So, television captions were terrible until the dawn of streaming. One could argue that DVDs (circa late '90s) were OK, but the captions were cartoonish, pixela

So, television captions were terrible until the dawn of streaming. One could argue that DVDs (circa late '90s) were OK, but the captions were cartoonish, pixelated nightmare captions that nobody wanted on their TV, just as bad as the typical "closed captioning" of live network television. Decent captioning really didn't occur until the age of Blu-ray and streaming, around 15 years ago; 1080p captions that were inobtrusive and in lockstep with the dialogue at hand. The 20-somethings would have grown up with perfectly acceptable, inobtrusive captions, and thus have no issue keeping them on-screen to avoid confusion when keeping the television volume at a reasonable volume. I'm no 20-something, and we keep Blu-ray and streaming captions on in our household. This is a new thing in the past 10-15 years, and it has to do entirely with the quality of captioning and nothing having to do with anything else.