When and why did this become a thing? Half the people I know are like this

This is torture if the subtitles don’t match.

I have a soft spot for dubbed anime and always have, but in pretty much every case, the subtitles are not a transcript of the dub, they’re a translation of the original Japanese.

As a result, the feeling you get trying to watch that is not unlike going up a set of stairs and miscounting, but for every sentence.

If you’re gonna talk about me behind my back, I’m gonna steal your meme!

anytime

any time, here.