Fakku was and will always be made up of villains. The founder, Jacob, created Fakku because he saw Exhentai's growing popularity and profitability. Jacob originally created Fakku as an Exhentai scraper. Before advertisers helped him, he covered the site's bills with student loans. He had a store where he sold items adorned with copyrighted porn that I doubt he had permission for.
Fakku tried poaching users from Exhentai by informing Wanimagazine, a Japanese corporation, that Exhentai is sharing paper scans of their magazines. Fakku is so deplorable that people immediately knew the snitch was Fakku, and since Fakku was an Exhentai scraper, Wanimagazine also threatened Fakku to remove the scans, and Fakku spun it into fake evidence that they couldn't have been the snitch because of it. A mod on Exhentai revealed that Wanimagazine gave Exhentai and Fakku the same deal: become their employee and never share unlicensed content. Exhentai declined and Fakku accepted. Fakku continued sharing unlicensed content for about another year while working with Wanimagazine, stopping only after Wanimagazine gave them one more ultimatum.
Around this time, Jacob publicly posted his dox of Exhentai's owner for revealing that Fakku wants to secretly censor content. Jacob began trying to assure everyone that he created Fakku as an Exhentai scraper to build enough popularity to convince Wanimagazine to hire him. Oh, I remember asking Jacob if he and his employees are using licensed Adobe products, he refused to answer and he was very annoyed by the question.
When Fakku tries to justify their attack on free speech, they'll always try to manipulate you with lies by saying they support free speech, support every artist financially, an unauthorized copy is theft, and copyright claiming or "DMCAing" isn't censorship. When they see their bullshit isn't working on you, they'll admit that they're only trying to oppress you because they "legally" can.
Fakku puts content from dead artists behind their paywall.
When Fakku made a seven figure profit in a year, they begged people to donate $47k for a licensed translation. If you donated more than $2500, Jacob promised to meet up with you and the artist in Tokyo, but you had to pay for the trip. Given what they wanted to translate, it’s clear they were begging for donations because they didn’t believe it would sell many copies.
Fakku sent Google over 45 million copyright removal requests in 11 months in 2021 and he has sent such requests to journalists and news sites to try and censor them for covering his attack on free speech.
Fakku only cares about money and lies compulsively, hence why Fakku refuses to take a principled stance. Irodori Comics regurgitates the same anti-sharing lies as Fakku at a much greater frequency. Fakku doesn't let anyone use their store for free and that's why they refused to ban Irodori Comics when people learned Irodori Comics get paid to translate popular works without the owners' permission, post Nhentai URLs in large gatherings, and help solicit donations for more unlicensed translations.
Neither Fakku nor Irodori Comics sell translations of most of the works they’ve censored. This is because, besides enjoying censoring content, they get paid by the artist to send a copyright removal request on the artist's behalf.
Irodori Comics might actually be a proxy of Fakku. Fakku hates being associated with low quality translating, typesetting and lettering. One person offered a temporary job and a former employee both said Irodori Comics pay far below minimum wage, which explains why when they release a licensed translation, it contains so many errors. Irodori Comics has censored possibly up to 100000 galleries on Exhentai. The first artists who allowed their self-published works to be translated by Irodori Comics were employed or previously employed by Wanimagazine. Years before Edsel Ayes aka EdMX "co-founded" Irodori Comics, Jacob set up a blog on Fakku for him.
I haven't been able to verify this rumor but it sounds typical of Fakku and Irodori Comics. They won't translate or sell an artist's work for free and they don't share some of the profit with the artist until they've sold enough copies. They apparently make exceptions for really popular artists.