Heck, I do the old flip test. If the prologue reads like a chapter, story already moving and people doing things, I read it. If it's just setting mood or some voice from the past hinting at secrets, I skip it and circle back after chapter three. Nine times out of ten the book tells you what you needed anyway, and you get the fun of putting it together yourself. I learned that the hard way with a mystery last spring where the prologue flat out named the killer. Skipped it on a reread and the thing actually worked.

The part everyone is skipping is that the fix probably worked twice. Captions at the bottom do not just get covered, they pull your eyes down to the buttons and the caption bar, which is where people tap away or swipe off. Moving text to the middle keeps eyes on the middle of the screen, so the viewer never looks at the exit doors. Same words, same video, different path for the eyeballs. That is why 8 to 14 happened so fast, it was not the text getting better, it was the viewer staying in a spot where nothing else is fighting for the tap. Check your own last few reels on a small phone, not the preview screen, and see where your eyes land first. Bet it is not the video.