Disney CEO Bob Iger threatened to ad ban Tesla CEO and X owner, Elon Musk in his latest statement at the New York Times Deal Book conference last November.
As if he did not have enough stuff to deal with on his plate, Iger decides to bully the world’s richest man with an advertisement pull-out.
Elon’s response? “Go f— yourselves.”
“If somebody’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go f— yourself. Go. F—. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”
Musk also directly addressed Iger and said, “Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience… that’s how I feel.”
A few hours before Musk appeared at the conference, Iger told New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin that “we just felt that the association with that position and Elon Musk and X was not necessarily a positive one for us. And we decided we would pull our advertising.”
Despite taking down its ads, Disney still uses X as a platform to communicate with its audience.
Iger’s defiant stance and choice of battles resulted in renewed boycott calls. Various X users criticized Disney’s “woke” themes in their shows.
Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street, said “I cancelled my Disney subscription this morning for two reasons: first, in support of @elonmusk and X; and second, because I’ve had enough of its woke programming, which has destroyed my favorite franchise, Marvel, which used to be the absolute best. #CancelDisney”
“Instead of making good content, Disney is focusing on making sure at least 50% of all characters are LGBTQIA or non-White,” the account End Wokeness said on X.
Some expressed they canceled their subscriptions on Disney+ and Hulu to protest its slander against X and Elon Musk.
Kobeissi Letter showed that 68.5% of their 90,000 respondents in a poll they conducted signified that they will delete their accounts on Disney+.
The survey was conducted after the entertainment giant expressed they lost 11.7 million Disney+ subscribers.
Disney’s stock also fell over 0.6% at the market open on December 1.
Meanwhile, Musk added a loaded remark last December 2 against Walt Disney.
In response to Scott Adams’ tweet, the X owner said, “Disney has a major content problem. Almost their entire upcoming slate is unwatchable.
They are the world’s biggest example of go woke, go broke lol.”
The social media platform might lose $75 million by the end of the year because of the massive ad dropouts.
Still, Musk remained unfazed and responded to Sorkin’s probe, “The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company.” Furthermore, he added, “…we will document it in great detail.”
For him, the public will judge these companies doing the boycott.
Today there is an all out effort by Hollywood to demand movies must have mixed race couples, a LGBTQIA couple or one looking for a LGBTQIA partner, so as to make it seem to all Americans this is totally acceptable behavior for all Americans. AS if every family has a mixed race couple parents or love interest, members of the family are LGBTQIA. Which is a totally fallacious! You can not find a straight TV family in a movie or sitcom, without watching old reruns of the 60’s, or 70’s or 80’s. EVEN IN THE COMMERCIALS!
Decisions made in response to threats start a journey down the rabbithole. Decisions made on basis of moral stance and goodness of human upright character will lead to prosperous results.
I will not ever go to the theme park in Florida or California. I don’t believe in woke, gays, mix marriages don’t bother me. But gay.couples is not normal, I don’t think a child should be around abnormal people. God made adam a man, and his companion Eve, a woman. These men changing themselves is their mistake, or dressing like a woman is perverted. So i am on Elon Musk side!.