Thanks for the reminder!
“come back and cancel anytime”
What the fuck is that wording?
Hulu, is everything OK at home?
It’s very awkward. I think they mean you can stop the intent to cancel, so cancel the cancellation.
Nothing in the article mentions how many people actually unsubbed…
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.
There’s a guy in the comments who posted a picture of an unsubscribe email.
So… at least one person.
DROVES
More than a handful, less then a metric fuckton.
Are those biblical droves or Roman droves?
Damn American units
It’s not that bad. But, really quick, how many droves in a fuckton?
We’ll never know exactly how many. 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.
Oh, actually, I think the subscription numbers are reported to shareholders quarterly, so maybe we’ll see something by the end of the year. It’s not required, they could just not report it, or they might do some creative accounting to hide the actual numbers, so it’s still not reliable, imo.
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.
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.
I don’t even like Jimmy Kimmel, but I cancelled too. Don’t fuck with the 1st amendment.
yep. not gonna subsidize them caving to fascism.
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.
Track down the advertisers on your local ABC affiliate stations and cancel them!
“Freedom of speech for me, not for thee”
If you’re boycotting, here you go. Ahoy!
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?
You mean you couldn’t care less.
I mean, I think it’s possible for them to care less
Then they must care a decent amount.
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
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)
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.
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.
I second this. From experience, I noticed more hyper local subs on Reddit are very active, but the more larger general subs seem to endlessly repost old content or share exaggerated titles/content. I do wish there were more of a local presence on Lemmy, not everyone wants to go to Reddit or Facebook Groups for that.
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.
Oh, yes, I 100% agree with this. I’m shocked and horrified every time I get curious enough to poke my head back in there and see how it’s going. Yeah, I only meant they are doing fine in terms of weathering the boycott efforts financially. The Reddit I knew and loved is long gone.
No, these boycotts have never worked.
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?
It’s really sloppy wordmanship but I think what it’s supposed to be saying is that the news has been met with both condemnation and praise from across the political spectrum aka condemnation from the left, and praise from the right. So technically the statement is true, but clumsily written.
I guess it depends on whether you regard “Republicans Against Trump” as being on the Left. Trump probably does.
Clickbait. Friggin article never mentions what"droves" 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. :(
How exactly do you propose a reporter determine the number of cancellations?
Could start by at least listing Professorozone in the canceled subscriptions.
The same way they determine droves.
If said reporter can’t present quantifiable data/evidence, then maybe they shouldn’t write the article?
Do you actually expect journalists to have any integrity these days?
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?
celebrated
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Did you not read the quotes from Kimmel in the picture in my comment that you replied to?
The paradox of tolerance. You’re quoting an racist remark - there’s no need to tolerate intolerance as the social contract is broken.
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?
Hey fellow Lemmy friends, here’s a great chance to try out the block user functionality
The guys crying about censorship, the tolerant left, now back to championing censorship in a thread complaining about what they consider censorship 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So, if I click the block button (which, trust me, I plan on doing regardless of your answer), you think that it somehow prevents others from seeing you be this dumb?
If someone walks away from you in person after you tell them the dumbest thing they’ve heard all day, does that somehow mean they’re censoring you?
What did Roseanne say? I know what she said, I want to know if you know.
It doesn’t matter what she said, at all. ABC decided they didn’t like it and chose to fire her…….just like they did with Kimmel. Kimmel and the left celebrated her firing, as you can see in the picture, and now they’re crying that Kimmel got fired for arguably an even worse thing - flat out lying to the public on tv for political reasons.
Just to be clear, you’re calling stating a fact equally as bad as calling someone the baby of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes, and demanding an equal response to both.
You’re either disingenuous to the extreme or an idiot. There’s literally not a third option.
Kimmel didn’t state a fact. Kimmel lied to spread his usual liberal propaganda bullshit.
Liberals celebrated ABC firing someone for what they said, now they’re crying and trying to “cancel” them. Typical flip flop leftist idiots.
Also this comes days after attacking the right for employing “cancel culture” to get people celebrating murder fired 🤣. Leftists love cancel culture, then they say it doesn’t exist, then they hate it, and now they’re right back to loving it again. Amazing.
Just to be clear - I’m not equating what anyone said. I’m simply pointing out that ABC fired someone for what they said, and leftists are showing their arses in how hypocritical they are.
Kimmel didn’t state a fact.
I stopped reading here. No. You can infer whatever you want from someone’s words, but you can’t call someone a liar for something you think they implied.
Thanks for proving which you were. Goodbye.
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.
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?
Some people also have a lot of trouble understanding that Kimmel is a comedian.
But hey, if we’re pulling things off the air for intentionally spreading misinformation for political purposes on live TV, then lets shut down Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN too.
Kimmel hasn’t been a comedian for a long time.
I asked for a quote of a vile thing he said. Please quote it.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it”
Blatant, outright lies and misinformation for political reasons.
Note I never said that he said anything “vile”. Kimmel faced consequences for lying.
That is an objective fact, not a lie.
Nope, it’s a lie because it’s implying that he was “MAGA” which we knew for fact at the time of Kimmels monologue was incorrect.
Your reading comprehension is not good. He didn’t claim the guy was MAGA. He claimed the MAGA people were bending over backwards to claim he wasn’t. Did that happen or not?
The Kimmel quote in your image says Barr saw consequences for saying something “vile.” Kimmel would have to have said something vile for this to be hypocrisy. Not something true but uncomfortable.
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.
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.
Kimmel said MAGA was desperate to prove the shooter wasn’t one of them. That is literally true, they immediately started spinning stories before facts were known. At the time it was still unclear what was going on, which is probably why Kimmel didn’t say the shooter was MAGA and only that MAGA was currently trying to prove he wasn’t.
Also, in the US you are allowed to lie for political reasons all you want. Even if we assume that Kimmel somehow knew the motivation of the shooter and then lied about it, that doesn’t change the fact that he has a right to freedom of speech.
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.
There’s one service still putting out quality content but low overall volume, but mentioning their name on Lemmy is a risky bet. Anyway, piracy is free and can be set up for convenience too.
Edit: it’s Apple TV+ that has the best selection of originals IMO. Their volume of content is lower than the big boys though, they don’t license 3rd party content. And you can expect to see everyone using Apple devices in shows with a modern setting, way too obvious product placement.
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.
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.
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.
Gina got fired because… pronouns
Yeah imma stop you right there.
Because it would be illegal.
If that thought even so much as crossed Carr’s mind, why would he make any remarks at all? It costs nothing to keep his mouth shut, and it avoids any liability.
Thats why there is no legal document or order.
Committing crimes and getting away with it is a virtue to conservatives. Why won’t they create a paper trail of their crimes, man I wonder. Anyway, release the Epstein files.
Never said she was fired for pro nouns, mate. Said she was fired because she was highlighting the abuse she was getting on twitter, in really dumb way. The fact she was posting a lot of nonsense, had nothing to do with it.
So good, finnaly disney will have to drop their activist productions and start making great content again.
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:
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?
