I think that it's important to remember that piracy has been baked into anime fandom culture for decades and it's considered something of an important deterrent as there's a sense that the corporations involved (inside and outside of Japan) might not do the right thing without having to compete with free. When Crunchyroll first went legit over a decade ago, it was considered a huge win for anime consumers as it addressed a lot of concerns we had at the time and did it in a legal way, but Crunchyroll and similar anime streaming services seemed to become too comfortable with their business model and have stagnated for years, so I can see why the community feels it's time to send them a message to get them to step up their game. AnimeTube just happened to be in the right place at the right time to grift off of this.
They had the same thing when the announcement of a Anime RUclips streaming service was coming out. They thought that it wouldn't be region locked it was. They posted a us channel with titles too unprofitable to license. The extreme fans thought that the channel would void existing deals it didn't.
It also exploited misguided people who had issues with changes made to international versions of anime (that licensors themselves had nothing to do with), issues with subtitles and issues with Funimation breaking it off with sex pest Vic Mignogna.
Kodi has attempted to distance itself from the various third-party addons that facilitate piracy, which the search behaviour you described is only possible with
This is the part of the video that really bugged me. Kodi has a section on their site about this. They regularly issue takedowns on piracy sites that use their name. It’s like saying VLC is a piracy platform.
As far as anime streaming services go, Retrocrush is the only one I spend any time on. They have a pretty big library of classic anime from the 70s to early 2000s and that's great for me since I just can't get into modern anime. Plus, it's free. Just finished watching Dirty Pair and started City Hunter. 80s anime was the best! (Edit after watching the video) It kinda seems like Retrocrush is a legit and legal version of what the subject of this video tried to be. Of course it doesn't have Naruto and the other recent huge anime franchises, but it's still a free (ad supported) anime service with a great library. You just need to accept that any ad-supported service isn't going to have the big money products that keep the paid services in business)
@@ravager48 Or maybe those companies should stop focusing solely on the USA and start realizing that there’s more countries on the planet with anime fans in them.
I remember hearing about animetube and thinking that will make for an interesting kickscammers episode, and it really did. Now when I hear about these things, I don't read too much about them as I don't want to spoil the potential kickscammers episode.
@@fattiger6957 Or maybe those guys should wake up and realize that there’s more to this world then just the USA. But when everyone in the company is an idiot what can you expect.
@@Tim-007 Or maybe you should wake up and realize that licensing dozens of anime franchises from a whole load of different companies isn't easy and certainly not cheap. And since they just started, it makes sense they would want to focus on the biggest english speaking market first. Then if they're successful, move to other regions. But I guess it's easier for people like you to just assume any company is evil because they don't give you want you want at all times.
As someone who regularly uses grey area sites to watch anime/TV/movies as I don't feel like paying for streaming services, I find it weird that AnimeTube even got funded in the first place. Where the hell were they going to conjure up the money to fund the licensing fees for all the anime they're advertising to be on there? Sites like Netflix likely spend stupid amounts of money to get TV shows on their platform so where were the AnimeTube devs going to get the extra funds for?! 🤔 AnimeTube seemed like a bad idea from the start. Great video!
Netflix lost some of their most popular shows (The Office and Friends) because they couldn't afford the literal MILLIONS of dollars that NBC wanted for the rights. Now I'm sure a huge chunk of anime isn't worth that *combined*, it did also strike me as odd that it was supposed to be a FREE streaming service, supported by ads, and they only asked for $50,000? That's how much I figure Netflix probably needed when it started in like 1997 as a DVD delivery service. That's probably not enough money to just pay for Naruto.
They claimed to already be in the talks with anime studios in japan.... Or whatever. Not actual companies that handle licensing, ignoring license holders in the west saying they wouldn't have tp deal with them like rightstuf who they dismissed entirely when the owner called them out.
If you want inside information on the whole rights thing, the MST3k kickstarter ( the new one) actually put out a newsletter opening up a little of their side of trying to get rights to things. it's very informative. And kinda sad what they have to go through just to get one movie to riff on. ( sometimes it all boils down to , you have to do this or you cannot have it, and they can't possibly do "this")
6:54 A kodi user myself and yeah that is how it works You just tell it to go to an IP address (witch for me is hooked up to a personal backup server) to browse and play the files on it
this video hugely misrepresenting kodi which is a self-hosted software that just streams whatever is put into it. it's not a netflix service, but more like xbox media center or vnc.
