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Some Netflix users arent too happy about the streaming providers newly announced deal with former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to produce original content on the service.
After the deal was announced on Monday, a growing number of users have said theyll cancel their Netflix subscriptions and called on others to do the same. The users, who continue to express their displeasure with the deal on Twitter, have also posted screenshots of their Netflix cancellation confirmation pages.
Do you subscribe to Netflix? one Twitter user asked on Monday. Today they announced a multi-year deal with Barack and Michelle Obama. Please Cancel (sic) your subscription & show them this shall not stand! Another person said that he kinda liked Netflix, but now I have to cancel.
More political crap from Netflix, another Twitter user wrote. Many will cancel their subscriptions. Hope it was worth it.
For its part, Netflix declined Fortunes request for comment on the complaints and instead said it had nothing more to share beyond its statement on Monday. Its also worth noting that Twitter complaints do not necessarily translate to subscriptions. And since Netflix has 125 million memberships to its streaming service, its unlikely the number of cancellations will put a dent in that number.
http://fortune.com/2018/05/22/netflix-users-obama-boycott/
Me.
(35,454 posts)Cha
(297,812 posts)Amazon!
we have to side with Bezos too since the abscess in the WH is trying to bring him down and he has his paper writing good things...so how about if they go to hell? After all, they're obsessed with it.
joke.. they hate Bezos, too.
Me.
(35,454 posts)I bet Bezos doesn't like them either, nobody does...
Cha
(297,812 posts)streaming without Netflix and amazon.. trump's brainwashed cult.
Reed Hastings the head of Netflix actually endorsed Hillary..
People are threatening to boycott Netflix after the Obamas signed a deal with the streaming service
"Hillary Clinton is the strong leader we need, and it's important that Trump lose by a landslide to reject what he stands for," Hastings said at the time.
http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-backlash-barack-michelle-obama-deal-conservatives-2018-5
I just saw some tweets below this article and they are so mad at Prez and Michelle.. lol
Me
Me.
(35,454 posts)million moms, some people say, and all that nonsense, their numbers are smaller than his mouth
ProfessorGAC
(65,248 posts). . .will have to leave mom's basement and go to Redbox. The horror that they will actually have to leave the house.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Asking for a former Netflix using friend.
Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)Believe me, blacks spend money on entertainment and if the Obamas are involved the will support Netflix.
True Dough
(17,338 posts)Now, all of a sudden, it's "Netflix and triggered!"
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Bitter twitters.
Bengus81
(6,936 posts)What does it matter if it's new or old?
blogslut
(38,019 posts)That'll show em!
And their computers.
blogslut
(38,019 posts)and XBOXes and Playstations and Rokus and Chromecasts and, hell, they should burn down their houses too just to be sure!
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)they live in now.
Best be safe.
or is that Be best safe?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and burn that before they give up watching reruns of "Person of Interest" and "Lethal Weapon."
I actually saw POI once and was totally (un)charmed by an ex-CIA assassin hired by a vigilante billionaire to stop criminals planning slaughter by any means necessary, because government law enforcement was of course completely incompetent and unwilling (liberal) to do its job.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I actually watched, and enjoyed the entire series CBS, "POI". It was not charming. It was brutal, and imho very liberal. No lol
My family has those who choose to be in law enforcement, including the federal level. So, anecdotal on my part, not necessarily a reflection of the whole "pi".
I'm reminded of the Great Keurig Rebelliion
Iggo
(47,578 posts)pstokely
(10,531 posts)nt
paleotn
(17,989 posts)Wouldn't break my heart one bit.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Cha
(297,812 posts)Yavin4
(35,450 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)insignificant as it is
lpbk2713
(42,769 posts)I like the way Netflix thinks.
Delmette2.0
(4,174 posts)Letterman has had some great interviews with people that I don't think the RW would like. I look forward to My Next Guest every month and I can't wait to see what the Obama's present.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)Let's not forget their ill-fated boycotts where they smashed Keurig brewing machines and blew up Yeti coolers... after they already paid for them.
