• @linearchaos
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    5714 days ago

    I’m going to throw my hat in the ring on guesses.

    Somebody was debugging a hard to find problem in the Amazon video client. In an attempt to try to figure out what was causing it they had it print out a message using the subtitle system. They had been looking at it for many hours, not able to correlate a certain piece of media that trigger the error so the humorous chose I hate you as the flight to let them know it just happened.

    And somehow that piece of Dev code made it to production.

    • @Mercuri
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      713 days ago

      Nah, seems to be an episode of The Boys with a mute character who uses sign language. So she signs i"I hate you" in a scene and it gets subtitled. But it doesn’t use the normal CC code as it’s a special case. And the code is buggy so it’s really easy for the subtitle to not clear off the screen and since it isn’t the normal subtitle/CC system it can’t be controlled that way. Fun times!