14:50 It may seem like a dumb reason to watch the rest of the video (but I totally am), but I keep wondering, "Who drew her? Who's the artist? Can I commission them?" again and again when I see their mascot anime girl.
The same thing with the Butch Hartman streaming platform crowfunding campaing, 1 mill is not enough to even start making the ground work to create a competitive platform, so a 1 mill under campaing is definitely a scam.
This gave me a lot of laughs while I was unemployed last summer. I lurked their Discord and watch even the true believers start to question George Gameface. The quickest and easiest sign this was a scam was knowing or making an educated guess of how much it cost to license anime. They were using numbers from ADV/Sojitz litigation but that was years ago and not an apples to oranges comparison. A top-flight series can cost tens of thousands of dollars an episode. And no legitimate anime distributor says anything about a show they are *trying* to license until they’ve actually licensed it.
Be a bit careful on the legality of streaming illegal uploads. Most players cache content and some rights holders are saying that cache is an illegal copy of their material aka a copyright violation
Moe art is pretty bland and stolen a lot. So it's possible you saw a clone, either on purpose or accident (due to generic moe looks), or someone yoinked it
Here's my question: is it worse if this was just a scam or is it worse if the people behind it were genuinely that stupid and ignorant of how the entertainment industry works? I think stupid would actually be worse in some ways.
the scam would be worse, because then its people who are just out to exploit people's love of something(or use very manipulative words). people just being stupid is really just people who love something but don't understand how things work. its not as if there is a easy way to really learn all the inner workings of stuff like this without being someone who has done it(or having someone with you who has). the internet can teach people a lot of things, but it is full lies or inaccurate information.
@@Sniperbear13 you don't need to know the inner workings of anything. It's called having common sense (something the vast majority of people lack). It's living by the old adage like if something sounds too good to be true, than it is; and if something like this could be done, it would have happened already. Sony (the parent company of Crunchyroll) and Netflix have to shell out millions for one series, yet some nobodies on Kickstarter can get the legal rights for every series ever made for 10 grand(ignoring the fact they already have streaming deals, that's why you are able to watch them)? How does that make sense to anyone.
Netflix spends 15 billion a year licensing content. These Big Brains: "We will get a larger library then even netflix with just 10 grand! We are super SMRT!"
I prefer how 'clean' torrenting is, though I understand the appeal of the streaming sites for people who don't wanna end up hoarding tonnes of videos lol
Maybe it's easier now (or 2 years ago when the video came out) but in the earlier days of streaming (and even before streaming) getting a lot of anime legally was impossible. The rights holders in Japan had no interest in making it available outside of the country, even if it was literally free money for them. That's probably why anime piracy is so popular compared to non-anime piracy.
Sad thing is, Icelandic copyright law is so messed up that signing up for Crunchyroll simply is not worth the cost, or trouble. Services like this are basically the only way people around here can watch most anime out there.
And before you ask, you can bet your bottom dollar that the *ACTUAL* copyright holders wouldn't get a single wooden nickel from here even *IF* you could watch the shows more legally.
I love how dumb people are when they say shit like "hey Microsoft look your console I paid money for already I'm going to break it to get back at you" kinda like when people were burning their nikes cause Nike supported taking a Knee at the super bowl. It's hilarious cause the company had already gotten the money and the people just smashing shit they paid money for lol
for people breaking their own console or whatever else, they are just screwing themselves over and will have to go out and get a replacement or a brand new product.
while im not an expert on licensing fees, im fairly certain, you are going to have to pay a lot for the rights to stream anything with well known name; like Pokemon. I'm sure Funimation easily pays tens; if not hundreds of thousands for the rights for One Piece and Dragon Ball franchise alone. smaller and older Anime might not have such a large Price tag, but its not like yer gonna get much with only a few thousand bucks to spare.
Try millions, upon millions. I'm a hardcore weeb and have gotten to know the industry through the years of my fandom, and you'd be shocked by just how much some of these franchises are worth(we're talking as much as major movie/tv series/video game ip's), getting something like one piece or DBZ is akin to getting the streaming rights for something like star trek or the bond movies(I mean there's a reason why major corporations like Sony, warner bros, Sega, bandai namco, ect are involved in the anime industry)
Streaming rights can run Millions per year to hundreds of million. in 2014 netflix was paying 3.4 billion a year to license content, by 2019 it was 14.7 billion. probably 15-17 billion a year by now. Thats ignoring what it spends on its own productions.
