A source inside Disney told indie blogger Maria Kabas that between the Mouse megacorporation’s namesake streaming service, Hulu, and ESPN+ there were 1.7 million subscription cancelations after ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension at the command of convicted felon President Trump and FCC incel Brandon Carr on the 17th until his abrupt uncancellation on the 23rd, a 436 percent increase compared to a typical six-day period for the array of digital entertainment services.
Huh. So it takes six days for this to quietly leak out to a journo on BlueSky, where it got 7,800 likes, all the while the rest of the political/media world moved on because James Comey got indicted, an anti-Mormon MAGA terrorist shot up a church, something something Ryder Cup, and the government’s about to shut down. Carr, who was talking a LOT of shit before and immediately after Kimmel was seemingly done forever, has apparently stayed off Fox News while his partners in corruption, right wing affiliate chains Nexstar and Sinclair, capitulated on their preemption of Kimmel’s show just three days later. The latter’s cave was particularly embarrassing as Sinclair had demanded that the host make a large donation to TurningPoint USA, and they got nothing.
All the momentum that the MAGA Reich had in making Charlie Kirk’s assassination into a Reichstag fire moment and an all-out assault on the First Amendment has been seriously sapped by regular Americans simply saying “fuck this” and turning off their Disney streaming subscriptions in protest of the company’s cave to a fascist autocrat. That’s all it took. The significance of the moment is only outstripped by its insignificance amid a hurricane of other dark and absurd batshittery. Kabas even wrote “Can someone share my news on X so the weirdos can have a meltdown” as she has obviously been – like so many other libs – boycotting the bigger platform because of Ketamine Brain.
It was just numbers, simple numbers, that forced a reversal for a show that isn’t even actually available on the regular Disney+ tier, but Hulu. On that note, during the height of Kimmel’s six days in the desert, it was pretty maddening but also funny to see dipshits like Federalist editor Mark Hemingway fail to understand that for so many of these companies there are pressure points that exist independently of the ones directly subject to the whims of the Orange God Emperor:
If Fox doesn't have broadcast license then what the hell is this?
Truly amazing how uninformed you Trump goo guzzlers are pic.twitter.com/S82bsctLgT
— National Zero (@NationalZeroUSA) September 18, 2025
This asshole must’ve been furious when Nexstar and Sinclair caved.