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Netflix subscription cancellations skyrocket after ‘Cuties’ backlash
NY Post ^ | Oct 24 | By Melanie Gray

Posted on 10/24/2020 2:17:30 PM PDT by RandFan

“Cuties” turned out to be ugly for Netflix.

The streaming service has watched subscription cancellations skyrocket by 800% after the French coming-of-age film triggered a boycott in early September, analyses show. Within two days of the movie’s premiere, #CancelNetflix became the top trending topic on Twitter and a petition on Change.org garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures.

Netflix’s chief financial officer Spence Neumann didn’t mention “Cuties” in a third-quarter earnings call this week, instead focusing on the first half of the year, when coronavirus lockdowns nationwide drove subscriptions.

Neumann told investors the company “came pretty close” to meeting its membership goal of 195 million worldwide. For the three months that ended Sept. 30, Netflix added 2.2 million global subscribers — down from the first two quarters of 16 million and 10 million, respectively

But numbers analyzed by New York data analytics firms Antenna and YipitData tell a different story — that the protest, led by conservatives who claim the film’s portrayal of pre-teen girls living in Paris “hyper-sexualized” children, had made a big dent in subscriptions.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuties; netflix
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I'm pleased to say I cancelled.

Not only "Cuties" but paying the Obama's as producers??

No thanks!

1 posted on 10/24/2020 2:17:30 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Cuties was the last straw for me and my family. I’d been thinking of cutting it out for a couple years. I finally ordered the wife to shut it down, and told her to talk to her other friends in the GOP ladies club.


2 posted on 10/24/2020 2:19:27 PM PDT by Professional
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To: RandFan

People don’t like providing material support to pedophiles.


3 posted on 10/24/2020 2:19:51 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: RandFan

after the French coming-of-age film triggered a boycott in early September,


That’s how we describe depictions which are prurient and just this side of being openly pornographic? That is a “coming of age” story????? Really?????


4 posted on 10/24/2020 2:25:08 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: RandFan

I’ve been a Netflix DVD customer since forever. I cancelled this month.


5 posted on 10/24/2020 2:27:19 PM PDT by Rio
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To: RandFan

Not surprised. These people plan much more “in your face” evil if we don’t let them go.


6 posted on 10/24/2020 2:33:06 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: RandFan

NAMBLA is demanding equal time.


7 posted on 10/24/2020 2:40:10 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
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To: RandFan

CANCEL NETFLIX NOW!!! OBAMAS & OTHER LIBS ARE INVOLVED.


8 posted on 10/24/2020 2:42:40 PM PDT by Elkiejg
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BS...... foolishness


9 posted on 10/24/2020 2:47:19 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) t Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay My, o. h, my, what a wonderful day)
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To: bert

As much as I hate Netflix, what are the other options? Keep it mainly for kids programs for my kids Back to torrents, I guess.


10 posted on 10/24/2020 2:52:01 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: RandFan

*** “Not only “Cuties” but paying the Obama’s as producers”***

I left when they hired the Obamas


11 posted on 10/24/2020 2:58:02 PM PDT by TexasTransplant ( I am going back to work... permission or not)
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To: RandFan

“Coming of age” is newspeak for kiddie-porn.


12 posted on 10/24/2020 3:05:53 PM PDT by PTBAA
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Before this Netfixed put Obastard and Suzn Rice on the payroll as producers??? WTF is up with that, neither know jack shit about making movies

No conservative with knowledge of this should pay them one red cent

Make it hurt where it counts, right in bank account


13 posted on 10/24/2020 3:06:16 PM PDT by Gasshog
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To: Professional

The Gillette Syndrome claims another group of leftards trying to push their perversion on the public.


14 posted on 10/24/2020 3:08:39 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("All men and women created by - go - you know, you know - the thing")
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To: RandFan

Makes one ask what were/are the Netflix executives getting paid, in order to keep defending this Pedo-Porn?

There must be some enormous material upside for them to keep lobbying for it, in spite of all the lost subscriptions.


15 posted on 10/24/2020 3:09:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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I have wanted to cancel for years, but my wife was great about us cutting cable, and she liked Netflix.

After Cuties, she asked me to cancel Netflix. Took me nearly a minute to get to the site and cancel.

16 posted on 10/24/2020 3:13:01 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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Miley Cyrus gets the trashy prize...IMHO


17 posted on 10/24/2020 3:14:18 PM PDT by yoe (Vote for President Trump!..Keep America Great and protected by the US. Constitution.)
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195 million members? You couldn’t find enough boycotters to make a dent in that. Unfortunately you have plenty of adults that ‘keep it for the kids’ and just feed the beast. Disney is getting in on the action, so now parents have two payments to hollywood every month (if not more).


18 posted on 10/24/2020 3:17:15 PM PDT by wareagle7295
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195 million members? You couldn’t find enough boycotters to make a dent in that. Unfortunately you have plenty of adults that ‘keep it for the kids’ and just feed the beast. Disney is getting in on the action, so now parents have two payments to hollywood every month (if not more).

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Disney Plus (and now Hulu) are only available in a select few countries in the world (26 or so). The Philippines is not one of them. Same with CBS. Not available. Amazon Prime/FireTV doesn’t work here much either. Role only works in select upscale subdivisions in Makati and Fort Bonifacio, definitely not in the Visayas Region. And OTA stations have solely Communist Chinese/ Duterte propaganda once ABS-CBN was forcibly shutdown. VPNs don’t work well.


19 posted on 10/24/2020 3:37:30 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Starcitizen

that’s your excuse for keeping it for other kids’ shows like you mentioned in your last post?

good luck with your conscience


20 posted on 10/24/2020 3:50:25 PM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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