It’s like the failed GamerArchive console except with anime licenses instead of game licenses. They’re both made by people with no creativity but thinking they can quickly make loads of profit just from buying up licenses.
Kind of a huge misrepresentation of what Kodi is. Kodi itself doesn't do any of the things you mentioned. The functionality you're mentioning is from 3rd party plugins. Kodi by itself is basically a front end that organizes and plays digital media on your device or home network.
If only they would pull down Suzy Lu's RUclips channel for also stealing anime content. But no, she was pulled and then contacted her 'friend' at RUclips and got it restored...
Watching this really makes me want someone to do a deep dive on why there's hundreds of WatchCartoon and WatchAnime or KissCartoon or KimCartoon websites, unless this is something similar? lol
@@enderdragon1211 Fair enough haha. And you're right, too, I feel like there are more variants of Watch[Something] than there are multiverses in Marvel at this point, lmao.
A combination of Pirate site creating alternate to escape legal takedown, and othr5 pirates taking advantage of the well known name of a established pirate site to create their own website with the same name and get people looking for the "original".
The discord isn't deleted. I'm a backer and I still have it in my list of servers. The people in charge even still regularly talk about behind the scenes progress and even recently sent out a newsletter to backers about their plans for 2022.
@@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 Have you even watched the video? There’s a clear screenshot in it of them threatening to ban people from their discord and their non existent app who dare to call them out for the scammers that they are.
@@Tim-007 Oh you were referring to that. I don't think the newsletter mentioned anything about that but while I don't agree with what they did I also don't think they were entirely in the wrong. Basically from what I remember at the time because of all the stuff that was going on they were trying to figure out a backup plan after Kickstarter kicked them while at the same time getting flooded with people that were calling them scam artists so they essentially went into defensive mode while they planned out what to do next.
Ohhh man, this should have been a collab episode with Hime Crunchyroll, now that she's a Vtuber. =P I don't think she or the staff would have minded 9:23 because at least theirs was actually a call for innovation, and they didn't need to bash on others to make it... not to mention they knew what they were doing, because theirs was a labor of love.
I was very surprised to hear Amy's Song, good job slipping that in, could have turned it down a bit since it was nearly the same volume as your filmed segment. Also isn't it ironic that you used the Piracy advert music that wasn't supposed to be used out of its one event? XP Unless I've misremembered.
well they should be able to get a lesser anime show for 10k and they should properly add royalities too, then they need to add sub expenses aswell, because they cant expect the anime being subbed for them already. yes you are correct some animes will be behind locks, like netflix,etc or being in lawsuit hell also. so yes their were clueless about their own project.
Have you noticed any things that are the same across successful campaigns, be they real or a scam? I'd love to see a video on that if you ever get a chance.
Nice job using Amy Rose's theme song from Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2, though that has little fitting for the topic at hand, as I do not recall that song even being used once in the entire history of me watching Sonic X when I was younger. The (wrongfully) censored 4Kids dub I may add. Seriously, why did 4Kids have to cut out Shadow attacking Chris in one episode? He doesn't kill him, and I cannot think of a single Sonic fan who even cares about him at all. Sure, it's a kid getting hurt, but Sonic X isn't the only show that a kid gets physically hurt... Sorry for the tangent there, I needed it here for context. I honestly miss how SEGA handled the Sonic franchise back in Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2... for multitudes of reasons, that you don't need to listen to my complaints about a different topic than this video
Yeah I was a bit nervous to watch this because I was one of those people looking forward to it. It WAS because of Merryweather that I became interested, though I also heard a lot of people being skeptical about it too, so I didn't put any money toward it. I do like what you said near the end starting at 17:56 though, not a lot of people mention that. 14:01 omg the Dark lord!! The dark lord of rightstuf anime!?!?! I love him! So cool to see him on here lol. I wonder if the anime hes talking about is Captian Taylor. He sure loves that one.
I use those "kodi-type" services mentioned in the video on an Android TV box, and I can tell you that there's no viruses and it's all in 1080p or 4K. Not encouraging piracy, you should support what you like, but just saying.
