cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/28397398
The suspension triggered strong responses across social media and beyond. Hashtags like #CancelDisneyPlus and #CancelHulu trended as users shared screenshots of their canceled subscriptions.
With cancellations surging, many subscribers reported technical issues. On Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi, one post read, “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing.”
it’s easy to do something in the heat of the moment when passions are running high (and your favorite show is in-between seasons) but let’s see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down and about 300 other new little fires from the current admin have come and gone from the headlines. That’s the true measure of these kinds of “low temp” protests.
It seems to me that once folks have discovered the joys of piracy, they rarely return to streaming.
I wouldn’t know, because I wouldn’t download a car unless it was fully copyleft licensed.
DO you interact with normal people? most of them don’t even have a computer anymore.
Not when I don’t have to, of course.
Sure, but motivated people seem to always find a way. Thumb drives work perfectly on phones now.
Seems to me that great streaming services is what stopped Piracy from becoming the default option a decade ago.
Now that the streaming services are enshsittifying, I suspect it’s a race between user friendly piracy tools and and one or more actual non-shit streaming services emerging.
Even if they get back two thirds of the people who quit while the other third have discovered “other” ways to get their Disney content, that’s still a third of a loss of revenue. A small dent is better than no dent. And whether the website crashed because of all the people quitting or they intentionally crashed it to prevent people from quitting, that means its a significant amount of people, and a third of that is still significant to them.
sure, but those are just numbers you pulled out of literally nowhere.
There’s always sailing the high seas
At this point, just pirate.
Waaaay ahead of you
I mean, I finally quit Hulu over this, and neither my husband or I had even watched Hulu in about a year at this point. I’d always kept the subscription going “just in case,”. I was the only one paying and neither of us has any qualms about letting it go.
I can’t believe that we’re the only ones in this bracket of users.