And there’s why they “unfired” him.
Losing roughly a quarter of a billion per year in revenue makes them rethink things.
—— 9.99 per month for Disney basic 15.99 for Disney plus.
Just for easy math average those two so $12.99 per month.
$12.99 x 1,700,000 x 12 months = $264,996,000
That was his best joke when he came back:
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:
Not this guy. I’m ok with one less subscription.
It’s less than 1% of their subscribers.
It’s a drop in the bucket. Sadly.
If true, that’s depressing
Just google how many subscribers they have. They’re public. It’s available info.
It’s just shy of 1 percent.
How many of those are through add-on deals like they offer through Verizon? I’m curious how discounted it is through them (some plans offer Disney+ for “free” I believe) and how much that inflates the subscriber rate.
Great question. I used to be able to authenticate to dis ey plus but not vide material with my Hulu creds after the merger which I was exploring for vulns. Did t find much. Plausible though.
And yet it was still enough.
I cancelled after having the service for several years.
And then they jacked up the prices? Good luck with that shit, bozos.
They gotta leach more money from the people addicted to Disney, to make up for the subscriber loss. Line goes up no matter what.
Keep the boycott going.
Disney caved in to POWER, and then Disney caved in to money.
Their morals are all wrong. People were not even in the equation.
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.
Disney who?
Kimmel who?
Edit: lol this is at -23 for no good reason. 3 weeks ago no one would have even cared at all, now random keyboard warriors are sticking up for him, why? Oh and “cope harder” guy. You guys need to learn how/when to say “cope”, i get how he is trying to use it, but this isnt “creative writing”.
Cope harder?
Don’t resubscribe to any of the Disney related streaming services. Find your love in the high seas, mateys!
You know, I am starting to see why people are romanticising pirates. The lackadaisical attitude and freedom that pirates had, given the encroaching techno-fascism at the moment, is starting to become appealing; not that I condone the violence the pirates did.
Good
Bullshit. Disney doesnt release that information. This is just some random on bluesky chatting shit for worthless internet points and some other desperate sad case repeating it for the same reason.
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.
Yes it is, its even more hard to believe that that person would talk to a no name on bluesky and tell them “sure, post that shit, mate.”. Considering the world of legal hurt that person would be in… nah.
This is all the same dog shit that was posted when Gina Carano got fired. They had their little boycott, then their click bait press told them a lot of shit about lots of cancellations, followed by drops in stocks, etc etc etc. Its recycled dogshit, and youre all falling for it, just like they did with Carano. Wake the fuck up and see the media for what it is.
Get this through your fucking head. The boycott did not work. Disney doesnt make its money is subs, it makes its money everywhere else. If you really wanted to hurt disney, the way to do that was watching ABC and seeing who the local ads were being run by and then contacting them. They, the advertisers, are who Disney would listen to. They do not give a single fuck about you, me or anyone else who watches their slop.
“get this through your fucking head”… lmao… you’d have a bit more credibility if you weren’t wrong out of the gate about the “no name on bluesky”… and the Carano thing… and if you weren’t cursing just because people disagree with you… And if you weren’t a no name on lemmy… Thanks but… for now I’ll go with the journalist
You are right about one thing, tho, I’ll give you that. Advertisers have a lot more power than me and you. But not all of us together. Sure, getting a ton of people to agree on one thing is hard, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. That’s what they want you do. To be little obedient little sheep that think they can’t do anything.
I dont give a fuck about disagreeing with me, fill your boots. What I find annoying is that you all get so fucking high and mighty when some shitty media whore says something that fits your narrative, and all of sudden common sense and reason go out the window. And all because what, you want feel like you won something? Pfft.
Yeah, keep replying, that’ll definitely prove that you don’t give a fuck. Also pretty telling if that’s the only point you can argue against.
FFS, dude. Seek help.
Thank you… I was gonna say, no 1.7 million even care enough about free speech to do that, and much less about that talentless Kimmel
In some way, a similar thing needs to be done to any entity supporting or bowing to Trump. From countries to colleges to people in the government and so on. The big question is how to do that, how to get people to come together and do that.
This. Money is the ONLY language a corporation understands. If you hit them hard and fast after they kowtow, then the link is undeniable.
The left gets to see headlines like this that seem devastating and they pump their fists in satisfaction.
The right pumps their fist as they see their own set of headlines that describe a totally different narrative, that despite facing unfair backlash, that the “woke mob” has been dealt a blow and has learned that Disney isn’t going to ignore the dangerous and violent rhetoric that the late night grifters spew.
Either way, Disney has calculated all of this, and their numbers will be back to normal within six months or higher because of the trending of their brand names. The average, uninvolved median voter and comfortable liberal will snuff a noise of amusement at the whole thing before firing up their Disney+ subscription to catch the latest round of Star Wars slop this fall.
Maybe, but maybe not. Consumers haven’t forgiven Target even months after the fact, and their sales are still way down. People are pissed given everything going on now.
There is also alternatives to target.
There are alternatives to Disney too. 😄
Like what? Pretty much all of those are owned by the same people
I mean there are other sources of TV shows, both legal and otherwise.
Target was already in a really tight spot, their prices are too high and their products too specialized for an economy teetering on free-fall, and they’re not exactly offering the broad-appeal staple products like Walmart, which usually have locations literally across the street from Target.
Larger brands rarely budge and if they do, it’s not exactly a lasting social impact. I maintain that you can do a lot more as an individual simply by spending less broadly. Companies only cave to public backlash when they’re desperate, so we all need to do a lot more to make them desperate. Spend less on luxuries and entertainment, cut back or quit vices, learn to go without the latest games, movies and electronics and keep your money out of credit companies so they stop feeding off us. We built this monster, we need to starve it. (Also, again, the economy is close to collapse, good idea to start stuffing your mattresses.)
Just because a company had deep pockets doesn’t mean they don’t care about losses. Being a publicly traded company does drive their behavior to some degree. It only 1 news report to make them lose investors.
Don’t go back.
Bend the knee again. I dare ya. I double dog dare ya.
That number is encouraging.
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…
A decent start
Good. May it continue to hurt.
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.
My brother-in-law quit his local tv station job over the censorship. Affiliate network. Proud of him!