License Fees and Terms of use can kill projects. Take for example... Dragon Age. It has been turned into a comic book line and a tabletop RPG, both of which have to be Okayed by Bioware, and EA, in order for the latest material from say an in the works 4th game. Rights holders get very picky with IPs looking off model, or they include something they DON'T own. How bad can it get? Just ask IDW how hard it is to get stories approved for Sonic the Hedgehog's current comic run, Especially the Zombot Arc that turned most of the inhabitants of a post Sonic Forces game world into a mindless shamble and it was told before and during the start of [Human Malware] was happening.
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I think that it's important to remember that piracy has been baked into anime fandom culture for decades and it's considered something of an important deterrent as there's a sense that the corporations involved (inside and outside of Japan) might not do the right thing without having to compete with free. When Crunchyroll first went legit over a decade ago, it was considered a huge win for anime consumers as it addressed a lot of concerns we had at the time and did it in a legal way, but Crunchyroll and similar anime streaming services seemed to become too comfortable with their business model and have stagnated for years, so I can see why the community feels it's time to send them a message to get them to step up their game. AnimeTube just happened to be in the right place at the right time to grift off of this.
They had the same thing when the announcement of a Anime RUclips streaming service was coming out. They thought that it wouldn't be region locked it was. They posted a us channel with titles too unprofitable to license. The extreme fans thought that the channel would void existing deals it didn't.
It also exploited misguided people who had issues with changes made to international versions of anime (that licensors themselves had nothing to do with), issues with subtitles and issues with Funimation breaking it off with sex pest Vic Mignogna.
I've been waiting for this one since the whole thing went down.
Kickstarter's needs to invest in quality control.
That would be difficult. All they can really do is field and investigate reports.
Kodi has attempted to distance itself from the various third-party addons that facilitate piracy, which the search behaviour you described is only possible with
Kodi is a media player. It is not a program for pirating.
This is the part of the video that really bugged me. Kodi has a section on their site about this. They regularly issue takedowns on piracy sites that use their name. It’s like saying VLC is a piracy platform.
@@mukiex4413 yes but it still lets it happen
As far as anime streaming services go, Retrocrush is the only one I spend any time on. They have a pretty big library of classic anime from the 70s to early 2000s and that's great for me since I just can't get into modern anime. Plus, it's free. Just finished watching Dirty Pair and started City Hunter. 80s anime was the best!
(Edit after watching the video) It kinda seems like Retrocrush is a legit and legal version of what the subject of this video tried to be. Of course it doesn't have Naruto and the other recent huge anime franchises, but it's still a free (ad supported) anime service with a great library. You just need to accept that any ad-supported service isn't going to have the big money products that keep the paid services in business)
wish i can try it, though it is region locked
Oldschool anime is the best, City Hunter kicks ass
@@koweedate Get a VPN, my man. :)
@@ravager48 Or maybe those companies should stop focusing solely on the USA and start realizing that there’s more countries on the planet with anime fans in them.
@@Tim-007 it's not that simple, you have to get seperate licenses for each country you stream to, that can add up to being prohibitively expensive
I remember hearing about animetube and thinking that will make for an interesting kickscammers episode, and it really did. Now when I hear about these things, I don't read too much about them as I don't want to spoil the potential kickscammers episode.
Hahaha that's crazy :P
When it was first announced, I had a feeling it wouldn't work out. Didn't think the rabbit hole went that deep.
RetroCrush FTW.
Damn right RetroCrush FTW! I love that service and tell all my geek friends about it. I just started watching City Hunter.
too bad it is region locked as far as i heard
@@koweedate I dunno about outside North America. But VPNs are your friend.
@@fattiger6957 Or maybe those guys should wake up and realize that there’s more to this world then just the USA. But when everyone in the company is an idiot what can you expect.
@@Tim-007 Or maybe you should wake up and realize that licensing dozens of anime franchises from a whole load of different companies isn't easy and certainly not cheap. And since they just started, it makes sense they would want to focus on the biggest english speaking market first. Then if they're successful, move to other regions. But I guess it's easier for people like you to just assume any company is evil because they don't give you want you want at all times.
