If you’re boycotting, here you go. Ahoy!
Submitted 3 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-jimmy-kimmel-axe-2132535
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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
cm0002@piefed.world 3 months ago
I think this chart might be a bit dated, I'm fairly certain Disney has taken full control of Hulu, not 67%
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 3 months ago
I wouldnt say Im even trying to boycott, but I could care less about literally everything under that umbrella except for Pixar, and I havent seen a new Pixar movie in probably 10 or more years.
What the fuck does Winnie the Pooh Workbook even mean?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You mean you couldn’t care less.
TachyonTele@piefed.social 3 months ago
Kids IPs make bank.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Winnie the Pooh is not a Disney creation. They had exclusive rights to it between 1953 and 2021.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You could care less? You mean, you care, possibly a lot?
reddig33@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Studios should not own TV channels.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I went to look at the 538 Trump opinion polls to compare to his first term, then I remembered ABC bought and destroyed 538.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nate Silver has been shitty for a long time though too. I used to get his newsletters and you could watch the digression.
Kissaki@feddit.org 3 months ago
I was surprised to see Fox, looked into it on Wikipedia, and now I’m even more confused between Fox Entertainment, Fox Corporation, 21st Century Fox, Fox News [Channel], …
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
i always look at these seriously and then realize i havent subbed to a single one ever
The_v@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Lol me either. Their services are not nearly as good as the unauthorized streaming sites.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
www.cartoonbrew.com/…/everythingdisneyowns_b.jpg
(As of 2019)
Jaysyn@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ll miss Kermit, but I was already skipping most of that.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I don’t even like Jimmy Kimmel, but I cancelled too. Don’t fuck with the 1st amendment.
TeddE@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The only reason I’ve never canceled is because I’ve never subscribed.
But I wish I had something to cancel in protest of the egregious 1st amendment violations.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 3 months ago
Track down the advertisers on your local ABC affiliate stations and cancel them!
FanciestPants@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I also don’t subscribe, but have paid to watch the occasional Marvel movie. I’m happy to pass on whatever they’ve got lined up next if it gets them to take their role in fostering free speech more seriously.
Marthirial@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Would signing up for the free trial and then instantly canceling it count?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
yep. not gonna subsidize them caving to fascism.
Species8472@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
“Freedom of speech for me, not for thee”
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 months ago
remon@ani.social 3 months ago
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Eh it used to be that you didn’t fuck with the Mouse. Trump’s admin has shown that they’re actually a paper tiger and have no bite.
salty_chief@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I guess Disney is done for noway they will survive this fallout.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I saw this suggestion on the site that shall not be named.
Find a Nexstar or Sinclair owned channel, note the advertisers in there, and start shaming them for paying money to advertise on those networks. Literally 50% of their revenue comes from ads so gutting that would make a difference
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Here’s Sinclair: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_stations_owned_or_oper…
Here’s Nexstar: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_assets_owned_by_Nexsta…
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, pressure at all levels.
You can also look at a local station’s website and see advertising partners. Not the little fish that buy 1-2 ads a year for a local business, the ones that get their ads ran the most and in the best timeslots.
That’s where pressure is best applied on affiliates
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s sick. Much easier to do and much easier to scrape and compile.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
“The site that shall not be named”
… Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I assume Facebook. We all realised after that that social media was an evil business.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Possibly this post by Dan Satterfield? Web snapshots are easy, folks: hardly an excuse to omit sources.
SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Maybe I’m just cynical, but I feel like everyone cancelling is going to forget about this in a few months when the news cycle moves on and a new Star Wars show comes out or something.
Has a disorganized boycott like this ever worked? (honest question)
Octavio@lemmy.world 3 months ago
A lot of us are only here because we wanted to join a consumer action against Reddit. The first few months I was on Lemmy every post was about how Reddit users were fleeing in droves and we were going to show those big bad corporate clowns over at Reddit not to mess with us and Reddit would collapse within weeks.
Welp. Reddit is doing just fine, so yeah, color me cynical as well. I like it better here though.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 3 months ago
I agree and I thought more people would be frustrated enough to leave Reddit. But there are enough of us here now that there is an alternative to Reddit that is viable. Hopefully that becomes common knowledge and they realize leaving Reddit doesn’t mean not having a community, so they feel encouraged to switch.
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reddit is a wasteland where every informative post is now marked as DELETED by those of us who torched our donated content as we left. It’s full of garbage posts now, and mods who don’t care.
Do they still manage to attract ad revenue, sure, so does X after Musk turned it into a fascist turd bath. Is it as valuable as it used to be? Not by a longshot.
devedeset@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
A big plus is that I can actually interact with people here in a usually lighthearted manner. You can still find that on Reddit, but it is extremely hard to do now unless you have some extremely niche interests.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Reddit had no monetary cost.
It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.
Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Even you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.
^*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.^
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
For me, it’s not about boycott to affect. I just don’t want to give my money to what I do not believe. It’s a personal choice, I can’t control anything, I am just trying to live my life. This is a small thing I can control.
prototact@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Ye I don’t want my money to support fascism, simple as that.
devedeset@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I ended up being a bit of a hypocrite by not cancelling Hulu when Disney bought them. I gave money to Big Mouse. Not anymore.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The very personal and highly disorganized boycott of American goods and services by Canadians is definitely having an effect on several sectors including tourism, alcohol, and media.
Tourism alone has resulted in a loss of about 30 BILLION.
