Daiz
@daiz.moe
🔞 Digital media expert & UX designer/developer @ JP-EN media localization
Talks #lightnovels / #anime / #manga / #games / #translation | pro-fiction | Finnish 🇫🇮 but posting primarily in English | opinions firmly my own | he/they
Website ★ daiz.moe ★
Talks #lightnovels / #anime / #manga / #games / #translation | pro-fiction | Finnish 🇫🇮 but posting primarily in English | opinions firmly my own | he/they
Website ★ daiz.moe ★
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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
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A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
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A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
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Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
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Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
Don't think I've ever bothered to look up what USS in ship names means, but apparently it's just short for United States Ship. Anyway, I'm making this post because I believe the Finnish Navy should change it's boring Finnish Navy Ship (FNS) identification to just Finnish Ship, shortened to FISH
oh yeah what *does* the USS stand for in star trek? is there a united states still?
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Don't think I've ever bothered to look up what USS in ship names means, but apparently it's just short for United States Ship. Anyway, I'm making this post because I believe the Finnish Navy should change it's boring Finnish Navy Ship (FNS) identification to just Finnish Ship, shortened to FISH
A smaller update on this: Back catalog subtitles might actually be safe, but new questions arise as to why exactly is Crunchyroll pursuing this plan at all, as the cost-cutting potential looks even more questionable now. Could this just be table setting for further quality-reducing cost-cutting?
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A smaller update on this: Back catalog subtitles might actually be safe, but new questions arise as to why exactly is Crunchyroll pursuing this plan at all, as the cost-cutting potential looks even more questionable now. Could this just be table setting for further quality-reducing cost-cutting?
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This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
One of the changes that OpenAI has made to make ChatGPT safer is a "take a break" nudge. There's something quite interesting about the design here. Which thing does it make you want to click?
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is *amazing*. This goes straight to Deceptive Design Hall of Shame.
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
They made a "take a break" nudge that has no obvious "ok, I'll take a break" affordance. Its three affordances are:
1) Keep chatting (default, highlighted)
2) x out — keeps chatting
3) "This was helpful" — what is this?
🧵
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In Blazblue, the character Platinum the Trinity has a jab where they do either rock, paper or scissors
This makes no difference in almost all situations EXCEPT when they are fighting another Platinum. If they both jab each other at the same time, the "winner" gets the hit
This makes no difference in almost all situations EXCEPT when they are fighting another Platinum. If they both jab each other at the same time, the "winner" gets the hit
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In Blazblue, the character Platinum the Trinity has a jab where they do either rock, paper or scissors
This makes no difference in almost all situations EXCEPT when they are fighting another Platinum. If they both jab each other at the same time, the "winner" gets the hit
This makes no difference in almost all situations EXCEPT when they are fighting another Platinum. If they both jab each other at the same time, the "winner" gets the hit
Good short video from @mothersbasement.bsky.social on Crunchyroll's destructive subtitle plans and ditching Aegisub in favor of OOONA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty_7...
Crunchyroll is about to make #anime worse for EVERYONE
YouTube video by Mother's Basement
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November 24, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Good short video from @mothersbasement.bsky.social on Crunchyroll's destructive subtitle plans and ditching Aegisub in favor of OOONA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty_7...
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The location ID on twitter revealing that 99% of the horrible shit on that website is just posted by people in India honestly soothed me a lot. Its literally all just fake.
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The location ID on twitter revealing that 99% of the horrible shit on that website is just posted by people in India honestly soothed me a lot. Its literally all just fake.
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this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
one of the things that makes me most mad about genAI (and there are many) is we've been told there's not enough money for hiring. but there's billions poured into ai.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
so not enough money to hire workers. but infinite money to pour into technology whose goal is never having to pay workers again.
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.
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In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In The Labyrinth of Time, entering the Ziggurat without a lantern is supposed to show a black screen. However, the developers put in the wrong filename for the black screen, so it fails to render, showing a black screen instead
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Ask yourself this: Do you want this to be the future of your anime watching experience, forever? If your answer is no, then act on it! If you are a journalist or anyone with a platform, talk about this! If you know such people, urge them to do so! Use my article as base! Now, before it's too late!
