Creates bad AI subtitles
Ignores customer needs
Changes business to genocidal regime
"Why does everyone hate us?? Must be the damn pirates! :<"
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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crunchy was criminal since the get go. their earliest releases were unauthorized reposts of fansubs, for which they already charged subscription fees!
so they started their existence by pirating while making money through stealing fansubbers' (volunteer btw) work.
From the mass employee layoffs to being caught using ChatGPT for subtitles
So caught using ChatGPT and then doubling down on using AI for subtitles in the worst possible way? Wow...
People pay for an anime streaming service to do better than fan-based translations, not worse.
"Using a popular large language model wasn't bad enough. We wanted the genocidal large language model!"
This is just weird. Why make these changes? Customers don't want it, the company doesn't profit and they actually lost money and reputation by doing this and not backtracking. Who is benefiting from this? It looks like a perfect lose-lose situation
... Who is benefiting from this?
Probably the MBA executives. They have bonuses if it works and they have bonuses if it doesn't work and they leave their contract early. MBAs don't understand the product-customer relationship it seems.
Too many MBAs and execs are too focused on the shareholder. They forget you have to take care of the customer first. It doesn't help we have insane institutional shareholders who reward execs for punishing the customer. It's a big reason Enshittification is such a big problem today.
The only reason why the MBAs and Execs have jobs are because the shareholders want more money.
Customers don't decide company leadership unless it interferes with shareholder or exec goals.
The system of ownership determining everything for everyone is the problem but good luck getting those in power to give up that ownership complex.
You can blame Dodge (yes, that Dodge) for enshrining the importance of shareholders over customers.
Already canceled my Subscription the first time that aI Subtitle Crap came out. Sailin the seas it is!
Oh no! Anyway...
This is why I switched to ADN recently.
American companies are corrupt.
Isn't it owned by Sony which is not an American company.
Crunchyroll is based in the US while Sony the parent company is Japanese.
Yeah they're Sony. Sony also owns Funimation, Wakanim, Aniplex, Madman Anime Group, Animax, and then a bunch of production studios.