Yay, Disney hate is finally mainstream! I'm basically inline with popular opinion by virtue of maintaining my firmly held beliefs I developed decades ago and held even when it was inconvenient and unpopular!!! It's my time to shine for the short period of time this transient fad plays out!
Kidding and current events aside, Disney media has given me the creeps since I was a kid. The popular cartoon movies just felt like propaganda. I'm not saying everything Disney hits that note, but so, so much of it does.
Then I started meeting Disney adults and, while I understand that Disney has no control over how these people act and choose to represent them, all I can say is OH MY GOD. Crazy cat lady, bizarre couple who live in Christmas themed home decor and wardrobe year round, homeless person who's still got money for meth and thinks he's Jesus vibes all wrapped up into one with sprinkles on top.
Then they took over local news stations and started presenting "Disney" as news -- entire segments dedicated to Disney intellectual properties disguised as "breaking news" kind of bullshit.
And finally they wrapped their slimy tendrils around the neck of super heroes and Star Wars and squeezed until blood poured out every pore while the corpse dried out and rotted.
So, thank you, I've had enough, and at least now maybe a few more people will see what kind of monster they've been supporting all along and decide to sever the ties.
It’s a bit funny and sad that the most innovation I’ve seen from Indiana Jones and Star Wars has been from video games - a cinematic medium they contract with, but don’t have as much twisted control over.
When Cal picks up a “crossguard” in Jedi: Survivor it was at first a moment of sequel cringe, but then they had the idea of having him wield it like a two-handed bastard sword where it has more weight, and it gives it such a cool identity.
I said this in another thread but it’s frustrating as hell as a non American that your citizens are being vanished into gulags based on their race, free speech is being silenced, your rights are being pissed on and all your tax money is going to weapons and billionaires. And the best you guys can do is a Disney boycott.
disney bought up so many streaming, media companies. they owned FOX, but not fox news(which is still under murdochs control), and hulu+. ALSO BBC, which is why they have been PROMOTING charlie kirk.
Omg I went to cancel Hulu and I was paying $26 a month for the ad free package. It had dismey plus and ESPN too. I don't watch any of those! I told my wife I was cancelling and she was like yea fuck those fascists.
Tongue-in-cheek question, serious answer: Stop watching entirely, deny the company your attention, and erode its ability to control our culture. Use the time to learn DIY skills, and meet people IRL.
Probably preaching to the choir here on the Fediverse, but...
It's hard to remove Disney from every aspect of your life even when not consuming media. For example, I play Magic the Gathering, and the producer of the game is Wizards of the Coast, owned by Hasbro. Wizards of the Coast has secured licensing deals with properties of many media franchises including Marvel. Now, I personally try not to purchase licensed cards from those sets. but when cards are released quarterly and the supply chain to small game stores is choked out to only give them the newest stuff and the oldest stuff no longer in print but still in supply, your choices become, buy the latest licensed boosters and boxes or buy the old stuff you probably already have enough of.
My shop hasn't had Tarkir: Dragonstorm (a set that released in Q2 of this year) since the Final Fantasy set launched several months ago. And since then, Edge of Eternities (an nonlicecensed set) has released and even that set is hard to get hands on. So my options right now are, Final Fantasy cards, cards from a year or more ago, or prepurchasing Spiderman cards.... Even my hobbies are being canabalized by the megacorps.
It's exhausting, and I want to just enjoy my card game. I hate that a huge part of my enjoyment of this hobby has been sniffed out (cracking packs with friends) has been turned into something that feeds all the monsters at once. And since it became a finance hobby for people who don't care about the game at all, just what they can sell the product for aftermarket, this thing I love has become harder and harder to enjoy.
All that said, please nobody tell Disney about Disk Golf............
Yeah. Still using Plex since I am old head with a lifetime subscription I got for $50 on sale a decade ago. Though if not I hear jellyfin is the best now.
