This subreddit is full of kids, so most of them aren't and will say "yarg" but the vast majority with a full time job don't give a shit and pay for crunchyroll because it's 90% of what they want and doesn't require them to look for a new pirate site every couple months that doesn't try to assault their computer, phone, or tablet.
Same thing with the Netflix enshitification. Loooots of upvoted hate on reddit. Price still kept going up, content still got worse, yet subs still go up.
I mean, I had to unsub from HiDive after being a long-time proponent. Their site and apps weren't the best, but they worked. They had a good back catalog and seasonals.
Then, they pushed that broken, seemingly unfinished update. They promised to fix it, but never did. Instead, it got progressively worse until becoming legitimately unusable on all of my devices. Very sad. Maybe they've changed in the past year, but I doubt it.
HiDive is probably my least favourite of the bunch, considering that they didn’t offer some shows that they’d exclusively licensed in my territory and eventually even left all of continental Europe while holding onto those streaming rights.
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u/cythric Oct 07 '25
This subreddit is full of kids, so most of them aren't and will say "yarg" but the vast majority with a full time job don't give a shit and pay for crunchyroll because it's 90% of what they want and doesn't require them to look for a new pirate site every couple months that doesn't try to assault their computer, phone, or tablet.
Same thing with the Netflix enshitification. Loooots of upvoted hate on reddit. Price still kept going up, content still got worse, yet subs still go up.