regret missing that joke!
The full Ghostwatch continuity announcement is here: • Ghostwatch Continuity ...
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire have an entire UA-cam channel. / millionaireuk - and yes, Jeremy Clarkson is the host now, I suspect that'll surprise a lot of people.
📙📙 REFERENCES 📙📙
Ofcom Broadcasting Code: www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
On sports: www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
On access: www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
On advertising: www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and... AND www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asset...
"Only five complaints" about the Derren Brown show is from Broadcast Bulletin 148 [PDF]: www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/asset...
Ghostwatch, and the "full tabloid fury afterwards", is well-documented in many places, so I'll leave researching that to the reader. Don't have nightmares.
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This video has a correction! The final "sixth thing", the rule on advertising breaks, was superseded in 2008 by a different rule that requires that "the integrity of the programme is not prejudiced" and adverts must be placed "where natural breaks occur". The old Code is still on Ofcom's site, and I missed the replacement. Back when Millionaire started, those throws-to-commercial were definitely not allowed, but it's now more ambiguous. You can see all corrections on this channel at www.tomscott.com/corrections/
I wonder if this new pin is why it reappeared in my algorithm even though I've watched this before
Thx for the update :)
When ITV went to a break on the last lap of the F1 and pissed off a nation
@@shorv It just appeared in my recommendations too, even though I've watched the video before. Glad it did though. It's nice to get updates on older videos.
cut down on the the MDMA mate
"You are not allowed to disrupt a show with an ad."
"Oh no"
[Ad break]
"Anyway"
genuinely funny. nice.
"Is it the Dacia Sandero?"
Wait. That's illegal.
I was expecting something silly like “you can’t show the Queen from the back on Tuesdays”, but these all seem very reasonable
Football on a Saturday afternoon at 3pm.
t u e s d a y
They can't show footage from the house of commons in a satirical context. John Oliver has talked about that multiple times on Last Week Tonight!
@@rice_frying_shrimp well. You gotta enshrine it in law that you can't make fun of it when your legislation is done through people arguing with weird noises, sarcastic "his honorable goodness" and some guy screaming "oh-dah, oh-dah"
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As an American I envy that 12 minutes of advertisement per hour rule so damn much. We're lucky to have 12 minutes of _show_ per _half_ hour. It's gotten so bad that re-airings of older episodes of different shows have had parts of them completely cut out (with no effort spared to smooth the transition), not because of censorship, not because of offense, but just to squeeze in more frickin' ads.
For real. Honestly, I think this is a subconscious reason why many people, including myself, have switched to mostly non-traditional video media (UA-cam, Netflix, etc.) over TV. Obviously there are other reasons, but adblock is fantastic for youtube and many other streaming services don't even have ads. Like, why would I pay hundreds of dollars for a TV package that is just 33% ads, when I can pay 20 for netflix and get no ads at all.
@@trumpetperson11 as someone who lives both in Belgium and the US, I was surprised how many ad breaks there are on American television, even for the same shows. But cutting the cord may also be a big thing to Americans because I feel like they pay way more for internet and TV, and arguably the service is… worse. I pay less than 0.1% of my income for 2000 TV channels. Where I lived in the US, you couldn’t get cable for under $50/mo.
In the UK for example, you can get like 70 channels for free (which is what those towers in the video are for), including video on demand. Free TV doesn’t exist in Belgium anymore (although all public channels are available online, and you can get free, basic access to the internet to watch those).
I’m not aware of alternatives like this where I lived in the US (California). I can absolutely understand people wouldn’t wanna pay close to $100 on TV and internet, and find alternatives. In fact, Hulu is very reasonably priced, but if you add Live TV, it becomes insanely expensive. Not sure why but this + all those ads… I can understand people are tired of it.
@@arx4-571 It doesn't help that a lot of companies will bundle their TV and internet. So, you feel like you might as well get the TV package. But then I never ended up using it, other than for sports.
I'm British and I like playing "spot the American ad breaks" on your sitcoms that are imported here. There's normally a transition screen (like the atom one on The Big Bang Theory) that you'd get an ad in, but we just get the next scene.
@@arx4-571 The UK also has a TV tax (TV license), which there would be rioting if the US government tried to do that even though it would allow us to fund free access channels and reduce cable costs. Well, rioting but mostly lobbying from private broadcasting corporations.
I've always respected Tom for including subtitles. I'm not hearing-impaired, but there are occasions where I can't watch with sound on, and Tom's reliability is very much appreciated.
I love the hot sauce video subtitles, he even said “subtitles team you can go all out, normally you over-describe things but now you can do that as much as you want” (that’s definitely not a direct point but conveys the same meaning)
I love the sudden cut to
“Ooh look at me I bought a Lamborghini - Buy Some Damn Subtitles!”
