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Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
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“If we don’t let you leave you might forget you were mad at us and keep giving us money”
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
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
are you still alive, Nazi?
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.
Consider taking the money you save and using it to donate to npr and pbs
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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.
Cancel, buy some rum with the money you saved, and sail the high seas.
- Apple: Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Tap your Apple ID name, then Subscriptions. Select Disney+ and tap Cancel Subscription.
- Google Play: Open the Google Play Store. Tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions, then Subscriptions. Tap Disney+ and Cancel subscription.
- Roku: Press the Home button on your Roku remote. Highlight the Disney+ app and press the Star button. Select Manage subscription and click Cancel Subscription.
- Amazon: Go to https://www.amazon.com/appstoresubscriptions. Find Disney+ and click Actions, then Cancel Subscription.
Their phone number is on their page... (You don't seriously accept phone numbers directly from social media do you? Check the source!) Contact Us | Disney+ Help Center https://help.disneyplus.com/contact-us/account-billing?target
Do it from their website (settings then account)so that you can fill out the exit survey and tell them why.
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it's easy to do something in the heat of the moment when passions are running high (and your favorite show is in-between seasons) but let's see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down and about 300 other new little fires from the current admin have come and gone from the headlines. That's the true measure of these kinds of "low temp" protests.
but let's see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down
It seems to me that once folks have discovered the joys of piracy, they rarely return to streaming.
I wouldn't know, because I wouldn't download a car unless it was fully copyleft licensed.
DO you interact with normal people? most of them don't even have a computer anymore.
DO you interact with normal people?
Not when I don't have to, of course.
most of them don't even have a computer anymore.
Sure, but motivated people seem to always find a way. Thumb drives work perfectly on phones now.
Seems to me that great streaming services is what stopped Piracy from becoming the default option a decade ago.
Now that the streaming services are enshsittifying, I suspect it's a race between user friendly piracy tools and and one or more actual non-shit streaming services emerging.
Even if they get back two thirds of the people who quit while the other third have discovered "other" ways to get their Disney content, that's still a third of a loss of revenue. A small dent is better than no dent. And whether the website crashed because of all the people quitting or they intentionally crashed it to prevent people from quitting, that means its a significant amount of people, and a third of that is still significant to them.
sure, but those are just numbers you pulled out of literally nowhere.
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Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service
Let's not talk as if it's all we can do; it's one action amongst many. Besides, let's not forget that these companies would 1000% be in favor of democracy if they thought it was profitable. They're fascists, but if their ideals hurt their bottom line, they'll change their tune, because they have shareholders to appease.
Let’s be realistic: not preventing, more like protesting
It's not all you can do but it's one of the easier things you can try
They only care about money. Hit em where it hurts.
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crashes
Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?
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.
Yup
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“Crashes”? How convenient.
The cancellation page specifically. Everything else is fine.
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crashing, or DISNEY+ trying to stem the cancellation, until they can reorient thier positions.
No it's definitely crashing. Definitely nothing happening here, they're not worried, or panicking, or anything. Everything Is Fine I Wouldn't Say There's A Problem At All. EVERYTHING IS ABSOLUTELY FINE. IT'S FINE
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Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well
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I canceled mine and am now sending that money as a monthly contribution to Palestinian aid.
Remember to no only tell your friends but also keep the boycott going even if they bring back Kimmel's show.
Per Deadline:
Still, according to another well-placed source, while some senior staff are expressing disappointment in how it all went down, “it is in no way widespread”.
They have not learned a single lesson here, keep boycotting and I'll be willing to help with anyone who'd like to get a docker based media server going so you can protest while still watching the content that the creative people stuck contractually at Disney are making.
Please tell your friends about free streaming sites: https://hydrahd.io/
We need to work together to change this culture.
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I'm ready to bet that only a 0.something% of customers will actually cancel, there will be a barely visible bump in Disney's KPI this month, and in a month half of them will subscribe again to watch the latest Avengers vs Star Wars: the Invasion of the Ducks.
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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.
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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.
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