cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54821262
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.
Anime having ties to fascist governments? Whoah
You’re telling me now for the first time.
How capitalism presents itself: “Look at this platform I made. You give me ten bucks and I’ll give you these shows to watch.”
Capitalism in reality: “The shareholders have spoken and they say any service at all besides sacrificing Palestinian children to moloch is ‘waste.’ Now give me money for no reason.”
Nyaa I can’t believe something like this happened.
https://nyaa.si/ me too.
You mean ppl are moving from the piracy site crunchyroll to other piracy sites, still wild to me they rebranded
I cancelled after they removed comments, I wasn’t even paying for it when I went to check, my mom apparently had been for like a decade, she didn’t mind, but I had no plans on ever using it again without comments