Best Tom Scott line, possibly ever
Slagging off some car youtubers there I feel... :-)
Also-
I love Tom so much 😂
I won't ever understand those teens bragging about thier moms new car on yt. And why they are so popular that in few days the said teen might buy one for himself and make another brag vid about it
"Oh, look at me, I bought a lamborghini-"
"BUY some damn subtitles! Also-"
*Cutscreen*
That cracked me up
Agreed, that was hilarious
It wasn’t that long ago, when I had only 47 lamborghinis in my hollywood account.
6:09
I thought it was so funny 😂
"Buy some damn vowels!"
I remember watching American shows on British TV (usually kids shows but not always) and noticing moments when characters would repeat something they'd just said, or there would be a weird transition in the middle of a scene. I now realise that these were where the extra ad breaks you're allowed in the US would go.
i remember Cartoon Network at one point squeezing the credits into a small box on the side, then they showed the proceeded network's schedule.
Can we just appreciate that Tom got and read a whole hypnosis textbook just to make one small point? I mean, that’s dedication.
IKR I am really into hypnosis and it was crazy hearing him talk about it
"Got" probably means "read at a library"; "read a whole hypnosis textbook" probably means "looked in the index or table of contents for the part that he wanted."
“Oh look at me, I bought a lamborghini”
“BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES”
~Tom, 2020
Someone could include that in a new Tom Scott out of context video
Legit made me chuckle
That cracked me up way more than it has any right to. xD
E
@@zerg230 anyone who do Tom Scott out of context should do subtitle too.
That “time for a break” straight to an ad cut is just _brilliant_
ikr
Oof
F*cking brilliant!
To me it felt more as a middle finger
Almost like it was planned
THANK YOU!!! As someone who watches subtitles because they don’t have headphones, I am so happy with channels who use actual subtitles and not just the “auto generated” ones that never quite say what they are supposed to.
"...ones that never quite say what they are supine toad."
I mean, does your monitor have speakers?
@@Someone-sc2hk Most modern ones usually don't since headphones or external speakers are the norm now.
@@charliedobbie8916 Those would be the otter Jenny raided subtitles, I suspect.
@@Someone-sc2hk if you’re trying to quietly watch something, say in a public space like a bus
As a person with a disabled partner it’s of paramount importance that subtitles are available. If you had trouble understanding people’s verbal speaking you wouldn’t be able to enjoy telly without subtitles and it’s important to remember that.
@Anonymous because people with this opinion are homosexuals.
@@letsmakeit110oh my jode?!?! gays!?!??! craaaaaaaazy
@@karlovisttimes8271 here's a homie with an extra chromie. you must be that guy's "partner"
@@letsmakeit110 lmfaoooooo
@Anonymous cause wives get offended when their husband accidentally refers to them as their fiance after the wedding, so "partner" avoids the problem :)
7:45 " And the host says: *Time for a break* "
(UA-cam Ad Starts)
Tom proved his point breaking the 3.5th Wall
Very clever of him.
That is amazing
Jokes on you I didnt get ads
adblock go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Ha ha! I noticed the same thing! XD Good job Tom Scott! 👍
Jeremy Clarkson: "time for a break"
*UA-cam ad starts immediately*
I'm not complaining this time
When does tht happen
@@ivorreal 7:47
I appreciated this placement.
Ewww you've got ads? Just set up the free trial on new accounts. Haven't had ads in months
@@youtubesucks4197 i bet you watch twitch, dont even *TALK* to me.
As someone who isn’t actually deaf, I have a hard time hearing and understanding voices. Even in real life it can be hard, so subtitles are a big deal. User created subtitles being removed from UA-cam has made life hard
UA-cam spams me with subtitles on almost every youtube video. Its a feature i cant turn off on the ios app. I didnt know people had the opposite problem
Accessibility adjustments are for everyone who needs them. Subtitles are so damned necessary for so many different people, that mandating them almost everywhere just makes sense. :-)
@@nralbers i get your point, but i should be able to disable them and not them forcing themselves on myself
@@maxkorner1123 Well obviously they should be a choice! But they should be available for those who want them.
And frankly, that's just bad app design.
Tom: "This should apply to UA-cam as well."
UA-cam: *Removes community captioning.*
WHAT?!
Please don't forget, UA-cam Censor swear words on auto captioned videos.
@@PlierPieBox This is true.
@@PlierPieBox youtube used to have community subtitles, if a youtube video didnt have subtitles or was in a different language a user could fill out subtitles on the video. They no longer have this feature
@@bazza_oz This! I find that very insulting to us Deaf people.
"Oh look at me, I have a Lamborghini
BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES"
Jeremy Clarkson: time for a break
UA-cam: AD PLAYS
Tom Scott 2020
The algorithm knows the meaning of those words.
Looks like the only one who was going to say exactly that!
@@LaughingOrange you can choose where to put ads
It’s because Tom put the ad there 😂 UA-camrs can choose when their ads are, it’s the lil yellow thing for anyone who didn’t know.
me: laughs in AdBlock
On the topic of ads in the US, even little kids' shows are prone to it. One time, it played the credits of the end of an episode, then cut to commercial. Then it came back from commercial to play the intro theme of the next episode, and then went back to commercial.
