The reason is money. The reason is always money.
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
Submitted 3 weeks ago by exu@feditown.com to anime@ani.social
https://daiz.moe/crunchyroll-is-destroying-its-subtitles-for-no-good-reason/
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nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No reason ? Increased value for shareholders is not enough of a reason for you ? You should feel ashamed.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 3 weeks ago
So glad I gave them the boot when they killed my Funimation grandfathered plan.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Heyo yee. I cancelled when they made their web UI shittier in like 2019 or something.
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
beat me to it lol
Rottcodd@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Enshittification isn’t just a problem for social media.
RedWeasel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is a good reason to move away from a image based subtitle vs a text based one. It CAN look better, but not always. The problem is that their player or your web browser needs to allow changing the fonts sizing and typeset. On Apple’s devices this can be done in system settings, but will be different on other platforms if possible at all.
ericheese@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
CR subtitles were never image based, they used to just simply be better but now they’ve given up and used the industry standard.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Crunchyroll on their previous way of subtitling:
Customer on Crunchyroll’s new way of subtitling:
One more consequences of the current copyright regime being self-servingly catered to business owners. I don’t have a solution to this without either (a) exposing yourself to ruin or (b) consciously killing your interest in any commercial creative medium.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
It's one more consequence of
the currentcopyrightregimebeing self-servingly catered to business owners.Copyright was invented by Brits and spread worldwide by Americans; if it didn't cater to business owners they wouldn't have done it.
I don't have a solution to this without either (a) exposing yourself to ruin or (b) consciously killing your interest in any commercial creative medium.
Or (c) piracy.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Or © piracy.
That’s potentially exposing yourself to financial ruin (see: Nintendo)
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Crunchyroll went to shit the moment they made a profit.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Subs are so bad now that I leave them on with dubs for comedic effect. Helps me rope in family-members to watching with me.
On the other hand, I can no longer trust them enough to just keep watching while others in the room have loud conversations, unless I want to switch to the original audio, which annoys them.
ramble81@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I haven’t watched too many subs recently, however I have a bug where CC is enabled on every episode, even after disabling it in settings, and I can tell you that’s gone to shit. Especially with names or Japanese words that aren’t translated.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 3 weeks ago
I miss the old fansub era
shani66@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It’s wild how much better random fans are when compared to official slop. And people just accept the slop!
nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
The random fans care about the show and want to do the best job they can (although I’ve seen some pretty crappy old fansubs, with broken Engrish and/or outright missing lines, so the best the fans could do wasn’t always necessarily enough).
The corporations only care about how much profit they can make from the show and thus want to do the cheapest job they can while shoving it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. Most viewers accept it because it’s convenient and they don’t know just how bad the quality is because they have no basis for comparison. Those who do know how bad it is . . . complain on the Internet because they have no leverage to get anything fixed.
alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Me too.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The thing is, fansubs had a whole host of problems and weird translation shit too. Our standards have just dropped because a multimillion dollar corporation with a near monopoly of the industry can’t be bothered to hire people.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You don’t like GG memesubs?