Use Unraid for my NAS and definitely going to upgrade to lifetime after I've used it for over a year now. Makes things super easy but it's still Linux underneath so I can do whatever advanced thing I want when needed.
A nice NVMe cache drive, basic CPU, MB, some sticks of RAM, and a few multi TB HDDs and you can say goodbye to all streaming services for life.
Friendly reminder, boycotting Disney isn't just a few streaming services. Everything from Spiderman Underoos to the Lego Millenium Falcon should be avoided like the plague. No Aladin on Broadway, or Theme Parks.
When their partners start to complain and their residuals take a hit they'll hear you a lot more clearly than just a drop in subscriptions.
If for some reason you can't cut them off, try to cut back. Disney made 91 billion in 2024, if everyone cuts back by 10% you can carve nearly 10 billion dollars out of their revenue stream.
I kind of feel bad for Americans who were/are very invested in American culture. A lot of people survive on consumerism, so now they have to decide if they want to change their habits (choose ethics and morality) or continue doing their thing (because they’re in denial/need a distraction). It’s not looking good…
There’s zero chance this turns Americans away from consumerism. Hell, even in threads calling for boycotts most people are saying they’re going to still consume Disney products, they just won’t pay for it.
I consume like a motherfucker but I still cancelled Disney Plus and Hulu literally just now. Dropped my MAX/Hulu/Disney bundle and picked MAX back up because from what I understand they had nothing to do with this.
I'm kinda annoyed. My sub expired a bit before this and I didn't renew. I was looking at whether to do so this month, but now I don't get to tell them why they aren't getting any more of my money
Walt Disney was a fascist himself. Also there are rumors he was into young children so the fact that Disney now is choosing for the pedo fascists is very fitting.
And I saw a documentary thing about how Alice in Wonderland was a fantasized story of him having a love obsession with an underage girl or something but that was a long time ago and it has never been confirmed.
So I asked about a month ago about boycotting Disney in a completely different thread. I'll ask again. Should I start boycotting Disney the same way we should be boycotting Amazon and Target and all these other companies kissing Trump's ass?
History channel?! Where the hell do you expect me to watch pawn stars and American pickers knowing ripping people off like the assholes they are. If that ain’t some real American history.
Even without a usenet indexer, public bittorent gets you pretty far.
Also funny how some of the nicest container stacks I've been seeing are fully decked out pirate ships with upwards of 20 containers handling various things. Some dude even published his insane 10k USD 320Tb plex server build on pcpartpicker with consumer priced server grade tech like 28TB HDDs and ECC RAM.
Finally, the left and the right find one thing they can agree upon. Columbia (the sportswear company) just sent me an ad promoting a Disney event and a Disney line of clothing and I sent a reply that probably no one will see, but I told them they can fuck off with that.
Xactly. Tis a scam. His grandpa was a pimp & grifter. So was his dad. Matter o' fact, his g'pops certainly made his fortune next to Ruzzia. Odd. Something something, rhymes with Krasnov.
From Wikipedia (Jimmy Kimmel): On September 17, 2025, ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely after Kimmel's remarks regarding the MAGA movement's reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk drew threats from FCC chair Brendan Carr and an announcement from station owner Nexstar that its ABC-affiliated stations were dropping the program "for the foreseeable future".[5]
The Trump FCC chair started it by threatening ABC's license as well as licenses of ABC affiliates...Nexstar/Sinclair said they wouldn't broadcast the show, then ABC bowed to pressure and said the show was cancelled indefinitely.
Disney is worth $200+ billion, and if they fought this in court, the first amendment is clearly on their side. But like Paramount before them, they are complying in advance.
Disney have supported the gop far more than not, i wouldnt hold your breath of them fighting agains tthem. they also started dropping "pro-diversity" stuff from thier shows too.
marvel hasnt been pushing out good shows/movies, you arnt missing much. even if you really wanted to see it, i would just look for youtube clips, and save you the trouble when it comes out.
My joke was more or less on that direction really.