As someone who regularly uses grey area sites to watch anime/TV/movies as I don't feel like paying for streaming services, I find it weird that AnimeTube even got funded in the first place. Where the hell were they going to conjure up the money to fund the licensing fees for all the anime they're advertising to be on there? Sites like Netflix likely spend stupid amounts of money to get TV shows on their platform so where were the AnimeTube devs going to get the extra funds for?! 🤔
AnimeTube seemed like a bad idea from the start. Great video!
Netflix lost some of their most popular shows (The Office and Friends) because they couldn't afford the literal MILLIONS of dollars that NBC wanted for the rights. Now I'm sure a huge chunk of anime isn't worth that *combined*, it did also strike me as odd that it was supposed to be a FREE streaming service, supported by ads, and they only asked for $50,000? That's how much I figure Netflix probably needed when it started in like 1997 as a DVD delivery service. That's probably not enough money to just pay for Naruto.
They claimed to already be in the talks with anime studios in japan.... Or whatever. Not actual companies that handle licensing, ignoring license holders in the west saying they wouldn't have tp deal with them like rightstuf who they dismissed entirely when the owner called them out.
9:20 Sometimes I wonder if Napster took a holier than thou attitude towards illegal downloading when _they_ went legit.
You wouldn’t download a car!
If you want inside information on the whole rights thing, the MST3k kickstarter ( the new one) actually put out a newsletter opening up a little of their side of trying to get rights to things. it's very informative. And kinda sad what they have to go through just to get one movie to riff on. ( sometimes it all boils down to , you have to do this or you cannot have it, and they can't possibly do "this")
Do you have a link?
Love that your mispronounciation of Naruto is now an inside joke.
Narado, the anime with the cowboys
Wow, that dig at Crunchyroll was the longest stretch of a pun I’ve seen in quite a while.
You have to love the balls on the scammers. The pure hubris they have.
6:54 A kodi user myself and yeah that is how it works You just tell it to go to an IP address (witch for me is hooked up to a personal backup server) to browse and play the files on it
this video hugely misrepresenting kodi which is a self-hosted software that just streams whatever is put into it. it's not a netflix service, but more like xbox media center or vnc.
14:06 Slope's Oscar moment right there lmao, love that bit!
Can't wait until we get the Amico vid...it'll probably be longer than the Vega+ vid!
The video needs to be at least 3 hours long to even cover the base lore of the Amico...
Reading that comment now after the nearly 4hours video on the Amico. It was indeed longer than the vega+. 😄
Imagine the IQ of someone paying for Kodi, lol.
Well, there are Android STBs that are sold with "customized" versions of Kodi running on them...
Between this and Dreamworld getting the 'projects we love' badge just shows how there's a good chance that badge is random...
Even Netflix themselves cannot ever handle such an amount of anime licenses ! That's insane !!
14:50 It may seem like a dumb reason to watch the rest of the video (but I totally am), but I keep wondering, "Who drew her? Who's the artist? Can I commission them?" again and again when I see their mascot anime girl.
The same thing with the Butch Hartman streaming platform crowfunding campaing, 1 mill is not enough to even start making the ground work to create a competitive platform, so a 1 mill under campaing is definitely a scam.
I was apart of this debacle when it went down, and I gotta say. It was the only time I enjoyed using Twitter
Q: How can the company be so misleading the contributors?
A: For money
This gave me a lot of laughs while I was unemployed last summer. I lurked their Discord and watch even the true believers start to question George Gameface. The quickest and easiest sign this was a scam was knowing or making an educated guess of how much it cost to license anime. They were using numbers from ADV/Sojitz litigation but that was years ago and not an apples to oranges comparison. A top-flight series can cost tens of thousands of dollars an episode. And no legitimate anime distributor says anything about a show they are *trying* to license until they’ve actually licensed it.
Be a bit careful on the legality of streaming illegal uploads. Most players cache content and some rights holders are saying that cache is an illegal copy of their material aka a copyright violation
dude that VHS or retro filter is not working out. it kinda wrecks the video a bit.