Im not a native english speaker, and I'm always thankful for those who puts subtitles in their videos, because it's so much easier to understand what they are saying, since most of the time I can't clearly figure out what's the idea because of the accent, slangs, etc. So again, thank you very much for doing and promote it. This channel fascinates me
Too..
writes the best sentence in english and says sorry for bad england.... youre all the same and thinkyou foreigners are bots
Bravo for posting your mid roll ad right when Clarkson says “Time for a break” 😂
Ad placement is quickly becoming an art form.
The ads are placed by an algorithm, not him
Does the content provider (ie Tom) get to chose exactly where the mid-roll ads go?
@@butteredcoffee4210 I thought you could place where the mid roll ads should occur if you wanted to
@@tonylock7657 Yes, bigger channels have that ability
"Ohh, look at me, I've bought a lamborghini! - BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES!"
Tom Scott is becoming more iconic by the minute
i hope the rant gets published as a extra
@@rrp6405 same, I enjoy those rants alot
by 12 minutes
GET SOME GOD DAMN:
subtitles
@@buksi6342 for those who bought the earplugs, but can't get them out
I experienced Ghostwatch when I was 15 years old, in the house alone. I did not see the announcement at the start and I can testify as to why that rule is helpful. I was really affected briefly on the night - totally freaked out. It was a great program and I had it on VHS and DVD and I am even glad I had the experience in retrospect because it was one of those things you get excited to say you were there. But I realise it probably affected some people really badly. I'm sure I wasn't happy at the time
I watched Ghostwatch when I was 13 and I have never been so scared in my life. I never actually got to see the end because it ran over my bedtime. I lay in bed shivering for ages trying to think of something else.
Some people might have been more seriously affected, unfortunately
Hardly anyone saw the continuity announcement as the show started at the odd time of 9:25. The BBC totally set out to hoax people no matter what they said after. If it was meant to be seen as a drama why did they have all the presenters played by known TV personalities playing themselves. Hoax all the way.
I watched it while home alone, and wasn't yet old enough to apply a reasonable judgement about what I was seeing. I still get nervous turning off the light when leaving a cellar.
@@dshe8637 Seems to have caused at least one suicide and at least two cases of short-term PTSD diagnosed in children who'd been watching.
the subtitles thing is so important to me. I'm neurodivergent, and a side effect of that is my Audio Processing Disorder, which makes it hard for my brain to process sounds and speech as its happening, especially when there are other noises in the background. The subtitles give me something to latch onto so i can understand and follow a video better!
Tom's channel has always been one of my favorites, not just because of its content, but also because I can consistently understand and absorb what is happening BECAUSE of the subtitles. Every single video!
I can’t watch without subtitles either for the same reason (technically I can I just miss half of what’s said and don’t understand it)
exactly the same for me
This. Sometimes I just need silence. So subtitles are great.
British Television: 12 minutes of ads per hour max.
American Television: 1 hour of ads per 12 minutes min.
PBS: *Laughs In No Commercials*
Laughs in TV dying
This was the 1 of the biggest culture shocks for me while in the U.S. my god, the ads...the constant, *constant* ad breaks. It's akin to Chinese water torture, aaaaagh!
per 12 minutes max*
@@eroth1008 joke
Clarkson: “Time for a Break”
Me: -gets ads-
My god, Tom, what a genius move.
Is it demonetized i didn't get any ads
@@AhmedIbru you’ve probably got Adblock on, I don’t know I time where Tom Scott’s videos have ever been demonetised
@@baconwizard i don’t have a blocker. I didn’t get ads either. Also I saw/heard no one say “time for a break”
@@courtney-ray the you didn’t watch it all?
@@courtney-ray it's right towards the end, about 1 minute before the video ends
As a deaf guy, THANK you for the subtitle rant! I just want to watch what everyone else is...
I guess they have successfully argued that the suspense before revealing if an answer is correct is part of the flow of the show and is not interrupted but even enhanced by the ad break.
Not gonna lie, I’ve never laughed- nevermind literally laughed out loud- at a midroll ad before. Absolutely well played.
I was expecting it because I've read the comments. Still laughed.
I was just about to make the same comment 😂 perfectly timed made me laugh
@@inkasaraswati7625 I was confused by this, but I have UA-cam premium. I thought there was some sort of in video ad that I missed.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one XD
This is peak comedy folks
We've done it
Ha I didn’t get it
But I don’t have premium or red or anything so why not
🤔
Could it have to do with being on mobile maybe there’s less adds or something
“Time for a break”
*Ad plays*
Damn you Tom!
I saw no adverts in this video at all and no I'm not using any blockers I'm on my phone
Did it for me too
I was cackling.
@@mrkeefor the very end at the Who Wants to be a Millionaire clip.
