U.S. Subscriptions At Ultra-Woke Disney Slow To A Crawl After Company Loses Left-Wing Political Battles

Domestic subscription rates for Disney’s flagship streaming service 
have slowed to a crawl after the entertainment conglomerate engaged in 
left-wing political causes.

Although Disney reported on Wednesday that total subscriptions for 
Disney+ increased from 87.6 million to 93.6 million during the third 
quarter of its current fiscal year, the vast majority of the growth 
arose from international users, with only 100,000 new subscriptions 
coming from Americans. The latest figures represent a significant 
slowdown from the 1.5 million new domestic subscribers added by Disney 
during its fiscal second quarter.

Indeed, toward the conclusion of the second quarter — which, for 
Disney, ended on April 2 — the company leaped into the fray of 
contentious left-wing political battles. Beyond vowing to “take action” 
against the state of Texas for officials’ orders to investigate 
transgender procedures upon children as child abuse, Disney opposed 
parental rights legislation in Florida signed by Republican Governor 
Ron DeSantis banning classroom instruction about sexual orientation and 
gender identity from kindergarten to third grade.

“Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the 
legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to 
supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve 
that,” a Disney spokesman told The Daily Wire.

Despite its fervent activism, Disney appeared to be drastically out of 
step with the American public. In an exclusive poll from The Daily 
Wire, 64% of Americans — including 62% of Democrats and 57% of 
independents — supported the Florida law.

In response, DeSantis repeatedly vowed that Disney would “never run 
this state” during his tenure and signed legislation nixing the Reedy 
Creek Improvement District — a 39-square-mile special governing and tax 
district near Orlando, Florida, that hosted Disney World.

“Someone said Disney has all these special perks,” DeSantis explained. 
“Should you retaliate against them for them coming out and demagoguing 
this bill? I don’t believe you ‘retaliate,’ but I think what I would 
say is, as a matter of first principle, I don’t support special 
privileges in law just because a company is powerful, and they’ve been 
able to wield a lot of power.”

Meanwhile, a Disney producer openly boasted about her “not-at-all 
secret gay agenda,” as well as the company’s efforts to infuse 
children’s productions with LGBTQ content. Disney launched a “Pride 
collection” of rainbow-colored merchandise for children in late May.

Disney is by no means the only American corporation facing backlash 
from consumers for promoting LGBTQ content. Insurance company State 
Farm was forced to back down after outrage over its plan to donate 
books about transgenderism to schools and public libraries for children 
as young as five years old, while streaming service Netflix elected to 
take a hardline stance against censorship amid employee backlash to a 
comedy special from Dave Chappelle critical of transgenderism.

Though many Americans want companies to advance certain causes beyond 
their bottom lines, another exclusive poll from The Daily Wire recently 
showed that most American investors would rather see companies pursue 
profits rather than pontificating on political matters. While 29% of 
respondents to the poll agreed it is a “good thing” for companies to 
leverage their financial power for political or social means supported 
by executives, 58% — twice as many — said it is a “bad thing.”

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