Hot take: dubbing used to be fine but now I can't stand watching it

I used to watch everything dubbed back in 2018, especially shonen like My Hero Academia. Then I caught a clip of the subbed version of Attack on Titan season 3 part 2 last year and the raw emotion from the Japanese voice actors just hit different. Now when I try dubbed stuff the lip flaps being off drives me crazy and the English voices feel flat. Am I the only one who flipped like this after years of being fine with dubs?

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charlesj462mo ago

Did you ever read that article about how the human brain processes lip movements and sound? Something about a 100 millisecond delay being all it takes to throw you off. Once I learned about that I couldn't unsee it in dubs.

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the_david2mo ago

My own brain is probably running on a 500 millisecond delay these days so I barely notice dubs anymore. Last week I tried to watch a foreign film and thought the lip sync was perfect until I realized the subtitles were for a different movie. At this point I'm just impressed when I can remember why I walked into a room.

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