The bug
Due to MCPE-233204, the size of the closed captions is fixed. Long subtitles/closed captions can exceed this size, and they wrap to the next line when this occurs. This looks pretty confusing, it looks like each line is a separate subtitle.
How to reproduce
Maximize your GUI scale
Enable closed captions
Use a compass on a lodestone
Expected result
Background grows (and shrinks) to match the length of the caption
Actual result
Captions break apart into multiple lines
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After consideration, the issue is being closed as Won't Fix.
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