Me who uses adblock: I don't have such weakness
Thank you so much for being vocal about accessibility. I'm visually impaired, so subtitles don't directly help me, but I will always make noise for folks with disabilities, and it's really heartwarming when someone does so from on stage.
Captions don't just come from "the caption company". Of that "$2 a minute maximum", a fraction actually goes to the caption writers, who are "freelance" contractors at the mercy of the company. It takes about 3 hours to put quality captions on a 30 minute video. You'll get about $9 for it. I had to do it to afford food when I was really, really hard up. I signed an NDA so I can't go into the specifics about the company or who used them, but I captioned videos for a lot of famous UA-camrs, and subtitled a moderately successful British daytime soap. If you're going to buy captions, pay someone to do it directly.
I tried to approach UA-camrs directly to do captions for them and not a single one got back to me 😕
I want the raw footage of Tom’s rant.
Same
Same here
I can't find the link to the text in the description
Same
Same
British TV:
Only allowed 12 minutes per hour for commercials.
American TV:
"And now it's time for a break from our regularly scheduled commercial for a quick bit of a show."
Back in 1 minutes!!!
And then the actual content is full of sponsorships and product placement.
UA-cam:
Every three minuted of watched content makes you look at 10 seconds of adds :D
Then there are those blasted constant advert in the corner or bottom of the program that is currently in progress.
In my country commercials almost took 15-20 minutes bruh
By the way, I actually very much appreciate your subtitles! I sometimes watch your videos in loud environments, and the subtitles allow me to understand what you are actually saying. Thanks!
Me too. I am not from an English speaking country, so I love the content creators who give subtitles
I love that your videos always have subtitles. Yours and a couple other UA-camrs I follow I can always count on having subtitles either when the video launches or within a few days of release.
"Oh look at me I bought a lamborghini, BUY SOME SUBTITLES!"
I CACKLED
Placing a mid-roll ad at 7:48 was utter genius, Tom.
Yes, it really was genious.
Came to make this comment. Thumbs up!
Yes
I didn't get one! 😭😭😭
I am egg
I agree about UA-cam videos having subtitles. Even though I understand English very vell, it still makes it easier to follow. Also, it makes it much easier to learn: as a child (not a native speaker) watching American TV shows like The Simpsons, I used to mislearn a lot of words because there's so much variation in the pronounciation of words. The subtitles were in my native language, and were improvised to an unnecessary degree, which also made me mislearn a lot, but that's another story.
Anyway, the cuts of your rant about UA-cam subtitles made me crack up xD
That’s why I enjoy watching Markiplier’s videos so much, I have some ear problems that cause me to have trouble hearing so it’s always great when you see a UA-camr that has subtitles on their videos.
Dan and Phil's too! I can hear fine, but have auditory processing issues, so I use captions as often as possible. Dan and Phil's are community made, so they sometimes contain hilarious notes from the captioner.
That use of an ad break, I just had to watch the full ad out of respect.... That was smooth
Thanks for spoiling it, really
@@pokingrandomthings7393 Watch the video before reading comments?
I was like, why can't I go back? Oh it's a real ad...
Me too. Because it was unskippable and 13 seconds long.
Imagine getting Ads in 2020 lmao
As someone just as passionate about subtitles, I really want to hear Tom's subtitle rant
You can put automatically created subtitles on, they could be better though!
Yes I find a lot of subtitles miss out or replace entire sentences
it genuinely angers me when someone bothered to put subs but they're wrong
they're like, "hey I wanna add captions to my video" then turn around and write... well now I'm so worked up about it I can't even remember what I was gonna say
oh well
anyway
it's like malicious compliance without the compliance! It's obvious what they're saying so type it out correctly, jeez
end of crappy, badly worded rant
I agree with the rant like. Please your THIS big and don't have proper subtitles? H e h?
@@endmysuffering7903 sh- like that is why community contributions got removed 😡
Here in the Netherlands, certain events must be viewable on publicly accessible television, which can be a commercial channel. These events also include (warning: national stereotype) certain skating events and the Eurovision song contest.
regarding accessibility on television (and UA-cam): as someone with a disability, I absolutely agree. I also think there should be a minimum standard of accessibility for videogames. Colorblindness, arachnophobia mode, and flexible control options are not too much to ask in my opinion. Currently, several games I want to play are inaccessible to me because I can't use a virtual keyboard or can't remap one of the controls...
Dyslexia friendly fonts are also cool
Do you mean arachnophobia as in the fear of spiders?
Don't get peoples issue with arachnophobia mode, spiders are a common fear, it doesn't hurt to have a disclaimer if you want it
@@jaysonallison7315 There was this game where you can disable background spiders.
I don't think "arachnaphobia mode" is necessary, since spiders are present in the real world, and they aren't even scary anyway, especially if it's a cartoony looking game.
Shoutout to the guy in the back playing tennis
That guy has a great taste
Grind don't stop
Are they not hurling?
