You all know what I’m talking about. I was just watching a video on another post, and literally the first ten seconds of audio were covered up by BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. I know it’s everywhere, but already I stop watching YouTube channels that use it, and I don’t watch TV very much because of it.
I’m not sure if other people feel this way, and it sounds kinda whiney when I type it out like this, but the pitch hurts my ears and disrupts my concentration on the video in a way that irritates me way more than it should.
I was thinking about this the other day. Why does the beep have to be louder than the speech, why does everyone use the same sound, why is there a beep at all? It seems very intrusive and distracting, I think white noise or even just silence would be better for the purpose of censoring.
You said it. Stop TV, YouTube, and social media. Download everything.
Get tinnitus in the same frequency of the tone and it will just kinda blend in.
I’d like a setting named something like “I’m over 12, so naughty words are cool” or even “my video has beeps so mark it as ‘under 12’ so only kids see it” because I’d rather the kid stuff was just filtered out.
It’s especially aggregious when it’s a clip from an adult series. Have fun having every other word be bleeped out because one character is slightly rougher with their language.
It’s a simple one frequency sound so a basic band gap filter should do it. Three might be a browser extension that does that.
