The reason is money. The reason is always money.
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
Submitted 22 hours 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 21 hours ago
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 19 hours ago
Hazel@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au 14 hours ago
beat me to it lol
mo_lave@reddthat.com 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours ago
Or © piracy.
That’s potentially exposing yourself to financial ruin (see: Nintendo)
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
No reason ? Increased value for shareholders is not enough of a reason for you ? You should feel ashamed.
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 20 hours ago
So glad I gave them the boot when they killed my Funimation grandfathered plan.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Heyo yee. I cancelled when they made their web UI shittier in like 2019 or something.
Rottcodd@ani.social 19 hours ago
Enshittification isn’t just a problem for social media.
Sabata11792@ani.social 15 hours ago
Crunchyroll went to shit the moment they made a profit.
RedWeasel@lemmy.world 21 hours 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 12 hours 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.
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours 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 19 hours 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 20 hours ago
I miss the old fansub era
shani66@ani.social 12 hours ago
It’s wild how much better random fans are when compared to official slop. And people just accept the slop!
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours 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 6 hours ago
You don’t like GG memesubs?
alk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Me too.