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ask yourself this: Do you want this to be the future of your anime watching experience, forever? If your answer is no, then act on it! If you are a journalist or anyone with a platform, talk about this! If you know such people, urge them to do so! Use my article as base! Now, before it's too late!
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Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I used to fansub anime because I was let down by the state of official digital distribution. I wasn't expecting to make a career out of it (though I'd have loved to) so I was studying gamedev, but then a job opportunity to get into meaningful manga digital distribution came along and I jumped on it
November 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I used to fansub anime because I was let down by the state of official digital distribution. I wasn't expecting to make a career out of it (though I'd have loved to) so I was studying gamedev, but then a job opportunity to get into meaningful manga digital distribution came along and I jumped on it
No cheating, post your lock screen
My current phone is electric blue so Suisei was a natural choice for the wallpaper, love this image
My current phone is electric blue so Suisei was a natural choice for the wallpaper, love this image
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
No cheating, post your lock screen
My current phone is electric blue so Suisei was a natural choice for the wallpaper, love this image
My current phone is electric blue so Suisei was a natural choice for the wallpaper, love this image
Saw this extremely baffling post on another site and apparently, some people's exposure to the term "senpai" has been so skewed that they primarily think of it as a porn/sexual term.
My position of "English discourse should not adapt Japanese terms untranslated" has been vindicated once again.
My position of "English discourse should not adapt Japanese terms untranslated" has been vindicated once again.
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Saw this extremely baffling post on another site and apparently, some people's exposure to the term "senpai" has been so skewed that they primarily think of it as a porn/sexual term.
My position of "English discourse should not adapt Japanese terms untranslated" has been vindicated once again.
My position of "English discourse should not adapt Japanese terms untranslated" has been vindicated once again.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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the literal beat for beat events of the ending of Final Fantasy XIII are entirely impossible to understand or even speculate on without the context of a lore video released in a 2011 press conference
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
the literal beat for beat events of the ending of Final Fantasy XIII are entirely impossible to understand or even speculate on without the context of a lore video released in a 2011 press conference
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November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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I am learning so much about subtitles because of this.
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I am learning so much about subtitles because of this.
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
Realized that I should have at least some sort of about page on my website for reaching out about my article, so I whipped one up quickly. Gonna be expanding on this in the future. daiz.moe/about/
About Daiz
Daiz is a digital media expert and consumer advocate from Finland with over a decade of experience in Japanese-to-English media localization among other things.
daiz.moe
November 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Realized that I should have at least some sort of about page on my website for reaching out about my article, so I whipped one up quickly. Gonna be expanding on this in the future. daiz.moe/about/
Just finished sending out a lot of mails to various news sites that cover anime and have talked about Crunchyroll('s subtitle issues) before. Hopefully this will actually lead to some articles down the line... I'll probably try to contact anitubers next. Anything to spread the word at this point tbh
Ask yourself this: Do you want this to be the future of your anime watching experience, forever? If your answer is no, then act on it! If you are a journalist or anyone with a platform, talk about this! If you know such people, urge them to do so! Use my article as base! Now, before it's too late!
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Just finished sending out a lot of mails to various news sites that cover anime and have talked about Crunchyroll('s subtitle issues) before. Hopefully this will actually lead to some articles down the line... I'll probably try to contact anitubers next. Anything to spread the word at this point tbh
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
New article on ★ daiz.moe ★
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason
daiz.moe/crunchyroll-...
A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes!
Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)
Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason | Daiz.moe
With the Fall 2025 anime season, Crunchyroll demonstrates zero respect for anime as a medium as the presentation quality of its subtitles reach an all-time low.
daiz.moe
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.
Huh, it doesn't seem to be possible to search for replies to someone on here. The to: filter is just an alias for the mentions: filter, which only gives you results for explicit handle mentions like @bsky.app and does not include replies. Kinda weird to not be able to find replies with a to: filter!
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Huh, it doesn't seem to be possible to search for replies to someone on here. The to: filter is just an alias for the mentions: filter, which only gives you results for explicit handle mentions like @bsky.app and does not include replies. Kinda weird to not be able to find replies with a to: filter!