i'm kinda tired of seeing the same wrong opinions on imgboards and forums about Crunchyroll and subs so here's a few facts - anonymous of course so I don't get accused of breaking NDA (I left CR right before the merger layoffs but still)

- sometimes Crunchyroll gets subs from licensors, and they're **prohibited** from adjusting them, per contract. any alterations (and the involved costs) must be approved by Japan in these cases
- the Yuzuki Family incident, the Nokotan incident, the infamous "Shisogapo" sign in Charlotte, those are all cases of licensor-provided subs. Crunchyroll can relay complaints to the licensor and convince them to fix things but not always
- the recent incidents with Necronomico and Lord of the Mysteries are different - these AI-translation companies have been hired by CR directly in an effort to cut costs, to test their output
- CR localization members uploaded the subs as-is, betting that the general response would be so bad that would steer leadership away from AI-translation
- the CR CEO has investments in a number of AI translation companies and often tries to profit from CR through them (see: closed caption issues)
- you can tell if a sub has been done inhouse or not by looking at the main font - Trebuchet for inhouse, Arial for 3rd party (at least for EN, not sure for other languages)
- the best thing you can do is flood support with complaints, since those are always accounted/relayed to leadership and used as pressure; people that only complain on the internet but do not post tickets are seen as "pirates who wouldn't pay anyway"