After endgame, I don't recall anything really good. Wandavision might have been the best, but not great. Thunderbolt's was a decent movie for a flight, but hardly a recommendation.
I have skipped almost everything, so I might have missed something. Fantastic four had OK reaction I guess, might check it out eventually.
Actually, Spiderman homecoming was good, even if it was nostalgic fan service basically. Maybe deadpool 2, but I don't know it that counts.
To those of you that are canceling Disney+ and looking for animation alternatives, might I suggest anime, (Japanese animation, some based on comics.) Give crunchyroll a try.
Boycotts aren't effective alone.
Neither is one person deciding to vote for the other party.
Telling your boss 'Uh, no, I'm not going to do that, that's illegal and immoral and probably a war crime or something' is not actually effective.
Sure, I could switch providers or go sailing the high seas but that won't eradicate fascism, so why bother?
So I guess the only solutions are
1, carry right on supporting, validating, and participating in any bad practice or evil that comes your way,
2, some hitherto undiscovered way to Stop Evil in one fell stroke, or
3, engage in change as a process, on the understanding that the bad guys are hopefully not the only type of people who can work together to get shit done over a longer timeframe than 'now or never'.
I'm going for 3, because frankly if there aren't enough decent people in my community to put in a fraction of the effort the dangerous idiots are putting in, it's not worth saving.
And I can't be bothered to do the whole 'judging myself, my family and friends and neighbours and country and society and finding it wanting' at the moment, so it's easier to just do what little good I can, wherever I see the chance
I already don't even have a Disney+, Hulu, or ESPN+ account. So if you are trying to say I should participate and cancel my subscriptions I literally can't.
My point still stands: Boycotts barely do much at all. They can be a small boost to a political project if they are done alongside something more substantial but otherwise whatever they accomplish is essentially washed away in the noise eventually if its the only thing done.
And at worst, they can be a form of slacktivism. Satiating one's feeling that they need to contribute to a cause without meaningfully actually doing so.
Better methods would be: attempting to induce shame in those working at Disney and getting them to resign, harassing their CEO, spreading propaganda about the content of the company itself that actually hurts their bottom line, and .
Hell, merely promoting alternative content would even be better than a boycott. Then you are satiating people with something other than Disney slop for who knows how long so they don't even have to make the decision of going without all while promoting smaller companies/organizations or creators.
Sorry I don't know what have Disney done in particular. I've already seen something on it but *I can't understand what happened. *
I'm sorry for my ignorance.
Hoping someone will answer,
Jimmy Kimmel made a comment about how the MAGA gang was spinning the shooting of Charlie Kirk as a politically-motivated assassination by "Democrats", when the shooter themselves was part of said MAGA gang and was not, in actual fact, a Democrat.
In response, the FCC threatened ABC and encouraged TV broadcast stations to exclude their programming, and so ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show in response.
I don’t personally think cancelling subscriptions will do anything, they honestly do not care because they have millions of other people subscribed to them.
I honestly hate the hive mind of “we have to cancel our subscriptions to boycott”, let people enjoy their shows.
It can have a limited impact on the short term but I agree that it won't do much. I don't recall a "boycott giant corporations movements" that changed anything recently. Money comes first, and a mega merger to become even more monopolistic is much more important than a handful of angry customers. We're at the age of enshittification and fascism. See Reddit as an example. Or Imgur. Now the same thing is happening but with another giant media.
It's like people boycotting oil companies because gas prices are too high. They inevitably fail because there's still plenty of people addicted to oil and gas willing to pay anything to get it.
Hell, in the current climate, cancelling or boycotting over this could put you on a list of people disagreeing with the government, and get you harassed or imprisoned.
I know people on this service are big advocates for pirating and shit like that to not give the big corporations any money. I’ve learned that rather quickly in the short amount of time I’ve been here.
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logicbomb@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 321d
I realize I'm a little slow on the uptake, but I cancelled my Disney+ subscription today.
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 321d
Good job!
