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Far from being "Japan banding together to strike back against the West b/c of CR's repressive practices!" this is a WESTERN-LED venture trying to monetize a kind of anime which has lots of cultural value but which performs terribly in the simulcast-driven environment of streaming
So, what actually happened?
An AMERICAN venture capitalist teamed up w/ a bunch of anime studios to make a youtube channel where they'll be putting up tons of classic, often kids/family-aimed anime that isn't on places like CR/Funi anyway to get some ad rev & marketing off of it
Here's Hero Hei getting over 200 THOUSAND views in under a day talking about how this move "DESTROYS" CR & Funi
It certainly WOULD be devastating if anime studios were banding together to create their own non-CR service b/c they were mad at the company
If only that was true...
So, I saw the usual suspects reacting to the news with takes along these lines over the past few days, getting MASSIVE viewcounts on videos covering it, and upon literally 3 minutes of reading their narrative entirely collapses; it's really quite stunning and hilarious, a thread:
@sapphinoys @elliesbxtch It’s fine, she’s fiiiiiine
I’ll just dial up her Scroll; she’s on a mission with the rest of JNPR right now but she’ll still pick up