I did the same thing with Vizio and it eventually would randomly turn off, or sound wouldn’t work or something, you’d call support and they’d tell you that you have to update it. It doesn’t make any sense, but I did it and it would work find for awhile again. Thr tinfoil hat in me says they do that to get whatever info they have stored on you.

I was thinking the same thing. It’s all written in such a way to make people mad and get them to respond. It’s like being back on reddit!

This is a well reasoned answer. If this were my instance I would also ban communities linking to pirated software. A single lawsuit and lawyer bill for a regular guy, and that can fuck your life up all because you tried to run a decent community. I have a username I use for browsing lemmynsfw, I’ll make one for browsing piracy related things too.

This is answer number 1. The guy from the Simpsons asks you do to voice work, which I have to imagine isn’t as much of a pain in the ass as being filmed.

I think answer 1b is they are also getting paid for said work on a show by a legendary creator.

1c is they are usually themselves, which means there’s no confusion as to who the person voicing the character is. It’s great for their brand.