So, I'm guessing their boycott of Netflix will consist of thousands of Trumplodytes signing up for Netflix just so they can refuse to watch it.
still_one
(92,454 posts)to headline this with hyperbolic wording, until at the very end of the article, almost easy to pass over:
"Its also worth noting that Twitter complaints do not necessarily translate to subscriptions. And since Netflix has 125 million memberships to its streaming service, its unlikely the number of cancellations will put a dent in that number."
Cha
(297,812 posts)secretly don't even boycott. Where they gonna go.. amazon?
still_one
(92,454 posts)Cha
(297,812 posts)trumps tell him how to run his business. He endorsed Hillary in 2016.
People are threatening to boycott Netflix after the Obamas signed a deal with the streaming service
"Hillary Clinton is the strong leader we need, and it's important that Trump lose by a landslide to reject what he stands for," Hastings said at the time.
http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-backlash-barack-michelle-obama-deal-conservatives-2018-5
Initech
(100,108 posts)Iggo
(47,578 posts)Sad.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)Now, if they do one with Trump that would be the end of Netflix for me
greatauntoftriplets
(175,755 posts)Retrograde
(10,165 posts)so I don't watch those. Overall I think it's good value for the cost, so I'm keeping my subscription.
Netflix is a business: if they didn't expect the Obama deal to benefit them in the long run they wouldn't have done it
BannonsLiver
(16,508 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)and if they were, I think they'd be actually cancelling their subscriptions as opposed to trying to convince some dumb sheeple to cancel theirs.
I don't recall reading "and you'll be forced to watch their shows", so feel free not to watch if you're that offended. As someone else said, I can't wait for the awards to start rolling in.
Let's just say there are some of us who wouldn't wear Ivanka's Chinese-made trashion if you paid us. Free country (at this point anyway).
JHB
(37,163 posts)Not that many of them will actually boycott Netflix, despite the public huffing and puffing. Who's going to know?, and they ain't going to wait for the season Blu-Ray for their shows.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)Netflix movies to keep them busy. So, bring it!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And almost everyone of them are still rockin With their VCRs. No shit.
Vinca
(50,318 posts)The Orange Fuhrer will spontaneously combust when they pick up gold statuettes he always dreamed of.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)and display them next to his Kim commemorative coins. Right under his fake magazine covers.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)losers
shanti
(21,675 posts)edbermac
(15,947 posts)Just love the taste of snowflake tears.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Just because something is available on NetFlix doesn't mean everyone has to watch it. They are just hateful, mean-spirited, envious assholes.
anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)The stuff they always claim to care so much about except when companies do things they dont like, etc. Dont watch the show they are free to exercise their decision to NOT watch something.
lisa58
(5,755 posts)elmac
(4,642 posts)kacekwl
(7,024 posts)Forced to watch programing ?
paleotn
(17,989 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)other ailment. No, we'll just let them find out on their own. When you make others the target of your hate, your hateful heart will attack you in return. The Obamas will be fine though. I'm sure that Netflix did their research when they proposed the deal to the Obamas.
wysi
(1,512 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)silly deplorables. Like their Orange Dotard does not get 20 times the coverage on the MSM.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,900 posts)will come to their homes, duct tape their eyelids open and force them to watch these programs?
No?
Different Drummer
(7,652 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,386 posts)And the Obamas enhance the brand around the world. These idiots are basically one row of barely noticeable speed bumps on the interstate.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)When the newest seasons of their favorite series show up, they'll be watching Netflix like they did before.
Cha
(297,812 posts)leave then? Or didn't they even know about it? lol
People are threatening to boycott Netflix after the Obamas signed a deal with the streaming service
"Hillary Clinton is the strong leader we need, and it's important that Trump lose by a landslide to reject what he stands for," Hastings said at the time.
http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-backlash-barack-michelle-obama-deal-conservatives-2018-5
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Personally, I am shocked every time I see all the rumpie fawning flicks on the list of trending. "Me thinks they doth protest to much" , it's just a menu of entertainment to appeal to the largest audience, geez.
Renew Deal
(81,883 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)There are no safe spaces in real life! Suck it up, buttercups!