Groups start and stop. It's just life. People grow up. I don't think ONE group of the ones I started watching first, years ago, is still subbing. Man, who remembers Shinsen-subs? Back then I felt like they were the biggest thing ever and they'd never go away. Boy was I wrong. Horriblesubs wasn't even a thing back then. They really did build up a glorious amount of high quality subs tho. Ironic how their name kept me away at first.
I think it's mostly that a lot of younger either japanese people or others that are studying japanese in school are in these subbing groups, either out of love of spreading the culture or to practice. At one point you're suddenly 32 with kids and you don't have the time to keep that up.
Shinsen-subs had their first anime subbed in 2003. That's a wopping 18 years ago. If these dudes were 20 at the time, they'd be 38 now. (Horrible started in 2009, which is still 12 years)
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