Disney owns a giant share of the media ecosystem. Time to cancel some services and let them know why.

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[–] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I realize I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I cancelled my Disney+ subscription today.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You probably shouldn't look into Sonarr and Radarr as a replacement.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Disney owns Vice? That is hilariously ironic and awkward.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yay, Disney hate is finally mainstream! I'm basically inline with popular opinion by virtue of maintaining my firmly held beliefs I developed decades ago and held even when it was inconvenient and unpopular!!! It's my time to shine for the short period of time this transient fad plays out!

    Kidding and current events aside, Disney media has given me the creeps since I was a kid. The popular cartoon movies just felt like propaganda. I'm not saying everything Disney hits that note, but so, so much of it does.

    Then I started meeting Disney adults and, while I understand that Disney has no control over how these people act and choose to represent them, all I can say is OH MY GOD. Crazy cat lady, bizarre couple who live in Christmas themed home decor and wardrobe year round, homeless person who's still got money for meth and thinks he's Jesus vibes all wrapped up into one with sprinkles on top.

    Then they took over local news stations and started presenting "Disney" as news -- entire segments dedicated to Disney intellectual properties disguised as "breaking news" kind of bullshit.

    And finally they wrapped their slimy tendrils around the neck of super heroes and Star Wars and squeezed until blood poured out every pore while the corpse dried out and rotted.

    So, thank you, I've had enough, and at least now maybe a few more people will see what kind of monster they've been supporting all along and decide to sever the ties.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It’s a bit funny and sad that the most innovation I’ve seen from Indiana Jones and Star Wars has been from video games - a cinematic medium they contract with, but don’t have as much twisted control over.

    When Cal picks up a “crossguard” in Jedi: Survivor it was at first a moment of sequel cringe, but then they had the idea of having him wield it like a two-handed bastard sword where it has more weight, and it gives it such a cool identity.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Cancelled my Disney plus account.

    -Yes, I get the irony of using that gif...

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How did I miss that Disney owns the History Channel??

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Is it invite only? Nothing is showing up when I click the link.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pretty sure lemmy.world specifically blocked the dbzer0 piracy community.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Omg I went to cancel Hulu and I was paying $26 a month for the ad free package. It had dismey plus and ESPN too. I don't watch any of those! I told my wife I was cancelling and she was like yea fuck those fascists.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    But I already boycotted Disney ): how can I do more damage?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tongue-in-cheek question, serious answer: Stop watching entirely, deny the company your attention, and erode its ability to control our culture. Use the time to learn DIY skills, and meet people IRL.

    Probably preaching to the choir here on the Fediverse, but...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's hard to remove Disney from every aspect of your life even when not consuming media. For example, I play Magic the Gathering, and the producer of the game is Wizards of the Coast, owned by Hasbro. Wizards of the Coast has secured licensing deals with properties of many media franchises including Marvel. Now, I personally try not to purchase licensed cards from those sets. but when cards are released quarterly and the supply chain to small game stores is choked out to only give them the newest stuff and the oldest stuff no longer in print but still in supply, your choices become, buy the latest licensed boosters and boxes or buy the old stuff you probably already have enough of.

    My shop hasn't had Tarkir: Dragonstorm (a set that released in Q2 of this year) since the Final Fantasy set launched several months ago. And since then, Edge of Eternities (an nonlicecensed set) has released and even that set is hard to get hands on. So my options right now are, Final Fantasy cards, cards from a year or more ago, or prepurchasing Spiderman cards.... Even my hobbies are being canabalized by the megacorps.

    It's exhausting, and I want to just enjoy my card game. I hate that a huge part of my enjoyment of this hobby has been sniffed out (cracking packs with friends) has been turned into something that feeds all the monsters at once. And since it became a finance hobby for people who don't care about the game at all, just what they can sell the product for aftermarket, this thing I love has become harder and harder to enjoy.

    All that said, please nobody tell Disney about Disk Golf............

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Friendly reminder, boycotting Disney isn't just a few streaming services. Everything from Spiderman Underoos to the Lego Millenium Falcon should be avoided like the plague. No Aladin on Broadway, or Theme Parks.

    When their partners start to complain and their residuals take a hit they'll hear you a lot more clearly than just a drop in subscriptions.

    If for some reason you can't cut them off, try to cut back. Disney made 91 billion in 2024, if everyone cuts back by 10% you can carve nearly 10 billion dollars out of their revenue stream.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I kind of feel bad for Americans who were/are very invested in American culture. A lot of people survive on consumerism, so now they have to decide if they want to change their habits (choose ethics and morality) or continue doing their thing (because they’re in denial/need a distraction). It’s not looking good…

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    There’s zero chance this turns Americans away from consumerism. Hell, even in threads calling for boycotts most people are saying they’re going to still consume Disney products, they just won’t pay for it.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ha, I've been boycotting these companies for years.

    Arrrrrrrrrrr

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Time for boycott level two: don't even steal it.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    … and let them know why.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm kinda annoyed. My sub expired a bit before this and I didn't renew. I was looking at whether to do so this month, but now I don't get to tell them why they aren't getting any more of my money

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If you have the apps on your phone, uninstall them. They get uninstall reports (from Apple anyway) and that also helps send a message.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I said this in another thread but it’s frustrating as hell as a non American that your citizens are being vanished into gulags based on their race, free speech is being silenced, your rights are being pissed on and all your tax money is going to weapons and billionaires. And the best you guys can do is a Disney boycott.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    laughs in pirate

    Oh, latecomers to the party!

