Why do people give videos English titles when the videos themselves are in some other language?

Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

I really really don’t understand how people are either so tiny brained or so fkin inconsiderate. Probably this is the wrong community to post this, as my infuriation levels are far from mild.

Like… you look up a tutorial on a specific thing. You see a list of videos describing the very thing that you want in perfect English. You open the video to see that it is in a completely different language (usually Hindi). You then feel like personally going on a mission to assassinate that video creator. /s

Like come on… I understand that English alphabets are more readable to people who speak languages other than English. FINE. I GET IT. But would it be too much to ask to at least put the name of the fkin language that your video is actually in, in the title?

Like… it would so much better for a video title to be “(Hindi) Ranked Retrieval model explained” instead of “Ranked Retrieval model explained” and it turning out to be in Hindi. Like… do these people not think? Or do they not have a brain? Or do they just not care?

I scoured through SO MANY VIDEOS and all of them have this nonsense going on. Like come on…

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hinterlufer@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are you speaking of YouTube? YouTube has a “feature” that will auto-translate titles of videos to your account language (the creator may have to enable this, not sure).

If you google for the issue you’ll find multiple people with the same issue, but afaik there’s not really a proper way to prevent the translation. If you do understand the original language, you can add it to your account languages to stop translation though.

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- Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  (the creator may have to enable this, not sure).
  
  afaik not an option for creators, OR it isn’t an option for me/my videos.
  
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  - UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Interesting. I really wonder why YouTube hasn’t made this universal. Like… It works quite well for the videos that I get the option for. Maybe it doesn’t work for videos where it isn’t confident about the auto-transcription?
    
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- UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Then looks like these peeps don’t enable it. I get this option rarely.
  
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XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
YouTube right? It’s actually some personalized translation or something. The title may displayed in different languages depending on tbe audience.

It’s happened to me before. I see a title in one language and from private browsing (logged out) it’s in a different one.

Aaaand Google confirms the issue: www.google.com/search?q=youtube automatic title t…

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- UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I doubt I’m facing this issue. To bypass Indian vids, I change my location to the Netherlands (Proton VPN) on private browsing. Despite this, I still get this nonsense.
  
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teft@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A lot of indians are multilingual so a hindi video with english isn’t really that weird.

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- UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m Indian and bilingual. I just don’t understand Hindi. Also, YouTube isn’t for Indians only, is it? It’s so scummy to falsely represent the content of your video like this. Imagine going to France, selling a book whose cover is in French, but the book’s actually in Russian.
  
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- AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The complaint is about videos where only the title is English.
  
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Moghul@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s youtube. If you copy the link and paste it into a chat where it’ll be embedded or something, you can see the original title.

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Many people can read English. Not as many can read Hindi (world wide)

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