[VIDEO] What are some good youtube videos where the annotations are essential?
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With annotations being stripped from every video on youtube on January 15th, I feel like it'd be a good idea to give some videos one final chance before their true experience is lost forever.
To start off, I guess I'll rep the first video I watched that really wow'd me with its annotations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS3ANTUOevY
Unfortunately this video doesn't have the links in the description, so people would have to watch a compilation elsewhere without choice.
All of the videos where the dude is in the wilderness doing shit caveman style. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the series.
Primitive Technology, funnily enough I'd watched half of his videos before I even realised they had annotations, just assumed they were popular because it was quasi-ASMR type stuff xd
luckily its been reuploaded to save the annotations right in the video but
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH8d958ln0c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29-q7YnyUmY
https://youtu.be/7pOoSe2K5DU
Back when public annotations were a thing and /v/ was still great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk8TEujsJNc
Those are annotated? With what? I’ve never seen them.
Just a list of reminders why Youtube should have just fixed the bug in their mobile app rather than remove features they've always had.
Ah I guess it's captions not annotations actually, but yeah the English CC is by the actual dude explaining what he's doing etc.
WOW, I always watched going “huh what’s he doing now”, what a game changer
The entire Sonic 3 & Knuckles Glitches and Oversights series.
Without annotations it's impossible to know what's going on for each glitch/oversight/curiosity, making for very uninformative videos that are just showing clips of strange things happening with zero context.
Basically unwatchable without them, since they name and explain them.
I'm gonna be so upset when annotations disappear.
Oh yeah, I loved watching this stuff when I was younger. Seeing all those cool glitches was very cool, even if I couldn't do most of them because I didn't have super sonic back then.
Does anyone have those overly annotated videos of the Food Fight movie? I remember only the first vid was public
I present to you, SuperVan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZtvS_HGPMk
While I can't name any good concrete examples at the moment, I'd imagine that there is a ton of videos from like, between 2008 and 2012, that were uploaded from sites like Nico Nico Douga, whose only translations are shown through annotations - and it is likely that the uploaders of said reuploads aren't on YT or using that same account anymore, meaning that adding proper closed captions would likely be difficult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USQzP2TzSQk
Description has link to a tool you can use to pull annotation data from every video and channel you want.
I swear it feels like Google is just trying to find out how strong their brand is by seeing how hard they can try to kill themselves without actually getting hurt.