Kickstarter had little intention of removing the campaign themselves
Love how you hated iBoy so much you had to dedicate a minute to how shit it was 😆
Hold on did RUclips advertise this?😶
I feel like I’ve seen a advert on here that resembles that anime girl from this service
Moe art is pretty bland and stolen a lot. So it's possible you saw a clone, either on purpose or accident (due to generic moe looks), or someone yoinked it
Here's my question: is it worse if this was just a scam or is it worse if the people behind it were genuinely that stupid and ignorant of how the entertainment industry works? I think stupid would actually be worse in some ways.
the scam would be worse, because then its people who are just out to exploit people's love of something(or use very manipulative words).
people just being stupid is really just people who love something but don't understand how things work. its not as if there is a easy way to really learn all the inner workings of stuff like this without being someone who has done it(or having someone with you who has). the internet can teach people a lot of things, but it is full lies or inaccurate information.
@@Sniperbear13 you don't need to know the inner workings of anything. It's called having common sense (something the vast majority of people lack). It's living by the old adage like if something sounds too good to be true, than it is; and if something like this could be done, it would have happened already. Sony (the parent company of Crunchyroll) and Netflix have to shell out millions for one series, yet some nobodies on Kickstarter can get the legal rights for every series ever made for 10 grand(ignoring the fact they already have streaming deals, that's why you are able to watch them)? How does that make sense to anyone.
Netflix spends 15 billion a year licensing content. These Big Brains: "We will get a larger library then even netflix with just 10 grand! We are super SMRT!"
The worst part is how desperate for a decent service everyone is. To the point of falling for it.
I think there have been many instances where people are in over their head and don't realize untill it's too late, it's just how people learn.
Wow, thanks for letting me know of IBoy, that sounds hilariously bad. So that's where the Stark girl ended up? That's a dead end career move...
I use anime streaming pirate sites all the time just bring a good ad blocker and don't download anything you'll be fine.
A "yarr" to you, me matey
I prefer how 'clean' torrenting is, though I understand the appeal of the streaming sites for people who don't wanna end up hoarding tonnes of videos lol
That kickstarter love got rescinded so fucking fast.
I don't think I've ever seen a campaign get that approval stamp removed. 😂
Maybe it's easier now (or 2 years ago when the video came out) but in the earlier days of streaming (and even before streaming) getting a lot of anime legally was impossible. The rights holders in Japan had no interest in making it available outside of the country, even if it was literally free money for them. That's probably why anime piracy is so popular compared to non-anime piracy.
Dang, that a shame they could've finally stream Go for a Punch at last 😥
That never existed and you know it.
@@the-NightStar but I think they'd still say yes we'll get the rights for that anime.
@@the-NightStar shhh don't crush their dreams
Sad thing is, Icelandic copyright law is so messed up that signing up for Crunchyroll simply is not worth the cost, or trouble.
Services like this are basically the only way people around here can watch most anime out there.
And before you ask, you can bet your bottom dollar that the *ACTUAL* copyright holders wouldn't get a single wooden nickel from here even *IF* you could watch the shows more legally.
I love how dumb people are when they say shit like "hey Microsoft look your console I paid money for already I'm going to break it to get back at you" kinda like when people were burning their nikes cause Nike supported taking a Knee at the super bowl. It's hilarious cause the company had already gotten the money and the people just smashing shit they paid money for lol
for people breaking their own console or whatever else, they are just screwing themselves over and will have to go out and get a replacement or a brand new product.
I wished actual fans revived Anime tube for real and actually making it a reality, even fanmade animes should be welcomed to make it standout
Kodi us nowhere near as broken as he described, and isn't just used for piracy.
The og campaign was removed due to copyright during the second campaign.
I felt bad for Merry getting swindled into this.
while im not an expert on licensing fees, im fairly certain, you are going to have to pay a lot for the rights to stream anything with well known name; like Pokemon.
I'm sure Funimation easily pays tens; if not hundreds of thousands for the rights for One Piece and Dragon Ball franchise alone. smaller and older Anime might not have such a large Price tag, but its not like yer gonna get much with only a few thousand bucks to spare.
Try millions, upon millions. I'm a hardcore weeb and have gotten to know the industry through the years of my fandom, and you'd be shocked by just how much some of these franchises are worth(we're talking as much as major movie/tv series/video game ip's), getting something like one piece or DBZ is akin to getting the streaming rights for something like star trek or the bond movies(I mean there's a reason why major corporations like Sony, warner bros, Sega, bandai namco, ect are involved in the anime industry)
@@ericp631 yea we have a ideal from some old bankrupys at the end of the 2000's
Streaming rights can run Millions per year to hundreds of million. in 2014 netflix was paying 3.4 billion a year to license content, by 2019 it was 14.7 billion. probably 15-17 billion a year by now. Thats ignoring what it spends on its own productions.
