Recent reports have announced that Crunchyroll, the largest anime streaming service, will be replacing Aegisub with Israeli Software, OOONA, to produce subtitles more efficiently. Anime fans across the world are disappointed with this collaboration due to Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians (via a report by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry).
Crunchyroll is also ignoring the needs of groups who require Closed Captions to understand the scenes better. They are isolating a large chunk of their audience in favor of AI-based subtitling, which defeats the point of a streaming service. Overall, this hasn’t been a great year for Crunchyroll, and this won’t be the end of it.
israeli companies cant exist without the approval of the israeli government, so by extension they are supporting them through taxes, and propaganda(good pr). its the same with the CCP, although its more extreme, chinese companies cant exist with the explicit approval of PROC government. Unless its a israeli company thats based in the EU with no ties to Israel, than thats different. theres a reason why canadians dont want to go places even like california, they know its supports trump through taxes.
they are tied to israeli govt as the gov is tied to them, you want to open a business in israel, you would need to get approval from said state.