Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing.

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.”

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    1731·
    23 days ago

    crashes

    Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?

    • nalinna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      23 days ago

      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.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      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.

    • Wynnstan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      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.

  • SpazOut@lemmy.worldEnglish
    60·
    23 days ago

    Call me a cynic, but engineering some rate limit on a cancellation page suits them rather well

  • joan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    22 days ago

    Sad that all we can do to prevent literal fascism is unsubscribing from a streaming service

    • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      “If we don’t let you leave you might forget you were mad at us and keep giving us money”

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      23 days ago

      Same here, except I stopped giving a shit about Marvel & Star Wars when they bought them.

      • SavageCoconut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        23 days ago

        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.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          22 days ago

          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.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      I’ll admit, I’m hypocritical on some things. Disney became an easier choice for me when all their stuff became kinda bad.

  • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    33·
    22 days ago

    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 Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      101·
      22 days ago

      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

    • ApatheticCactus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      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.

      • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        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.

  • drath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    23 days ago

    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.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    201·
    23 days ago

    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.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      22 days ago

      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.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    22 days ago

    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.