Crunchyroll got its start as a bootleg anime streaming site. After establishing itself as the place to for anime online they used that clout to go legit.
Of course they don't want you watching pirate sites. Gotta stamp out the competition while they're still small.
Woah man. You are missing the most crucial piece of the timeline.
Where they used their shitty Myspace ripoff to massively boost their initial marketshare by attracting underaged weebs and getting them exposed to all sorts of internet creeps who absolutely groomed and preyed on them.
They clamped down on it hard once they tried to go legit, because everyone knew it was a wretched hive of CP and grooming into every degenerate bullshit you could imagine.
This wasn't the last few years. It was in the mid-late 2000s. They've mostly shelved that section of the site quietly because it was such an unredeemable bomb waiting to blow.
Crunchyroll got its start as a bootleg anime streaming site. After establishing itself as the place to for anime online they used that clout to go legit.
Of course they don't want you watching pirate sites. Gotta stamp out the competition while they're still small.
Woah man. You are missing the most crucial piece of the timeline.
Where they used their shitty Myspace ripoff to massively boost their initial marketshare by attracting underaged weebs and getting them exposed to all sorts of internet creeps who absolutely groomed and preyed on them.
They clamped down on it hard once they tried to go legit, because everyone knew it was a wretched hive of CP and grooming into every degenerate bullshit you could imagine.
I wasn't aware they had a Myspace ripoff or the CP aspect. Not surprising after what's been going on in the world these past few years.
This wasn't the last few years. It was in the mid-late 2000s. They've mostly shelved that section of the site quietly because it was such an unredeemable bomb waiting to blow.