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So we're finally talking about
#NoMoreCRAPtions again, and it's a good time
to bring this up because as you can see I am wearing
my #NoMoreCRAPtions shirt, and that is because,
one, it's relevant to this video
and two, these are actually back on sale
through August 5th, so if you didn't get one,
you know, when all the other campaigns were out,
now you've got another chance and it comes in t-shirts,
and sweatshirts and a hoodie so,
oh and different colors so if you want one, go get one.
They're on sale through August 5th,
and, yes, it does ship internationally.
So we're gonna talk about Colleen Ballinger today
aka Miranda Sings, you may know her
a little bit more as Miranda Sings.
She recently uploaded a video about opening up
about her brother who is actually deaf
so hello, we've got something in common.
Her brother has two cochlear implants
and he's the one family member that doesn't
talk about his life, he doesn't get vlogged very much
so there was a special video all about him
and at the end of that video, what gets talked about
is the fact that Colleen now realizes that the captions
or craptions on YouTube are well, crap,
and now she has announced that she is going
to start closed captioning every single one of her videos.
I don't know if it's just for certain channels
or all of them, but she's going to caption
all the videos on some channel or all channels
and that brought up this video because that is
a pretty big deal.
So throughout the years, since at least 2016
I have been writing letters to YouTubers,
especially big YouTubers if they have PO Boxes,
but also emails asking them to caption their videos
and Colleen was a big one because she has a deaf brother.
Trent uses captions but the channel was never captioned,
the channels were never captioned
which I thought was so bizarre, and to me
I was thinking why is there not more responsibility
put into making sure that the channel is more accessible.
Tweets were made, you know, emails were attempted
to be sent, or sent, but, you know, it never worked.
Now she did mention in her video that Chris,
another brother who is a family vlogger, started captioning.
Now, fun story about that:
I actually sent a letter last year to Chris,
I don't remember if it was for Playlist Orlando
or Playlist D.C,. but we were both going to Playlist
and what do I do when I'm getting ready
to go to a YouTube event?
I check the guest list, see who has a PO Box
and I write a letter.
I find that people will pay attention to letters more,
you know, just looking at it first.
Letters are more personal, yes, emails are faster and cheaper
but there's just something about a letter
that gets people to really look at it,
especially me, I know this, I have my own PO Box.
Plus, you know, the more- you get a bigger chance
of having something done if you shout it out
as much as possible, if you shout out your
request as much as possible.
But anyways, I did send a letter,
I got a letter back actually, and not too long after,
all of the videos were captioned.
So I cannot confirm that the videos started becoming
captioned because of me, but the timing has me guessing.
Chris and his family started captioning.
So far, Chris and Colleen are the only two people
in the family to caption.
I believe Rachel is also a YouTuber.
Yes, she is a YouTuber, but I don't think she captions
at all- I think there's spotty community contributions
here and there, which I have a video all about
the kind of do's and don'ts about that over here.
Colleen is the fourth big YouTuber to caption
and also mention it.
I think there are a couple of other big YouTubers
that caption but they never actually talk about it
and they've never made like this big,
"oh, by the way!" video about it.
So Tyler Oakley was the first, to my knowledge.
You know, he made a video and made like a small campaign
called Hear Me Out, and then not too long after
like literally in the same week, Lilly Singh,
aka Superwoman, made tweets about how
she was going to caption.
It did take another year for that to be implemented,
but she mentioned it, so, you know,
that was gonna get a big amount of attention.
By the way, Lilly, please caption your vlog channel.
And then Good Mythical Morning made an announcement video
talking about how they were gonna caption
and that was a bit of back and forth, but I think,
last time I checked which was a couple of months ago,
they've started captioning again,
and now you have Colleen, aka Miranda Sings.
Hell yeah, I mean I'm always happy when big YouTubers
and anyone, really, makes or has their videos captioned
but it's even better when they also mentioned it,
mention it, and also talk about, you know,
talk about the importance of captions.
And even better, she's getting them professionally done.
To me, I think, if you can afford to get them
professionally done, that is kind of what should happen
because with someone of Colleen's size, it's a business.
I mean, like, pretty much almost every YouTuber
who does this as not a hobby is doing it as a business,
but, you know, there's a lot of YouTubers who can't afford it,
but with someone like Colleen it just makes sense
to get them professionally done,
again especially also because you have someone
in your family who needs that kind of accessibility,
so it just makes sense to make them the way
that they should be, how do you do that?
Captioning company.
I don't know who she uses.
Most people use Rev, which,
by the way, if you have not used Rev before,
you are more than welcome to use my referral link
to sign up for Rev. Again, affiliate link,
so I do get a little bit of commission
but just throwing that out there.
I will have a link to that down below
in the description box and the comments.
She may be using Rev, I know Ai-Media is also a company,
3Play Media, I don't know what company
but I'm not gonna knock it if it's good,
written professional captions.
That's pretty exciting, that's pretty big news.
I know a lot of people are just throwing their hands up
in the air and going, finally!
Which, I'm one of those people.
I do that with everyone, let's be honest, obviously.
So, yeah, my only two questions now are one,
is it every single video for every single channel?
And two, I'm just curious to know what company
she's using, because maybe there's more companies out there,
I don't know.
I asked the first question because it's common
for YouTubers who have more than one channel
to only caption one channel.
When really I think about it and I go,
well why aren't you captioning all of them?
So, yeah, that's pretty much it, let me know
how you're taking this news down below,
hopefully you're taking it well
because I can't imagine why people wouldn't.
And also before you go, if you haven't,
consider pledging on Patreon, you get perks
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and I will see you later.
Bye.
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