What happened to American voice acting

>watch a modern anime dub
>voice acting is generally stilted, completely off in terms of tone and flows really awkwardly as if it's a shitty youtube parody
>listen to the fucking dub of crayon shin chan from a million years ago
>actually competent voice work that sounds really good
>there aren't awkward and long pauses between each line
>the tone and flow is actually good
so how come American voice work used to actually be good but then went to total shit, what the fuck happened?

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>Watching dubs
That aside, I'm pretty sure the US's problem is the closed talent pool and lockdown established voice actors have through unions. How many times will you hear the same voice actor playing multiple characters in the same show?

Barely anyone watches dubs anymore so no one puts in effort

Anime stopped getting TV ratings thus stopped being profitable. Doesn't help that TV in general has gone down the tubes. Not to mention that while anime has gotten a larger cult following in the West it is viewed more negatively in the public eye than ever(its for pedophiles etc)

>watching shakugan no shana dub
>no effort to emulate the tsundere character
>VA changes between seasons
When was voice acting decent? more than 20 years ago maybe?

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because we have access to the original shows and the western anime boom is long dead. nobody gives a shit anymore so you get shit dubs

>Watching dubs

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Because dubs like Shin-chan weren't done with actors recording their lines separately as audio files and emailing them to Funimation.

Idk about that, normalfriends are watching anime on netflix nowadays, introducing them into the medium, it's becoming more mainstream than ever
Kim Kardashian posted about DiTF for christ sake

it's simply a matter of effort, shin chan had actual voice cast talent and was recorded properly, as was FMA.
The problem is most studios cut corners and are lazy, as Americans generally are. So you get shit products a lot