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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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To: dp0622

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

good luck with your conscience

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Ok, with most other streaming services illegal or otherwise not available in the Philippines, you tell me what other options I have?

Doing without any media is not an option. And I forbid my kids to watch any animated tv series with any production credits from Communist China and that’s pretty much what they show on broadcast TV here now. That, and low-budget government propaganda series and South Korean telenovelas.


21 posted on 10/24/2020 4:31:36 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
Perhaps THIS WILL HELP?


22 posted on 10/24/2020 4:38:01 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: RandFan

We cancelled Netflix over a year ago after the Michelle Wolf “Salute to Abortion” and we will not be customers again. My kids miss the streaming service as they did have a ton of content, but at some point you have to say enough.

I do not understand why any business would go out of their way to offend or alienate a large number of their customers this way.


23 posted on 10/24/2020 4:40:53 PM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

Because just like sports the weak sheeple need their fix and continually send them money.


24 posted on 10/24/2020 4:45:41 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: bankwalker

Because just like with pro sports the weak sheeple need their weakly/daily fix and continually send them money.

So we have “Funded by conservatives for decades for insane/inane reasons/rationalizations!”

There by advancing and paying for the liberal anti America Agenda for decades!


25 posted on 10/24/2020 5:23:40 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I would rather be killed by Covid than by Loneliness, at the end of my life! I'll be 82 in November!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Yep. Sending money to people that want us dead.


26 posted on 10/24/2020 5:26:11 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: Grampa Dave
Let Biden‘s campaign come out and explain what he actually meant. We should not do it for them.

Then we should campaign on Biden‘s having not having the cognitive ability to negotiate for the United States with the leaders of other countries or even speak to them about anything of importance.

27 posted on 10/24/2020 5:31:45 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Starcitizen

Search for Australian, new zeaaland and British programs.

Just forget about what some consider bad.

Do not throw out the baby with te bath water


28 posted on 10/24/2020 5:36:32 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: Professional
The thing is, this was not their first foray into child sexualization (not to mention putting pornography into its regular programming). It was just the first time for some reason it was noticed.

Child-Sexualizing ‘Cuties’ Movie On Netflix Is Even Worse Than We Thought

New Adult Netflix Cartoon 'Hoops' Sexualizes Minors With Porn and Prostitutes

It's Not Just 'Cuties:' Netflix's Big Pedo Problem

29 posted on 10/24/2020 5:43:13 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Starcitizen

There are so many channels for free on an antenna, coupled with numerous completely free streaming apps, there is zero reason to pay for any subscription services these days. And with those, you literally control what they make money off of and don’t...you don’t watch it, they don’t make money on it.


30 posted on 10/24/2020 5:45:53 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Starcitizen

Oh...in the Philippines. Don’t know how many of the free apps would make it there. Well...can you get YouTube? There are a lot of kids channels and movie channels there with clean content. EncourageTV is one with a lot of family programming both for adults and kids...not the only one, though. Peppa Pig is a popular cartoon (never watched it - can’t endorse it - just see it pop up as a suggestion) with its own channel...sure there are others like it. You can also see if PlutoTV is available where you are.

There is also the HappyKids.tv app and KiDoodle - if they are accessible where you are.


31 posted on 10/24/2020 6:03:09 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Starcitizen

Lots of options now....

Disney + not bad...

Amazon Prime, Hulu, lot of others.


32 posted on 10/24/2020 6:05:30 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: bert

It’s entirely factual...why claim that is “BS....foolishness” when it is entirely true?

https://nypost.com/2019/08/27/netflix-is-now-a-propaganda-machine-for-the-obamas/

https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/28/media/susan-rice-netflix/index.html


33 posted on 10/24/2020 6:06:17 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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Netflix is obsessed with pushing the Left’s sex narrative and agenda.

Try watching a mini-series these days that doesn’t have a significant homosexual component.


34 posted on 10/24/2020 6:16:15 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: bankwalker

Absolutely:

“Yep. Sending money to people that want us dead.”


35 posted on 10/24/2020 6:20:31 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I would rather be killed by Covid than by Loneliness, at the end of my life! I'll be 82 in November!)
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To: RandFan

I cancelled when they partnered with Obama.


36 posted on 10/24/2020 6:23:40 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Gene Eric

Try watching a mini-series these days that doesn’t have a significant homosexual component.

My wife has been a long time fan of the original Perry Mason.

So we tried HBO for the new Perry Mason version:

They made Perry into a violent drug addict due to WWII.

Then, they had Della making out with a young lesbo.

At that moment, my wife took the remote, and we left the new perverted Perry.


37 posted on 10/24/2020 6:26:41 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (I would rather be killed by Covid than by Loneliness, at the end of my life! I'll be 82 in November!)
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To: Veggie Todd

That;s the Liberals part of the plan.


38 posted on 10/24/2020 7:01:13 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I hear ya’.

You’ll notice the writers hold off on the blatant homo until you’re in a few episodes.


39 posted on 10/24/2020 7:05:30 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Starcitizen

You actually can live without it and so can your kids. Seems weird at first but you’ll find and they’ll find many other creative outlets.


40 posted on 10/24/2020 7:26:29 PM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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