It’s like the failed GamerArchive console except with anime licenses instead of game licenses. They’re both made by people with no creativity but thinking they can quickly make loads of profit just from buying up licenses.
Kind of a huge misrepresentation of what Kodi is. Kodi itself doesn't do any of the things you mentioned. The functionality you're mentioning is from 3rd party plugins. Kodi by itself is basically a front end that organizes and plays digital media on your device or home network.
What's with the saturation/noise filter on the Slopes cut aways?
@10:45 That video is well known to be doctored. It's been proven no human being owned an Xbox One after 2013.
Jeez, thats the second case I've seen of Merryweather getting screwed over by a company. They have the worst luck, I swear.
I thought you were talking about the fictional company in GTA for a moment.
"Reached out to Merryweather comics to do a bit of promo work"
Easily the worst aspect of this, imo
4:46 Renai circulation Bakemonogatori
12:27 Joyride GTA song
This is the quality I needed this weekend. Thanks Slope.
If only they would pull down Suzy Lu's RUclips channel for also stealing anime content. But no, she was pulled and then contacted her 'friend' at RUclips and got it restored...
Cancelled all my RUclips subs for 2022. Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.
Watching this really makes me want someone to do a deep dive on why there's hundreds of WatchCartoon and WatchAnime or KissCartoon or KimCartoon websites, unless this is something similar? lol
All those websites host links to videos. There's so many of them to get around DMCA takedowns.
@@enderdragon1211 Fair enough haha. And you're right, too, I feel like there are more variants of Watch[Something] than there are multiverses in Marvel at this point, lmao.
A combination of Pirate site creating alternate to escape legal takedown, and othr5 pirates taking advantage of the well known name of a established pirate site to create their own website with the same name and get people looking for the "original".
As the CEO one of of the genital elgarment I can comfirm Slopes is " NOT " in talks with us.
an anime streaming site with an ai assistant would get laughed off the internet instantly these days
The discord isn't deleted. I'm a backer and I still have it in my list of servers. The people in charge even still regularly talk about behind the scenes progress and even recently sent out a newsletter to backers about their plans for 2022.
So what are their plans then? Do they include saying sorry for the empty threats that they sent peoples way? Or do they not have the balls to do that?
@@Tim-007 I'm not aware of any threats. Do you have a source for that?
@@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 Have you even watched the video? There’s a clear screenshot in it of them threatening to ban people from their discord and their non existent app who dare to call them out for the scammers that they are.
@@Tim-007 Oh you were referring to that. I don't think the newsletter mentioned anything about that but while I don't agree with what they did I also don't think they were entirely in the wrong. Basically from what I remember at the time because of all the stuff that was going on they were trying to figure out a backup plan after Kickstarter kicked them while at the same time getting flooded with people that were calling them scam artists so they essentially went into defensive mode while they planned out what to do next.
So, you're a scumbag... is what you're saying.
What's the music in 5:38
Night Walker (Linne's Theme) from Under Night In-Birth OST.
Antena 1 went a long way, it's a Brazilian radio station xD
Ohhh man, this should have been a collab episode with Hime Crunchyroll, now that she's a Vtuber. =P I don't think she or the staff would have minded 9:23 because at least theirs was actually a call for innovation, and they didn't need to bash on others to make it... not to mention they knew what they were doing, because theirs was a labor of love.
Imagine if the world worked like that
@@tmw3489 not with that attitude =P
I want a whole video of Slopes doing every pronunciation possible of Naruto.
This is why I buy original DVDs and streaming licences. Just way, way, way more convenient.
I was very surprised to hear Amy's Song, good job slipping that in, could have turned it down a bit since it was nearly the same volume as your filmed segment.
Also isn't it ironic that you used the Piracy advert music that wasn't supposed to be used out of its one event? XP Unless I've misremembered.
well they should be able to get a lesser anime show for 10k and they should properly add royalities too, then they need to add sub expenses aswell, because they cant expect the anime being subbed for them already. yes you are correct some animes will be behind locks, like netflix,etc or being in lawsuit hell also. so yes their were clueless about their own project.
At funny because there is retrocrunch that does that without the waifu
I have Spinmaster on my Neo Geo AES.
