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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mesamunefire@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-jimmy-kimmel-axe-2132535

Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Already done. I like Star Wars, but oh the fuck well.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re boycotting, here you go. Ahoy!

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    • cm0002@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I think this chart might be a bit dated, I'm fairly certain Disney has taken full control of Hulu, not 67%

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      • oyo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        You only need 51% for “full control.”

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    • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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?

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        You mean you couldn’t care less.

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Kids IPs make bank.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Studios should not own TV channels.

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  • Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nothing in the article mentions how many people actually unsubbed…

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    • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Because Newsweek is a rag. If they reported that the sky was blue, I’d go outside and check myself

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DROVES

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Are those biblical droves or Roman droves?

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      • potoo22@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Damn American units

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        THERE ARE DOZENS OF US

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      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        More than a handful, less then a metric fuckton.

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    • chillpanzee@lemmy.ml ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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    • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Eh_I@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Thanks for the reminder!

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  • SirMaple__@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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    • slacktoid@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      If I could download a car, you bet your ass I would!

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  • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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…

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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      • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        That’s sick. Much easier to do and much easier to scrape and compile.

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      “The site that shall not be named”

      … Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I assume Facebook. We all realised after that that social media was an evil business.

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  • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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  • toiletobserver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh no, people are ditching the overpriced streaming service? Image

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    • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Disney when they see people cancelling their subscriptions.

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    • salty_chief@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess Disney is done for noway they will survive this fallout.

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  • usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Newsweek is shit. most of their articles are just left wing hopium with no substance whatsoever.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No one can know the real numbers of cancellations unless Disney announces them, which will never happen.

      Quarterly earnings…

      183 million Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, an increase of 2.6 million versus Q2 fiscal 2025

      128 million Disney+ subscribers, an increase of 1.8 million versus Q2 fiscal 2025

      thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-…

      But internally they monitor this metric on a day-to-day metric, people are absolutely losing their shit over the cancellation at Disney.

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      • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Oh shit, and the current fiscal quarter ends in like a week, so we should hear about the numbers near the first week of November.

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    • funkyfarmington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kind of like the inventor of bitcoin they found?

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Australian Faketoshi?

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  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, this put me over the edge. I now have zero streaming services for American shows.

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    • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Netflix is the only one I have left now, and that’s only because I share the account with multiple people, so it’s more like 1/4 of a subscription. If I cancelled they would end up with more subscribers.

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      • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Wish Netflix still mailed DVDs, be nice to have another way to fill in the gaps.

        Need to look at what DVDs the library carries…

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    • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I still have Apple TV and Crunchy Roll… Should Apple be cancelled for this?

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      • ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Canceled that one back when they fired Jon Stewart because he wanted to report on China and Israel

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  • mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I'd quit too, but I never had it to begin with lol

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    • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I had an account from when it was free with my phone plan 4 years ago. Jumped through all the hoops to delete it.

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  • skeezix@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hopium. Not enough to matter

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I suspect the amount of money they’d need to lose before they change course is actually quite small.

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    • Triumph@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All efforts great and small.

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      • Brujones@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Agreed. Something is better than nothing, and if enough people get on board, it might just be enough to make a difference.

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    • logi@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I didn't see any numbers in TFA. Do you have any numbers? I think we just don't know.

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      • EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        More than one drove. Upper bound is infinite droves.

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      • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think we can speculate with a high degree of confidence that it won’t influence their profit growth projections.

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  • veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I can’t unsubscribe, but you bet I can avoid every one of Marvel’s Phase 6 movies next year in protest.

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  • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope they lose everything, and their CEO’s have to log in to the internet from a well used and disrespected latrine.

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It could cost Bob Iger (Disney CEO) his job. Eisner is already gunning for him again.

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  • BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Good!

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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    Funny, you guys didn’t want to boycott ABC when they fired conservatives for things they said off screen, in fact people like Kimmel celebrated it.

    What’s changed?

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    • oyo@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Kimmel said nothing remotely celebratory. He literally condemned the violence and mildly suggested the right was using his death to score political points. (AKA the truth which you can’t deny.)

      Barr said “conservative” things? You mean absolutely vile racist shit? Yeah I guess that tracks. There’s one little fucking difference though, the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT didn’t call for her firing. ABC can fire whoever they want, but you have to be fucking blind to not see the government putting their hand on the scale here. That’s blatantly unconstitutional.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨24⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Where did I say Barr said “conservative things”? You literally just made something up and then had a go at me for it lol

        Kimmel flat out lied and said that the shooter of Charlie Kirk was “one of their own” in regards to “MAGA”. He said this to push his liberal leftist political ideology, to paint the shooter as a “MAGA”. We know with 100% certainty, and had known for a long time before Kimmel said this, that he was a leftist. His own parents told us this. His friends and colleagues said this. His trans furry boyfriend’s text conversations confirmed this (as if the existence of a trans furry boyfriend didn’t already confirm it lol).

        Kimmel blatantly lied, on public tv, to push his political ideologies.

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    • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      What vile thing did Jimmy Kimmel say? Please quote him accurately. And if the vile thing is just him quoting what Trump said, we shouldn't hold that against Kimmel.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Kimmel lied and intentionally spread misinformation for political purposes, on live tv.

        Nothing to do with anything trump said. What are you even talking about?

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    • toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      What did Roseanne say? I know what she said, I want to know if you know.

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    • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The paradox of tolerance. You’re quoting an racist remark - there’s no need to tolerate intolerance as the social contract is broken.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        The paradox of tolerance

        Of course you go straight to that trash. Liberals all over have been celebrating the political assassination of Charlie Kirk, so I guess the social contract is broken and now all liberals shouldn’t be tolerated?

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  • bunkyprewster@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did

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  • MyOpinion@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    They want to listen to MAGAts. Now they get to listen to us.

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