Don't get me wrong--I think YouTube's captions are a great idea. The automatically-generated subtitles allow more people to enjoy YouTube's content, and that's never a bad thing. Can we agree, though, that YouTube's captions sometimes miss the mark in a spectacular and often hilarious fashion? It's like there's a malicious little gnome who hates the English language hanging out and listening to YouTube videos, then typing out flawed transcriptions for his own sick amusement. Can't you just hear his little gnome giggles now? Or is that just the voices in my head again?
At any rate, YouTube stars Rhett and Link have discovered a hilarious way to redeem even the most wildly inaccurate YouTube captions. Their method, which might appropriately be called CaptionCeption, works as follows:
Step 1) Record a skit with a normal script and upload it to YouTube.
Step 2) Record a new skit, using the captions generated from the first video as the script.
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Profit.
From 0 to Ridiculous in under five minutes. On a side note, I'd totally watch a movie that featured Rhett Butler and Link, Hero of Time. I think these guys should make that their next project. It could be the buddy cop flick to end all buddy cop flicks!
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