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    I don’t want to see Kimmel come back as if nothing happened. I want to see him find a new platform and farm the stupidity of Disney, Sinclair, etc for gold for the next few months. What Disney and co. did was not some stupid PR misstep, they let the mask slip on how easily they would fall in line behind a political pay master to keep him happy and in the process effectively violate the 1st amendment by giving the government a method of silencing speech. Which should be the kind of thing that burns the whole corporation to the ground and gets those in charge ostracized from polite society.

    There should be no coming back for them from this.

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    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.

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          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.

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      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.

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        The last time we had a good (Peter Parker) Spider-Man run was in the 1990’s. There’s been some decent Miles stuff here and there but mostly Marvel is not good. Read BOOM!, Dark Horse, Image…

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    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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      my $1 per month Disney or Hulu subscriptions

      I’m sorry, what?? Did you get grandfathered in on some crazy deal?

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        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+.

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    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?

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      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

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        Yeah yeah I know. But metrics for podcasts are still better than network tv, which have always been guesstimates.

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        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.

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      I don’t know who those people are.

      But divorced parents trying to buy their kids love care. And after comic book nerds collectors , 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.

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      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.

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      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.

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              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.

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          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

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            Uhhh, Disney is more. Please, boycott both, but Spotify only recently started supporting fascists when they platformed Rogan, Disney has spent decades normalizing violence and portraying non-whites as evil violent terrorists. Disney has anyways been a little too racist for the time.

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    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.

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    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

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        Kimmel and Colbert are rich they can afford it. They don’t have to start a new ABC studio. A small indie internet only studio is way more affordable than a full network that broadcasts on cable. If Sam Reich can afford to start a successful streaming service so can Kimmel and Colbert.