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Daiz on Media & Other Escapades
Personal blog · daiz.moe · on HN as Daizculturegames
Daiz on Media & Other Escapades is a personal blog at daiz.moe about culture and games. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Daiz's posts for insider analysis of anime subtitles and fansub culture, including Crunchyroll's changes to subtitle display. One commenter says the post is written for insiders rather than outsiders.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Digital media expert Daiz writes about technology, Japanese media, video games, and consumer awareness matters.
Most-linked posts?
- /content/crunchyroll/mha-funi-hulu.jpg2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-30
What Hacker News says?
Basically they are intending to limit their own options of how subtitles can be displayed. The limit of not being able to position multiple subtitles at specific position is the biggest thing imo. To go with the first screenshots the post has: For the first it is translating the info box on the left and just adding it above its dialog subtitles. This has a few problems. First the text overlaps the text in the box, n…
Comment linking /content/crunchyroll/mha-funi-hulu.jpg
on “Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles”Submitted Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles as a story · 461 points
HN discussionThe article is just long, and rambly, clearly from someone on the inside of the issue, not targeting complete outsiders. The gist of it is this: Subtitles were a huge part of anime culture. 1. Subtitles were great at one point. Demonstration is this video: https://daiz.moe/content/crunchyroll/klk-underwater-1.mp4 The English subtitles are so well integrated, that they feel like they are part of the original scene. B…
Comment linking /content/crunchyroll/mha-funi-hulu.jpg
on “Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles”