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It is absurdly easy to reverse-engineer hardcoded subtitles, so why exactly are we supporting ego-fueled subbers, when they are often the ones responsible for extreme data loss due to their need for internet recognition (as you can see in pic related)?

Translating subtitles to any language is doujin, therefore imposing watermarks is gay and holding information hostage in any shape or form is inherently anti-otaku. Not to say they also obstruct accessibility for the visually and hearing-impaired basement dwellers from this board, all while challenging the survivability of data itself — just remember 2021's Google Drive broken links event, or just the amount of content you tried to find throughout your life as an otaku, but that was nowhere to be seen.

It doesn't take much for anyone to simply go and extract subtitles from any hardcoded video with two simple programs: VideoSubFinder and SubtitleEdit. You use VSF to export the frames as very clean images containing only the subtitles, then you use SubtitleEdit built-in OCR function (it uses tesseract) to transform that into perfectly timed subtitles. That's it. All you'll have to do after running it is to curate the results and you are done. You can do it, and then just publish it, simply share it with your friends, memetics will naturally work out. You can also fix annoying mistakes (most English subbers are ESLs), or even release a better version by adding context subtitles or making the translation more accurate. Centralizing the information in specific subgroups or subbers leave us vulnerable to the same issues we see whenever Crunchyroll translators do the localization of basically any anime. Fansubs aren't necessarily free from homosexuals, and someone who releases their work to the public sphere through softsubs need to be actually confident of the high quality of the final product.

There was a time when hardcoding subtitles was actually the best way to share information through pirate networks, internet was not good enough to handle all that data so low-quality videos with hardcoded subtitles performed better, everything was fine until stuff started getting lost in time. By doing the process I mentioned you can:

1. Actively help information to not get lost.
2. Gain ownership and agency of the information you are consuming.
3. Use old high-quality subtitles and add them to videos of higher quality.
4. Easily retime then whenever a Blu-Ray comes out.

For anyone that thinks I'm probably just being "too autistic", or maybe that "hard subs are better than no sub at all", I can assure you are low IQ or doomed by scarcity mentality. The existence of Whisper as an example assures us that subbers will soon move on from having such a central position in non-japanese otaku communities to one resembling more that of a curator, something that you can't really set your whole internet personality around, so you can expect a few of them to start malding similarly to commission artists when AI art started to become established.

It should go without saying but a market whose entire provided value relies on any kind of intervention is not natural. Subtitles will continue to exist even if the subtitles being held hostage by subbers suddenly ended, because in a free market, if there's demand for a thing, a way to produce it will always be found, if anything, ending this will make it so new incentive models quickly be developed.

If you still disagree with me I ask you to take a few hours of your NEET life to try it out. Find someone who only releases hardcoded subtitles on their shitty low-effort spyware filled websites — way easier to find when you are part of niche otaku communities such as classic anime otaku, toku otaku or idol otaku communities. Go through whatever ad.fly-like alternative they use to steal pennies from your screentime until you get to their GDrive file (they did not learn with 2021, or they simply do no care), download whatever you want to save from them and go through the simple procedure I mentioned earlier in this post. Now you have the .srt file on your PC. Feel free to share it, make sure the person behind it knows you're doing it. Watch them become engulfed in the most basedrage possible. You will finally understand that they do not release only hardsubs simply because they are dumb enough to not even think about the consequences or the ethics of their actions, you will see that they only do that because they enjoy the community attention they get, they enjoy being part of it, they truly believe they are entitled to attention because they are not just a "random otaku" that do things whole-heartedly for their hobby.

They are driven by their egos and there is a way to simply make them stop. Hardcoded-only subbers are the niggers of otaku culture.

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Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture (It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture (It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread??
This idol is pure otaku culture
(It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture (It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread??
This idol is pure otaku culture
(It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture
(It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture (It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture (It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)

Dumb maidos deleted the thread?? This idol is pure otaku culture (It's everywhere in Japanese Twitter)