Crunchyroll started as a piracy website that would steal the work of fansub groups and lock it behind paywalls, which caused Fansub groups to literally encode messages during the "Brought to you in part by these sponsors" segments, warning viewers that if you paid for the subs, you got scammed
I'm pretty sure the "if you paid for this, you got ripped off" warnings came BEFORE Crunchyroll started stealing fansubs in their early days.
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