Re:YouTube No Translation
by josefx on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:21AM
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For reddit things get even worse: not all commenters realize that the original post has been translated, so you get a flood of comments from people commenting in their native language. Getting modern day tower of babel vibes from that.
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Ye it is some sort of dark pattern and deception to auto-translate like that.
It took me some minutes to realize what was happening. At first I though it was some language specific sub before too many post had strange language.
Fake culture and putting things in the a strange cultural context and trying to hide it.
> not all commenters realize that the original post has been translated
Does it actually say it is somewhere obvious? My girlfriend and I both looked something up and each got the same Reddit thread, but one in English and one in Chinese. She had no idea hers was translated.
But I also thought it was supposed to do the reverse if someone comments in the translated language, adding an original-language comment instead of a translated-language one.