Badminton I think
Softball
‘oH lOoK aT mE i BoUgHt A lAmBoRgHiNi,’ BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES! also-
I wonder what the "also" is.
Christopher Scheler BUY SOME MORE DAMN SUBTITLES
@@chr13 also BUY SOME AUDIO DESCRIPTION
@EvilGelatine03 the fiendish boy that provides factual ideas
The way they put in the words behind the tower at 0:17 is just a subtle flex of their editing and I respect that
ok babe
You absolutely nailed the live clock time in your video for me, to the minute! I image this might not be a total coincidence? After your subtitles rant you had me laugh out loud. Another top-quality video, thanks Tom.
This explains why British shows are longer than US shows. There are literally fewer commercials.
@John Reynolds based
When we have American shows on British television we either get a slightly longer version that is shown in the US or they end up only taking up a 25 minute slot instead of a 30 minute slot.
'sgood, isn't it?
They would have to be a minimum of 48 minutes, which I think is around 5 minutes longer than most programs in the United States meant to fill a 60 minute slot.
@@joegillian314 yup
"Why the heck has the complaint line been ringing off the hook??"
...
"It's Tom again, isn't it?"
Your rant about subtitles never ceases to improve my mood. Thank you for your passion on accessibility
YES for the subtitles! Though I am not hearing-impaired, I find subtitles tremendously helpful and find it difficult to understand all TV shows or youtube videos without them.
'I could do a whole video on advertising, I still intend to.'
Tom.
PLEASE do.
This is genuinely interesting.
Ring, ring. "Hello?" "Hello, I'd like to buy some damn subtitles."
What kind, sir? We have proper grammar subtitles or you can try our minimalist 'enough to get the point across' subtitle package.
@@wolfcafe3745 I was actually wondering - can I get those in Swedish? I have lots of moose involved in my production.
@@roguishpaladin Tyvärr kan vi bara erbjuda svenska undertexter med Google Translate. Är det okej?
Well, you've come to the right place!
- Jacob @ Caption+
welcome to Lucifer and Associates Subtitling, Damned Subtitles our speciality
Loved reading the subtitle advice, thanks! I just fixed proper CC for my own videos, and you make me quite glad I did!
I would love to hear Tom's subtitle rant even as its own video it's an important topic!
I'd really like to watch Tom's full subtitle rant. Actually, whenever Tom goes on rants, can they have their own seperate videos ? That'd be delightful.
I second this opinion
I'd watch this
I third this idea
Fourth
fifth!
6:25 when visiting the USA, it was almost a cultural shock to see Ad breaks that we almost longer than the show segments. Also Ad pop ups in the show. I don’t see pop up like that in the Uk.
Children shows make it to where all American children hate marketers
ya
Didn’t expect to see you here
Why is iron here!? I’ve been watching you a bunch, got this video, went to the comments and you were here!? I feel like you are following me...
would you do a red shirt decal for a churchill or something? britans answer to a life of boris decal on a tank
I'm very much with you on the UA-cam subtitles. I taught teenagers with hearing impairments for 6 years. They really benefited from subtitles. It allowed them to engage with the world
The subtitles opinion is really good. As a non native English speaker it's always hard to understand what a non Sri Lankan is telling just by listening (cuz of the accent or different pronunciation stuff), so captions do really help.
I actually laughed out loud at
"ohhhh look at me, I bought a Lamborghuni-BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES"
Where is that part
@@ZakiZamil-xu2nj @ 6:08
Bro I clipped that lmao
COME ON reading Tom's subtitle rant isn't the same as seeing and hearing it! Upload an uncut version as unlisted and put the link in the description!
SECONDED
PLEASE Tom. PLEASE.
RELEASE THE SUBTITLE CUT
OH MY GOD PLEASE
(banging on table) SUBTITLE RANT! SUBTITLE RANT!
I’d love for tom to post the whole rant it seems like it would be so entertaining to watch
Thank you for hand-crafted subtitles, world. The deaf and not-so-good-at-hearing like myself appreciate it a bunch.
Subtitles are also useful for non-native speakers of your language, whose listening comprehension isn't on that level yet. That how you can expand your auditory for new people who are also interested in your channel. If you translate your subtitles - it's even better.
Source: I was one of them for English videos, and right now I am using subtitles for the Spanish ones
You definitely need them for Spanish, I have decent reading comprehension of Spanish, but they speak so bloody fast I may as well know zero Spanish. I believe it’s the second fastest spoken language which makes sense.
I use English subtitles on some videos. I am not a native English speaker that understands different accents really quickly, so reading the subtitles along helps.
I'm surprised Tom didn't mention this himself. Especially on this platform with its world-wide reach. You really do widen your audience. Depending on the dialect and speed (information density), a subtitle really helps. For everything else, I'm lazy and still turn them on.
I believe it's good for the same reason for children's television
And for noisy environments, or situations you need to be quiet.
