I don’t want to see Kimmel come back as if nothing happened. I want to see him find a new platform and farm the stupidity of Disney, Sinclair, etc for gold for the next few months. What Disney and co. did was not some stupid PR misstep, they let the mask slip on how easily they would fall in line behind a political pay master to keep him happy and in the process effectively violate the 1st amendment by giving the government a method of silencing speech. Which should be the kind of thing that burns the whole corporation to the ground and gets those in charge ostracized from polite society.
There should be no coming back for them from this.
Kimmel was a symptom. Disney needs to be canceled.
Cool I won’t be resubbing. 🏴☠️
Now let them bring him back but keep your sub cancelled.
I want to known what the next step is? OK we punched then in the face, but what do we do to nock them down and curb stomp them?
Don’t re-sign up, remember this moment, they aren’t you friends. Torrent the movies/shows you want to watch, don’t go to their parks, don’t let your children get an early childhood obsession with them, don’t buy their toys and merchandise, and do this for all the evil companies.
McDonald’s, BK, Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, dominos, papa John’s, pizza hut, those are easy ones. Stop eating fast food and stop feeding it to your children. I bet there are 20 good independent coffee shops near you, stop buying Nazi charcoal. Find a local pizza shop with a brick oven, I’m sure they deliver.
Google, Amazon, stop paying for their services. Buy some hard drives and learn to self host, it’s never been a better time. Blocks ads when not using their services.
Boycott and divestment works, it’s what ended apartheid in South Africa, it’s effecting Israel’s economy and may very well end the apartheid in Palestine once Americans wake up and stop the unlimited funding of genocide with their children’s future. These companies will only stop being evil when customers let them know that evil is a red line, but as long as apathy continues it’ll be more profitable to be as evil as they are today, and worse.
Microsoft is worse than Google, Oracle is worse too. I mean yeah, boycott Google, but fuck Microsoft and Oracle extra hard.
Oracle takes from businesses as much as they can. I consider that fair play. What makes them worse than Google? The TikTok deal?
There’s that, but also Larry Ellison is a fucking monster and massive Trump booster. The Paramount deal that got rid of Colbert was due to the Ellison family owning Skydance, which just acquired Paramount.
Also Oracle is an enemy of OpenSource, they acquired Sun and MySQL and OpenOffice, then attempted to destroy them. Oracle can rot in hell.
I didn’t mean to leave them out, I wasn’t making an exhaustive list, I just thought of what everyone probably still uses and pays for (Google, YouTube, Amazon prime, etc).
Microsoft is all cloud and enterprise now, they are much harder to directly boycott effectively by consumers. But yes, avoid them too.
I know this is Lemmy where we’re all on Linux already, but a lot of people out there still use Windows, and that’s a massive source of income and control for Microsoft that people could stop using. At the very least they could cancel OneDrive.
What is this? Just another streaming service? Or somehow more specialized as an anti-Disney alternative.
take a look and you’ll find out real quick not trying to flag anything
I did look before I commented. It seems geared toward getting discounts of some kind.
use adblock if you’re mentioning the ads
huh? you sure…? you didn’t look hard enough lol. search for a show or a movie
Oh snap! Every link is a dead-end that leads to an advertisement. The Jimmy Kimmel show is actually the only one that’s accurate.
It makes me wish I had a Disney+ subscription to cancel
Yeah, I mean, I’m already stealing it off my brother in-law’s login, so I guess I’m doing my part.
open & close automated scripts lol…?
I’ve felt this about a lot of things over the past few years.
Im happy about all this and recently made a Disney + account. Im not even lying
I mean good for you. I hope nobody ever comes for you because of something you said on Lemmy? The thing about fascism is you never know who it’s gonna eat next. So, good luck
Sure is wild how all of this got so many people talking about Disney+ and what shows they offer.
Fuck Disney. I have sucked the mouse’s cock since they took over Marvel. No more. I am even canceling my comic books subs and I have collected Fantastic Four for over 50 years. No more.
