I can’t respond to Anonymous asks privately and I doubt those of you calling me nasty names want me publicizing your asks and where you’re from.Ī second point: I track visitors to my ask page. A reminder to please come OFF Anon if you want to talk to me or throw accusations. I can always tell when one of my posts has gone Tumblr-viral because the amount of toxic vitriol in my ask box explodes. You’d probably feel pretty insulted, right? Essentially that the small amount of accessibility you do have doesn’t matter, that you don’t matter, because you’re in a small percentage. That you’re just freaking out over nothing. That you just didn’t read past the headline. Now imagine you see a post saying that it’s not a big deal that this is happening because it’s already a small percentage of videos that use these captions. How would you feel? Probably upset right? Maybe devasted if those videos were important to you emotionally, educationally, etc. Because not every channel will have that time/energy/money/interest/multilingual translators to do captions, but community captions are a way to make that content accessible to you anyway. This is where community captions are important. Or maybe you watch videos in a language you don’t speak and they are community translated into your language. You know the channel owners can’t afford/don’t have the time/don’t have trusted people to do it for them/simply don’t bother to caption their videos. Maybe channels you loved are captioned via community captions. We don’t know what percent community captions takes up of captioned videos but I’m willing to guess a decent amount (auto captions doesn’t count imo because it’s so wildly inaccurate a lot of the time). Suddenly they tell you a large portion of *that* content, which is already small, is going to disappear. Imagine if you were disabled and captions were your only way of watching content, limiting your content a great deal. I’m sorry you’re getting death threats, that’s not acceptable, but I’m asking you to please reconsider how your original post comes off as condescending to people with disabilities or have other reasons community captions is important to them.

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