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 320d
You probably should
n'tlook into Sonarr and Radarr as a replacement.CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 320d
This isn't Reddit, it's okay to advocate for piracy here.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 319d
Good point. I edited my comment
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 320d
Ditto. Give them the Target treatment and then hit the next company, and the next, until they get the message.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 321d
Do not forgive, do not forget. Purge these companies from your life forever.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 320d
Way ahead of you. Disney have been unworthy scumbags in my eyes ever since I read 'Free Culture' by Lawrence Lessig many years ago.
lemmy_at_em@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 321d
Disney owns Vice? That is hilariously ironic and awkward.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 31 pts · 320d
Yay, Disney hate is finally mainstream! I'm basically inline with popular opinion by virtue of maintaining my firmly held beliefs I developed decades ago and held even when it was inconvenient and unpopular!!! It's my time to shine for the short period of time this transient fad plays out!
Kidding and current events aside, Disney media has given me the creeps since I was a kid. The popular cartoon movies just felt like propaganda. I'm not saying everything Disney hits that note, but so, so much of it does.
Then I started meeting Disney adults and, while I understand that Disney has no control over how these people act and choose to represent them, all I can say is OH MY GOD. Crazy cat lady, bizarre couple who live in Christmas themed home decor and wardrobe year round, homeless person who's still got money for meth and thinks he's Jesus vibes all wrapped up into one with sprinkles on top.
Then they took over local news stations and started presenting "Disney" as news -- entire segments dedicated to Disney intellectual properties disguised as "breaking news" kind of bullshit.
And finally they wrapped their slimy tendrils around the neck of super heroes and Star Wars and squeezed until blood poured out every pore while the corpse dried out and rotted.
So, thank you, I've had enough, and at least now maybe a few more people will see what kind of monster they've been supporting all along and decide to sever the ties.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 320d
It’s a bit funny and sad that the most innovation I’ve seen from Indiana Jones and Star Wars has been from video games - a cinematic medium they contract with, but don’t have as much twisted control over.
When Cal picks up a “crossguard” in Jedi: Survivor it was at first a moment of sequel cringe, but then they had the idea of having him wield it like a two-handed bastard sword where it has more weight, and it gives it such a cool identity.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 320d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 320d
good thing i never had a STAR WARS or marvel addiciton, like 10s of millions of fans out there.
barnaclebutt@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 320d
Cancelled my Disney plus account.
-Yes, I get the irony of using that gif...
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 320d
I said this in another thread but it’s frustrating as hell as a non American that your citizens are being vanished into gulags based on their race, free speech is being silenced, your rights are being pissed on and all your tax money is going to weapons and billionaires. And the best you guys can do is a Disney boycott.
odama626@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 320d
Man... I don't think we can even. We can't build consensus for shit
Generica@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
Cash is king
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Which citizens? Things are bad enough as it is. We don't need people on the internet discrediting us.
philophilsaurus@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 321d
How did I miss that Disney owns the History Channel??
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today · 39 pts · 321d
Because they buy up companies more often than normal people buy milk.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 320d
disney bought up so many streaming, media companies. they owned FOX, but not fox news(which is still under murdochs control), and hulu+. ALSO BBC, which is why they have been PROMOTING charlie kirk.
Fives@discuss.online · 22 pts · 320d
#BoycottDisney
ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 320d
I am personally very proud of you.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 320d
Yoho yoho 🏴☠️
!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 320d
Is it invite only? Nothing is showing up when I click the link.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 320d
Pretty sure lemmy.world specifically blocked the dbzer0 piracy community.
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 320d
Ah jeez. Do I have to make an account in another instance?
Pandantic@midwest.social · 7 pts · 320d
Yes, and you should anyway!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 320d
yea, i made one in lemmytoday, i think ZIP is another one. worlds blocked a ton .
