- Crunchyroll launched in 2006 as a pirate anime streaming site
- After a $4M investment in 2009, they went legal and abandoned the fansubbers who built them, no credit, no compensation
- Crunchyroll betrayed fansubbed
- Fansubs gave you karaoke OP/ED lyrics, translator notes, colored dialogue per character, and honorifics, none of which Crunchyroll has ever consistently offered
- Crunchyroll shut down its Games division in 2024, quietly killing it with little notice to users who had invested time in it
- Crunchyroll manga service was shut down in 2016, then relaunched recently, but folded into the subscription fee with a limited catalog
- Sony bought Crunchyroll for $1.175 billion in 2021
- Crunchyroll has raised subscription prices multiple times since the Sony acquisition, while delivering less
- Crunchyroll acquired Funimation in 2022 and shut it down in April 2024, eliminating the last major competitor
- Crunchyroll actively fights anime piracy
- Disabled comments section on all anime under episodes and news posts in July 2024
- Crunchyroll streams censored TV broadcast versions of anime, but piracy is an uncensored anime scene
- Crunchyroll denied switching to OOONA when asked by Anime News Network, refusing to confirm whether they'd used Aegisub, despite multiple staff leaks confirming the change
- Crunchyroll subtitles typesetting was gutted/downgraded
- Crunchyroll used AI translation a German subtitle (ChatGPT said: Wenn ich die Welt von hier an weiter genießen kann)
- Crunchyroll raised subscription tiers again by $2 in February 2026
- Crunchyroll stayed silent, made no public disclosure, as data was breached on March 12, 2026
🔴 It's finally here! Part 1 of my Life Is Strange reunion playthrough is now live! Max and Chloe are back!
#lifeisstrange#secretsofcaledon
Watch it here!
📺: https://t.co/bnDbb0L0ql
I need a black streamer/creator for BHM jeopardy for the time and date of February 15 at 8 a.m. EST time (yes I know this is early). You must be on twitch and have a cam (or at least have good use of your model). I recently had a drop out and I the event is coming soon. Please rt