- 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
My friend is an animator at mappa. We were watching k-on together years ago and I asked him if moe anime can still be done like this. I will never forget his answer...
"We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."
Context: 🤓🤓🤓
She is an Indonesian cosplayer named Larissa Rochefort who was originally contracted by Capcom for the Resident Evil event.
The fans protested because of her problematic past behavior, so Capcom terminated her contract and hired a replacement.
On the day of the event, she showed up anyway in her Ada Wong cosplay and acted as if she were still an official guest, even taking over the stage for photos. It was so shameless that staff had to use the mic to asked her to step down. 😅
Japanese streamer in Peru mistook a street vendor for a scammer, then returned the next day to make a heartfelt apology.
Watch this
And despite the language barrier, the vendor kindly accepted it.