> I can't imagine YouTube would exist if it had to have captioning for every single video to begin with In many instances, the rise of YouTube has been deleter

> I can't imagine YouTube would exist if it had to have captioning for every single video to begin with In many instances, the rise of YouTube has been deleterious to the web. So much content that would have once been presented in text is now video, with the result that what might have been a fast skim now forces readers to move at the slower pace of the video, and it is much more difficult to parse for those with disabilities or to find in a search engine. (Too much content today has moved to images, too – it is remarkable how people who would have once written a blog consisting of longform text, are now trying to shoehorn their content into the more limited space that Instagram provides for them.)