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Hello people of places Adam here your favorite aspy person. Anyways today's video is a bit
of rant so bear with me. I have autism. I like YouTube. Neither of these two things
are secret. However because of my autism sometimes I have a hard time processing audio. I need
things repeated, I can sometimes have a hard time following along ext. ext. Now why am
I telling you this? Because YouTube is generally not an accessible place. Much like any other
website it can have triggering content. The only issue? Youtube tries to make itself accessible.
It allows you to include descriptions for your videos, where you can place info, it
allows you to put more importantly subtitles. Now look I know your not going to be affected
by what I’m saying but I’m going to try and get through to you anyways. If you make
youtube videos that are under 7 minutes in length. There is no reason you shouldn’t
be subtitling your content. It’s super, super easy to do. Way easier than it’s been
in the past. I’ve even made tutorials on how to subtitle your content…its that easy.
Now some videos are just to difficult to subtitle. Some require hours to do, some are let’s
plays of visual novels, which are really difficult to do, But generally speaking most youtube
videos are short, and therefor don’t take hours upon hours to do. Usually people don’t
subtitle their videos for a couple reasons. Their lazy, they think its to much work, they
don’t think it matters, or insert other silly reason here. Subtitling a video is really
easy. And believe it or not, I’ve checked out my statistics I generally get more views
on the youtube videos that are subtitled versus the ones that aren’t. Now I know most people
make a lot of videos, but even so, you can at least go back and subtitle your newer content.
Yes it is time consuming. But by not subtitling your content not only are you alienating your
viewers, and isolating a potential audience that could enjoy your content, but your also
kind of being a jerk to those who are hard of hearing or have processing issues. So I’ve
rambled enough but I will say this, subtitling your videos is really easy to do, and you
get more views so its worth doing it, and yes it is time consuming but in the end if
it helps out your channel? Isn’t it worth it?