It certainly is a problem to be sure. but it was like that before Mangadex.

There are a lot of sketchier sites out there. If you want to read something, there is somewhere out there hosting it. Mangadex was great in that it was really quite a cool public service but capitalism doesnt let us have shit things, much less nice things. It hurts too, because for every Shonen boy who tries really hard and makes Jump a ton of money, there are a hundred manga that are never translated officially and a thousand more never translated at all, and Ill be totally honest, I could not give less of a shit about Demon Slayer or JJK. Some titles only have english fan bases because of manga pirates.

But isnt a world with more genuine art we make ourselves a good thing? I don’t think anything of stealing from a corporation as stealing. Its reclaimation

If its someone I know who is putting in labor to make a living… like isnt that the point?