marcinthelotus:

Please stop adding comments, jokes etc. to captions on YouTube videos.

I’m looking at you Markiplier and Jacksepticeye fans.

Please stop. It makes them less accessible.

Also, please contribute and review captions if you can.

Try to make the captions not too long over a long period of time or too short for people to be able to read and in the right place in the video.

Please don’t phonetically spell out words Jack says in his natural accent to show his accent. There’s no need to, and it makes it harder to read.

Please don’t jump back and forth between all caps and lower case a lot. You can use exclamation points to show excitement or do things like [yelling] [screaming] [louder].

Please don’t add keysmashes or excessively long lines of letters like “soooooooooooooooooo”, especially if it’s part of a longer caption.

Type what they say, not what they should have/meant to say. AKA don’t correct grammar, stutters, etc.

Be descriptive of non-words, sound effects (especially ones they react to or comment on) or what accent/tone they are speaking in. e.g.
[Southern accent] and welcome to Turmoil! /
[clap], [thump], [ticking], [ring ring], etc.
[laughs]

But please don’t add descriptive captions for visual cues like what kind of face Mark or Jack are making or overly wordy and subjective descriptive captions e.g. [really happy cute little kid voice]

BUT MOST OF ALL

stop adding comments, jokes etc. to captions

That’s what the video comments section is for.

also read and share Rikki Poynter’s #NoMoreCraptions campaign

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    As someone who occasionally does captions for Jack and Mark this is really important. The amount of extra stuff that...

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