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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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[-] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If you do not want to support then stop consuming which can not do because everything needed or wanted is all controlled/produced by the same owner class and switching companies means switching between different companies all owned by the same owner class just like news and newspapers

Same scam that is done on elections to give the illusion of choice but the puppet master never changes face just the puppets

No other companies to switch to for baby formula, diapers, bottled or otherwise water, foods by any brand all same owner at the beginning of the chains, all media is all owned at the very top by the same owner class, movies including super hero ones all owned by that same entity, vehicles that move us and products around all owned by the same people even if the countries are different and the names changed at the very very top are the same owner class

Got us plain and simple

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[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I don't like anime, so this has no bearing on my life. Hot take, I know.

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[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Have this odd bug where CC is enabled at first on every episode and man, it’s bad. Luckily subs for JP dubs are somewhat decent but I feel bad for anyone who needs closed captioning.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

CC is a separate setting from the subtitles. There is a place to turn it off but it's so unintuitive I can never remember it. All it really is, though is dub dialog. There was no attempt at proper closed captioning.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I turn the setting off and next time I launch the app, it’s tuned right back on. Works fine on my PC, just not my XB1.

And the CCs don’t even get the dub dialog right. Names are beyond mangled it looks like they’re trying to run it through a realtime recognition system to do auto captions. It’d be worlds better if they just uploaded the ADR script at that point.

[-] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

What I meant is there is a separate overall setting to turn it off. I think it is an app specific setting. If you just turn them off in the settings for the show, it will only affect that session.

Also it's sad to hear they've gotten worse. They were bad enough before when they were dub dialog only.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Yup! That’s the setting I’m referring to. The global one resets every time on me. I have to go into the show and turn it off at the start of every episode. It’s a pain in the ass.

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