This impresses the hell out of me. I don’t collect but I’ve known many collectors, and I know what a decision like this represents.
Its not that impressive. Marvel comics have been dog shit for a while now. Its like saying Im not gonna watch Happy Days anymore, but youve on season 11, and it was season 5 that Fonzi jumped the shark.
Fuck them for buying up Marvel and Star Wars. Their problem is they are afraid of original ideas.
Before this I was thinking of getting back into Spider-Man comics like I had as a kid.
Not touching that with a 50 ft pole now.
The last time we had a good (Peter Parker) Spider-Man run was in the 1990’s. There’s been some decent Miles stuff here and there but mostly Marvel is not good. Read BOOM!, Dark Horse, Image…
Hmm Is mtg a no- go for the ub content?
This is a tangent, but I am so burnt out on Magic between the Universes Beyond and the new set every other week. I need to get back into just Cubing and not care about the plethora of cards from different IPs coming out, but I don’t know, just knowing about it all has kind of killed my passion for the game.
May I suggest: just do the fun parts. Print your own cards. Ignore sets that don’t interest you. Stop giving Hasbro money for no reason.
I think the schedules going to cause burnout sooner rather than later.
In the group of people I play with, no one’s really buying anymore- a lot of times even for the ips they like.
Even the guys who pride themselves in having non-proxy cedh decks have given up- by the time you’ve got the new cards in 2 weeks later, chances are theres another replacement. Mow theyre playing woth proxies for the cards in their flex slots, and only buying 3-4 times a year when they make a trip to go to a tourney.
That’s a good point I didn’t even think of. They fucking OWN comics now. We need more independent comics that are as popular.
A lot of rich people are buying up media to control information.
A lot of rich zionists *
It at least makes me very happy how plausible it is for a completely independent artist to make games on Steam or Itch that are universally enjoyed. Sadly there is a current trend of “NSFW” games getting banned on those platforms…
I wanted to plug one game that had been particularly victimized. It was an “unreliable narrator” game where you played as a stalker obsessively trying to find the real name of his favorite pornstar. It was uncomfortable, artistic, thought-provoking, and immediately tripped the ban filters. I thought I bookmarked it but if someone else knows it a reminder would be awesome.
This was always the problem with the idea of owning information.
I just made a new Disney + account
How does the boot leather taste?
How do you not see that for the trolling attempt it is?
How are you that easily baited?
I look forward to the return of Mr Mouse and how he will be portrayed in South Park!
I didn’t cancel my $1 per month Disney or Hulu subscriptions. But I did cancel my $40 ESPN + NFL+ subscription and made sure to put the reason why.
Wonder if the dollar makes up for your share of bandwidth cost. Maybe you should stream something starring Jimmy 24\7 in 4k just to be sure
my $1 per month Disney or Hulu subscriptions
I’m sorry, what?? Did you get grandfathered in on some crazy deal?
There’s always a $1 per month (for one year) Black Friday promotion for new Hulu accounts. We just flip between two accounts every year.
This last year they had the same promotion for Disney+.
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You should cancel your $1 per month Disney and Hulu subscriptions simply out of spite, and pirate their content instead. It is not hard to do.
It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
I appreciate that. I’m just trying to be honest. And if anyone isn’t willing to go nuclear, they can still make changes. In my case, I cut out 95% of what I was giving to them.
I was getting full access to Hulu and Disney ad-free for $10 a month. Canceled them both. You should cancel the $1 subs just to send the message.
Kimmel shouldn’t return. He should tell Disney to get fucked and go the Spotify route.
Spotify is a shitty company nobody should be giving money to. They gave Joe Rogan a platform out of greed when others shunned him.
Tidal has better quality, pays artists four times as much, and doesn’t do this sort of shit.
Does tidal have a podcast network?
He should definitely do something else and shove it in their face. They still have to pay him regardless. I don’t think Spotify is the right route though…
I personally think he should tour a live show as Conan did and really take it up a notch. That single tour launched an entirely new world of opportunities for Conan, and I’m sure it would do the same for Kimmel.
