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There's actually very little way to directly support the workers who make anime possible from the West. If you watch on Crunchyroll, of course they take a cut first, and then the rest is split up based on how many different shows you watch. @cucurbeen/1294633705118498816Permalink On twitter.com
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From that cut, every capitalist and middle manager takes a slice of a slice of a slice of a slice until whatever's left trickles down to the people you actually think you're supporting.Permalink On twitter.com
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Buying merch is a bit better, but capitalists still pocket most of your cash and now you're involving the underpaid workers in the global south who had to make those figurines or plushies or whatever.Permalink On twitter.com
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Then you say, "fuck that, I'm pirating, I don't want to support corruption!" But sites like KissAnime do the exact same thing to their own employees. There are no ethical choices to make here. No matter how you consume, someone somewhere isn't getting their labor's worth,Permalink On twitter.com
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Did I just turn KissAnime being taken down into a rant on why we should all support an internationalist proletarian uprising? Yes, yes I did.On twitter.com