    Welcome aboard.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah. Still using Plex since I am old head with a lifetime subscription I got for $50 on sale a decade ago. Though if not I hear jellyfin is the best now.

    Use Unraid for my NAS and definitely going to upgrade to lifetime after I've used it for over a year now. Makes things super easy but it's still Linux underneath so I can do whatever advanced thing I want when needed.

    A nice NVMe cache drive, basic CPU, MB, some sticks of RAM, and a few multi TB HDDs and you can say goodbye to all streaming services for life.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So I asked about a month ago about boycotting Disney in a completely different thread. I'll ask again. Should I start boycotting Disney the same way we should be boycotting Amazon and Target and all these other companies kissing Trump's ass?

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  • Fuck you micky mouse

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Just canceled their discount deal and Alien Earth sucks!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Time to cancel my Disney+ account. Fuck em, cowards and bootlicking executive bastards.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fuck Disney in general, but what in particular happened this time?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air for saying Kirk's killer was right-wing and that they're trying to use Kirk's death for political points.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Time to hoist the sails again https://tenor.com/bDMWP.gif

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Fuck Disney

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I don't boycott anyone I pirate.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    glad i dont have any of these the only streaming service needed is vlc and qbitorrent

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, and your choice of an indexer = fully automated pirate ship 🦜 🏴‍☠️

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Even without a usenet indexer, public bittorent gets you pretty far.

    Also funny how some of the nicest container stacks I've been seeing are fully decked out pirate ships with upwards of 20 containers handling various things. Some dude even published his insane 10k USD 320Tb plex server build on pcpartpicker with consumer priced server grade tech like 28TB HDDs and ECC RAM.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Surely Kimmel has the means to start his own show on the internet and say whatever the fuck he likes, just like Charlie Kirk did, right?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    History channel?! Where the hell do you expect me to watch pawn stars and American pickers knowing ripping people off like the assholes they are. If that ain’t some real American history.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    add paramount +, dont fall for the nutrek(eventhough the shows ar epretty bad in respect to pre-jja abrams) tricks to keep the stream alive.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Damn! If only I had one of those services than I could boycott Disney too.

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    Also FX? No more Sunny, or Wrexham. Fuck the house of the mouse.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Walt Disney was a fascist himself. Also there are rumors he was into young children so the fact that Disney now is choosing for the pedo fascists is very fitting.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What are your sources for this?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney

    https://qa.answers.com/economics/Why_did_people_think_Walt_Disney_was_a_pedophile

    And I saw a documentary thing about how Alice in Wonderland was a fantasized story of him having a love obsession with an underage girl or something but that was a long time ago and it has never been confirmed.

    Edit: also found this: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/abigail-disney-calls-great-uncle-walt-disney-a-fascist/

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    Reaching a real person at any of these companies' call centers will cost the company real money.

    (It can also hurt the statistics of the call center employee, so it's morally wishy-washy)

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    Hold up... Disney owns Vice?

    No wonder they are shit now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Huh, I don't watch any of that garbage already. Nice

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh no, now I can't see go see quatumania 2 on cinemas...

    \s

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    marvel hasnt been pushing out good shows/movies, you arnt missing much. even if you really wanted to see it, i would just look for youtube clips, and save you the trouble when it comes out.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My joke was more or less on that direction really.

    After endgame, I don't recall anything really good. Wandavision might have been the best, but not great. Thunderbolt's was a decent movie for a flight, but hardly a recommendation.

    I have skipped almost everything, so I might have missed something. Fantastic four had OK reaction I guess, might check it out eventually.

    Actually, Spiderman homecoming was good, even if it was nostalgic fan service basically. Maybe deadpool 2, but I don't know it that counts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sell any shares if you have them as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    To those of you that are canceling Disney+ and looking for animation alternatives, might I suggest anime, (Japanese animation, some based on comics.) Give crunchyroll a try.

    might want to check out these alternatives also

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I pirate their series because it's cheaper.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    sailing the high seas these days. fuck them all.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I just filed a complaint to ABC. Free speech is important especially in todays world.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Didn't this come from Sinclair media, the notoriously right wing, massive media conglomerate?

    I'm not sure how it works, and not saying Disney isn't partially to blame.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group

    Sinclair is the "ABC Affiliate stations".

    From Wikipedia (Jimmy Kimmel): On September 17, 2025, ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely after Kimmel's remarks regarding the MAGA movement's reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk drew threats from FCC chair Brendan Carr and an announcement from station owner Nexstar that its ABC-affiliated stations were dropping the program "for the foreseeable future".[5]

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The Trump FCC chair started it by threatening ABC's license as well as licenses of ABC affiliates...Nexstar/Sinclair said they wouldn't broadcast the show, then ABC bowed to pressure and said the show was cancelled indefinitely.

    Disney is worth $200+ billion, and if they fought this in court, the first amendment is clearly on their side. But like Paramount before them, they are complying in advance.

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