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Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel
(www.engadget.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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Streaming services are very sensitive to the ups and downs of anything that's a standard deviation of from normal. They're too new to have 10+ years of data to fall back on, so the same overreactions that canceled Kimmel also uncanceled him because of panicky reactions to repercussions.