If there's one crucial takeaway from the fourth season of Stranger Things, it's that closed captioning is an under-appreciated art form. I mean, just look at this beauty:
New York Magazine tracked down the closed captioning artists behind such incredible descriptions as "tentacles undulating moistly," and ended up having a fascinating conversation with them about their craft, and how audio descriptions can serve different communities:
— Read the restKarli: Since we're trying to create something that the deaf community can follow as well as we can as the hearing audience, our final decisions have to be made at the last minute when we have the full version.
