Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
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Just cancelled my subscription with an appropriate message. Though I don’t think I’ll be able to keep this up when my existing annual subscription lapses. I prefer the convenience of legal streaming and I ain’t joining an American streaming service.
Too many other places have anime now. And it’s now nore common knowledge that you’re basically better off buying a piece of merch or similar if you’re actually interested in supporting the studios.
What is it? You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain? Get bent, Crunchyroll.
To be fair, they started as a pirate site, before earning legitimacy.
Right. Heroes.
More like selling out