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Calls Mount to Boycott Disney With $3.8 Billion Lost Overnight Amid Jimmy Kimmel ABC Suspension
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Meh... Disney is simply waiting for the outrage du jour to pass.
People have a short attention span these days, and they'll latch onto something else to be worked up over next week. And they'll renew that Disney subscription to watch their favorite TV series again.
I am pretty sure you’re wrong with your assessment. People are outraged, even in Europe. Not only did everyone I know in Switzerland and Germany cancel Disney+ on Friday, German speaking comedians and talk show hosts are actively urging everyone to do so asap.
This will not blow over quickly.
Pretty much my experience too. Although, not too many people had Disney+ to begin with...
Are you?
Where's Edward Snowden today?
Snowden's revelations should have sent a lot of people to court. Yet three weeks later, the furore had died down and the sonsabitches were back to business as usual.
Closer to today: have you see how much coverage the Epstein files are getting lately? They're still there, but other news have replaced them in the headlines - which is exactly what Trump and his henchmen's distractions were supposed to achieve. Give it another month and Virginia Giufre will be a distant memory in everybody's mind.
Some people remember–and sometimes these things make it into the general cultural fabric in ways less dramatic than we might hope.
Ask anyone under 40 if they think they have privacy–and delve into what that word means to them. It won't be the same answer you'd have got in 2000. Likewise, ask any parent if there's an elected official–from comptroller to POTUS–who they would feel safe letting babysit their children.
What good does it do that everybody is vaguely aware that the powers that be aren't trustworthy if the same sumbitches are still in power and nothing has changed to prevent them from being in power?
Its not enough, but it's not nothing. It widens horizons of action and makes people more hostile to power–less likely to snitch, at the very least.
If you really want to delve into it–It's not their king, but we at least got one of their bishops, or something.
US citizens can't boycott the US government (in regards to Snowden's NSA leaks or Epstein file revelations), but they can cancel their Disney+ subscriptions.
To your point, TSLA stock is still 10x overvalued. And Labubu dolls are 200x more important to the American public than democracy.
I think you're both right. The active boycotting part likely will blow over quickly for most. But it's still an opportunity for a large group of subscribers, many of which are primarily subscribed due to FOMO, to reconsider the value of their subscription. Some segment of boycott participants will end up resubscribing. Some segment will remain unsubscribed and go without. Some other segment will remain unsubscribed and switch to piracy. Over the past 5 years since the service started, this kind of opportunity has only really happened around the annual price increase (e.g in Dec 2022, Oct 2023, Oct 2024).
I think it's totally plausible that we would have seen another price increase next month, but won't. It'd be too many reasons to unsubscribe, too close together. Even if they're comfortable enough to increase in Dec instead of Oct, that's still a hypothetical loss of 100s of millions in monthly revenue. That's a significant win for the boycott.
Oh no. You're a crazy person.
Edward Snowden is in Russian and everyone is still pissed about Epstein. Both things have nothing to do with Disney capitulating to American fascism.
$3.7 billion is almost as much as Disney paid for all of Star Wars (LucasFilm, Lucasart, etc), my guy.
Also almost the same as they paid for all of Marvel.
All driven by a very tame comment by a lame late night talk show host that probably pulls in a hundred mil in advertising for them a year.
This is stinging them a lot.
I have to actively sign up for Disney+ again, and it's way more expensive. That's not going to happen. Disney isn't making any new shows that I can't torrent if I desperately need to see it.
i saw ads yesterday that they were offering 4 months of disney and hulu for $2.99/mo now lol
I haven't bought anything from Disney in years, fuck them.
Every time I hear "Disney" I remind everyone around me of how shit and sociopathic they've been the entire god damn time they've existed.
Nope. Disney is estimating loses over time. Fascism is going to kill Disney World Orlando and they aren't fully on board there. Push them to fight or declare bankruptcy. They own 1/3 of all media. They could be useful.