Imagine walking through the park and see someone shouting “Oh look I have a Lamborghini! BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES!” at a camera
Stinky poo
i admire your brevity and willingness to discard your amazing subtitle speech
Amazing work as usual, something I didn't know and didn't know I wanted to know.
I’m sure this comment has been posted but can I say, as a Deaf viewer... thank you for the captioning rant and resources. Yours is one of few channels I can consistently watch without the exhaustion of trying to parse autocaptions and fill in blanks of what I can and cannot hear/process. Accessibility is a responsibility !! It’s obligatory!! And your efforts are so appreciated and worthwhile.
another reason why youtube removing community captions is stupid
@@absent612 I've actually seen a fan made subtitle that was so horrible it would've been more beneficial if it didn't exist. I'm of course talking about the english sub for "The Egg" by kurzgesagt
Big Balls UA-camr Advice: Bought a Lamborghini? Buy some damn subtitles!
@@hoddtoward5220 What was the sub?
YOOO DID YOU HEAR THAT UA-cam REMOVING COMMUNITY CAPTIONS
Tom Scott: Every UA-cam Video should have subtitles!
UA-cam: removes the option of using user generated subtitles
Well, you now need to do it yourself, which unfortunately sucks, but it's still an option.
@@xHadesStamps It's a change which makes accessibility less accessible for channels which rely on fans for some or all of their subtitles. In particular, translations are almost always the work of bilingual fans with spare time and a desire to share the things they love.
@@timothymclean fr i have a lot of videos i want to translate but i can't because youtube wanted some extra money off of the backs of HoH and monolingual folks
Well, thats sucks. Now I can't watch a new alan becker videos with a fan generated subtitle.
retarted idea, like all UA-cam's ideas
Amazing that you'd mention the hurling finals when there appears to be someone practicing hurling in the background of the video!
Was thinking that he was either hurling or lacrosse, but I'm 100% sure that he's hurling.
subscribed because you care about us subtitle users tbh
I can't stop replaying "Ohhh look at meee I bought a Lamborghini... BUY SOME DAMN SUBTITLES!" Also, I will try to take this advice
Anti Capitalist Tom? WTF THATS SO BASED!?!??!🥵🥵
12 minutes per hour??
In the US, we are lucky to get 12 minutes of show in our hour of advertising.
The trruuttthhh!!!!!
so true haha
I was going to say the same thing. Most "1 hour" dramas are 42 minutes on streaming, so that'd mean we have about 18 minutes of ads per hour of regular TV. I'm sure big events are more like 20-23 minutes per hour. Makes me laugh because I haven't watched anything other than streaming in 5 years.
If Morning TV on CBS in particular, were a game of Russian Roulette, there would be no viewers left. Provided I don't check the clock to see if it is 7:00AM or soon after, I always hit commercials, rather than program.
And then all the ads are for drugs because that's legal in the US. Kinda a slap in the face when you consider the lack of healthcare. Go USA!...
I genus,my wanted to hear that rant. I’m so so so glad that someone has finally talked about that. The world is so off limits for certain groups, and the internet gives you the ability to be able to include, but people just don’t even try. Like AT LEAST put on auto-captions. That’s literally the bare minimum but people still don’t do that.
Thank you for your support of subtitles and accessibility Tom, I’m so glad someone recognises and supports us
As someone who has an ADD disability I need an option to disable distracting subtitles and sign language.
@@nonyafkinbznes1420you CAN disable Tom’s subtitles though..? they are not burnt in
@@ramensobs Not the sign language.
I like how UA-cam actively made accessibility harder by killing off community contributed subtitles because of shitty reasons.
Wait, when did that happen?
@@Xandros999 last month :(
@Pham Hoang Gia Bao But that's relatively rare when compared to actual contributions (judging from my experience with subtitles), and all channel owners can remove inappropriate contributed subtitles. Getting completely rid of something so useful to so many people because of something that could be avoided isn't worth it, imo.
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@Pham Hoang Gia Bao hell, by that logic, close off all schools because school shootings happen.
"And when that media gets that much power. It gets regulated. Heavily"
*laughs in twitter, google, facebook*
Laughs in Internet
Laughs in internet
Twitter, Google, and Facebook are all very heavily censored.
Turns out that when a few companies can monopolize a new medium quickly enough, they get rich enough to avoid being regulated.
@@plasmazulu6643 By themselves, it's not like an external regulator is looking at them.
i genuinely agree. ALL large channels should have subtitles, and its always a pleasant surprise when they do. but it shouldn't be a surprise, it should be the standard
My hearing loss thanks you for putting in the effort to caption your videos.
I understand some channels not having the resources to caption their videos, but if you ask me there's no reason *any* video on youtube should lack the automatic captions, even when marked as just music.
The automatic captions are not perfect (far from it, in fact) but with a mild to moderate hearing loss, the information from the audio and the slightly off auto captions are enough to piece together what is being said.
Tom Scott/Technology Connections collab when?
