• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    I almost exclusively browse or view content with no volume at all. I can only stand so much awful music, AI voice, dubbed sounds, effects or laughter. Other content where I’m looking for info, I’ll only listen to enough to know whether the video is worth digging into, and start fast forwarding or leave.

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    Most modern social media (TikTok, Snapchat, etc…) are only barely tolerable with the sound muted. WITH sound enabled they are a war crime.

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    I watch almost all sports with the volume off. I think a lot of podcasts are filmed now for YouTube but I never watch, only listen.

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      I think it depends on the sport. Then again, I only watch 2 real sports and 1 fake one (wrestling).

      Football: absolutely better without audio commentary.

      Baseball: it depends. The local broadcast guys can be pretty good for a lot of regular season games.

      Wrestling: commentary is part of the TV experience, but not every commentator can be Taz.

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        I like my baseball team’s radio and TV announcers quite a bit (there sure are some bad mlb announcers though). I haven’t watched wrasslin’ in 20 or so years but definitely the announcers are a fun part.

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    Sound Only - only for media were watching would be boring like video podcasts, unless they hold something up then I look up for a bit. For only visuals - I rarely play mobile games with sounds or any other apps.

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    Usually if I’m trying not to disturb someone, like watching something on my phone in bed while my wife’s sleeping I’ll keep audio on mute and have captions on, or doing something else, like having having sports on TV while I do laundry, listening to the announcers then turning to look at the replay when something especially exciting happens.

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    When watching a subtitled video on YouTube and it starts playing really shitty music — yes, I mute it and just read the subtitles.

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I go to sleep every night listening to history documentaries, spy, mafia, religious history, etc with the audio only. As long as the voice is good and not overbearing background music or effects, it puts me out super quick and I slowly learn a lot

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    I rarely turn the sound on for video content on social media, the audio track is very rarely worthwhile

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    I often run the WTYP podcast videos in the background.

    Back when I used to frequent What Could Go Wrong on reddit I normally had the sound muted.