Talk:HiAnime

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Jasper Deng (talk) 02:16, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that the pirate anime streaming site HiAnime had more visitors than legal competitors like Crunchyroll or Disney+? Source: https://torrentfreak.com/hianime-outranks-disneyplus-in-the-u-s-with-record-364m-monthly-visits-250104/ , https://screenrant.com/anime-piracy-disney-plus-hianime-controversy-factoid/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ada Cambridge

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 592 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 02:52, 17 March 2026 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - n

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Created within a day of nomination, 1800 characters long. I didn't recognise any of the sources but TorrentFreak, the article's primary source, is considered reliable in this topic, and Screen Rant is considered marginally reliable, both per the RSP. AnimeMojo I have no idea about, searching the RSP and the list at the anime and manga subproject yielded no results. It is used in a handful of other articles, and here the only thing it is the only source for is to say that HiAnime was likely popular for a no-fee model and a lack of licensing limits, which seems, if not immediately obvious to an untrained observer, quite intuitive, so I'm willing to accept it. I am not sure why the SimilarWeb source is directly cited, as I am skeptical of its reliability, and I would think it only gains reliability through the mention in TorrentFreak, so I would err on the side of that being removed.
An Earwig copyright check brings up a false positive to a blog post that copies from the KissAnime article (written by this article's author!), and other than that the highest figure is 13.0%, so I think there are no copyright issues here. The hook is sourced and, I think, interesting, and so I can provisionally approve it (although would 'piracy anime streaming site' be better?), but I would like the sourcing issue to be dealt with, or if you think that all two mentioned sources are reliable, to explain why. Thanks for your work here! --LivelyRatification (talk) 09:17, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

• @LivelyRatification: SimilarWeb is the new Alexa, and pretty reliable (for website stats), AFAIK. It's used for said stats. AnimeMojo seems like a minor website, but as you say, it's only used for the confirmation of a rather obvious claim. There are some other similar (niche) sites making the same claim (ex. ). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 12:43, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Thanks, I did a bit of looking and was able to find a mention of SimilarWeb in Forbes, so happy to accept it. AnimeMojo is cited for a minor (and fairly obvious) claim as previously stated so I'm happy to accept that as well, so I will approve this hook. --LivelyRatification (talk) 21:55, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
    • @Piotrus and LivelyRatification: This hook is not grammatically correct. Either a comma after "a pirate anime site" and after "HiAnime", or dropping the indefinite article "a" or replacing it with the definite article "the", is needed (I prefer the latter). I will leave it up to you how to resolve that.--Jasper Deng (talk) 03:21, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
      • @Jasper Deng: I replaced "a" with "the", good catch - thank you. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:22, 6 April 2026 (UTC)