TikTok and knockoff reels on platforms like Facebook inexplicably highlight these giant subtitles of people talking. Remember when subtitles were for translations of foreign languages?
Peak Stupidity
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Ted, I would rate not acknowledging the war crimes of Russian in the face of your consistent and righteous condemnation of Israel’s acts to be slightly “stupider” than captions in English.
That’s not stupidity. You’re thinking of inconsistency or hypocrisy. Which I’ll argue with you about, maybe, if I feel so moved.
Let’s face it. The evil Putin wrote letters to President Biden and the head of NATO saying that Russia could never allow the Ukraine to join NATO. Whoever is writing the letters from President Biden and the head of NATO both wrote back: Russia have no say in the matter, the Ukraine will join NATO and will host the largest NATO military base, with lots of nukes pointing at Russia, nukes that could hit Russia before Russia could prepare any kind of response.
After getting those letters, Putin ordered a totally unprovoked attack on the innocent, peaceful Ukraine.
I thought the big subtitles were for people who were watching with their volume turned way, way down without ear pods.
A friend’s brother uses TikTok. A lot. He is fluent in Arabic and French, but knows the lingua franca is now English, so he uses Google Translate to produce English subtitles so many more TikTok users can understand his TikToks(?), and those English subtitles are in the smallest font available on TikTok. The TikToker is @soufiane05_09
Not everyone uses big subtitles on TikTok.
@soufiane05_09 speaks Arabic and French but knows many more TikTok users know at least a little English than Arabic or French, so he puts tiny, tiny English subtitles (Google translate) on his TikTok posts.