Spotify is infinitely worse than Disney imo.
Not even close. Disney is way worse.
Spotify is funding genocide and selling weapons.
Uhhh, Disney is more. Please, boycott both, but Spotify only recently started supporting fascists when they platformed Rogan, Disney has spent decades normalizing violence and portraying non-whites as evil violent terrorists. Disney has anyways been a little too racist for the time.
I said the Spotify route, not actually go on Spotify. Lol
Lou Wilson, a frequent cast member on dropout.tv works for Jimmy Kimmel as his opening act for the live audience. I don’t think dropout is actually a great fit of audience, but it’d be one hell of a swing to get Jimmy on a smaller streaming service like that. I’d love to see it, however unlikely. Ultimately he will probably just end up on Netflix or HBO
What is the Spotify route
Podcasting. Independent media. YouTube. Etc.
YouTube is the Spotify route? I’m not getting it. Are you using “Spotify” to generically mean “audio content”, like people might have said “radio” at some point? Or to mean smaller-scale streaming content or something…?
Sorry, I just woke back up and didn’t get much sleep last night. So may be being dumb.
They just mean independent route rather than solely one of the above listed things. They just used Spotify as an example that some people have taken. I think independent would be a better word for it but I think that’s what they meant.
Thanks
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NBC News is also reporting more alarming news for the conglomerate.
“A number of celebrities, including NSYNC band member Lance Bass and ‘Transparent’ star Amy Landecker, have shared screenshots to social media that show their cancellations of their Disney-affiliated subscriptions,” NBC is reporting before adding, “As the message gained traction over the last day across social media sites, Google Trends showed an uptick of searches for the terms ‘cancel Disney Plus’ and ‘boycott Disney,’ as posters declared they were leaving the streaming platforms behind.”
That led popular podcaster Bill Simmons, who was doubtful about Kimmel’s ABC future to have second thoughts.
I don’t know who those people are. Or care. (I “know” NSYNC, but it’s not like I can name them or any songs.) As for a “popular” podcaster - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ okay?
Just - for a huge story on billion dollar media conglomerates folding under fascism, ending with . . . that - what I quoted there . . . ehh. Not great. Obama? Harrison Ford? fuck, i dunno - someone with a little more footprint or relevance?
some of these podcasters have higher viewership numbers than Kimmel, just fyi.
these boomer networks are a dying business and they know it, when people leave they don’t come back
Yup. Kimmel got just 220k viewers in the 18 to 49 demo last quarter. Colbert got 219k and Fallon got like 159k or something like that. The kids arent watching, and thats just a simple fact.
Yeah yeah I know. But metrics for podcasts are still better than network tv, which have always been guesstimates.
You know shit is getting real when legendary and global music icon Lance Bass unsubs.
I don’t know who those people are.
But divorced parents trying to buy their kids love care. And after
comic book nerdscollectors , they’re probably the second biggest income for Disney. After all the collectors only buy for themselves usually, whereas a parent may have to buy for more than one.
Start their own media company
It has been suggested before, but it is obscenely expensive
Kimmel and Colbert are rich they can afford it. They don’t have to start a new ABC studio. A small indie internet only studio is way more affordable than a full network that broadcasts on cable. If Sam Reich can afford to start a successful streaming service so can Kimmel and Colbert.
You can give in suck the pumpkin’s penis all you want but in the end, all you’re left with is a bad taste in your mouth. Not more money.
Ooo and stained lips
That’s part of the process. So he knows everyone else knows what went down.
This is some kayfabe bullshit you suckers keep falling for over and over.
The illusion of conflict, the dog wagging the tail, manufactured outrage and consent.
Please people, we didn’t score any kind of victory here, this entire experiment was a success, it drove up media engagement, lit up the ratings, got people to start saying brand-names all day and got both political sides to feel smug and rewarded for that engagement. Disney calculates their projections in terms of decades, whatever short-term dips they get are more than made up for by the public engagement.
YOU ARE BEING MILKED AND NOT IN A FUN WAY
