The boycott of Disney branded properties, its streaming services Disney+ and Hulu, is widening as customers seek to punish the Bob Iger-run company after ABC broadcast affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair removed Jimmy Kimmel Live from their stations following his mendacious remarks about the man who assassinated conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk.
A flood of reports to mass message boards like Reddit’s r/Fauxmoi‘s showed users struggling to cancel their Disney+ and Hulu subscription due to the site crashing or failing to load. “The page to cancel your Hulu/Disney+ subscription keeps crashing,” one user wrote.
Another user posted a cancellation success story, writing: “Already cancelled my Disney subscription.”
The Disney+ site crash reports come as Hollywood celebrities like Cynthia Nixon and Rosie O’Donnell have pushed people to boycott Disney.
“Boycott ABC And Disney And Their Advertisers,” reads the meme O’Donnell shared to her followers on Instagram over the weekend.
“Hey, I just cancelled my Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, and they asked me why. I hit ‘Other’ and I wrote, ‘Because I believe in the First Amendment. Reinstate Jimmy Kimmel, now.’ My whole family is really gonna miss ‘Abbott Elementary.’ We are really gonna miss ‘Only Murders in the Building.’ But you know what? We would miss the First Amendment a whole lot more,” Nixon said in the short video posted to social media.
Last Wednesday, ABC broadcast affiliates Nexstar and Sinclair removed Jimmy Kimmel Live from their stations. The companies pulled Kimmel after he mocked Trump’s mourning the assassination of Charlie Kirk and spread disinformation about his killer, calling him part of “the MAGA gang.”
Jerome Hudson is Breitbart News Entertainment Editor and author of the book 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump. Order your copy today. Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter and instagram@jeromeehudson
