Young people watching TV with subtitles
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
WIBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, man. There's no need to feel down. I said, yeah, man, I could yourself off the ground. I said, yeah, man, 1048. It's kind of like Casey on 93 W I B C. |
| 0:12.8 | So this is a new thing that a lot of younger people are doing. They're watching TV with the subtitles on |
| 0:19.0 | Yes, we do this in |
| 0:21.0 | In our house. Mm-hmm |
| 0:22.4 | Now my wife says that we do this. It's very distracting because it takes up so much space on the screen on the bottom of the screen |
| 0:30.0 | It's just that you can get it at the top of the screen now like you can move them around |
| 0:34.6 | It's very distracting now my wife says she does this because she has an auditory processing disorder. Okay, so it helps her to understand |
| 0:43.2 | What is actually going on? |
| 0:45.7 | This article that the Daily Mail had I believe they said something similar to this that this is a more and more common thing |
| 0:52.4 | But they didn't have subtitles that I remember when I was a kid |
| 0:55.4 | Maybe we just didn't use them, but I don't remember going over to my friend's house and everybody having the TV on and doing this |
| 1:01.6 | So is it a like a learned thing now the these auditory processing disorders |
| 1:07.8 | Or is it something that just wasn't diagnosed before I need help on this okay? |
| 1:12.7 | Well this article is saying that a lot of it has to do with tiktok |
| 1:18.7 | Followed because a lot of |
| 1:20.5 | tiktok people will put |
| 1:22.3 | Script on the little video and you got to read while it's playing and this is happening 61% of people age 18 to 25 or doing this |
| 1:32.0 | Now they're saying it's a good thing |
| 1:34.7 | Because your brain is naturally programmed to read and it's an additional activity that takes place on top of watching the show |
| 1:43.3 | And it requires additional cognitive effort |
| 1:47.6 | Now I've seen this happening for a while |
| 1:50.6 | Formerly working in TV you would have noticed over time they kept adding more and more things to the screen |
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