It’s not yet a week since Disneythrough His ABC channelmade the decision of Remove Jimmy Kimmel’s star presenter from the antennathat the consequences are already felt on the economy of the studio. As a reminder, the host was suspended following his remarks denounced the reuse of the magnets of the assassination of the polemicist Charlie Kirk, defending the idea that the alleged murderer would rather be from Camp Maga.
Since then, the voices have continued to rise, notably from several Hollywood personalities such as the creator of Lostcalling for Boycott Disney products. What goes through in particular The cancellation of his subscription to the Disney streaming platform+. Many have provided proof that they had taken the plunge, such as actress Marisa Tomei, the aunt May of the Spider-Man of the MCU, or the actor Noah Centineo, encouraging their fans to do the same.
On social networks, hashtags like #Canceldisneyplus and #cancelhulu have become trendy. If Disney will be careful not to communicate on the effective number of subscription loss, it is certain that the movement is gaining momentum, to the point of having caused a “bug” on the cancellation page.
A strategic bug?
This weekend, many comments on the site Reddit underlined that The Disney+/Hulu cancellation page kept planting. Bullying connections, form impossible to validate … The reasons are diverse, but the result always the same: impossible to cancel your subscription.
If the cause of this crash remains unknown, it is a safe bet that the page should face An unusual trafficking in traffic And that the Disney server has trouble maintaining its condition. This suggests that the call for boycott has an effective result and that we must expect to see the next public results of the confirmed company this drop.
However, this crash is also pointed out as accommodating very well Disney’s affairs which thus delays certain terminationsuntil the situation is adjusted or people forget.
A case that already costs billions
One thing is, however, certain, the Jimmy Kimmel affair is far from being settled and every day that passes is a lot of money to Disney. This weekend, some accounts on social networks announced that The studio’s market value had decreased by $ 3.87 billion in a single day. But the very serious international business time investigated the subject to discover that this decrease was, In reality, “that” about 1.5 billion dollars. Which is already huge in itself.
On stock marketsalthough the decrease in the Price of shares was regular in September, we see that, since September 17 – the day of the suspension of Kimmel – the curve has never ceased to decrease, losing 2% in five days.
Disney yields under pressure?
Ce Tuesday, September 23, ABC formalized the return of the presenter on his antenna. The Disney subsidiary said on Monday that discussions had taken place between the channel leaders and Kimmel. “We have spent in recent days discussing in depth with Jimmy, and after these conversations, we decided to relaunch the show this Tuesday”. In a press release, ABC explains the decision to suspend the star host by a need “To avoid a tense and flammable situation at a time when emotion was lively in our country. We made this decision because we estimated that certain comments were inappropriate and therefore indelicate”.
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