Crunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content'

@MadanielFL

I would just give it up. CR is just "THE" Boogie Man company when it comes to Anime no matter what you keep pointing out to other Users.

The irony is 147 companies in the world that own everything... Even if CR didn't exist Users would simply find a new Boogie Man company to complain about.

What is the definition of "harmful content" btw? I would like to know.

bigotry of some fans made crunchyroll decide this btw https://x.com/G0ffThew/status/1809576707151507963

WRONG, I think you don't know what you are talking about, because Crunchyroll is quite literally a member of the production committee for all of those shows.

I know this because unlike you, I actually know how to read the credits on the openings and endings of anime, and those shows literally have クランチロール credited with Production (製作) and under Production Committee (製作委員会)

If you are talking about the "Crunchyroll Originals" label then you are wrong yet again, because CR had been producing anime even before that brand was created in 2020.

Ironic for you to say that when you have no IDEA how production committees actually work...

Funny how you had no reply so you had to insult me instead....

It's the IMDB fiasco all over again. I don't have a Crunchyroll account, don't watch anything on their website or indeed even visit their website so this decision has no personal effect on me. But this type of behavior will never stop on the part of these companies as long as enough people - more specifically enough of the relevant people - those they actually have any financial incentive to care about the stance of - i.e. their primary shareholders and customer base which generates the revenue - don't stand up to them and challenge and resist such actions as soon as they appear.

Absolutely disgusting and beyond contempt, but this is exactly a scenario which has been repeated too many times now across years in too many different places and forms, and will likely only continue as long as they don't receive a powerful answer in turn in the form of sufficient pushback.

IMDB still deserves and has fully earned all the ire and disgust for what they did all those years ago and I hope they never live it down.

Utterly without any valid justification whatsoever.



Literally just don't read it if something is that annoying or upsetting to you personally. That goes for anyone. The idea that websites should be purged of viewer and user discussions and debates, feedback, etc. is completely absurd, be it forums to discuss anime and other forms of media and other art and hobbyist forums, comment sections on YouTube videos or news articles (censoring of the latter of which has picked up exponentially in recent years and is a large part of this current wave in recent years of fervor on the part of some militants to try to purge and police everywhere else in the same manner).

No one needs to be protected from being exposed to opinions that they disagree with, may dislike or even disdain and abhor. That's ludicrous. It's an individual's responsibility to either be able to handle hearing and seeing views and content they disagree with or simply tune out, change the channel, click away from the website, etc., if they don't feel they are emotionally mature and tolerant enough to do so. I see, read, and hear things I dislike and disagree with all day every day on the internet, TV, and out in the world. I probably disagree with 99% of people on 99%+ of things, like you right now on this issue. That's reality. Censoring it is unjustifiable and shouldn't be seriously contemplated or catered to. It was a healthier world and environment when consideration of such wasn't even an option or even humored, and still is healthier in mediums and venues where that remains the case.

WRONG, I think you don't know what you are talking about, because Crunchyroll is quite literally a member of the production committee for all of those shows.

I know this because unlike you, I actually know how to read the credits on the openings and endings of anime, and those shows literally have クランチロール credited with Production (製作) and under Production Committee (製作委員会)

If you are talking about the "Crunchyroll Originals" label then you are wrong yet again, because CR had been producing anime even before that brand was created in 2020.

Ironic for you to say that when you have no IDEA how production committees actually work...

Funny how you had no reply so you had to insult me instead....

Can you blame them?

Compare it with the Forums here. Most succesful onse are hateful rants and/or threads about who we dislike the most.
Good decision on their part.
People are self centered idiots who can't behave. So...yeah....tough shit.

MaL has to keep doing this tho, they can't get rid of it, without destroying their site... so don't worry. Your opinion will always be acknowledged by us, unfortunatly.

@ColourWheel

Ya’ll will literally defend this dogshit company till your last breath huh?

Crunchyroll's got too many ads on their anime steaming. It's costly to go premium. The comment section should be open!!

@RobertBobert I don't know how Crunchyroll commenters and reviewers feel, actually. As a user, I did like the comments section, since they usually had a few good jokes and some takes that I really connected with. I did not care for the review section at all; most of them were written after the first episode and not very informative.

I've been looking at this and talking about this from the "corpo" perspective, mostly. Comparing them to other recent service/policy changes in other sites, like Reddit changing their API pricing last year, leading to many apps shutting down and some of the biggest subreddits going private in protest (nothing got changed in the end, as far as I know). Or Netflix cracking down on password-sharing (as far as I know, this led to an uptick in subscriber count, so worth it, I guess). Or Crunchyroll's parent company Sony shooting itself in the foot by requiring PlayStation accounts from Helldivers 2 PC players (they did roll that one back).

From what I've seen, corporations, once they get large enough, seem very comfortable introducing changes that directly inconvenience their customers. They know for a fact that things tend to blow over and most people will still stick around.

@deg What a surprise. Snowflake homophobes spew hate and ruin another platform for discussion. Will companies ever learn that the way to foster healthy and larger communities is to kick all the bigots out? You'd think with X bleeding billions from letting the fascists run wild they'd figure it out, but I guess history has shown that the rich and greedy tend to have terrible vision.

At least for Crunchyroll the discussions aren't a serious focus of their business. Maybe than can focus more heavily on delivering the goods now.

@deg. can you update your OP to reflect the things that come to the spotlight in regards to this incident with the ai subs and stuff? lots of people are regurgitating CR's pr and eating it up like sheep without reading the follow up comments on the thread.

Blocking/deleting is for Wokies and wusses.
Either ignore or fight back like a normal person.

Crunchyroll is ran by absolute buffoons. First the forums, now this. Is free speech no longer allowed?

@deg What a surprise. Snowflake homophobes spew hate and ruin another platform for discussion. Will companies ever learn that the way to foster healthy and larger communities is to kick all the bigots out? You'd think with X bleeding billions from letting the fascists run wild they'd figure it out, but I guess history has shown that the rich and greedy tend to have terrible vision.

At least for Crunchyroll the discussions aren't a serious focus of their business. Maybe than can focus more heavily on delivering the goods now.

@HulkTySSJ2 Ikr, all those woke snowflakes who cried about a gay anime should have just ignored it instead of spamming one star reviews lol

What is the definition of "harmful content" btw? I would like to know.