by Netherrealmer » 11 Aug 2020, 12:57
The reason? Only 10 percent of users use it. Here is the thing though, Community captions had been helpful for deaf people to enjoy Youtube videos and Youtube is removing it. That is not all, Many Non English channels had a global following because their fans give community captions. Community captions are captions created by volunteers and fans because Youtube's automatic Google translate captions sucks. It doesn't understand certain slangs, accents and rare words. 10 percent is still Milions of People. Community captions is the reason why I can enjoy a non English european channel.
There is no reason to remove it but Susan felt like being an A-hole again.

There are now Asian Tv shows created for Youtube and those shows rely on community captions because Youtube's automatic captions with Google translate is terrible.
This will kill the Asian and European channels with International following.