the best thing about alt text for memes is how utterly garbage 99% of them are. "tiktok about [topic]", "the [object] gif" wow thanks if i was blind that would be completely and uttely helpful
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i will intentionally and knowingly leave alt text blank if i can not provide one that i believe is comprehensive enough to MOSTLY REPLACE seeing the media in its entirety for this exact reason
despite being a sighted person i do indeed check alt text for things like "who the fuck is this guy in the video" or "whats the whole deal" or "what did he say at that bit where it was completely unintelligible" and all of them are all the same "video about thing" garbage. its almost like you like seeing the alt text badge more than the concept of alt text
like at that point just leave it blank so people know there isn't anything of substance. there's so many videos out there i'm convinced are effectively impossible to alt text. you need like a full on audio description