Breaking: 1.7 million Americans canceled Disney Plus after Disney bent the knee to Trump and canceled Jimmy Kimmel

[the artist known az]

I've NEVER understood the long standing narrative that he's some kinda good businessman.

he got so many folks bamboozled simply cuz he wears a suit and owns real estate, when in fact the ONLY reason he was able to engage in business is cuz of the $400M he inherited from his daddy. while he is actually charismatic, he's still a complete buffoon.

Not only that, when did all of these Midwest and Southern crackers fall in love with Trump? He was famous/infamous depending on who you talk to but there wasn't any Trump worship

 

[Batsute]

Kimmel was hardly fired for a week till Disney caved..
Trump is a business jinx, his own companies collapsed and he'll infect your own company if you listen to him.

If you bought his steaks from Sharper Image we wouldn’t be in this situation right now.

 

[Cladyclad]

Disney had nothing to do with that

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Why would I protest for a nikka who put his hands on a woman?

You obviously didn’t follow the details of that case

 

[Fresh]

Glad to hear Disney lost a lot of customers

Disney underestimated the power of the people

more people should boycott these companies for acting stupid, and stop caving to Trump

and why is the president of the United States soooooo obsessed with pop culture, Trump needs to spend his energy trying to run the country, even though ironically he's destroying the country

 

[Still Benefited]

His dumb ass has the opposite of the Midas Touch

Somebody said Disney is needs to play nice to get some sort of NFL deal approved. Its a lose lose situation for these companies. Lose customers or have Trump sabatogue your business.

Oh well,win win situation for us as a people

 

[bnew]

Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social)

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marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase

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NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

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marisakabas.bsky.social
The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

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marisakabas.bsky.social
Can someone share my news on X so the weirdos can have a meltdown

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marisakabas.bsky.social
Subscribe to The Handbasket. It's like that show Early Edition except I don't have a cat.

www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

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pandaquasar.bsky.social
You definitely need a[t least two] cat.

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ignominious.bsky.social
Damn. I wish Spotify had seen this number of cancellations after everyone found out they paid Joe Rogan like 500 million dollars.

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elleisdoodling.bsky.social
I didn't even KNOW this. Jeeze Louise. I don't use spotify but damn that's a fukkin BS move on their part.

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ignominious.bsky.social
There was a light scuffle about it. I recall Joni Mitchell pulled her song collection off Spotify at the time. I think the conclusion for Spotify users was white dude using the n-word and bashing public health wasn’t as annoying as rebuilding their playlists elsewhere.

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tedivm.com
I cancelled, switching to Tidal. We never went back and have no regrets.

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elleisdoodling.bsky.social
I've had Tidal for years, no complaints! It's a pretty good service. I get my podcasts on Podcast addict.

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katie.bzky.team
HOLY shyt

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fighttotheend.bsky.social
We canceled. Not going back.

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smullins3000.bsky.social
lol

lmao

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lea3193.bsky.social
I'm not going back. Maybe the next company will think twice before bending the knee.

We've canceled everything at this point and are only shopping for necessities.

We can force Wall st to pay attention.

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smaher24.bsky.social
If only the NYTimes got that sorta treatment

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innerpartisan.bsky.social
go fash, lose cash

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yazdog8.bsky.social
Cancelled Hulu. Will never go back.

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marissayoung.bsky.social
Any survey on cancelations of WAPO and Amazon?

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gentlecrocodile.bsky.social
The cheapest Disney+ subscription cost $120/year, so that's about $200 million of lost annual revenue. Oopsies!

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stephielynn204.bsky.social
Holy cow!! That's fantastic. We really can make changes if we keep boycotting. Let's hold these companies to account for bending a knee to a tyrant.

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bjgt.bsky.social
“Disney lost close to $5 billion in market value due to subscriber concerns following the temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live and subsequent calls for cancellations.”

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hollybug76.bsky.social
Will instead be spending any $ that would have gone to Disney+ & Hulu on Public Broadcasting from now on.

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jwmcartist.bsky.social
Did they learn anything? Probably not.

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methodnull.bsky.social
Dropped and was going to reevaluate but with price increase...just going to move on... honestly I don't even pay much attention to price increases but they hit me with an issue I do care about, so yea bad timing for them

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kcwch.bsky.social
Same. Plus turns out YouTube tv has good sports!

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pppgrifter.bsky.social
I am so happy to say that I was part of this. I am so happy that I made someone at Disney’s day just a little bit worse because of their awful decision.

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realworldrj.bsky.social
Libs need to flex their market power like this every fukking time.

Do it to the New York Times, The Washington Post, Apple (stop upgrading your iPhone, for example)…

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bluememe.bsky.social
At least capitalism is predictable.

