The Disney "hostile takeover". FAIL!!

You claimed that there was "a very clear cause and effect" to the declining D+ subscriptions, and that clear cause and effect was "identity politics at the expense of entertainment."

Not identity politics at the expense of entertainment, plus D+ raising its prices, plus password sharing.

I hope you don't find it pedantic of me to point out that it seems like you're conceding the point that it's actually less clear than you originally claimed.

I'm certainly not going to rule out the possibility that some of the people who gave up their D+ subscriptions did so because they found Disney too woke. But I am not going to believe that it is a major factor in the equation without some evidentiary support or at least a logical argument why it should be considered significant against other potential causes. And especially because there's not a particularly good argument that Disney has become significantly more woke from 2020 to now.

"Clear" in that you see a thing correlate with another thing. Not that you can match it molecule by molecule and publish a paper on it.

As you well fucking know.

I shouldn't have to tell you this, but correlation isn't necessarily causation. And you claimed it was causation.

A plateau of subscribers is always going to have a lip because you are always going to have that number of people who got the service and then left when you have a new thing. That dip is always there and has nothing to do with woke. Saying it is because of woke shows a complete ignorance of how things normally work. That opening increase is always going to cap and have a bit of a recession of membership after it. The fact the decline seems to have stopped and leveled off is right where it should be. Now if there are huge drops you can associate it with something else. Maybe there will be, but this is just a natural level of what is up, and D+ now need to maintain and try to increase membership.

Actually, this sort of thing with a new subscription service is normal. You will have the opening surge to the first plateau with a bit of a bleed afterwards and that is where you will find your first base level of customers. This is general marketing and expectations, and you are clearly not the person to be arguing any of this as you are unworldly and just a welder who does not make any effort to understand or educate themselves on anything. You make assumptions as to why based on your desires and beliefs. I know this sounds insulting, but it is really why you are a welder and not doing something in marketing or doing much industry research outside of your comfort zones.

This is why you are so easily lied to by others who manipulate data to confuse you. Ben Shapiro and the daily wire are creating a anti-0wopke children's division and they have the daily wire. I would expect to see the same rise of subscribers, though not to these numbers, up until a plateau and then for there to be a bit of a dip and then a baseline of subscriptions just like this.

I would say that now we are looking at the base that disney should be getting. Here is where we see what direction D+ goes. they may even hemmorage a few more users over the next few quarters, but they are going to have to show some growth eventually, or else then we will see losses in a user base that would mean dissatisfaction with users. Unless the user base dropped a substantial bit like around 10 million users in a quarter you cannot claim a huge boycot loss on a new service that has been tracking up to it's baseline.

Ain't Disney about to merge their content with Hulu (which they also own) and make it one platform anyway?