Hello! Okay, today's video is gonna be a little bit different.
I know it's been a really long time since we made anything
Deaf, signing, captioning, interpreting, or whatever.
However,
I noticed something on instagram from Rikki Poynter,
which I will leave all her information down below, but she does a lot of
work on Youtube related to captioning... like the auto craptions... uh campaign is hers.
So again, I'll leave like some videos and stuff down below.
But she recently on her Instagram had mentioned something which I hadn't noticed.
I tend not to watch with auto captions because they're pretty awful.
Just FYI if this is your first time seeing this channel, I am hearing.
My wife is Deaf and she's not really big on watching Youtube.
But however,
all of the videos we do are signed and captioned, just FYI.
So she (Rikki) had mentioned on Youtube...there's auto captions
and now they are censoring them...like specific curse words. I don't know... just general bad words. I'm gonna put something on the screen here...
some pictures that she had posted about what it says.
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Yeah, I was like... excuse me?!
Okay, I understand, I guess.. maybe the reason why.
But do you really need to blank out the words?
I mean okay... I told Jenna, my wife, and I was like okay,
if Youtube itself, actually on the audio part bleeped out the curse words or the bad words or whatever.
If they put bleep and you couldn't hear, okay maybe.
Then the blank would be representative of what they think bleep is.
I don't know what they've done so far when something is bleeped.
However they don't.
I personally looked at the specific video that was mentioned here
and I listened to it with my ears because I can hear.
They said the f -word. They said the s-word. They actually said the curse word.
I heard it. It wasn't covered at all but the captions were blanked.
Yeah, the captions are for equality!
I mean how are you supposed to be equal if the word is spoken and the caption is different?
I noticed some people commented on Rikki's Instagram being like
Um, hello Deaf people are adults. I mean, you know
Deaf people can be adults the same as a hearing person.
There's no reason that they need to, you know, blank that out.
I can understand you're trying to be helpful with your auto caption system,
but it's not being helpful.
Hearing people can listen to swear words and Deaf people can read swear words.
That's just part of it.
It just made me really mad and I understand that you know
I haven't said much about the whole auto caption things being horrible,
but most people know that they're awful you know.
Most people are aware that they should caption the videos themselves.
I caption all of our videos. It's not that hard. It's just not.
It might take some time, but it's not hard at all... like period!
So why don't you just do that Youtube.
You really need to stop it that's enough it's just not right
So I want all of you people who are watching this video
or watching this channel in general to inform youtube
NO, do not censor the captioning. It's not right... period!
So I just wanted to kind of do a little bit of a rant here... okay.
Now back to our regularly scheduled content. Bye!
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