#animelab

I find it so disheartening that animelab is now just a footnote on the Crunchyroll store wiki. ONE MILLION USERS. At the time Australia had 25.2 million people and New Zealand had 4.89 million. So out of the combined estimated population of 30.09, roughly 1 in 30 had animelab. Unless I'm doing the math way off, which some part of me hopes that given how much my internals sank just thinking that.

FUCK FUNIMATION, FUCK CRUNCHYROLL.

Rant bellow the cut.

Ngl, I am not at all happy about this both in general and as an Australian.

Why as an Australian? We used to have an anime site for aussies and new Zealanders called anime lab. They did their best to get us, an audience treated like we're in narnia or still have an ocean to cross in the way, content for us to enjoy, if they advertised it, we got it. But funimation bought them out and merged them just late last year. They ensured us they wouldn't forget us, which I'm sure will last at first, until we eventually fade from memory as an inconvenience, and now they've been taken by a company who made no such promises, so again, Narnia. Secondly, funimation promised to keep animelab workers under their employ. Crunchyroll has no obligations to inherit that promise, so they're likely out of a job too. Yay.

Now as for why I'm pissed as a general consumer, it's because competition is healthy and exists for a reason dammit! Without that they have no motivation to keep up a variety of quality goods, they just have to wait for us to forget. The competition also meant that we had a legal alternative to watching shows the big boss didn't want to pay for. Now it's them or pirating. We may be paying less but that also means the creators and contributors will be paid less as well, because an American company paying others their due and respecting them? Animators no less? Ha!

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