How does a subscription compare to TV purchases?
How does it not? It's a withheld purchase (AKA "voting with your wallet")
How does that one instance of politically driven consumer action equate to "every time ever"?
It doesn't and wasn't supposed to. The last part did.
Have you heard of Nestlé? People have boycott them forever and they still exist.
They obviously don't or they wouldn't exist.