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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update (fandomwire.com)

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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.

EDIT: Link was taken down thanks to someone in the comments here's the archive for the page https://web.archive.org/web/20251004184506/https://fandomwire.com/crunchyroll-faces-cancelation-why-anime-fans-are-choosing-piracy-after-latest-update/

https://bsky.app/profile/lamhfada.bsky.social/post/3m2c3udxnjc2u

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[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to support any company that is either directly or indirectly funding genocide and fascism. It's not complicated.

If you found out that Netflix powered their servers using an orphan grinding machine, would you still subscribe to them?

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So you don’t buy anything that comes from USA, Italy, China, Russia…, or that does business with a company based here? That’s pretty much all of them