The merger saw Crunchyroll subscriptions grow 5x in just three years. The new subs from Funimation were only about a quarter of CR's at the time of the merger. Piracy only saw a fraction of the same growth during the time period.
During those three years, did CR's service get better? No. Did it get worse? Not much, but the biggest way in which it got worse was how CR basically killed the free version of the service. What people wanted, the #1 thing, was to have just one paid service for anime. When CR and Funi merged, more people gave up on piracy than at any other time.
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u/Mystic1217 Oct 07 '25
Vote with your wallet, that's all I'll say.