It was inevitable when they shut down the forums. They can’t be bothered with moderating user interactions.
Crunchyroll Deletes and Disables Comments on Entire Platform, Including Episodes and News Articles
Submitted 4 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to anime@ani.social
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mo_lave@reddthat.com 4 months ago
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
It’s surprising YouTube still has them given how notoriously bad they are.
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Youtube just allows the bots to flow freely. I will get anti Biden/west spam even on funny cat videos.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Recently they’ve made them a tremendous pain in the ass to find and to see, thanks to an absolute dogshit redesign.
And honestly the quality of Youtube comments has been above-average in the last couple years. At least for whatever nerd shit I’ve been watching.
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Apparently they were getting called out for using a LLM on the new Shikanoko anime instead of hiring a translator.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
That would explain the lack of pun explanations. Fansubs wouldnʼt be so lax.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 4 months ago
Holy shit. I knew CR were bad in terms of how they treated translators (source: I applied there), but holy fucking hell.
kandoh@reddthat.com 4 months ago
There was also something of a flame war going on in one of the new sexy gay boy animes, twilight out of focus I think
Jomn@jlai.lu 4 months ago
This is a shame… Reading the comments after I watched an episode was part of the experience for me.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
“This show is hot garbage. See you all here next week!”
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 months ago
Same for me on allanime.to.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
And they wonder why anime is pirated so much. Even the shittiest pirate site is a better experience to use than anything paid.
Jomn@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Indeed. Because of this change, I already cancelled the auto renew of my subscription and I started looking back at the high seas.
kandoh@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Are the comments really that important? The only time I ever went in them was recently to report the trolls wishing people HIV in the twilight out of focus comments
PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Instead of employing moderators, they just nuke everything from orbit. Smooth move, ex-lax.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 4 months ago
A reminder that the high seas are always there
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So weird, I’m old, but I still remember when Crunchyroll was part of the High Seas. It still throws me for a loop every once in awhile that it’s become a legitimate streaming service.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 4 months ago
It becoming legit was a fucking mistake. It only became a legal option in what…2012 or something?
shani66@ani.social 4 months ago
And are better than Crunchyroll has ever been, if we’re being real.
SatouKazuma@ani.social 4 months ago
Absolutely.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I’m sure they did this to avoid criticism and to also stop users from telling others about “unofficial” watching sites in the comments
dvdnet62@feddit.nl 4 months ago
reminds me to EGS that does not want to be critized
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 4 months ago
There were comments?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 months ago
On the desktop version. Never saw on mobile.
holgersson@lemm.ee 4 months ago
They’re also very much present on the app
moody@lemmings.world 4 months ago
No interact! Only consume!
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
So piracy?
SatouKazuma@ani.social 4 months ago
Exactly!
moody@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Hey I’m not going to tell you not to.
jherazob@beehaw.org 4 months ago
rustyfish@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you don’t want to moderate shit, why implement it in the first place? Like anime fans are known for being universally civil on the internet. What were they thinking?
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
That probably did moderate… But Sony doesn’t want to have to expense (remember they own Crunchyroll now) of this so they’re cutting it off
rustyfish@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Makes sense.
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Most of the comments I saw on the site
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 4 months ago
They didn’t. Comments were part of the original IP.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 4 months ago
When comments started, Sony did not own Crunchyroll. They inherited the feature.
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 4 months ago
Typical big shithole moove.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Its the same thing with “journalism” sites that also removed the comment function on articles. Its a two fold problem-solver for a business:
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You get to delete all the criticism off your site
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You don’t have to pay anyone to moderate the comments
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vole@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Honestly, I think this is fine. In my experience the episode comments on Crunchyroll were 50% simple reactions, 25% irrelevant memes, and 25% spoilers of future events. Other platforms like Lemmy and MAL are better suited for discussion.
The presence comments did add a sense of community though, and now the episode pages feel a bit lonely.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
This is like your favorite bar removing all seating and converting itself into a vending machine with “NO LOITERING” signs plastered everywhere.
jherazob@beehaw.org 4 months ago
It keeps surprising me how the people managing all these streaming services fail to understand the basic fact that their business model is “Be slightly better than piracy”
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 months ago
BAKA
cevn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is awful, I had a lot of laughs reading crunchy comments. In a way it was one of the biggest anime communities. Maybe we can start a lemmy for them.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean, if bigots took over all the comments to fill them with hate speech on a Lemmy instance, it might makes sense to shut that down, too.
cevn@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That would make sense, but I never saw hate speech in crunchy comments, but I only read the first page so I am sure the more controversial posts were further down. Oh well, can’t afford mods…