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boneshark.bsky.social
Disney has nothing I want.

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fh5.bsky.social
And the fools had to follow up with a notice raising their prices.

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jquasi.bsky.social
It still boggles my mind why they didn’t try to fight the government in a legal battle. That could have been cheaper, and they would have won.

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claudiayer.bsky.social
Not going back

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saluce.com
I don't know if you saw this or not. I get Disney+ through a legacy Verizon plan, so no easy way to cancel. But they sent me this email announcing the new "price savings" I'm getting.

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norattack.bsky.social
Lol I was going to consider resubscribing when Kimmel returned but then that price increase was too much so we’re just done with it all at this point. Bloodsuckers

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coralgableswang.bsky.social
It’s amazing what we can accomplish as a united front!
Just awesome!

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noahdahl.bsky.social
Until Disney acknowledges and comes clean about the pressure put on them by this administration, there's no reason to change course.

We've cancelled and will stay that way until we see some small measure of courage in the C-Suite set.

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iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

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shmelleyann.bsky.social
I was thinking about subscribing back after they got Kimmel back, but then they sent me the price increase notice on top of all this? Are you kidding?! I have not resubscribed.

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brianckeegan.com
So something like $300 million/year in lost revenue.

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diehard.bsky.social
And I was one of those cancellations...

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rjejr.bsky.social
Decent sized number, I'm impressed.

I know a lot of people won't come back, and that price increase looks really bad under the circumstances, but I do think Disney was smart in very loudly advertising "The price goes up Oct 21" to get people to sign up before then.

variety.com/2025/digital...

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pengwennnotes.bsky.social
Oh phooey. Streaming was a good thing, in its pioneer days. Now it’s just being pulled back to cable prices and restrictions.

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rjejr.bsky.social
Yeah it's just the new cable now. Soon all cable TV will be over the internet and we'll be paying an extra $30/m to have no ads in our $150 live streaming service that's full of ads.

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pengwennnotes.bsky.social
Yeah. That’s why I started buying DVDs again. I was so excited about streaming, 15 years ago.

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rjejr.bsky.social
Skip buying, find a local library. Mine has a small Blu ray section but an extremely large DVD section. It's basically the entire 2nd floor. Also a lot of video games which saves me a lot of money as well.

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n0s0ul.bsky.social
Can anyone confirm park attendance went down bad, too?
Saw something suggesting it, but I don't trust these things without context analysis. e.g. time of day, day of week, and seasonal trends.

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lanicmel.bsky.social
Putting the $ from my Hulu cancelation towards a premium subscription to The Handbasket

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toddwalker.bsky.social

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deminlawrence.bsky.social
get shrekt (get it) (because shrek is dreamworks) (please clap)

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123simco.bsky.social

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vision60.bsky.social
Do not resubscribe.

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ameriviking1.bsky.social
Was weighing reinstating but not after the one-two punch of capitulation then price increase.

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[zerorequiem]

My next question is where to find these shows and movies using "alternate" sources? I've been out the Jack Sparrow loop for a while.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

and why is the president of the United States soooooo obsessed with pop culture, Trump needs to spend his energy trying to run the country, even though ironically he's destroying the country

Cause he wants in those Elite Doors that Shut on Him when he was an All Time Failure/Perpetrator

 

[Loose]

Nobody cancelled when they fired Johnathan Majors after he got railroaded and cancelled Kang…


But Jimmy Kimmel is where you draw the line

Yall always try to turn everything into a fake pro black argument lol.

 

[Vandelay]

I've NEVER understood the long standing narrative that he's some kinda good businessman.

he got so many folks bamboozled simply cuz he wears a suit and owns real estate, when in fact the ONLY reason he was able to engage in business is cuz of the $400M he inherited from his daddy. while he is actually charismatic, he's still a complete buffoon.

Blame Mark Burnett. He sucks at business, but is a genius marketer.

 

[coldcall]

lol@ the c00ns who care about Jimmy Kimmel

It's bigger than this. Most of us don't watch no damn Jimmy Kimmel.

 

[3rdWorld]

You would think businessmen and asskissers surrounding him would realize that hardcore fact. The dude is a fukking hex when it comes down to money. Either those who push back gets rewarded, or those that slurp his Toad head feel the pain. Word to Starbucks, Target, Farmers in buttfukk Iowa, Florida hispanics, failed rappers, and Elon Musty ass.

Palestinians in Michigan

 

[Mike809]

Hopefully they don't re-subscribe.

 

[Cat piss martini]

This is how you get shyt done.
cut the money off and they put
some respect on shyt.
We did it with target and should
target any company on that bullshyt.