Karamo Brown wants to talk about this issue that makes Queer Eye hard to watch for deaf fans
Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown described Sean Spicer as “very sweet” (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
Queer Eye star Karamo Brown has backed deaf fans of the show who have complaining about poor subtitling on Netflix.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing Queer Eye fans have been noticing something strange about Netflixās subtitling: theyāre often censored, or changed from whatās actually being said.
After complaints on social media, the Fab Fiveās Karamo pledged to get the streaming service to improve its access to the show.
He tweeted on Thursday: āReading everyoneās comments breaks my heart. I donāt know how much power I have but know, the next time Iām at Netflix Iām going to bring up this issue internally & wonāt stop until something changes.
āDeaf & HOH people should have the same experience as everyone else!ā
Jonathan Van Ness, Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk, and Karamo Brown from Queer Eye (Austin Hargrave/Netflix)
One fan complained: āI really wish Netflix captions for Queer Eye 2 werenāt bleeping profanity AND changing the profanity used in the captions. Itās really not awesome.ā
While another added: āItās censorship and itās patronizing, it should read exactly as what anyone is hearing, thatās it, end of story. Itās wrong for so many reasons.
āThis is true for any close-captioning on any channel or program. Get it together Netflix.ā
Netflix has since said that it will seek to improve subtitling on the show, a move that the Queer Eye star – the showās culture expert – welcomed.
The Queer Eye cast (Noam Galai/Getty Images)
It told viewers: āWeāve heard about the caption issues on the service, specifically for Queer Eye. After looking into it, there’s lots of dialogue missing from the Fab 5 that shouldn’t be.
We’re fixing it. In some cases, we do bleep incidental profanity from our unscripted series.
The streaming service added: āDelivering a great experience to our deaf and hard of hearing members is very important to us.
āWeāve also heard from fans about a similar concern in Marvelās Luke Cage season 2 ā weāre looking into this now.ā
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The hugely popular makeover show features five gay men giving lifestyle advice for people who want to make a change.
The showās other stars are Antoni Porowski, Tan France, Bobby Berk and Johnathan Van Ness.
The second season premiered on Netflix this month and includes makeovers of a trans man, a woman who survived cancer and a young college student.