So is your version like my copy? 🤣
Where do I plug my AES controller in at? 😂🤣
Torrenting ftw. Legality be damned.
Did you mention Digimon!?!
Ain't that AI anime girl just the MC from Eromanga-sensei
Have you noticed any things that are the same across successful campaigns, be they real or a scam? I'd love to see a video on that if you ever get a chance.
"Anime girl Slopes isn't real, he can't hurt you"
4:34
Nice job using Amy Rose's theme song from Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2, though that has little fitting for the topic at hand, as I do not recall that song even being used once in the entire history of me watching Sonic X when I was younger. The (wrongfully) censored 4Kids dub I may add. Seriously, why did 4Kids have to cut out Shadow attacking Chris in one episode? He doesn't kill him, and I cannot think of a single Sonic fan who even cares about him at all. Sure, it's a kid getting hurt, but Sonic X isn't the only show that a kid gets physically hurt... Sorry for the tangent there, I needed it here for context. I honestly miss how SEGA handled the Sonic franchise back in Sonic Adventure 1 and Sonic Adventure 2... for multitudes of reasons, that you don't need to listen to my complaints about a different topic than this video
Yeah I was a bit nervous to watch this because I was one of those people looking forward to it. It WAS because of Merryweather that I became interested, though I also heard a lot of people being skeptical about it too, so I didn't put any money toward it. I do like what you said near the end starting at 17:56 though, not a lot of people mention that.
14:01 omg the Dark lord!! The dark lord of rightstuf anime!?!?! I love him! So cool to see him on here lol. I wonder if the anime hes talking about is Captian Taylor. He sure loves that one.
9:37 Don't you mean "subbed by the fans"?
Yeah, fandubs are really rare.
I use those "kodi-type" services mentioned in the video on an Android TV box, and I can tell you that there's no viruses and it's all in 1080p or 4K. Not encouraging piracy, you should support what you like, but just saying.
Why did RUclips wait two weeks to recommend this video? I used to watch your videos the second they came out. What gives, RUclips?
License Fees and Terms of use can kill projects. Take for example... Dragon Age. It has been turned into a comic book line and a tabletop RPG, both of which have to be Okayed by Bioware, and EA, in order for the latest material from say an in the works 4th game. Rights holders get very picky with IPs looking off model, or they include something they DON'T own. How bad can it get? Just ask IDW how hard it is to get stories approved for Sonic the Hedgehog's current comic run, Especially the Zombot Arc that turned most of the inhabitants of a post Sonic Forces game world into a mindless shamble and it was told before and during the start of [Human Malware] was happening.
YOOO THAT LINNE THEME UNDER NIGHT BRUV
Oh here we GO
Did that lineup included Beastars and BNA?
If not, screw it then
mispronouncing naruto three times in a row bugs me, even if I hate naruto, haha
I don't know about you, but one of my favorite animes is South Park
4:28 "Because I'm not a weeb"
Ah, I guess it can't be helped then. Anime isn't for everyone. That was a kawaii "kawaii" though Slope.
Don’t diss police scanners. American cops have guns so we gotta dodge them on the way to work
And also during school I guess
I remember seeing AnimeTube on xbox a while ago? Did someone actually make it
Ok good you mentioned it
5:07 Is that an actual thing? A tv that looks like a boombox? I demand a Techmoan intervention!
The what kind? 😂😂😭😭😭
Seems ah, like less of a crunchy roll and, ah, more of a sloppy sandwich.
They should have just called the service Soup Sandwich.
Less of a sloppy sandwich and more of a soggy biscuit.
Less of a soggy biscuit and more of a crunchy rol-no wait
@@mikethetowns I see you deleted your message shootout wouldn't respond LOL
@@mikethetowns what I'm responding here
if there was a service that had access to every anime I would pay for it but I really don't ever see that happening so I will continue to bootleg
LOL leave Snow app alone!! 🤣🤣
Fight back against the corporations for... charging a nominal fee to use their services....
Lose that had what's going on you're bald underneath
tbh the best way of consuming content is piracy.
That one was a doozy.
Been looking forward to this for a while. It was real good!
That app was the best for me
"Kawaiiiiiii" LMAO!
lmao the anti piracy music
Hellsing?
Slopes Game Room corny name🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I'll never understand weebs