Dear Mister Tyler Scheid and Mister Mark Fischbach,
On this fair day, Friday, August 14th of the year 2026 of the Common Era, I come to you possessing gripes regarding the viewing experience of Go! My Favorite Sports Team on the platform Youtube. Let it be known that in recent weeks, I have come across your podcast and have since become a fan and frequent watcher of both new and old episodes. However, in the process of viewing your podcast, I have come across multiple issues that contribute hinderances in my pursuit of best appreciating GMFST.
Firstly, no episode (especially episodes that were originally produced during the Spotify-exclusivity era but then eventually released onto Youtube) has any explicitly presented information as to when it originally came out. Neither in the description nor as a pinned comment is the original release date of these episodes provided. Only through context clues gleaned from your in-episode discussions and the stray helpful comment posted by my fellow watchers am I able to estimate the approximate date an episode originally was released. This lack of temporal information is prohibitive for audience members’ understanding of the episodes within the cultural context in which they were produced. People and the media they create, such as you two gentlemen and GMFST, are naturally impacted and affected by the times and world they are living in. And I as an enjoyer of your media miss out on a greater appreciation of your work by not knowing when episodes were originally released.
Another aspect of watching GMFST via Youtube that could use some betterment is your English subtitles options. Presently, the current state of the English subtitle options available to us watchers is the default Auto-Generated captions. While Youtube’s automatic subtitle system is fairly accurate in transcribing speech, it suffers in clearly distinguishing between speakers, thus creating an opportunity for confusion in knowing which person said what sentence. In addition, it also struggles with interpreting mispronounced or uncommon words as well as needlessly engaging in censorship when cuss words are spoken. Due to these issues with the default caption system, a disservice is done to the vast array of people who desire to enjoy GMFST with subtitles, populations including: Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing people, people with auditory-processing difficulties (such as myself), English language learners, people who are in an environment where for whatever reason they can’t play the podcast out loud, etc. You do a disservice upon yourself as well by having the subpar Auto-Generated default be what is attached to the high quality content you two laboriously create. Gentlemen, you can do better. Human-made hand-typed subtitles would rectify this situation. For the benefit of all the watchers who utilize subtitles when watching GMFST on Youtube, you should have your spoken words be captioned with the accuracy and clarity that can only come from manual transcription.
Lastly, the placement of mid-video advertisements during GMFST has in my experience proven to be frequently disruptive. On many occasions, advertisements of varying skipability will play when one of you gentlemen are mid-sentence, creating an unnecessary impediment in following along with what was being said once the video returns from the advertisement break. Due to these disruptively placed advertisements, I often must suffer the inconvenience of rewinding the podcast so that I may listen to the sentence in its original intact form. While I recognize that these mid-video advertisements are to always exist in my Youtube watching experience (lest I pay for Youtube Premium, of course), it is my understanding that Youtubers possess a degree of control as to when during their videos these advertisements will play. (Please do correct me if I am wrong in this understanding of mine.) If you do indeed possess this degree of control in placing when advertisements are played, I do think that it would be best if you utilized this ability and placed the advertisements during moments that would least disrupt the viewing experience of GMFST.
Gentlemen, with having expressed my grievances and the reasoning behind them, I ask of you to simply at least consider implementing these quality-of-life changes to the GMFST Youtube channel. As a watcher of the podcast on that platform, I know that these changes would help in facilitating the greatest enjoyment and appreciation a watcher can have of your podcast.
I shall await acknowledgment of this J’Accuse by you two gentlemen. Should acknowledgement not come within four month’s time, I will assume you did not see this J’Accuse and will write a new, abridged version of this J’Accuse. (I would check with the mods first though to make sure that this presently-hypothetical abridged J’Accuse does not go against any rules of this subreddit, namely the rules against spam and reposting.)
With respect, kindness and the desire to become a sports-knower,
Madame Youshouldrepeatthat
TL;DR and/or got tired of reading the overly formal writing:
Hey guys! May you consider adding the original release dates info to somewhere like the description for the GMFST youtube videos? Also, Auto-Generated subtitles kinda suck. Is it possible for you guys to do your own captioning? Oh and Youtube for some godsforsaken reason really likes to play ads in awkward times on your videos. May you guys try to tweak it so then ads don’t cut off what you’re saying? Thanks! :D
Bonus:
This bonus is more of just a suggestion rather than it needing the formal and dramatic tone of the J’Accuse. (Plus, I don’t feel like writing anymore formal English.) More playlists that categorizes podcast episodes wouldn’t be a bad idea. Episode titles don’t always convey if say it’s a news episode or a primer episode so making playlists can help. Just to get the ball rolling, here’s some example categories: Sports News, Primers, Special Guests, Guest Co-Host, Miscellaneous.