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.”
crashes
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?
Yup
Anytime I want to cancel something and the company makes it difficult I just cancel the credit card side of it. Sod them. That’s what they get if they want to play silly buggers.
They use AWS and specifically design their software to be able to dynamically scale, ever since Wandavision crashed their playback.
Is it possible that they never entertained having to make their cancellation page scalable? Sure. Is it more likely that they intentionally haven’t made it scalable? Yes.
Unlikely. I was trying to contact support and that was completely broken also. Unlikely if they were just trying to make cancellation harder. Likely if they were overloaded.
But overloaded by design?
There’s a huge public rush to cancel their services. It’s probably just overloaded by reality.
even if that is the case it’s a good sign imo. it means people were causing an impact big enough for them to notice and take action.
It’s amazing to think that people were fooled into thinking a greedy litagatious mega global corporate conglomerate like Disney was actually progressive in the first place instead of just following market trends for maximum shareholder profit.
Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well
I’m similarly skeptical it’s a genuine outage given how so much stuff nowadays is done with cloud computing which enables dynamic on-demand procurement of server resources. Or whatever the correct terminology is to describe that.
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Yep, most people don’t care
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I thought you guys want megacorp to fail?
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Lol good luck, it’s like saying I’d like Roquefort cheese to taste like pineapple.
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You know what’s even more realistic? Reality, the one where megacorps are funding a new wave of nazifascism around the world, just so they won’t get regulated.
Wake the fuck up.
You’re on a hiding to know where with that one
They are, it’s just not your ethics.
I want them to be ethical.
I’m gonna tell you something you shoulda heard a long time ago:
Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.
You think the global economy is going to collapse because Disney collapses? They make a lot of money as a corporation but that’s not important because they don’t pay any taxes.
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Won’t some think of the poor shareholders?!?1?
highly likely
Probably, but if it turns out on the higher end of that, say 0.8%, then that’s also not nothing, considering that it’s the result of firing one (1) dude.
“Crashes”? How convenient.
The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.
I canceled mine and am now sending that money as a monthly contribution to Palestinian aid.
Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service
Let’s be realistic: not preventing, more like protesting
They only care about money. Hit em where it hurts.
It’s not all you can do but it’s one of the easier things you can try
Talking with your wallet is the best thing you can do, honestly. Against any company.
Yeah, I don’t have a subscription, so I guess I’ll just shrug and upvote 🤷♂️
Unintended consequence of capitalism: all the eggs in one basket makes for a much easier target lol
“crashes”
“If we don’t let you leave you might forget you were mad at us and keep giving us money”
I canceled my Hulu/Disney+ subscription two days ago. A long time ago, I had an absolute boycott on Disney because I hated their hypocrisy when it came to copyright law. They tried to extend their copyrights indefinitely, even though the majority of their IPs came from the public domain. They were like a dog who only knows how to fetch the ball, but won’t ever release it.
When Disney acquired Pixar and was the American distributor for Studio Ghibli, and bought Star Wars, and distributes Marvel, at some point I eventually relented and stopped my boycott. I stopped caring as much about hypocrisy, in general. But never again. It was obviously a mistake to ever give them money. They will never get anything from me again.
Same here, except I stopped giving a shit about Marvel & Star Wars when they bought them.
Same here. When they bought SW, 1313 was cancelled. I remember i had a friend who had faith in disney owning SW… he isn’t my friend anymore (because other things) but he won’t stop bashing disney for what they did to the IP, lol.
i had optimism they’d handle star wars well given how they handled marvel up to that point. unfortunately they learned absolutely zero lessons from that success.
I’ll admit, I’m hypocritical on some things. Disney became an easier choice for me when all their stuff became kinda bad.
Consider taking the money you save and using it to donate to npr and pbs
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MAGA hates Disney because of their current movies perceived “wokeness” so the big brained executives decided to piss of the Left as well by attacking the 1st Amendment and bowing down to the Right. Big brain move there.
the thing to understand is that for Disney it’s not always about the money. they control so much power over all media that they can inflict their world view on everyone through their propaganda streams. the performative wokeness that still sits within overall metanarratives about the value of the status quo? that’s for the dollar. cutting Jimmy Kimmel loose? that’s in alignment with their core values
No, I’m pretty sure it’s about the money. They wanted a merger and didn’t want trouble, so they cut Jimmy Kimmel’s show to help that progress more smoothly.
