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
It makes me wish I had a Disney+ subscription to cancel
Sure is wild how all of this got so many people talking about Disney+ and what shows they offer.
I’ve felt this about a lot of things over the past few years.
I look forward to the return of Mr Mouse and how he will be portrayed in South Park!
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.
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.
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 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.
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+.
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.
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
Generic.
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.
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.You know shit is getting real when legendary and global music icon Lance Bass unsubs.
Start their own media company
It has been suggested before, but it is obscenely expensive
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.
