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How Crunchyroll became a global anime streaming empire | BBC News (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by astro_ray@piefed.social to c/anime@ani.social

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[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The video is basically "wow anime is really popular right now" rather than a history of how Crunchy Roll became an animal streaming empire.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

god i love animal

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Haha I'm leaving it.

[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“wow anime is really popular right now”

CR's success is pretty much that + not having any real competition.

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

They bought out their strongest competition. And they're trying to ice out the last one.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] mysweat@ani.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.