Do we have any numbers?
I don’t even like Jimmy Kimmel, but I cancelled too. Don’t fuck with the 1st amendment.
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.
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. :(
How exactly do you propose a reporter determine the number of cancellations?
Already done. I like Star Wars, but oh the fuck well.
Yarr? 🏴☠️
No, she’s a Star Trek character.
Plenty of wretched hives of scum and villainy to get your Star Wars fix.
Me too, but they’re all on my Plex server for all my homies to see.
This is the way
I don’t even watch Kimmel but the mouse is out
If I could download a car, you bet your ass I would!
I’d even make copies of that car for all my friends, just like I do now.
And I’d help you make copies!
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.
A VPN is cheaper and multi-purpose! :)
Maybe something’s going over my head but my understanding is a VPN can get you around region locks but you still have to pay for the streaming service to access it.
Unless you’re talking about using a VPN to pirate, which I’ve definitely done without a VPN, albeit a long time ago.
Much safer over a VPN. Not foolproof though; be sure to read up on whatever you’re doing for whatever reason you’re doing it.
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.
Drop me a PM with the name please
Dropout?
I would like know please
I would very much so like to know, please
Thanks for the reminder!
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.
Disney doesn’t own HBO
What’s the connection with HBO Max? I thought Disney wasn’t connected there.
I don’t think they are. By the simple fact DC comics is held with HBO and Marvel with Disney
Hbo is Warner brothers. Which is owned by… the Comcast corporation ultimately? Iirc. Though I’m not 100% on that. And do not feel like looking it up.
Currently the ultimate parent co.pany is Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. NBCUniversal is the one owned by Comcast, as I recall.
Ah okay. Mixed that up. Thanks for the correction!
If you’re boycotting, here you go. Ahoy!
I think this chart might be a bit dated, I’m fairly certain Disney has taken full control of Hulu, not 67%
You only need 51% for “full control.”
Their point is Disney owns 100% as of 2023
Got it, boycott half episodes
Nah. Gotta watch only odd episodes
At some point one can reduce consumption to ‘Previously on the show…’ and ‘Watch next…’ bits before and after an episode.
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?
Winnie the Pooh is not a Disney creation. They had exclusive rights to it between 1953 and 2021.
Still do if it’s the Disney design, which is the one everyone recognizes.
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.
while ($care < 0) {$care–}
while ($care < 0) {$care–}
<? This would take any negative value and decrease it forever, but leave all positive and zero values alone, right?
Kids IPs make bank.
Studios should not own TV channels.
Nothing in the article mentions how many people actually unsubbed…
How do you propose a journalist reveal numbers only Disney has access to?
Because Newsweek is a rag. If they reported that the sky was blue, I’d go outside and check myself
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.
Wow someone had a hard-on for Gina
Muscle mommy? Yeah, a little bit… Kinda fat now though… lol I wonder what Ill get down votes for on this comment… lol.
There’s a guy in the comments who posted a picture of an unsubscribe email.
So… at least one person.
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.
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.
DROVES
Are those doves that drive?
Damn American units
It’s the car culture I tell ya
Best steer clear of that
It’s the cowboy culture I tell ya
Anything but metric
It’s not that bad. But, really quick, how many droves in a fuckton?
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US
More than a handful, less then a metric fuckton.
Are those biblical droves or Roman droves?
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.
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 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
Here’s Sinclair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
Here’s Nexstar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_Nexstar_Media_Group
Edit: David Smith, son of the founder and currently CEO of Sinclair, has a hilarious entry-
In an August 1996 prostitution sting, Smith was charged with committing an “unnatural and perverted sex act” (oral sex) in a Sinclair company vehicle. He was sentenced to community service, which was fulfilled by having Sinclair station WBFF produce reports on a local drug counseling program.[14][15]
Aaaaand not so funny-
Prior to Ajit Pai’s appointment under the first Donald Trump presidential administration as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Smith met with Pai to discuss deregulation of the FCC’s media ownership rules. This meeting, plus Sinclair having been granted additional access to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, resulted in accusations that Sinclair was currying favor with the Trump administration in exchange for deregulation of the industry.[16][17][18] Smith met with Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election year, in which he told Trump, “We are here to deliver your message.”[3]
“The site that shall not be named”
… Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down? (/j)
I assume Facebook. We all realised after that that social media was an evil business.
It was Reddit
Impossible. People name and complain about Reddit all the time. It’s like everyone on Lemmy’s bitch ex.
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
That’s sick. Much easier to do and much easier to scrape and compile.
There’s nothing like getting stroked by the invisible hand of the free market.
Oh no, people are ditching the overpriced streaming service?
Disney when they see people cancelling their subscriptions.
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.
I guess Disney is done for noway they will survive this fallout.
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.
The fact the cancellation page has been seen crashing multiple times, and that so many people are actively posting screenshots of their cancellation does lend credibility to the fact that it’s still happening on a large scale, though.
The fact the cancellation page has been seen crashing multiple times
That’s standard business practice for every subscription service. “Oh, hey, sorry. Your attempt to stop paying us money isn’t working right now. Try again later.”
Amazon had a process notoriously called “The Iliad” where it was a literal journey to unsubscribe from Prime.
Newsweek is shit. most of their articles are just left wing hopium with no substance whatsoever.
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
But internally they monitor this metric on a day-to-day metric, people are absolutely losing their shit over the cancellation at Disney.
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.
Probably not. Disney has previously announced that they’re gonna stop reporting subscriber numbers in 10Ks and annual reports.
It looks like they did announce that a month or two ago, but they also said that the new policy wouldn’t apply to Disney+ & hulu until 2026. Espn+ numbers though won’t be reported for Q4 this year.
Then again, it looks like the cancellations aren’t immediate; they are still subscribers until the end of the billing period/month, so it may not affect the total subscriber count too much.
Kind of like the inventor of bitcoin they found?
Australian Faketoshi?