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 320d
Shouldn't be. Maybe that only works on the summit app I'm using. Try this:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 320d
Ahoy matey! Already with you.
demizerone@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 320d
Omg I went to cancel Hulu and I was paying $26 a month for the ad free package. It had dismey plus and ESPN too. I don't watch any of those! I told my wife I was cancelling and she was like yea fuck those fascists.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 320d
But I already boycotted Disney ): how can I do more damage?
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 320d
Increase your upload ratio on any Disney properties you consume through BitTorrent, and no not positively discuss any of their properties online.
Rob them of revenue and organic marketing.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 320d
Stop buying their stuff harder!!!
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social · 5 pts · 320d
Tongue-in-cheek question, serious answer: Stop watching entirely, deny the company your attention, and erode its ability to control our culture. Use the time to learn DIY skills, and meet people IRL.
Probably preaching to the choir here on the Fediverse, but...
Jyek@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 320d
It's hard to remove Disney from every aspect of your life even when not consuming media. For example, I play Magic the Gathering, and the producer of the game is Wizards of the Coast, owned by Hasbro. Wizards of the Coast has secured licensing deals with properties of many media franchises including Marvel. Now, I personally try not to purchase licensed cards from those sets. but when cards are released quarterly and the supply chain to small game stores is choked out to only give them the newest stuff and the oldest stuff no longer in print but still in supply, your choices become, buy the latest licensed boosters and boxes or buy the old stuff you probably already have enough of.
My shop hasn't had Tarkir: Dragonstorm (a set that released in Q2 of this year) since the Final Fantasy set launched several months ago. And since then, Edge of Eternities (an nonlicecensed set) has released and even that set is hard to get hands on. So my options right now are, Final Fantasy cards, cards from a year or more ago, or prepurchasing Spiderman cards.... Even my hobbies are being canabalized by the megacorps.
It's exhausting, and I want to just enjoy my card game. I hate that a huge part of my enjoyment of this hobby has been sniffed out (cracking packs with friends) has been turned into something that feeds all the monsters at once. And since it became a finance hobby for people who don't care about the game at all, just what they can sell the product for aftermarket, this thing I love has become harder and harder to enjoy.
All that said, please nobody tell Disney about Disk Golf............
FuckFascism@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
devedeset@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 320d
I did for a while, then they bought Hulu. I finally canceled Hulu yesterday.
phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
Donate your money to your local PBS station if you can.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 320d
laughs in pirate
Oh, latecomers to the party!
Welcome aboard.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 320d
Yeah. Still using Plex since I am old head with a lifetime subscription I got for $50 on sale a decade ago. Though if not I hear jellyfin is the best now.
Use Unraid for my NAS and definitely going to upgrade to lifetime after I've used it for over a year now. Makes things super easy but it's still Linux underneath so I can do whatever advanced thing I want when needed.
A nice NVMe cache drive, basic CPU, MB, some sticks of RAM, and a few multi TB HDDs and you can say goodbye to all streaming services for life.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 320d
Very well said!
And yes, haha, jellyfin is the uh, 'new hotness' lately =P
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 319d
Friendly reminder, boycotting Disney isn't just a few streaming services. Everything from Spiderman Underoos to the Lego Millenium Falcon should be avoided like the plague. No Aladin on Broadway, or Theme Parks.
When their partners start to complain and their residuals take a hit they'll hear you a lot more clearly than just a drop in subscriptions.
If for some reason you can't cut them off, try to cut back. Disney made 91 billion in 2024, if everyone cuts back by 10% you can carve nearly 10 billion dollars out of their revenue stream.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 320d
I kind of feel bad for Americans who were/are very invested in American culture. A lot of people survive on consumerism, so now they have to decide if they want to change their habits (choose ethics and morality) or continue doing their thing (because they’re in denial/need a distraction). It’s not looking good…
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 320d
There’s zero chance this turns Americans away from consumerism. Hell, even in threads calling for boycotts most people are saying they’re going to still consume Disney products, they just won’t pay for it.
