Weeb Wars / AnimeGate / #KickVic / #IStandWithVic / #vickicksback - General Discussion Thread

[General Gunther]

Here's just a few steps anime streaming services could take to make piracy less appealing:

Faithful translations
Consistent stream quality
No funding Western pet projects (looking at you crunchyroll)
No virtue signaling/being condescending to audience
Quality catalog
No region blocks

The chances of Funimation's upper management doing any of these are slim to none. Considering they do little to nothing to make their VAs to behave like decent human beings is telling. Now the VAs don't really represent the company per say but when the majority of them act a certain way on social media they should probably do something.

 

[Bakarina]

If Narmak is any indication, YouTube doesn’t like animation, that which they can’t control, or anything they feel isn’t clean enough to show to advertisers and potential investors. And given how YouTube is a bunch of suits who probably haven’t been anything close to invested in anime since Pokemon was in the Indigo League. This is going to be fun to watch to see if this channel actually breaks through or if YouTube putting down a jackboot blows up in their faces.

Bushiroad has been using youtube for the Card Fight Vanguard anime for a while, both sub and dub (as well as other advertising shenanigans because card games). It runs pretty smoothly from what I can tell.

Have each studio set up a channel, throw up ad revenue per episode, and profit.

 

[HighwayStar]

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Hibub also mocked that idiot Christopher Wehkamp’s claim that Funimation and Crunchyroll are free even with ads by showing a screenshot revealing that you have to pay for them even with the ads. Needless to say, this anti-pirate bluster of theirs isn’t going over well with fans.

 

[AnOminous]

The good thing is this tweet is being ratioed to hell and back.
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But you MUST submit to our version of Japanese anime with Gamergate references thrown in for no reason! You aren't ALLOWED to access the original!

Here's just a few steps anime streaming services could take to make piracy less appealing:

Faithful translations
Consistent stream quality
No funding Western pet projects (looking at you crunchyroll)
No virtue signaling/being condescending to audience
Quality catalog
No region blocks

Or setting up a Japanese-run cartel of major anime studios and releasing it all for free on YouTube, which it looks like they're actually doing.

No more filthy gaijin vandalizing their work.

 

[Random Internet Person]

This is going to be as fun as that time Youtube's CEO was caught on camera calling a black guy a nigger off the streets of Silicon Valley.

Did that really happen?

 

[General Gunther]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[TheClappening]

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Get fucked.

It's glorious when pasty white Murcans are reminded that not everyone on the internet is a pasty white Murcan.

 

[Foolish Samurai Warrior]

At this point, I'd rather have English voice acting from the Philippines of all places. It's free from American bullshit, and has pretty good English speakers.

 

[I Love Beef]

Did that really happen?

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/youtub...as-son-begs-him-to-stop-in-viral-video.58248/

Yep.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

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Simp.

All things considered, The spergfest of American Dub VAs is something Kissanime's death has given us.

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Eat shit and die, Funimation is never getting my money again. I would've been willing to give them a second chance had they fixed the problems with the script adaptations with some of their dubs but after all that has happened to Vic and the way you treated him.

No. Never again.

This is the same company that has such a shit subscription service that even if you unsubscribe from their "service", they steal your money from your bank account.

Yes, Funi unironically steals your money.

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You love to see it.

 

[TheClappening]

At this point, I'd rather have English voice acting from the Philippines of all places. It's free from American bullshit, and has pretty good English speakers.

"Oy, your sister's drowning! Chicken nut bread!"

"I will need to catch the bus at devastation."

 

[giraffes on coffee]

"Oy, your sister's drowning! Chicken nut bread!"

"I will need to catch the bus at devastation."

And how can we forget Surfer Dude Yami Yugi?

"Hey, Yugi! I think Tee-Ah's in love with ya!"

 

[Least Concern]

While we're on this topic, I'd like to show the class this news.

https://variety.com/2020/streaming/asia/japan-animation-unified-youtube-anime-initiative-1234728555/

Many big Japanese studios have united for one central YouTube channel. Why does this matter? Besides being unprecedented for these rival companies to work together to provide a free and convenient way to stream anime for free. There are rumblings to eventually provide this type of channel internationally with subtitles.

What would these ingrates have to say if fans could watch subtitled anime for free and legally NOT from any American anime company?

