The Upgrade
Why Gen Z Loves Closed Captioning
Old technology finds a surprising new application
Published in
4 min readJan 17, 2019
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“Everyone does it.”
These were the words from my college-aged daughter when I caught her lounging on our couch, streaming Friends with 24-point closed captioning on. She has no hearing impairment, and I wanted to know what she was up to.
