The video is basically “wow anime is really popular right now” rather than a history of how Crunchy Roll became an animal streaming empire.
Step 1: be a pirate streaming site
Step 2: be cool if kind of low quality
Step 3: get sued and sell out so you don’t go to jail
Step 4: somehow be a worse service for a decade as a legit operation
Step 5: still have a shitty app with numerous bugs but at least stream quality is okay
Step 6: Buy out or get bought out by various companies over time so there’s no serious competition or choice for consumers.
The only ethical consumption is piracy.
god i love animal
Haha I’m leaving it.
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“wow anime is really popular right now”
CR’s success is pretty much that + not having any real competition.
They bought out their strongest competition. And they’re trying to ice out the last one.
I remember when Crunchyroll was a pirate site just like all the others. This was many many years ago now. Kinda reminds me of the start of Hollywood in a way.
There was actually an overlap period when they were licensing anime, but still has pirates titles in their site. It was bizarre that the Japanese companies didn’t notice.
It even still has some old fansubbed episodes from the pirate era. For example, if you look at the early Gintama episodes on CR, they’re actually subbed by Rumbel Subs.
