Around the net there are a great many anime streaming, anime download, and ripped wallpaper sites. Many of them are either filled with ads or have ads placed in areas where they’re seen well. There’s nothing wrong with making profit from a site, but would it make a difference if the management of those sites don’t watch anime or even think positively of anime fans? There is likely a difference somewhere in having a site generate revenue from a subject they like and just using its users. These are a couple quotes from around the web and it’s just a hint of what is thought.

My anime site […] has been doing exceptionally well due to some members on my site. I embedded a chatango chat and I guess allot of “anime tards” got pretty addicted to it and swear by it, lol. So if you wanna get tons of traffic try finding some “nerds” with an addictive personality to run the forum/chats on your anime site and watch the revenue roll in.

getting anime nerds to run anime websites usually like getting free employees with no lives

Maybe this is okay and you’re fine with it. However, these countless manga viewing, download, and streaming sites aren’t helping the animanga industry or even to some extent fansubbers and scanlations groups. Nobody is going to pay attention to a 1-3 staffed manga scanning group when they request for their scans to be removed. …when it was added without permission or the series was licensed. A TV Tokyo executive has also recently commented on such sites for the decline of the anime industry in non-Japanese speaking countries. Fansub groups can stop fansubbing, but what good is that when the video has already spread to those unwilling to respect a licensing?