Because the regime and his sycophantic cunts are fucked and can suck our collective dick.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Tourism alone has resulted in a loss of about 30 BILLION.
fam in vegas is looking to move because the writing is on the wall. foreigners coming to gamble in this shit? yeah let’s go to munich 1940 for a happy time. :|
Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 months ago
skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
The suspension of the show has been met with condemnation and praise from both sides of the political spectrum.
Who on the left is praising it? Is this deliberate bullshit by Newsweek, or just careless copyediting?
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve already started my journey to replace all streaming services with jellyfin anyway so i will be cancelling mine too.
This jimmy kimmel business just sweetens the deal.
got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I didn’t have a Disney channel to unsubscribe from so I cancelled my Apple subscription.
snowby@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I cancelled my disney+ because of this.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Don’t forget, Hulu is owned by Disney too. Honestly, I’m done with video streaming at least for a while. I never have time anymore to watch anything so it’s just a money suck and physical media is better anyway.
usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I’m all for Disney getting the cancellations they deserve, but articles like this one are entirely sensationalist. No one can know the real numbers of cancellations unless Disney announces them, which will never happen.
wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Be aware: Newsweek has a history of posting stories that placate and reassure the non-MAGA crowd. I don’t 100% trust their intentions as an organization. Kamala Harris was definitely going to win according to Newsweek, the week before the election.
cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
In addition to cancelling, which is the MOST important thing:
What about uninstalling their apps?
App providers can see the number of installations on the different platforms (Apple, Roku, Android, etc). That count falling will further raise their disquiet. Leaving an app installed or continuing to use the service before the cancellation is processed could send an unintentional message that maybe this is all just temporary and we’ll come back in a couple of weeks after the news cycle plays out.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Already done. I like Star Wars, but oh the fuck well.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Good for you Americans. Don’t reactivate even if Kimmel comes back!
Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Clickbait. Friggin article never mentions what"drives" means. I was hoping to find out 1 million people cancelled or something, but it just mentioned a few specific people.
Also, they didn’t mention me. :(
mintiefresh@piefed.ca 3 months ago
I'd quit too, but I never had it to begin with lol
skeezix@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hopium. Not enough to matter
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 3 months ago
Yes, this put me over the edge. I now have zero streaming services for American shows.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I wrote to them and told them that ABC has been my news supplier for decades, but now I’ll be switching to NBC. I’ll also be cancelling my HULU sub.
As for their broadcast content, I told them that I will either pirate it, or watch it in TIVO, and skip the ads. That’s what really hurts them.
All media companies do not serve entertainment as their core business. They are literally nothing more than advertising platforms. That’s where 100% of their revenues comes from. The entertainment is just bait, to make us sit on our couch, and hopefully be too lazy too move our fat asses when the ads come on.
So threatening to consume their expensive bait without consuming their revenue-producing ads, really hurts.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I think Marvel and star wars addicts might find it hard to cancel thier subscriptions, they are so obsessed with these franchised.
0ops@piefed.zip 3 months ago
I did
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
A bigger deal to them is the theme parks and cruises.
Not only are those big money makers, they’re also easier for news crews to see and report on.
QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I don’t even watch Kimmel but the mouse is out
bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If I was a subscriber, I’d quit. But I’m a pirate instead. Fuck all of ‘em.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 3 months ago
HBO Max or whatever it’s called. Hulu and ESPN.
The only language they speak is money. So give them a taste of speaking with money.
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I hope they lose everything, and their CEO’s have to log in to the internet from a well used and disrespected latrine.
Makhno@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Nothing in the article mentions how many people actually unsubbed…
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 months ago
DROVES
potoo22@programming.dev 3 months ago
Damn American units
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
More than a handful, less then a metric fuckton.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US
Damage@feddit.it 3 months ago
Are those biblical droves or Roman droves?
Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Are those doves that drive?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Only Disney has those numbers, and releasing them would tank the stock that’s already dipping.
There is zero reason for them to admit what is happening.
Also of note, trump is pushing for it to go from quarterly to (I think) annual reports, so companies will be able to hide this stuff for longer, the whole time doing insider trading.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Because Newsweek is a rag. If they reported that the sky was blue, I’d go outside and check myself
chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
It’s because nobody but Disney has that data, and they stopped sharing sub numbers because it fucks with stock price too much.
Talkin out their ass seems to be Newsweek’s brand identity these days.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 months ago
thier stocks did drop 7%.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We’ll never know. I suppose there’s a way for outsiders to estimate it, but that won’t happen for weeks or months. Disney certainly won’t tell the truth over this.
kokesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I guess we’ll see the numbers in quarterly reports. If they release them, as the orange cunt babbled something about not needing those from companies recently.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s a guy in the comments who posted a picture of an unsubscribe email.
So… at least one person.
Stabbitha@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How do you propose a journalist reveal numbers only Disney has access to?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Of course not. This article was written using vibes.
It’s vibe reporting.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How many people unsubbed isnt the point. The point is that you clicked. They did the same bait articles when Disney fired Gina Carano, and “the right” were all saying they were cancelling disney plus. I look around at the comments, and they are all pretty much the exact same. Just the political leanings have switched. Its both hilarious and incredibly sad at the same time.
4am@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Wow someone had a hard-on for Gina
slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Let me guess without opening it: it is based twitter screenshots are quotes from users who are supposedly cancelled their subscription
mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
But people are talking about it on Twitter, and what happens on Twitter is more real than reality itself!