Anyone happen to know the real URL for that channel? Searching "Animelog" on YouTube returns like a dozen channels with that name, most using a similar logo, and all of the ones I checked seemed to be fakes hoping to get views and subscriptions from idiots. I can't find the real one, if it even exists yet.

EDIT: I think it's this one - it has 134k subscribers but none of its videos seem to be visible to Americunts without a VPN. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsnDtu-g18tDA4miToMOjXQ

Piracy is great because it's the closest thing I can do to punching the shitty people who run companies like Funimation or Discotek in the face. It makes me happy to know they paid some Japs money to license something and then spent their own money to translate it and I took their hard work (or not lol) for free for my personal enjoyment.

Maybe I missed something, but why do we not like Discotek? Don't they just re-release older stuff which the original distributor isn't interested in anymore?

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Maybe I missed something, but why do we not like Discotek? Don't they just re-release older stuff which the original distributor isn't interested in anymore?

I have no problem with what Discotek does, but I do have quite a problem with Discotek's staff like Justin Sevakis and Mike Toole as should anyone with an ounce of morality or common sense.

 

[The Singer Of Songs]

BT is becoming a reason not to enroll with Crunchyroll or Funimation.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I have no problem with what Discotek does, but I do have quite a problem with Discotek's staff like Justin Sevakis and Mike Toole as should anyone with an ounce of morality or common sense.

My tumblr friend/artist Retrosofa works for them doing translation stuff. He's a good man.

I didn't realize Suckcockis and Literal Tool were there

 

[Dumb Bitch Smoothie]

Man I didn't think Funi and Crunchyroll and the rest of the little holier than thou white people club were this stupid but here we are.

Do they not realize what they just did? Any attempts of controlling piracy are gone. Done. No chance of regulation.

I hate to use this as a comparison because this is actual fucking crime, but my point will become clear.
International agencies quietly took over known CP distributing sites but what did they do? Absolutely fucking nothing that would tip any of the site goers off. They could silently collect information on the primary distributors and providers. They would know who is responsible for what and therefore control how that is accessed. The first major bust that hit the news was so fucking successful because they let the site operate business as usual.

By getting rid of Kissanime it's like chopping a tree down and leaving the stump and network of roots behind. They won't be able to control how their shit is distributed (because it inevitably will be no matter what they do, which is why law enforcement took that approach to handle such a significant crime as I mentioned before).

You don't want to drive people underground and into hiding. If you want an accurate gauge of how many users are pirating, you don't get rid of the #1 site. If you want to be able to have any say, you let things happen and get involved quietly.

But of course Funimation and co. couldn't work their way out of a paper bag without crying racism and oppression.

 

[AnOminous]

This is the same company that has such a shit subscription service that even if you unsubscribe from their "service", they steal your money from your bank account.

These fucking idiots don't understand what Gabe Newell explained so easily even an idiot can understand it. If you provide a user experience that is better than pirating shit, people will pay for it. That's why Valve has an estimated value of as much as $4 billion and controls as much as 70% of PC game downloads.

This is also why Funimation and Crunchyroll are shitty, rinky-dink little operations that nobody gives a fuck about.

Nobody cares about your shitty preaching, your garbage politics, or your opinions of pirates or weebs. Provide a user experience better than piracy or go fuck yourselves and choke to death while going bankrupt.

 

[Random Internet Person]

These fucking idiots don't understand what Gabe Newell explained so easily even an idiot can understand it. If you provide a user experience that is better than pirating shit, people will pay for it. That's why Valve has an estimated value of as much as $4 billion and controls as much as 70% of PC game downloads.

This is also why Funimation and Crunchyroll are shitty, rinky-dink little operations that nobody gives a fuck about.

Nobody cares about your shitty preaching, your garbage politics, or your opinions of pirates or weebs. Provide a user experience better than piracy or go fuck yourselves and choke to death while going bankrupt.

You mean how Crunchyroll went so long without an HTML5 player you needed a browser plugin to get that upgrade?

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

You mean how Crunchyroll went so long without an HTML5 player you needed a browser plugin to get that upgrade?

Not to include, they only started using HTML5 now because Flash closed down & they were forced to get it.

Also, the guy who made that plugin before was practically frustrated with CR's player & site in general, which does make a lot of sense, cause it sucks ass. He mentions this in his r/anime AMA.