Stephen Colbert got his band to play licensed music during his final show so CBS would be sued for using the music illegally.
“Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!”
- 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
GREENS CALLS ON ALBANESE TO END AUKUS
"Today is a bad day for America, a bad day for Australia, and a bad day for the world.
Australia should be able to make its own decisions [...] not be dictated to by Trump.
We cannot be tied to such a dangerous demagogue."
@FilmsFallout What if the game opens in the Prewar phase, like Fallout 4...
Except we're not in a vault, we're in a power suit that escapes the blast but and gets fused with the ground making it useless, the game takes place during the first year or two of the apocalypse in Colorado...
@Ky1eKatarn It would also have the ambiguous meaning of : - This whole time You've been trying to survive and in doing so you've been killing your own brothers (The Clones) (Yes I know They often used stun)
It would hurt the Bad Batch even more and give even more hate to Hemlock.
@Ky1eKatarn It would have been a very poignant piece of Star Wars history had they actually gone through with this.
Imagine, Hunter skewers CX-2 the gun falls to the ground, the body slumps forward and the helmet falls to the ground and then the realisation kicks in.