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#SUBTLEmemes
March 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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#SubtleMemes #translation #AVT
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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#blessed #summervibes #vaycay #beachlife #SunSeaAndSyncErrors #SubtleMemes
August 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #translation #film
August 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #subtitling
July 1, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #freelance #peanuts
A shot from The Walking Dead. Zombies try to attack a man from behind a metal grill fence. On each zombie is a per-minute rate: $1.80/min, $1.35/min, $1.40/min, $2.05/min, $2.15/min $1.70/min.
September 4, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #subtitling #dubbing
A skeleton wearing headphones sits at a desk in front of a computer. Text underneath says "Still waiting for the high-volume drop the PM announced 11 months ago"
June 5, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Being a subtitler's not all that bad...

#SubtleMemes
March 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Subtle will always be here to hold your hair back.

#SubtleMemes #AI #AVT
A medieval style painting in a courtyard. On the left, a woman holds her hands in the air. Text says "Some LSP preaching AI". On the right, a woman labelled "Subtle" holds the head of a person vomiting labelled "Subtitlers everywhere".
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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Incognito mode activated 🕵️

#SubtleMemes #AVT #subtitling #dubbing #SDH #AD
August 7, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Here are our top picks from week one of the Subtle meme contest. Like your favourite in the replies to vote for the final shortlist!

This week's voting ends on Friday 24 January 11:59 pm GMT. (1/7)

#SubtleMemeContest #SUBTLEmemes
January 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #translation #comedy
An image of Marge from The Simpsons looking into a fridge. Eight identical cartons have different labels. Text on the right says "When you get to joke #27981 of translating a stand-up special". The labels in order: "Literal and meh", "A bit random, still funny", "Play it safe, fool!", "Likely to get you cancelled", "Pass!" "Will 100% get you cancelled", "Chuckle worthy", "Better than the original".
July 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #AI #rates #subtitling #film
"A three-panel meme: In the first image, a boss has his hands slammed on the table. Three colleagues sit at a table looking alarmed. He says ""Our blockbuster has a budget of 200 million. How much to localise it for a global audience?"" In the second panel, one employee says ""50k, tops!"" The next says ""AI!"" A third one, slouching at the desk says ""Could we try..."" The third panel shows the boss looking angry. The employee continues: ""Decent rates that do justice to our big blockbuster?"" To the right is an image of the employee falling out of the window of a tall office building, glass shattering around him."
October 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #RIPQC #Poopsie
A girl wearing school uniform with an unimpressed expression. A Pepsi bottle is attached on top of her head. Her hair is pouring out of it into a plastic cup attached to the side of her head. Text says "When QC gets skipped because whatever".
June 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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#SUBTLEmemes
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #subtitling #translation
"When they randomly "upgrade" your software and you're now facng just a few minor issues" above a photo of a cat with wide, panicked eyes, one blue, one yellow, and its chin resting on a table. On the table is a piece of paper with handwritten notes. Complex mathematic equations are superimposed over the image. The Subtle logo sits in the bottom right-hand corner.
March 23, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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Wishing you all a wonderful Wensday!

#SubtleMemes #AVT #subtitling #translation
Text says "Me: I am a strong, intelligent, educated subtitler. Also me:" followed by a classic painting of a woman writing at a desk. Text floating above the desk says "Wed-nes-day".
April 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #subtitling #translation
In the top image, Homer from The Simpsons sleeps soundly. Text says "How I sleep when the QC is in a safe pair of hands". In the bottom image, Marge lies awake, her eyes bulging with red veins splintering into the middle. Text says "How the QCer sleeps".
September 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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😱

#SubtleMemes #Halloween #subtitling #AI #MTPE
Cartoon image of a scared anime-style girl crouched under a desk, crying, while a menacing Terminator-style robot looms close by holding a gun. The caption reads: “WHEN THE AI GETS A CHANCE TO POST-EDIT YOUR .ASS INSTEAD.”
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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🥵 #SubtleMemes #SweatySubtitles #AVT #subtitling #dubbing #AD #SDH
July 10, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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#SubtleMemes #AVT #AI #Translation #HumanInTheLoop
A meme showing a cross-section of The Mechanical Turk. A man in traditional 18th-century clothing stands behind a cross-section of a chess-playing machine, a cabinet with gears and mechanisms. A small man sits inside, as if operating the machine. Above, text says "What they mean when they say: Human in the loop".
July 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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#SUBTLEmemes
A screenshot of a Spotify playlist named "POV: You're an audiovisual translator". The playlist creator is "SUBTLE". The names of the songs are as follows: 1) Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? 2) Oh Yeah 3) It's Because 4) I Gotta Feeling 5) No One Cares 6) About 7) Quality 8) Subtitles 9) P.S. 10) Go Away 11) AI
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#SubtleMemes #Burnout #SlowTranslation #l10n #AVT
A sweaty and moody-looking Ivan Drago from "Rocky IV" at a boxing match. Meme text says "Folks be assigning entire seasons with 48hr deadlines like... if they die, they die"
May 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Here are our top picks from week two of the Subtle meme contest! Please comment on this post to vote:

👻 = AI “efficiency”
🫶 = AI vs care and love
🦈 = shark tank
🐯 = tiger vs cat
😈 = productivity and burnout

Voting ends Friday 31 January 11:59 pm GMT.

#SubtleMemeContest #SUBTLEmemes (1/6)
January 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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#SubtleMemes #l10n #AV
A meme of a period painting. The painting centres on a couple in an audience at the theatre. The woman on the left has her hair pinned up, rouged cheeks and an elegant silk pink dress with long white gloves. She looks down politely, perhaps unimpressed. A man in a tuxedo and short white gloves holds a piece of white paper in his right hand and is leaning in confidently, as if muttering something to her. The meme text says "When he's mansplaining the plot but you have translated the movie".
June 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM