Elon Musk cancels Netflix subscription amid backlash to trans-inclusive show

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/elon-musk-netflix-hamish-steele-dead-end-paranormal-park/

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1337446

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9point6@lemmy.world · 162 pts · 343d (3 replies)

Why does he keep broadcasting he's got the emotional intelligence of a 13yo with both regular & reverse daddy-issues

MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 152 pts · 343d

Susaga@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 343d

He wants to seem relatable to the other Nazis.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 343d

Because he does

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 114 pts · 343d (7 replies)

You may be the richest man on earth, but your Netflix subscription is still the same price as everyone elses. So I'm sure Netflix doesn't really give a shit.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 343d (3 replies)

Perhaps he thinks that people give a shit about his opinions. He burned his bridges with conservatives by accepting huge government contracts and shitting on trump. He burned his bridges with liberals with is DOGE fiasco and by allying himself with trump.

The few disaffected people that hung on after those can't be happy with Elon throwing himself in Ketamine trance on a regular basis. Musks has zero credibility with anyone now except his hand picked board members of Tesla Inc.

XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 343d

He still has a sizeable tech bro/temporarily embarrassed millionaire following filled with politically-apathetic/"right leaning for the tax breaks" people. But I can't imagine they're opinionated enough to take his opinion as a call to cancel their own convenient Netflix subscription so your point still stands

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 342d (1 reply)

Perhaps he thinks that people give a shit about his opinions.

Quite famously one of his biggest beefs when he took over Twitter was that the President of the United States of America was getting more hits on his Twitter account than Musk was. So he set out to fix that and has altered the algorithm that runs Twitter so that his tweets literally are the highest priority on the entire site. In other words, he really does believe his opinion matters that much.

Edit: P.S. and even though I haven't had a Twitter account literally ever. I keep seeing his tweets because people keep fucking copy/pasting them all over the goddamn place. Something I wish would really fucking stop.

Hashtag #blockElon

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 342d

In other words, he really does believe his opinion matters that much.

It indicates he wants it to, but its cognitive dissonance at best. If people did care about his opinion, he wouldn't have had to put his thumb on the scale tilting the traffic to artificially point to his posts. People are leaving Twitter anyway, which has to prove it even further people don't want to hear from him.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 343d

He cancelled netflix because he is scared of trans people. I cancelled netflix because it's the financially responsible thing to do. We are not the same 😎

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 343d

.... or for someone who can afford everything ..... who gives a shit if he has or doesn't have dumb subscription.

What a pissy little child

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 343d
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Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 73 pts · 343d (4 replies)

Their very first show, Orange is the New Black had a trans character. Why is this an issue now?

railway692@piefed.zip · 34 pts · 343d (1 reply)

The mistake is assuming this decision was based on anything resembling principles or values.

jason@discuss.online · 15 pts · 343d

Or logic

andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 341d (1 reply)

Conservatives saw how successful the Disney boycott was, and want to have an equivalent threat.

Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 341d

Nah, it’s because they’re all sheep who need to be told their opinions

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 343d (1 reply)

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 341d

😘👌

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 52 pts · 343d (1 reply)

Cancelling netflix wont bring back your daughter elon

tektite@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 343d

He paid for boys so does he care that his daughter disowned him? He didn't use his ill-gotten gains to buy a female meat shield! Besides, he's already got his "You're not the real president" kid for that.

/s

kn0wmad1c@programming.dev · 49 pts · 343d (1 reply)

I don't understand how a trans-inclusive show hurts conservatives. Just don't watch it?

Wait, I feel like I just summarized the entire problem..

Soup@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 343d

They genuinely think they’re boycotting for the same reason other people boycott Nazi run business. The difference is that they’re dumb as rocks and will believe whatever the angry men on TV tell them.

chellewalker@lemmy.ca · 38 pts · 343d

The show was from years ago. These people need to get a life.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 343d

What a snowflake

hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 343d (5 replies)

Take your pick:

Note: These are directed at PinkNews, rather than OP. The point I'm trying to make is that, at least in my opinion, it's ridiculous to report on everything this vaguely humanoid turd says and does when it's as inconsequential as this. "Elon Does Nazi Salute" is newsworthy; "Elon Cancels Netflix Subscription" is not.

And now, on with the memes...

WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 343d (1 reply)

Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 343d

Behold, the field in which I grow my fucks, that I may give of them. Lay thine eyes upon it and ye shalt see that it is barren.

ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 343d

I think I'm going to steal all of those.

Edit: the second to last one reminds me of a joke I heard recently. What do you call an orphan taking a selfie? A family photo.

xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 343d
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 342d

Netflix should sue him and force him to subscribe, just like he was going to sue advertisers for not advertising on X.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 342d

That opening paragraph is a thing of savage beauty

X boss and free speech stalwart Elon Musk has cancelled his Netflix account amid a right-wing backlash to a trans-inclusive show that was cancelled more than two years ago

rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 20 pts · 343d (9 replies)

🙄

DNS@discuss.online · 22 pts · 343d (4 replies)

Good reminder Elon Musk got gender affirming care to which it failed his already limp grotesque dick

rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 343d (2 replies)

Whenever he's transphobic I always think of his daughter Vivian and feel like it must hurt her a lot. It's sad

mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 343d (1 reply)

My pet theory is that he’s transphobic because Vivian destroyed his dream of having only sons. He (in)famously uses IVF so he can selectively only have male embryos implanted. And Vivian flies in the face of that plan. Vivian is living proof that even with all of the modern scientific marvels of IVF and all the money in the world, he still can’t accomplish his goal of only having boys.

bss03@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 342d

I don't know about those specifics, but I too think that Elmu's reaction to Vivian's transition is a large part of his transphobia. I'm pretty sure he'd be a POS anyway, but society not letting him control his progeny really gets him worked up.

ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 343d

His top (of head) surgery was also gender-affirming healthcare.

Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 342d (3 replies)

Remember when LibsOfTiktok was just targeted harassment of social minorities and not a mainstream culture war propagandist?

brax@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 342d (2 replies)

It's weird that people keep propagating their posts. Just block it and let it disappear into obscurity... Nobody should give a fuck about what they post, it's all negative IQ garbage.

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d (1 reply)

This is one of the things I don't get. One of the big reasons Trump got such a huge boost in polls was because every time he did anything ridiculous and godawful, every news outlet reported on it. Putting his name on everyone's tongue. And every single one of these fuckers does the same thing. They do ridiculous outrageous awful things, everyone reports on it, and so they get more of the news cycle than anything else.

brax@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 342d

It's also kind of disgusting that people voted for him despite all the shit he's on the record saying and doing.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 343d

Does Netflix have a Nazi Entertainment category?

tomkatt@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 343d (2 replies)

I cancelled Netflix years ago and never looked back when they released Cuties, because I don’t want to see (or support) 11 year olds shaking their asses.

Some of these fuckers would probably sign up just for that content.

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 343d (1 reply)

Please don’t tell me any more about this thing I was not aware of until this moment.

antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 343d

I envy you somehow missing that story. I really do.

Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 342d

Canceling Disney subscriptions: because fascists tried to silence criticism against the idiocy that is the trump regime.

Canceling Netflix subscriptions: because conservatives hate trans people…. who could have seen this coming

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 15 pts · 343d

Musk is scum and I'm eagerly awaiting the day he's no longer shitting up the world.

kbal@fedia.io · 14 pts · 343d

Imagine using the same streaming service as people who aren't cis het rich white male Christian conservatives. That's the bizarre dystopian future the radical woke left wants to force on our children.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 342d

Who cares. Wake me up when he finally ODs on something.

Part4@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 342d
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 341d

The animation, which ran for two seasons in 2022, is centred around 17-year-old gay and transgender boy Barney Guttman (Zach Barack) who starts working at a paranormal theme park alongside his pal Norma Khan (Kody Kavitha) and talking pug, Pugsley (Alex Brightman). The trio “team up to battle demons at a haunted theme park — and maybe even save the world from a supernatural apocalypse,”

Ngl, that sounds pretty badass and/or delightfully silly with or without the bonus of positive trans representation.

This, along with the fact that the show was already cancelled over two years ago, really shows how unhinged these fascist troglodytes are 🤦

jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 343d (2 replies)

Show is "Dead End: Paranormal Park" in case anyone else bases their media consumption on the "Bigot snowflakes hate it so it should" premise.

basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 343d

I read the article, and adding it to my watch list was the first thing I did with this information.

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 343d

And ot was cancelled 2 years ago! Amazing

manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 343d

Notable techwizard doesn't know how to download a movie, relies on subpar streaming services, more at 11

fartographer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 343d

Pissbaby who could literally watch anything else throws public tantrum

basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 343d

Saddest not-the-onion article I have seen here yet tbh. :/

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 343d

Whoooo fucking cares

Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 343d
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captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 341d

I honestly can't imagine hating my kid that much. Like, idk if the father that disowned me for being trans hates trans people that much

socsa@piefed.social · 9 pts · 343d

Who knew the ubermensch would be so fragile?!

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 342d (3 replies)

He’s got time for Netflix?

buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 342d (2 replies)

All he seems to do is watch TV and tweet.

That is between ketamine shots.

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d (1 reply)

Wish I was wealthy enough to have people simp for me and work like slaves for me. Just so I can fuck off and buy elections.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d

Don't we all.

the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 343d

OK

Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 343d

Wasn't squid games trans inclusive?

Why would anyone care about what musk thinks anyway

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 343d

Ironic, I cancelled my Netflix subscription over Dave Chapelle's transphobic standup show, so I guess now me and the Musk have something in common.

I could be sad over that fact, but I'll choose to be thankful that thing is not our taste in drugs or obsession with others' genitals. I'm out and proud and today is a good day :)

Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 343d (2 replies)

Im confused didnt paranormal park get axed or is it coming back? Like im all for it if they are bringing it back.

bss03@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 343d

I'd love to see it come back, but there's been no production activity on it for years. I hear the books are good, but I haven't read them myself.

T156@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 343d
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Formfiller@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 343d

Bye Felicia

foggy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 343d

Who the absolute fuck cares what streaming service the richest man in the country subscribes to??

PeacefulForest@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 343d
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Shamber@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 342d

How's this SOB still a thing to write about...just hearing his name makes me nauseous 🤢

solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 341d

Dead End: Paranormal Park

Generally positive reviews, including from the Republicans that hate it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End:_Paranormal_Park

someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d

Lololol.

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d

I'm sure that the Bentkey/Dailywire is ecstatic at having one subscriber to watch ladyballers.

village604@adultswim.fan · 3 pts · 343d

How is this news?

popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d

I have literally never given less fucks about something.

He really just does whatever he can to stay in people's minds. Attention whore piece of shit.

melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 341d

Not enough nazi's?

sheridan@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 343d

Every time I try to read anything from the pinknews website all I see is a blank page.

hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 343d

no part of this is oniony and you should be ashamed of signal boosting musk spam