Disney is really easy to understand because it is always about the money with them.
merger with who? i haven’t heard anything relating to this. i’m willing to buy in though given what happened to colbert
Nexsar owns ABC affiliates and wants to buy Tegna, which owns more affiliate stations.
Disney isn’t really part of that deal, but I’m guessing they also want to appease the FCC for similar reasons.
Colbert’s show seems completely unrelated. My understanding is that the cancellation has been planned for some time and has more to do with it having run for 10 years than anything political he has said.
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are you still alive, Nazi?
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Not been an American I don’t really know who he is but if he is as popular as seems to be the case I’m surprised that he didn’t move away from broadcast television anyway.
A lot of comedians are doing extremely well on YouTube.
For now. Trump is going to take another crack at breaking them up & I guarantee if successful he’ll get some form of control over YouTube’s content.
I canceled my stuff over this and I don’t even watch him. I let them know it was because they are free speech abolitionists and capitulating to Trump. I’m also a huge Star Wars and Marvel fan, so this was a big deal to me to cancel.
Its not about popularity at all. Its about the first amendment in the constitution that guarantees everyone a voice no matter how much someone doesn’t like it. As has been the case,so far this year though, the constitution is just so much toilet paper to the fuckfaces of the government.
Or they crashed it when they saw how many were trying to quit
Nah, cancellation resources are always minimal. Doesn’t make sense to pay for serious hardware to please people on their way out the door. Every service I’ve ever had to cancel has always been a maze and generally more annoying, slow, and cumbersome than the signup process.
Yeah well when the laws regarding this allow mass psychological manipulation for profits then it’s on the countries for enabling the greediest pieces of shits to do this.
Edit:Antilaw suits everywhere but Mark Zuckerberg creating an entire algorithm dictating your view on Instagram and Facebook is completely fine using psychology to manipulate everyone.
The classic card payment and subscription model is actually insane. You literally have to beg companies to stop taking money from you. Good thing it is changing with more modern payment systems - you literally just stop paying for services you don’t need and it’s on them to stop providing them to you. Nothing is ever charged off my account without an explicit action from me.
Wish I could cancel but I was never a subscriber to begin with.
Stop giving money to those facsists-friendly business. Use stremio, and begin by stopping to watch stupid american content. Don’t use Amazon, they hate you, people where just fine just a few years ago, before all that crap. We are legions, we could destroy their entire economy within 48 hours if we really wanted.
I was thinking about that. Do we need to sign up when things are quiet so that we can cancel to protest such stuff. I usually feel left out because I already don’t use most of the things I want to cancel in protest. I got to do it this time because I had forgotten I signed up for my kid a while back.
I never subscribed as they literally filmed Mulan outside a concentration camp in certain bits and thanked the CCP in the credits
And here I thought this movie couldn’t get any worse. I wasn’t able to continue watching after about 11 minutes due to the story feeling boring and forced.
Lmao real the Disney live action remakes are awful
Live action remake, thank you. I was so confused about how they filmed Mulan.
Lmao yeah no the animators did not animate the original Mulan outside a concentration camp and thank the CCP, sorry for not adding that little bit of context originally XD
Source?
Edit: don’t bother. As always, they are quoting Adrian Zenz, who’s conveniently also the director of the sinophobic US backed “think tank” Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
For those that don’t know, Adrian Zenz is an evangelical christian who conducted his Xinjian investigations entirely from outside of China. His claims of mass repression and incarceration have mostly been verified. His claims of genocide due to reproductive repression are most likely a combination of his politically and religious motivated beliefs.
The U.N. does not recognise demographic, reproductive, or cultural repression as genocide. The most that can be reliably proven in Xinjian is severe human rights abuses.
It’s similar to the severe human rights abuses commited by America in the middle east. Although of different intent and less ethnically driven, American military operations ultimately affected a similar number of people and caused a similar anount of large-scale harm, leading to accusations that America’s selective outrage could possibly be seen as hypocritical and politically motivated.
