Usually if I’m trying not to disturb someone, like watching something on my phone in bed while my wife’s sleeping I’ll keep audio on mute and have captions on, or doing something else, like having having sports on TV while I do laundry, listening to the announcers then turning to look at the replay when something especially exciting happens.
I often listen to youtube videos as background noise, not looking or rarely looking at the screen
Live concerts I guess, you don’t need the video
Some casual video games I’ll turn off the game audio and just listen to music instead
When watching a subtitled video on YouTube and it starts playing really shitty music — yes, I mute it and just read the subtitles.
No
When I was a kid, I used to watch Goosebumps videos with the sound off.
Life is a bit busy right now with work and family, so I rarely find it convenient to devote more than a single sense to media. If my eyes are busy (driving, running, flossing…), I will listen to documentaries and science shows without video. If my ears are busy (working), I will put videos on my second monitor and mute them.
I rarely turn the sound on for video content on social media, the audio track is very rarely worthwhile
I often run the WTYP podcast videos in the background.
Back when I used to frequent What Could Go Wrong on reddit I normally had the sound muted.
Yes, but more often than normal this time of year. Our current house doesn’t have a fireplace, so I’ll put on some fireplace loop video on the TV and use Sonos (through the TV audio system) for the music. Sonos is already our main source for any music in the house and not all fireplace videos have decent music, or at least whatever music we might want at the time.
When I used to play MMOs I did this fairly often as well during the grind. Wouldn’t really need the game audio, so I’d just pipe something else in.
