That was his best joke when he came back:

https://youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY#t=12m30s

And how many of those resubscribed, since Disney obviously learned their lessen.

Fuck Disney. If you didn't know who they were, you do now. Publicly traded companies care about one thing:

It's less than 1% of their subscribers.

It's a drop in the bucket. Sadly.

They gotta leach more money from the people addicted to Disney, to make up for the subscriber loss. Line goes up no matter what.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was an internal leak. There’s a lot of hands around this data it’s easy for someone to slip.

Probably from Disney, there's no way for anyone else to know.

Morales my dear sir? A corporation is a base beast. You can teach it the lessons of carrot and stick, but do not be so fooled as to think it can learn compassion or morality. When left alone in the darkness this little mouse's eyes glow orange and its jowls drip moist with frothy salivation.

Their beloved founder, Walt Disney, was a patriot who respected the First Amendment. Was he not? Where is leadership with principles? Why is greed for a multi-billion dollar merger now the sole driving force of these knee-jerk business decisions? How many other less prominent scenarios like this guiding their leadership decisions?

It's good to reward good behavior too. If none of them came back then they might as well have just shrugged their shoulders and said "oh well" and left him off air.

Let's see first.

If no one forgave, what incentive would they have to change their behavior? The goal should be to force them to reverse poor decisions, not convince them to double down

I hear you, but cancelling 1/4 of your streaming services with the knowledge that can be reversed easily at any time is hardly the same as protesting or boycotting something tangible or an entire industry. I don't think this has anything to do with celebrity worship, and it has everything to do with how easy the protesting can be.

This protest could be done from home in three minutes, you don't suffer the consequences until the end of the month, and we all know less TV is better for us regardless of speech so there's very little downside.

I agree Americans aren't doing enough. I wish we were doing more.

To show your support for free speech and protest US government's actions all they had to do (in this instance) was to unsubscribe from Disney+.

How do you protest for the ending of the Palestinian or Uyghur genocides? Who do you boycott? What do you unsubscribe from?

I think it actually shows we don't know how to fight back.

With Disney all they had to do was unsubscribe (or in some way contact Disney) to show their frustration.

How do I do that with ICE? How do I do that with Republicans (when all of my reps are Democrats).

Disney has a bottom line they worry about, but this administration doesn't care about my opinions or my wallet (look at the direction the economy is going). So even if I could directly tell them I'm not happy with things (and I do in some ways), they don't care.

Sadly, most people are selfish and don't give a shit about horrors happening in another country on the other side of the world.

That's why, by the way, when news report on horrors, they state "173 dead people including 2 americans", even though it absolutely does not matter where piece of land the victims were born on.

I canceled 2 accounts. It was strictly about fighting fascism and supporting free speech.

I don't even remember who it was. Falon or Kimmel? I don't watch either.

There are a lot of lethargic people who think "Liking" a post will change the world for the better. Canceling Disney services is one of the lowest effort things we collectively could do as it also provides the side benefit of removing a monthly expense in these overpriced times.

1.7% is still a HUGE drop in that context. This is a sector, at a time, that does not like subscriber losses.

Yes, stuff like this works. It's why they worry about MAGA controversy too, unfortunately.

It is reportedly around 130 million. I suspect the reason why Disney is freaked out about the loss is that it's costs are almost entirely fixed. It takes the same amount of money to produce a movie or a show regardless of how many people end up watching it. Unlike producing physical goods where less customers also means less materials and work needed. So losing subscribers decreases their revenue but unlike other businesses, it does not decrease their expenses, putting their budget in trouble much faster.

This is why staying out of politics is usually in a business’s best interests. There is no winning move where pissing off one side or the other is a good thing for $$$

The right was pissed at Disney years ago though (I can’t even remember what BS for); they’ve weathered that storm before.

That number is a lie, mate. Disney doesnt give those numbers out, for very good reason. Its some random on bluesky chatting shit for internet points. And for some reason people are repeating it like its fact.

Welcome to the new mainstream media...

This. Money is the ONLY language a corporation understands. If you hit them hard and fast after they kowtow, then the link is undeniable.

Education, empathy, and selfless service. These are lost principles traded in for greed, vanity, and pride. Civility and respect are needed. Seeing Constitutional principles and inalienable rights as greater than money is key.

Disney has over 200k employees. Is it really that much of a stretch that one of them talked to a journalist? I'm not an accountant.. haven't ever talked to one that handles my workplace, but I still know how much money we're making and how much other branches of the same company are making and what the drama in the other places is and so so much more.. people talk... It's that's easy.

And even if it's a lie.. Is the 4B drop from disney also a lie? Is the fact that they promptly brought him back also a lie? The fact the first show after his return was watched by 3 times the normal amount of people? The number might be real or it might not, that's how journalists' sources work, but it's accurate that the boycott worked. Even if there were only 10k people, it still had a visible effect. That's what matters.

The sad part is that these numbers are made up and Disney probably won't really be affected by this.

Unless a majority of D+ unsubscribes, stay unsubscribed, this will be little more than a blip on their financials.

Set up the arr suite and never look back. With jellyseer allowing users to pick whatever content they want, all the complexity is obscured behind the scenes. It just shows up in jellyfin or plex.

If you can't, get other people to cancel in your place.

You could boycott Sinclair and Nexstar instead since they were the networks who pressured ABC to drop him in the first place.