If I could download a car, you bet your ass I would!
I believe someone downloaded all the the part’s files and 3D printed one.
I’d even make copies of that car for all my friends, just like I do now.
Hello, it’s me, your friend.
You get a car, you get a car…I have so many new friends.
And I’d help you make copies!
Oh fuck yes I would.
Yes, yes I would.
Good!
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
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.
“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.
Possibly this post by Dan Satterfield? Web snapshots are easy, folks: hardly an excuse to omit sources.
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]
I tell ya, its fucking hilarious seeing the right and left switching sides on this. Back when Gina Carano got fired, the right were all “Cancel disney plus!!!” and the left were like “Freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences!!!”. And now its the left crying about free speech, and the right circlejerking “consequences”.
Humanity is fucked.
Is Gina Carano single? Asking for a friend.
Gina got fired for something she did outside of her job. Jimmy got fired for doing the job he was hired to do, because a government official threatened his employer.
The first amendment is to protect against government censorship, it has no intention to protect you from public outcry. It should have protected Jimmy, but it’s irrelevant in the case of Gina.
Gina got fired because she was pointing out that she was getting rape and death threats over not putting pro nouns in her bio. All that all twitter did was delete them. Carr made remarks, but he had no power to do anything. Thats why there is no legal document or order. Because it would be illegal. So the drawing of a conclusion here would be an error. There was no “threat”. It would be like me threating you to stop posting here. I have no power to force that to happen. I can say it as much as I want, but who be right to just point and laugh at me.
In any case, it doesnt matter. Its all the same shit with the same arguments, and same “well actually, this is different because…”. Gina was right to draw attention to her online attacks, and disney was right to be want to be associated with the way that she went about it, as I think we can all agree it was dumb as fuck to use Jewish people in the analogy. In any analogy in fact.
In the case of Kimmel, hes just not funny. And I wouldnt be surprised if this just all turned out to be just a way to get out of the late night talkshow game by ABC, without breaking any contracts.
Gina got fired because… pronouns
Yeah imma stop you right there.
Because it would be illegal.
If that thought even so much as crossed Carr’s mind, why would he make any remarks at all? It costs nothing to keep his mouth shut, and it avoids any liability.
Thats why there is no legal document or order.
Committing crimes and getting away with it is a virtue to conservatives. Why won’t they create a paper trail of their crimes, man I wonder. Anyway, release the Epstein files.
Never said she was fired for pro nouns, mate. Said she was fired because she was highlighting the abuse she was getting on twitter, in really dumb way. The fact she was posting a lot of nonsense, had nothing to do with it.
Humanity is fucked.
Yep.
Oh no, people are ditching the overpriced streaming service?
I guess Disney is done for noway they will survive this fallout.
Disney when they see people cancelling their subscriptions.
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.
FAMILY guy has always parodied the mouse as an evil entity.
I did
We cancelled ours.
So good, finnaly disney will have to drop their activist productions and start making great content again.
Nothing in the article mentions how many people actually unsubbed…
DROVES
THERE ARE DOZENS OF US
Are those doves that drive?
Are those biblical droves or Roman droves?
More than a handful, less then a metric fuckton.
Damn American units
It’s not that bad. But, really quick, how many droves in a fuckton?
Anything but metric
It’s the car culture I tell ya
Best steer clear of that
You are driving your point home there.
It’s the cowboy culture I tell ya
Best ride clear of that
There’s a guy in the comments who posted a picture of an unsubscribe email.
So… at least one person.
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.
I thought she was hot before I realized she was a nazi
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
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.
thier stocks did drop 7%.
But people are talking about it on Twitter, and what happens on Twitter is more real than reality itself!
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.
Of course not. This article was written using vibes.
It’s vibe reporting.
Let me guess without opening: it is based twitter screenshots are quotes from users who are supposedly cancelled their subscription
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.
Thanks for the reminder!
“come back and cancel anytime”
What the fuck is that wording?
It’s very awkward. I think they mean you can stop the intent to cancel, so cancel the cancellation.
It was oddly easy. Click the cancel button and that was it. No “are you sure” BS. Not like SiriusXM, whom I’m also boycotting for being shit.
After careful consideration, I think their intent was to say…
You can come back anytime and if you do, you can always cancel at anytime.
… More or Less. Basically saying you can join and cancel at your leisure.
That’s a terrible way to say it, but ok.
Hulu, is everything OK at home?
If I was a subscriber, I’d quit. But I’m a pirate instead. Fuck all of ‘em.
Already done. I like Star Wars, but oh the fuck well.
Same. Lots of people like Star Wars. That means there are plenty of Torrents to choose from. I unsubbed a while back and it’s really no problem.
I recommend setting up Sonarr and Plex or Jellyfin for fully automated copyright infringement. It’s like having a free streaming service that has everything you want to watch as soon as it releases.
Yeah, and even if you did just get it by other means.
You should be able to stream it for free here: https://hydrahd.io/
Yarr? 🏴☠️
I got Disney with a telecom package. Then they added a surcharge because Disney raised their price. I cancelled my plan and got the bare bones fiber+mobile plan, got a parrot, grew a beard, cut one of my legs, one of my hands, and got a peg leg and a hook. Best decision.
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
This is the way.
Cancelled
If you’re boycotting, here you go. Ahoy!
Studios should not own TV channels.
I’ll miss Kermit, but I was already skipping most of that.
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.
Nah, just watch them through YouTube shorts in a random order, that’s how I watch movies now.
I was surprised to see Fox, looked into it on Wikipedia, and now I’m even more confused between Fox Entertainment, Fox Corporation, 21st Century Fox, Fox News [Channel], …
I went to look at the 538 Trump opinion polls to compare to his first term, then I remembered ABC bought and destroyed 538.
Nate Silver has been shitty for a long time though too. I used to get his newsletters and you could watch the digression.
He’s kind of an ass but someone I always found credible.
Though after the 2016 election when he got more annoying.
His numbers are maybe good, don’t know since I haven’t really kept up with him. His opinions are definitely shit.
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?
Kids IPs make bank.
You could care less? You mean, you care, possibly a lot?
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?
maybe the integer will wrap around to max int and stop
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.
i always look at these seriously and then realize i havent subbed to a single one ever
Lol me either. Their services are not nearly as good as the unauthorized streaming sites.
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.
Would signing up for the free trial and then instantly canceling it count?
I also don’t subscribe, but have paid to watch the occasional Marvel movie. I’m happy to pass on whatever they’ve got lined up next if it gets them to take their role in fostering free speech more seriously.
Track down the advertisers on your local ABC affiliate stations and cancel them!
“Freedom of speech for me, not for thee”
yep. not gonna subsidize them caving to fascism.
