There was a couple of reasons that I switched a few years back but it really boils down to

-So much more customization for scoring. You can do 1-10 (down to the decimal), 1-5, stars or even smiley faces.

-Extremely clean interface that is way less cluttered then MAL

-Better mobile app support in AL-Chan

-More QOL that caters to the seasonal watcher

-More details about a show

Overall I think it does 99% of what MAL does but does it better. My only gripes with anilist at this point is that they don’t show the OPs and EDs like MAL does.

You can easily export your list from MAL to anilist so the barrier to entry is tiny.

For years Microsoft and Google were happy to acquiesce to copyright claims from the music and movie industry. Now all of a sudden when it benefits them to break those same laws, they immediately did. And now those industries who served small creators copyright claims are up against someone with a bigger legal budget.

It’s more evident then ever how broken our copyright system is. I’m hoping this blows up in both parties faces and we finally get some reform but I’m not holding my breath.

This is an assumption but I bet all the data feed into Content ID on YouTube was used to train Bard/Gemini…

Hoodwink from Dota 2