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I think it's about bad or unfaithful American adaptations of Japanese anime. Death Note and Dragon Ball didn't go down well with the fan base.
Ok but those were like 20 years ago, that's more the "before" this meme is referring to. These days, popular anime has dubs that come out only a few days after the Japanese version is released. I haven't heard any complaints about the quality, but then again I'm not big into anime these days.
7 and 15 years ago respectively. But regardless, how would dubs be considered fixing?
Death note released with English dubs between 2007 and 2009, that's 15 years minimum.
Dragonball had several dubs attempted in the 90's, but the version that stuck and is the one most people remember watching on cartoon Network was between 2001 and 2003, that's 21 years minimum.
Where are you getting 7 and 15? Also, what do you mean by "fixing"? Where did that come up in the conversation at all? This is about western companies taking an interest in anime "before" vs "now", not about fixing anything. You brought up unfaithful adaptions for western audiences, which can only refer to dubs as it's not like the animation was changed.
Ah, I understand my confusion now. I had completely memory-holed the string of live-action movie adaptions 😂