>>3116>>8885On the topic of Crunchy Roll and exploitation of animators. It's a fairly uncontroversial opinion that High Guardian Spice is unoriginal trash
>>11233 But more importantly it's a demonstration of Crunchy Roll clearly not using the money donated or paid by subscribers for their claimed purpose of giving animators direct sources of cash. As a reminder CR was a pirate anime site, that somehow managed to secure legal rights to stream anime officially. To do this they sold themselves as the site people could pay to support the actual producers of Anime. This resonated with the people and the new found customers gladly paid for the chance to support the producers of anime. CR straight up sucks as a streaming service. The flash player sucks, licensing issues if you're not in the US, and suberrors. Moreover people (normies mostly) subscribe to Crunchyroll to stream anime, so they have every right to complain if it diverts money that could be used for that goal in order to make a non-anime show that isn't even creative or properly made.
Shills for CR try to point at Netflix and fail: The reason people don't get too mad at Netflix is because at least at its core, Netflix is a good streaming service that offers and even FUNDS a lot of anime (LWA, Devilman Crybaby, etc). They use their subscription funds to make new series (not just anime) that can be hit or miss, but at least they're trying. Netflix isn't a niche stream service like Crunchyroll, it can make anything it wants because it streams anything it wants. Heck I don't even mind flash player but it's outdated and not supported by most browsers anymore. If you have to download a video to see it, might just torrent instead.
Hell it's not even an issue if they make a cartoon… as long as it's actually GOOD or creative like their first animated product Onyx Equinox. But when you market it in any way that isn't highlighting what you created and just congratulates it for having an all-female staff, it's just pandering and since the actual product sucks, it's exploitative virtue-signaling. It's elephants painting on a canvas. you market the elephant but the art is still crap, the elephant isn't to blame, it's the retards trying to make it into something it isn't. Women have written, drawn and worked on MASTERPIECES in every element of art and popular culture and have done so for centuries! so everytime you hold something up and say "see, see! look what women can do! women can do it too!" most people just roll their eyes and say "this probably sucks" because when something is damn good you dont NEED to try to use the artist to sell it. Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Hurtlocker, American Psycho, Lost in Translation, Fullmetal Alchemist, Uncharted, , Inuyasha, and Magi. So some of the best or most popular movies, books, games and manga OF ALL TIME have been done by women featuring women! Agatha Christie is the the most prolifically sold writer to date.