I’ve seen some behind the scenes numbers for a different streaming service when “people are canceling in droves”. For every article I saw, I never once saw a significant number of cancellations.
So, I would take these articles with a grain of salt
Submitted 2 weeks 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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PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure this level of drop shows much of anything.
devedeset@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Did any of them involve a massive government scandal involving violation of basic rights supposedly guaranteed by said government?
I’ll also take it with a grain of salt, but the difference here is that I personally know people who have cancelled. With prior boycotts I never really did, save for maybe some people shopping at Target less.
PotentialProblem@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You’re right. It’s plausible that this is a big impact for them, but until someone releases actual numbers… I’m heavily suspicious. For whatever reason, these services often get a bump in subscribers when they’re constantly in the news like this.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We cancelled ours.
Intergalactic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do we have any numbers?
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Nope, just thoughts and prayers.
bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
I did
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I love this for Disney!
I was never a subscriber, and barely care about any of their products, anyway. If I never see another Disney-produced show again, I’ll be just fine.
Fuck 'em.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
God damn it, I JUST renewed my sub for a whole year…
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can still get back most of the year of you message them. This will give you time to setup a replacement on stremio + alldebrid
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Demand your money back. It’s bad enough when they are losing future biz, but they’ll really hate if they have to give any money BACK.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cancelled
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
See also: setup a public wifi share box to help your neighbors scale back on subscriptions
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
The right, who have been anti-Disney for years because of them constantly forcing their ideologies and political preference into everything, watching the left who are the biggest benefactors of Disney’s propaganda and ideologies, now attempt to destroy Disney:
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the left who are the biggest benefactors of Disney’s propaganda and ideologies
Trying to explain to everyone at SAG-AFTRA that Disney executives are the real leftists.
But this does beg the question… Is Iron Man a Tankie?
veeesix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I can’t unsubscribe, but you bet I can avoid every one of Marvel’s Phase 6 movies next year in protest.
jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Never much liked Jimmy Kimmel but he earned some brownie points here haha. Not sure any of this counts for a lot, the “droves” number seems to a few twitter accounts that said they cancelled and one that said the website was slow when they tried to do it.
bigmamoth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So good, finnaly disney will have to drop their activist productions and start making great content again.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There’s nothing like getting stroked by the invisible hand of the free market.
BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Good!
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
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?
oyo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks 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.
AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 weeks 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.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks 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?
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The paradox of tolerance. You’re quoting an racist remark - there’s no need to tolerate intolerance as the social contract is broken.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks 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?
toomanypancakes@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
What did Roseanne say? I know what she said, I want to know if you know.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
celebrated
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
Did you not read the quotes from Kimmel in the picture in my comment that you replied to?
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I tell ya, its fucking hilarious seeing the right and left switching sides on this. Back when Gina Carano got fired, the right were all “Cancel disney plus!!!” and the left were like “Freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences!!!”. And now its the left crying about free speech, and the right circlejerking “consequences”.
Humanity is fucked.
absentbird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gina got fired for something she did outside of her job. Jimmy got fired for doing the job he was hired to do, because a government official threatened his employer.
The first amendment is to protect against government censorship, it has no intention to protect you from public outcry. It should have protected Jimmy, but it’s irrelevant in the case of Gina.
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gina got fired because she was pointing out that she was getting rape and death threats over not putting pro nouns in her bio. All that all twitter did was delete them. Carr made remarks, but he had no power to do anything. Thats why there is no legal document or order. Because it would be illegal. So the drawing of a conclusion here would be an error. There was no “threat”. It would be like me threating you to stop posting here. I have no power to force that to happen. I can say it as much as I want, but who be right to just point and laugh at me.
In any case, it doesnt matter. Its all the same shit with the same arguments, and same “well actually, this is different because…”. Gina was right to draw attention to her online attacks, and disney was right to be want to be associated with the way that she went about it, as I think we can all agree it was dumb as fuck to use Jewish people in the analogy. In any analogy in fact.
In the case of Kimmel, hes just not funny. And I wouldnt be surprised if this just all turned out to be just a way to get out of the late night talkshow game by ABC, without breaking any contracts.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Is Gina Carano single? Asking for a friend.
uhmbah@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Humanity is fucked.
Yep.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Hey, did you guys all get the invitation to see the inside of a people powered Disney world heating system?
I heard that it was just a big box with steam tubes running on the top. You just need to people to power it. They call it the Great Accessible Steam Chamber!
Can’t wait to see you all there with me powering the world!
MyOpinion@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
They want to listen to MAGAts. Now they get to listen to us.
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Next step: “It is un-American not to have Disney+ in your household. Only members of Antifa or trans people don’t have Disney+. It will be mandatory for every patriotic God loving US citizen to have Disney+ in their home and on at least three hours per week. Anyone found not to be watching the party approved level of Disney programming will be taxed $21.99 per month and the proceeds put into a new ‘Mickey Patriot Fund’.”
87Six@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wait, do these guys seriously have beef with antifa to call someone out for being antifa like that? Or is that just an exaggeration? Genuinely don’t know what to believe nowadays lmao.
laranis@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thinking about the whole “Antifa is a terror organization” announcement from our dear leader.