Exist Loudly, Love Softly

Deaf People Exist

auditory processing disorder is a Bitch

people with ADHD can find it hard to concentrate on what is being said without the words in front of them

^autistic people for the same reason

autistic people may also find it hard to interpret verbal messages within the context of the video, so it's useful to have written alternatives to fall back on

do you know how painful it is to be excluded from every joke, every video, every conversation because others just Can't Be Bothered?

some people live in a conservative household or with family who don't share the same ideals, and they may not have privacy to view things on their own, so they may need to watch things with the volume extremely low or muted

We Want To Watch Videos In Public, Dammit

feel free to add on!

If you know something that was said from that video, it may be easier to find for someone else to use or watch later

Makes a non-native language easier to learn or understand (speaker has an accent or is speaking another language)

Sensory overload sometimes makes it harder to focus on sound vs words, so captions help A LOT

For the sake of education, sometimes having captions to follow is easier than spoken words when trying to write/report on what is happening in the video