Usually if I’m trying not to disturb someone, like watching something on my phone in bed while my wife’s sleeping I’ll keep audio on mute and have captions on, or doing something else, like having having sports on TV while I do laundry, listening to the announcers then turning to look at the replay when something especially exciting happens.
I often listen to youtube videos as background noise, not looking or rarely looking at the screen
Yes
Whoa, no need for the whole life story, there partner 😅
Sorry, I tend to over share, ever since my mother died proceeds to trauma dump life story
There, there, now, It happens 🧸
Some casual video games I’ll turn off the game audio and just listen to music instead
Live concerts I guess, you don’t need the video
No
I almost exclusively browse or view content with no volume at all. I can only stand so much awful music, AI voice, dubbed sounds, effects or laughter. Other content where I’m looking for info, I’ll only listen to enough to know whether the video is worth digging into, and start fast forwarding or leave.
Most modern social media (TikTok, Snapchat, etc…) are only barely tolerable with the sound muted. WITH sound enabled they are a war crime.
I go to sleep every night listening to history documentaries, spy, mafia, religious history, etc with the audio only. As long as the voice is good and not overbearing background music or effects, it puts me out super quick and I slowly learn a lot
I watch almost all sports with the volume off. I think a lot of podcasts are filmed now for YouTube but I never watch, only listen.
I think it depends on the sport. Then again, I only watch 2 real sports and 1 fake one (wrestling).
Football: absolutely better without audio commentary.
Baseball: it depends. The local broadcast guys can be pretty good for a lot of regular season games.
Wrestling: commentary is part of the TV experience, but not every commentator can be Taz.
I like my baseball team’s radio and TV announcers quite a bit (there sure are some bad mlb announcers though). I haven’t watched wrasslin’ in 20 or so years but definitely the announcers are a fun part.
When watching a subtitled video on YouTube and it starts playing really shitty music — yes, I mute it and just read the subtitles.
When I was a kid, I used to watch Goosebumps videos with the sound off.
I rarely turn the sound on for video content on social media, the audio track is very rarely worthwhile
Life is a bit busy right now with work and family, so I rarely find it convenient to devote more than a single sense to media. If my eyes are busy (driving, running, flossing…), I will listen to documentaries and science shows without video. If my ears are busy (working), I will put videos on my second monitor and mute them.
I often run the WTYP podcast videos in the background.
Back when I used to frequent What Could Go Wrong on reddit I normally had the sound muted.