SoloCritical@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
I consume like a motherfucker but I still cancelled Disney Plus and Hulu literally just now. Dropped my MAX/Hulu/Disney bundle and picked MAX back up because from what I understand they had nothing to do with this.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
… imagine how much money you’ll save…
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 320d
Ha, I've been boycotting these companies for years.
Arrrrrrrrrrr
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 320d
Time for boycott level two: don't even steal it.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Not worth the effort. I need tv entertainment but I am not paying it
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
It's a solid message, though. I dislike you so much that I won't even steal it.
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 319d
… and let them know why.
phx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 319d
I'm kinda annoyed. My sub expired a bit before this and I didn't renew. I was looking at whether to do so this month, but now I don't get to tell them why they aren't getting any more of my money
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 319d
If you have the apps on your phone, uninstall them. They get uninstall reports (from Apple anyway) and that also helps send a message.
phx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Interesting. Anyone know if that applies to TV's as well?
418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 319d
Likely. It’s all part of the same ecosystem
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 320d
Walt Disney was a fascist himself. Also there are rumors he was into young children so the fact that Disney now is choosing for the pedo fascists is very fitting.
Jomega@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 320d
What are your sources for this?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 319d
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/walt-disney/walt-the-quasi-nazi-the-fascist-history-of-disney
https://qa.answers.com/economics/Why_did_people_think_Walt_Disney_was_a_pedophile
And I saw a documentary thing about how Alice in Wonderland was a fantasized story of him having a love obsession with an underage girl or something but that was a long time ago and it has never been confirmed.
Edit: also found this: https://nypost.com/2022/10/03/abigail-disney-calls-great-uncle-walt-disney-a-fascist/
Jomega@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
The second article literally opens with it saying there is no evidence and the first references movies that weren't made until after he died.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Lootboblin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 320d
Just canceled their discount deal and Alien Earth sucks!
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 320d
I liked alien earth so far. But how much they cram in Disney shit is so obscene. I wouldn't pay for it tho.
Etterra@discuss.online · 8 pts · 320d
Time to cancel my Disney+ account. Fuck em, cowards and bootlicking executive bastards.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 321d
Fuck you micky mouse
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 321d
Fuck Disney in general, but what in particular happened this time?
MrGabr@ttrpg.network · 15 pts · 320d
ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air for saying Kirk's killer was right-wing and that they're trying to use Kirk's death for political points.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 320d
He didn't even say Kirk's killer was right wing. He said that the right was desperately trying to say it wasn't one of them.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
He didn't even say that. He said Trump and friends don't want him to be.
Catma@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 321d
Time to hoist the sails again https://tenor.com/bDMWP.gif
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 320d
So I asked about a month ago about boycotting Disney in a completely different thread. I'll ask again. Should I start boycotting Disney the same way we should be boycotting Amazon and Target and all these other companies kissing Trump's ass?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 320d
yes, cancel subscription in case you have it.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 320d
History channel?! Where the hell do you expect me to watch pawn stars and American pickers knowing ripping people off like the assholes they are. If that ain’t some real American history.
DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 320d
glad i dont have any of these the only streaming service needed is vlc and qbitorrent
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 320d
Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, and your choice of an indexer = fully automated pirate ship 🦜 🏴☠️
mlg@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Even without a usenet indexer, public bittorent gets you pretty far.
Also funny how some of the nicest container stacks I've been seeing are fully decked out pirate ships with upwards of 20 containers handling various things. Some dude even published his insane 10k USD 320Tb plex server build on pcpartpicker with consumer priced server grade tech like 28TB HDDs and ECC RAM.
Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 321d
Fuck Disney
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 321d
Finally, the left and the right find one thing they can agree upon. Columbia (the sportswear company) just sent me an ad promoting a Disney event and a Disney line of clothing and I sent a reply that probably no one will see, but I told them they can fuck off with that.
Almacca@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 320d
Surely Kimmel has the means to start his own show on the internet and say whatever the fuck he likes, just like Charlie Kirk did, right?
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 320d
I don't boycott anyone I pirate.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 320d
add paramount +, dont fall for the nutrek(eventhough the shows ar epretty bad in respect to pre-jja abrams) tricks to keep the stream alive.
Eh_I@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 320d
I wanna hear about these nutrek tricks. How exactly did you tricked?
West_of_West@piefed.social · 6 pts · 320d
Damn! If only I had one of those services than I could boycott Disney too.
SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 320d
mf's use lemmy and still don't pirate every piece of media. smh my head...
FreddyNO@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 320d
Cancelled.
kokesh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 319d
Also FX? No more Sunny, or Wrexham. Fuck the house of the mouse.
canajac@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 320d
I just filed a complaint to ABC. Free speech is important especially in todays world.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Yarr
Almacca@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 320d
Sell any shares if you have them as well.
brem@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 319d
Xactly. Tis a scam. His grandpa was a pimp & grifter. So was his dad. Matter o' fact, his g'pops certainly made his fortune next to Ruzzia. Odd. Something something, rhymes with Krasnov.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Reaching a real person at any of these companies' call centers will cost the company real money.
(It can also hurt the statistics of the call center employee, so it's morally wishy-washy)
julysfire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
Huh, I don't watch any of that garbage already. Nice
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 320d
New Disney Plans announced Make Disney Great Again
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 321d
Didn't this come from Sinclair media, the notoriously right wing, massive media conglomerate?
I'm not sure how it works, and not saying Disney isn't partially to blame.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
Sinclair is the "ABC Affiliate stations".
From Wikipedia (Jimmy Kimmel): On September 17, 2025, ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely after Kimmel's remarks regarding the MAGA movement's reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk drew threats from FCC chair Brendan Carr and an announcement from station owner Nexstar that its ABC-affiliated stations were dropping the program "for the foreseeable future".[5]
nothingcorporate@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 321d
The Trump FCC chair started it by threatening ABC's license as well as licenses of ABC affiliates...Nexstar/Sinclair said they wouldn't broadcast the show, then ABC bowed to pressure and said the show was cancelled indefinitely.
Disney is worth $200+ billion, and if they fought this in court, the first amendment is clearly on their side. But like Paramount before them, they are complying in advance.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 321d
Thanks for putting that concisely, my brain isn't working so great this morning
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 320d
Disney have supported the gop far more than not, i wouldnt hold your breath of them fighting agains tthem. they also started dropping "pro-diversity" stuff from thier shows too.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
Oh no, now I can't see go see quatumania 2 on cinemas...
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 320d
marvel hasnt been pushing out good shows/movies, you arnt missing much. even if you really wanted to see it, i would just look for youtube clips, and save you the trouble when it comes out.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
My joke was more or less on that direction really.
After endgame, I don't recall anything really good. Wandavision might have been the best, but not great. Thunderbolt's was a decent movie for a flight, but hardly a recommendation.
I have skipped almost everything, so I might have missed something. Fantastic four had OK reaction I guess, might check it out eventually.
Actually, Spiderman homecoming was good, even if it was nostalgic fan service basically. Maybe deadpool 2, but I don't know it that counts.
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 319d
I pirate their series because it's cheaper.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 320d
To those of you that are canceling Disney+ and looking for animation alternatives, might I suggest anime, (Japanese animation, some based on comics.) Give crunchyroll a try.
might want to check out these alternatives also
letsgo2themall@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 320d
sailing the high seas these days. fuck them all.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 320d
Hold up... Disney owns Vice?
No wonder they are so shit now.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 320d
Boycotts on their own are not effective. They are more of a sprinkling addition to a full fledged program that includes more heavy duty tactics.
Lastangel@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 319d
Boycotts aren't effective alone. Neither is one person deciding to vote for the other party. Telling your boss 'Uh, no, I'm not going to do that, that's illegal and immoral and probably a war crime or something' is not actually effective. Sure, I could switch providers or go sailing the high seas but that won't eradicate fascism, so why bother?
So I guess the only solutions are 1, carry right on supporting, validating, and participating in any bad practice or evil that comes your way, 2, some hitherto undiscovered way to Stop Evil in one fell stroke, or 3, engage in change as a process, on the understanding that the bad guys are hopefully not the only type of people who can work together to get shit done over a longer timeframe than 'now or never'.
I'm going for 3, because frankly if there aren't enough decent people in my community to put in a fraction of the effort the dangerous idiots are putting in, it's not worth saving. And I can't be bothered to do the whole 'judging myself, my family and friends and neighbours and country and society and finding it wanting' at the moment, so it's easier to just do what little good I can, wherever I see the chance
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 317d
I already don't even have a Disney+, Hulu, or ESPN+ account. So if you are trying to say I should participate and cancel my subscriptions I literally can't.
My point still stands: Boycotts barely do much at all. They can be a small boost to a political project if they are done alongside something more substantial but otherwise whatever they accomplish is essentially washed away in the noise eventually if its the only thing done.
And at worst, they can be a form of slacktivism. Satiating one's feeling that they need to contribute to a cause without meaningfully actually doing so.
Better methods would be: attempting to induce shame in those working at Disney and getting them to resign, harassing their CEO, spreading propaganda about the content of the company itself that actually hurts their bottom line, and .
Hell, merely promoting alternative content would even be better than a boycott. Then you are satiating people with something other than Disney slop for who knows how long so they don't even have to make the decision of going without all while promoting smaller companies/organizations or creators.
3arthsDaughter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 319d
Sorry I don't know what have Disney done in particular. I've already seen something on it but *I can't understand what happened. * I'm sorry for my ignorance. Hoping someone will answer,
Bonne soirée.. Autumn V.
punchmesan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 319d
Jimmy Kimmel made a comment about how the MAGA gang was spinning the shooting of Charlie Kirk as a politically-motivated assassination by "Democrats", when the shooter themselves was part of said MAGA gang and was not, in actual fact, a Democrat.
In response, the FCC threatened ABC and encouraged TV broadcast stations to exclude their programming, and so ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel's show in response.
That just about sums it up briefly.
untorquer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
Additionally, ABC is owned by Disney.
Probably obvious but the idea was missing a key component assuming it's not common knowledge
grissino@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
Cannot save this post for some reason. Comment for future reference.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 320d
avg@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 320d
Good news, I was already doing it. Now finding out how to boycott Sinclair, that's where it's at.
devedeset@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 320d
They bought all the free media, stuff that gets broadcast over the air. A lot of local news TV channels are Sinclair.
Hard to boycott when it is basically broadcast to everyone by default, including to things like Roku
krunklom@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 320d
I've been pirating everything I watch for the past 25 years.
Like. Wtf y'all doing.
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works · -13 pts · 320d
I don’t personally think cancelling subscriptions will do anything, they honestly do not care because they have millions of other people subscribed to them.
I honestly hate the hive mind of “we have to cancel our subscriptions to boycott”, let people enjoy their shows.
canajac@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 320d
No idea what protesting is hey. One person who writes a complaint equals many others who don't do it but have the same reasons to boycott. Look it up.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 319d
Maybe stop putting your shows over your country.
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 319d
What country? I’m not American
pedz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 320d
It can have a limited impact on the short term but I agree that it won't do much. I don't recall a "boycott giant corporations movements" that changed anything recently. Money comes first, and a mega merger to become even more monopolistic is much more important than a handful of angry customers. We're at the age of enshittification and fascism. See Reddit as an example. Or Imgur. Now the same thing is happening but with another giant media.
It's like people boycotting oil companies because gas prices are too high. They inevitably fail because there's still plenty of people addicted to oil and gas willing to pay anything to get it.
Hell, in the current climate, cancelling or boycotting over this could put you on a list of people disagreeing with the government, and get you harassed or imprisoned.
Icedrous@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 320d
I know people on this service are big advocates for pirating and shit like that to not give the big corporations any money. I’ve learned that rather quickly in the short amount of time I’ve been here.