bothersome

I think the truth is far simpler.

The US has had an oversaturated job-market for decades, leading to ever lowering net-wages, and a significantly shrinking middle-class. This trend is fueled by many things, like globalization / industry moving to china and india, but also heavily influenced by mass immigration. That's no partisan statement, but the simple truth. The dems still want ever more immigrants, while the republicans want to at least control that flow. People literally voted with their wallet. In mind, that is.

It's not the whole truth, but another facet of it. There are many reasons people voted for trump, but that one is among the bigger ones.

Well, it actually is also only the starting point of that argument, but talking about illegal labour and tax cost/benefit will not turn any minds, but an otherwise sound argument into a heated discussion.

First off, thanks for your service. Batoto has been the best manga-site around that I would know of, and has been my to-go-to site for the last 6 years or so.

On the other hand, I am sadly not really surprised by this developement. At some point batoto actually being legal, paved the way for a great number of works being taken down - works, that illegal hosting sites still tout about. With the superior quality on here, it also became their to-go-to source. The restriction to user accounts, I feel, was the true death-blow of the site though, as it turned away many newcomers, while others left for sites that still hosted their favourite series.

Well, semantics.