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Comment by codedokode

3 days ago

> repeat the same thing the fucking guy is talking but just with flashy text on screen

This have been a thing on Japanese TV since long ago, doubling down on the punchlines with subtitles or adding a comment or comeback (conveniently, Japanese text takes less space that Western text, so the characters can be relatively large). So I think they just copied it.

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