Hi, welcome.

As you can see,

now you can hear me,

and now I want to make my little community,

here on YouTube, more inclusive,

and one of the ways I have decided

to do that in the new year

is by closed captioning every single one of my videos.

I went all the way back.

I closed captioned every single one

on my main channel, on my second YouTube channel,

and, so, if you want to consume my stuff you can,

whether you are able to from the start,

whether you've always been able to,

or now if you are deaf, or hard of hearing,

or if you're learning English,

or if you just like to read videos instead of hear videos,

now it is an option for you,

and I was considering doing this for a while now,

but then I started to see some people suggest it

and tried to encourage me to do it.

I saw a video from a YouTuber named Rikki Poynter

who talked about the importance of it,

and why she thinks it's important for every YouTuber to do

and how you can get about doing it,

whether it's doing it manually,

which is super easy,

or, if you have resources,

you can send it to an outside source or company

that'll do it for you,

and then send you a transcript,

and then you just upload it to the video.

It's a really easy thing to do,

and I was actually surprised at how easy

it was to close caption my videos,

and the fact that now millions and millions and millions

more people can actually enjoy my content is a cool thing

and I don't ever want this to feel like a place

where only certain people can come to

and be a part of this community,

so that was why it was really important for me,

and I guess the next step

is encouraging other YouTubers to do it,

so if you are a YouTuber,

and you are watching,

and you want to spread the love to a whole new community

that just wants to be able to enjoy the content

that a lot of other people get to enjoy,

but they may not have the privilege to.

All of the resources that I am talking about

for closed captioning your videos

are going to be below,

and this is not just for YouTubers,

there is something that I want to request of you guys.

You guys are all over the world,

and I know that you guys speak

just about every language in the world,

so I have a challenge.

If you would like to caption

any of my videos in your language,

and open the accessibility to your community,

I would be so grateful,

so I have opted into a program

that let's you guys work as a community

to spread the love

and to help me caption my videos,

so that they are available for your languages,

so if you'd like to be a part of that,

if you speak anything other than English,

the description is going to have all of the details.

I would love it if you got involved.

It's okay if you can't,

but I think this is a cool thing

that we can do together as a community

to open up this little thing that we've got going on.

I just want everyone to be able to enjoy YouTube

the way I enjoy YouTube,

and for that to happen,

it takes team work.

Number one: if you're a YouTuber, close caption your videos.

The stuff is in the description.

Number two: if you are a viewer,

encourage other YouTubers to do the same

by closed captioning their videos,

or, if you are a viewer,

and you speak another language,

and you want to translate to your language,

again, all this stuff is going to be in the description,

but that's all this video is.

I just wanted to make an announcement

that all of my stuff is closed captioned now,

and to encourage YouTubers to do the same,

and to encourage viewers to help contribute

to helping me make my stuff available for every language,

but, yeah, that's all I have for you guys today.

I hope you have a fabulous life.

I hope that you find ways to include other people

from other perspectives into your own life.

I think a big thing is making sure that

accessibility is on the forefront of your mind

because if you are, you know, able to hear,

or if you're able to speak,

or if you can see, or if you can walk,

or you can do all these things

that not everybody is necessarily able to do,

then it's not something you think about,

so I just want you to be conscious of all the ways

that you're privileged with your own body,

and to make sure that you include others

who may not have the same privileges.

That's all.

That's really, I mean, that's just it.

I hope that you enjoyed this video.

If you liked this video,

be sure to give this video a thumbs up,

and let me know other ways

that I can be more inclusive on this channel,

because I want to include people

and I want people to know that this is a space for everyone,

but, yes, that is all I have for you guys today,

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I make new videos all the time.

I hope that you guys can be a part of this family,

and, yeah, I love you,

and follow me on like all the rest of my social media.

The links are below.

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Hit me up,

and, yeah, I love you.

I will see you guys soon,

and, yeah, okay, bye, later.

I know this video is not informative about me,

or what I'm doing in my life,

or, you know, funny, or a Q and A,

or a P.O Box video, or an adventure video or an interview,

or a collab, or anything,

but I feel like it's important,

so if you think it's important too,

give it a thumbs up and let your favorite YouTubers know.

okay, that's all, bye.