Chris Mackay 🇨🇦Why isn’t anyone talking about PARADISE on Hulu/Disney+? It’s so good; watched S1 last year, starting S2E3. The first 2 episodes this season would make fine stand-alone shows, even.
cwicseolfor@tantramar Re: lack of buzz - I think the pool of people paying Disney in the US, Canada, and overseas alike went way down last year because they bent the knee to the US government when they really didn’t have to, which is going to limit the reach of anything produced under their banner. I recall their subscription cancellation page crashed. Then, re: fedi, odds are the kind of people leaving corporate socials are also more likely than usual to leave corporate streaming when provoked.
@cwicseolfor I remember that well. I didn’t happen to be subscribed at that time, but I don’t expect boycotts like that last very long at a societal scale. People forget.
@tantramar Often, but there’s a fairly thick resentment in the air - people for whom consumption of these corporate outputs (creative property like Disney, or goods, e.g. Tesla, Target) were a main leisure activity have shown significant behavioural shifts and haven’t returned in nearly the same numbers they left. Target has been courting shoppers back with lower prices during a cost of living crisis, but their stock has only come back up halfway from their tumble in early 2025, for instance; most people I know are still boycotting. (Costco by contrast has been booming despite a similar target market, but they took the opposite approach politically.)
Disney’s biggest-profile screwup was only six months ago, by contrast. Many worldwide are boycotting US companies wherever possible, and people in the US are boycotting companies either selectively for weakness toward fascism, or buying as little as possible generally, either to punish or defund a tax system enforcing it. I don’t think this one’s dissipating back to business as usual.
@cwicseolfor Disney also backed down on the Kimmel fiasco, and has been out-done by CBS News’ new management. A lot can be learned by paying close attention to what people do — not what they say they will do.