Me getting ready to sue "Who wants to be a millionaire" so I can become one without answering any questions.
What if the judge asks you a question during the trial?
@@cameron7374 Then you call for a commercial break (aka recess / adjournment) :)
The problem is all your winnings will be spent on legal fees.
@@kevreeduk222 Exactly.
The court case is presented in the format of the show.
Regarding the Subtitles issue on UA-cam, we DID HAVE a really amazing community subtitle option on UA-cam. I love Japanese Music and many of the music videos I love had fan submitted subtitles so I could enjoy the lyrics. UA-cam has REMOVED these fan created subtitles because they deemed the effort in moderating them was not worth it as only 0.5% of users actually used the service.
Now we only have channel submitted and automatically generated subtitles. Automatically generated subtitles, especially for Japanese content, are AWFUL, most of the time they cannot even detect that it is Japanese but mistake it for Korean. When It does detect japanese, usually only the subtitles "Wawawawawawawawawawawa" are automatically generated.
Even for English the autocaptions are awful; if there's any background noise at all, the captions will often just say "[Laughter]" or "[Applause]" and if there's lyrics in a song, it'll just say "[Music]" which is...not helpful. Also, a lot of UA-camrs I guess misclick occasionally, and then the captions are in the wrong language (most often it's in Dutch or Korean)
@@elenafahmi9955 or Vietnamese.
Elena Fahmi Not to mention the completely long run on sentences that lag behind the audio, with no punctuation, no way to know who's saying what....! Ugh.
I really liked that option, it gave us a nice hobby to pass time.
Not to mention some channels which rarely uploaded subtitles and us viewers would add them later
@@lalityamarathe1533 community subtitles got abused. Large channels had to turn them off because people were advertising their channels in them. Then youtube flipped the switch on it.
I think when Clarkson says "time for a break", it also builds suspense so it doesn't disrupt the flow so much as it redirects it.
My thoughts too!
Suspense is even more necessary given they cut to ads, else why not flick through the channels to find something else
Ads cutting the flow of a program is something I only really notice when channels air old movies and they cut to ads mid sentence or amid an action sequence (and then cut back but seem to have missed a couple of seconds)
after watching your video on 2032 predictions. i will watch and support every video you make up until then. bless you tom we need more people like you
I wish subtitles were more common on UA-cam. I'm not deaf or hoh, but I have some language processing difficulties and being able to read the words while someone is talking makes it much easier to understand. I love it when a creator subtitles the videos themselves (or in the good old days when viewers could do it) and inserts little easter eggs and snarky comments, so that the subtitles add to the experience rather than being an afterthought. It pisses me off when people just don't bother, because there's literally no reason not to include them, and there's a ton of people who rely heavily on them, so if you don't subtitle your videos they just can't watch them. It's also super irritating when someone puts text in the video that gets covered up by the subtitles so that I have to pause and turn subtitles off to read it. I know it's a minor thing but it's a pet peeve of mine, especially when it happens so often that I end up just turning the subtitles off.
And some people mumble alot or swallow a word once in a while, so that it becomes unintelligible. Hollywood movies do that alot. Especially Afro-Americans movies are often very hard to understand. Additionally, the music and sound effects of US shows are far too loud and the people too quiet.
The creator for for the channel "Primitive Technology", actual name of the channel, uses the Closed Caption option to place detailed explanations of what is happening on screen as there is no spoken dialog on the channel. You either read the description, figure out the action based on what you see and your prior knowledge, or you turn on CC to get an in depth understanding of the actions. Your choice of how you do things. If you have an interest is doing things the very, very old ways then you will probably find this worth your while. Who knows it may even inspire you to create your own stone axe and build yourself an clay tiled wattle and daub cabin in a rainy forest somewhere. Not sure that his area of Australia qualifies as a true rainforest.
Yes!! I'm so happy to see him rant about closed captions haha, people really should add them!!
UA-cam removing community captions is garbage, why did they even do that?
what does hoh mean?
@@sohopedeco I think it might stand for hard of hearing
Hey Tom. Deaf bloke here. Just wanted to say thanks for fighting the good fight for captions. I love that, no matter how soon I view one of your videos after it goes up, I can view it with captions.
You know, though, I just don't get why everybody doesn't do captions by default. (Don't get me started on the number of UA-cam purchases I've had to return for lack of CCs, and of course there doesn't seem to be a way to check prior to purchase...)
Something like 3% of the population needs CCs to really engage with media - if I worked for a media company and I went to my boss saying that I could get 3% extra revenue for bugger-all spend, you'd think they'd take notice, wouldn't you.
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It should be easy if working from the script, it is more difficult for current affairs real time events
I don’t know why when I read that I read it in a slightly louder inner voice.
i have 2 members of my family deaf, and 1 member of my family is blind
but i agree there should be captions on EVERTY video for the deeaf, in blackpool we used to have deaf weekend, i dont know if we still do but they turned the musics base and especially for the deaf community
That 'rant' fast-forward incidental music is a mood for me. 👌👌👌👌👌
these videos are super well researched and edited!
