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NEWS: Kickstarter Suspends Anime Tube Crowdfunding Campaign

A con finger-painter, maybe.

I see Anime Tube guy went to the "my client is not in fact human feces therefore calling him 'a piece of shit' is defamation" school of argumentation

I like to look for silver linings here, and maybe one thing that could come of this is that this shows pretty convincingly that there is a market demand for a streaming alternative.

there's a space for a newcomer right now, if only someone could actually execute it.

Unless you're talking Amazon or Disney or someone else with deep pockets and money to burn... Nah. A newcomer is facing a very (very) expensive uphill battle with only fair-to-middlin' chances of actually eventually turning a profit. Such a newcomer will need to attract the average anime fan, and that group largely aren't interested unless you can provide something seriously different and better than existing services. (And a raftload of exclu$I've$.)

The disgruntled noisy minority isn't big enough to pay the bills.

Hidive or retrocrush are already an example, actually: They clearly don't have Disney money, but they are doing just fine. Their goals are a little different, of course.

I can't speak on Retro Crush as I have never really used their service, but including HiDive in your example is a bit misleading. Or at least not quite accurate. Sure they don't have Disney money, but they are not some "brand new" entrant into the mix. They had a long standing history before the rebranding, as I'll call it. The connections were already in place with them and their previous history. They were not starting from scratch.

I like to look for silver linings here, and maybe one thing that could come of this is that this shows pretty convincingly that there is a market demand for a streaming alternative.
Maybe not a "practical" demand as in there is a lack of supply (most things are streamed somewhere these days), but rather a good will demand.

I think this shows there's a distinct lack of good will out there for the current streaming services, and that would in theory present an opportunity, which was shown here in practice.

This guy was a grifter and a con-artist at worse, or a completely self-deluded fool at best, but there are people and companies with the resources to create a proper competitor in the anime streaming space, and perhaps this incident will provide them the evidence and/or incentive to actually make a push.

Not to toot my own horn but I predicted this situation in the market would happen around now like 2 years ago: there's a space for a newcomer right now, if only someone could actually execute it.

The market is large enough for someone to wedge pretty deeply into one of the many cracks, without investing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Hidive or retrocrush are already an example, actually: They clearly don't have Disney money, but they are doing just fine. Their goals are a little different, of course.

As to your point about the disgruntled noisy minority: It's not so much their existence that's the point. The point is the lack of a loud counter minority. Compare to a company like Apple or Tesla instead. They have their own very noisy anti-s, but have just as loud if not louder groups of fanboys, which I don't detect in this case at all.

Those "average anime fans" could care less where they actually watch their anime. As soon as someone provides a better service, they would be happy to switch. That's my point.

The market is large enough for someone to wedge pretty deeply into one of the many cracks, without investing hundreds of millions of dollars.

As to your point about the disgruntled noisy minority: It's not so much their existence that's the point. The point is the lack of a loud counter minority. Compare to a company like Apple or Tesla instead. They have their own very noisy anti-s, but have just as loud if not louder groups of fanboys, which I don't detect in this case at all.
That's the clue that their brand good will is weak. Those "average anime fans" could care less where they actually watch their anime. As soon as someone provides a better service, they would be happy to switch. That's my point.

Indeed, there certainly would be comparatively low-cost opportunities to license stuff like the Rizelmines and G-On Riders, the Ginban Kaleidoscopes and Yume Tsukais, and the Touka Gettans and Tonagura!s of the world.