Posted on 09/24/2025 6:43:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz
Disney (DIS) has had a rough week. It faced a massive boycott from customers after briefly pulling the plug on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” a late-night talk show on ABC.
The decision to suspend the show came after comedian Jimmy Kimmel made jokes relating to President Donald Trump’s reaction to the death of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated on Sept. 10.
Disney’s decision to cut the show sparked a huge boycott from consumers, who threatened to cancel their Disney vacations and streaming services such as Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. Many consumers claimed that canceling the show over Kimmel’s comments amounted to censorship.
On the other hand, President Donald Trump applauded the decision, suggesting that some TV networks that “give him bad publicity” and “press” should have their licenses "taken away."
Amid growing outrage, Disney later announced that it has decided to reinstate “Jimmy Kimmel Live” to late-night television, which will return on ABC on Sept. 23.
"We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday," said Disney in a statement.
While some applauded the show's return, some conservative consumers threatened their own Disney boycott due to the company caving to recent backlash.
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I do not blame the AI here. I blame the person who did not federate the copy.
I know you have had success, mostly in extraction and pattern-matching, but this demonstrates how proper tone and approach cannot reliably be surmised by AI.
AI fail.
LOL...I think you’re right.
“Disney sends stern warning”?
Seriously?
What are they gonna do, confiscate our Mouse Ears?
I feel threatened now.
Except it is actually accurate with the psychological mindset of megacorporate business/customer relations model. They literally think they own their customers and that their customers work for them. Microsoft invented this new customer relations model trend...
AI “authors” will be writing to AI “readers” anyway.
“They literally think they own their customers and that their customers work for them”
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You just described the NFL as well......and sadly to a certain extent they do.
Mindless lemmings living their lives vicariously through a favorite team or player.
The only difference between that and Disney is Disney’s characters are all fictional.....which makes it even sadder.
I would boycott Disney but I never watch anything Disney anyway , it’s garbage ,LOL
“Disney sends stern warning”?
Well the first thing the actors in the failed Disney movies do is attack the customer ,LOL
Of Course!
That’s the MO of the MOuse.
Yep, there are a lot of Corporations who have this mindset. They expect their customers to come grovelling and begging at their feet for their product. And know what? the idiots consumers do because they are not intelligent enough to know they are being manipulated.
Kimmelites Hardest Hit!
This is like a Bad Acid Flashback.
Hey Disney, ever heard of BitTorrent? Go ahead and increase your prices (the “stern warning” apparently) to whatever you want on streaming.
The Street is a Left Wing Lie machine owned by Jim Commie Crammer .
This story is written by the Dem party and a fake Dem lefty media cover story .
The reason Disney folded .
Iger is a big buddy of this Evil Tired unfunny loser and
Iger wife big annual fundraiser was being hurt by this. .
Disney stockholders need to revolt and boot this Dem plant Iger .
This unfunny evil loser and his Trump hater wife are
losing 50 million a year for Disney .
Maybe the threat is they will stop making movies or close down, which to us is actually a good thing.
You know what is sending me ‘round the bend? For some reason now, my computer TELLS ME what the link I’m about to click on is all about! Really? Maybe I WON’T GO THERE, now! SHUT UP! LEAVE ME ALONE!
Also, news stories now all have a ‘Summary for Dummies’ at the beginning as Bullet Points!
Gaaaaa!
:)
True.
According to this news report, Disney is bankrupt today.
If I read this correctly, the Leftists are mad at Disney for suspending Kimmel.
And the Conservatives have been mad at Disney for years because of Disney’s cultural agenda in their movies and resorts.
By my reckoning that is 100% of Disney’s customers.
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