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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago

Oligarchs get cozy with oligarchs, what a shocker.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 77 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It’s time to drop Disney+.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Should have 5 years ago. Mostly cause fuck disney, but I get why you had it.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

We've dropped it October 2023. Fuck them Zionist shits.

[–] proudblond@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

We just did. Only reason it took this long is because it auto-renewed this time last year for a year slightly ahead of when we thought it was gonna do that. Oops.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 1 week ago

wow who could have predicted this considering they're the same companies who said they wouldn't donate to republicans after january 6th three months before they started donating to republicans again.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I almost can't blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.

[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A majority of American citizens who voted...that's an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.

[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well the ones who didn't vote obviously weren't too bothered by fascism and racism either, apparently

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[–] MdRuckus@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Horrible timing. Millions are leaving and going to BlueSky.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago

That would be REALLY Corrupt if simply buying Ads on a Website was Enough to allow you to DIRECTLY INFLUENCE the President Of The United States! Fortunately Trump DIDNT put the Owner of X in charge of Important Oversight Decisions!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Death to Comcast, Disney, and IBM.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, that's been an accurate statement for decades.

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[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good thing everyone is leaving

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Doesn't matter. They're not doing it to get people to see their ads, they're doing it to bribe Elon since he has actual political power now. Kind of like how oil companies buy ads on news media, even though you don't need to be persuaded to buy oil - it's to buy favorable coverage.

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[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just going to be all brands, nazis and/or bots soon.

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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

And nobody was surprised. I predict most advertisers will return by the end of January for the same reasons they left previously: It's the right business decision at the right time. Remember that the next time a corporation makes a pledge. It's always about money.

This is bending the knee

[–] Free_Opinions 29 points 1 week ago (11 children)

ITT: People realising most of the world lives outside their bubble

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[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I dropped Xitter as soon as it became apparent that Elon was going to buy it and started pirating Disney (and everyone else) shortly after. Couldn't tell you the last time I bought anything IBM but I'll have to be more careful about it. I'm switching to a local fiber provider so I'm leaving comcast in a couple of weeks.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is it bad that for a brief moment when you said you were switching to a local fiber provider, I thought you were talking about making sure you tdke healthy poops?

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Going after the coveted racist bot market.

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[–] Tehhund@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Did anyone read the article? Besides the top 2, these amounts are paltry:

Data by MediaRadar showed that Comcast, which spent less than $1.5 million on X this year, was followed by Warner Bros. Discovery at $1.1 million, whose ads are supporting theatrical releases of movies, and Disney at under $550,000. Lionsgate spent less than $230,000, while IBM allocated under $2,000.

That's embarrassing.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is beautiful! It's like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

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[–] Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

He'll get advertisers just as actual people leave.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Of course they are they only care about money.

Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.

[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

They can eat their shit

[–] AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

People aren't moving away from it. Of course they come back

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