As a profoundly deaf person who relies 100% on subtitles - THANK YOU!
Also THANK YOU SO MUCH for being awesome enough to add in proper subtitles in all your videos before release! You cannot understand how much I appreciate it!
Yes, most videos have auto-subtitles which isn't too bad but still low quality. Some videos disable auto subtitles though, I don't understand why...
Any automatically subtitled video that does not have near talk show-levels of audio quality and clear, uninterrupted speech has rubbish subtitles in my experience.
Especially in other languages than English :-/
Do you find newly added videos tend to not have automated CC, and it's something that's added later even though it is automated? I suspect that's the case, although I don't really understand why that's the case. I never really confirmed it though.
Disclaimer, I'm not hard of hearing, I just use subtitles for convenience. It must be frustrating if you can't watch something you want.
as someone with ADD, i also rely on subtitles a lot and agree heavily with Tom. you arent alone!!!!!
Ayyy a fellow deaf person can ppl please do subtitles
I don't have hearing issues but I have some auditory processing issues since having a stroke. It is a very odd thing. I'm not even sure how to begin describing the phenomenon. I am hearing sound. But sometimes, it is not being translated in my brain as language, per se: it may only register as rhythmic sound.
A song being tweeted by a particularly talented bird. Pleasant,
thoughtful; but not entirely discernable as speech.
Captions help immensely. Somehow, the visual cues can reestablish the thread of sound - to- language processing within my mind and I can connect the processing again as before.
"Governments don't want sporting events of national cultural significance to be on paid TV as they will become irrelevant."
Cries Test cricket tears 🏏😭😭]
why do all verified content creators always make references that I don’t understand?
How can we not see the bloody Ashes?! Channel 5's highlights is worse than not seeing it at all. TG for Radio 4 LW lol.
If you're going to post from two different accounts, at least make an effort to change something to make it less obvious :/
If nothing happens for 5 days, it may as well be on the radio
FeelsBadMan
Shout out to the guy @1:30 who nailed that baseball
Great video and even though you didn't ask I hit the subscribe button!
As a Dutchy, it's astounding to me how many ad breaks there are in the US. I used to watch a lot of discovery channel, which airs a lot of shows from the US. Every fifteen minutes there would be a clear slot in the program to allow for a cut to ads, but in the Netherlands they skip over most of them.
I haven't watched TV in YEARS, but as a kid I was always confused at the end of shows like Roseanne airing in the Netherlands, when there's some voice over going "we'll be right back after THIS" and they'd only cut away for a single frame. And later when realising that was a removed ad break, that the show only continued to deliver a final punchline...
same in the uk
no wonder why American TV all resembles the Gift Shop Sketch
same in sweden, and i noticed that the shows migth be 40, 45 or 50 minutes long instead of one hour because a lot of advertising was cut
15 minutes? Lmao Guess again. More like 5. The clear ad breaks aint the only time they go to commercials.
"When a media has that much power it gets regulated."
...in Britain.
In America, it chooses who gets to be the President!
@@umartdagnir
No it doesn't.
@@IkeOkerekeNews officially? No. Popularly? Yes.
@@henriquemelchiorgomes8750
In anyway it is no
@@IkeOkerekeNews don't you know truth doesn't matter for you neurotypicals?
In Germany, we also have a list of sport events of national interest and advertisements are also limited to 12 minutes per hour
I really do appreciate all of your shows. Reasonable amount of adverts.
"Five Things You Can't Do On British Television"
>Me, an Italian who's never going to be on any British TV Channel
*Interesting*
Never say never buddy
In Italia ci sono 12 minuti di programma su un'ora di pubblicità
qua abbiamo avuto iva zanicchi "ipnotizzata" che caga in diretta, direi che questo video per noi è inutile sin dal primo punto hahaha
@@lockstocknl Shut up Justin Careerover
Same, although I’m a preteen American.
I really appreciate the long rant about accessibility and subtitles. Totally agree we should be thinking about people of all abilities.
You Brits sure love your red tape
Or not? Why should society conform to a minority's needs? If people aren't able to watch without subtitles, that's their own problem. And YT should *NOT* be regulated in any way at all. The way it is, is already enough.
@@Gyvulys seems like a grouchy way to think doesn't it? don't know about you, but if i had a favourite youtube channel that i watched every week and all of a sudden an accident took away my hearing - it would be nice to still be able to consume the content in some fashion, if that makes sense
@@Gyvulys You know that it’s not their fault that they’re disabled right? Could’ve happened to you
@@stevenobrien557 You Yanks sure love screwing over the disadvantaged
Hell yes to mandatory subtitles! My dodgy ears are grateful for this inclusion.
I love that the 12 mins of adverts per hour thing was included because strategically placing adverts to maximise revenue is literally my job
Evil, evil lurks under your soul sire
@@guerra_dos_bichos seek help