P+ is going to be fine, folks have been predicting its death since before it first started and its big draw was really only Nu Star Trek. Its subscriber base has just exploded, going from 20 million to 60 million in 2 years.
Everybody is reading way too much into the cancellations.
" we predicted he'd die young when he said he was gonna go to thailand to do heroin".
"It's been 7 years I ain't dead yet, who says heroin is bad for you?"
If 50% of the population hates your product, they hate your brand.
Discovery was instantly repulsive to conservatives, so were most of these streaming services. The budlight effect isn't some new idea, it's just a rare product/situation where people can't pretend it's something else. If budlight sold digital beer, they'd never reveal how bad the backlash has been. They can lie all they want, when the beer coolers are full, you have a problem.
You can't insult people and expect them to be your friends. They tolerate you just long enough, until they find something better/cheaper.
Conservatives are slow to change their habits, but when they do watch out. I suspect conservative product avoidance is gonna get way way more intense, when they realize they get way way more political power with boycotts than they do with crazed twitter tweets.
And of course it's not just conservatives, they're just the people who consistently and predictably are pissed off.
If they're a liberal and they like utopian ideals of a diverse space future, they'll be more likely to be watching the Orville. Not super interested in a dark, bleak future, where everyone is shitty to eachother all the time.
Brave new worlds at least tried to gain back the liberal audience. But they still went way to hard on 18 year olds. And alienated older liberals, and still didn't create something conservatives could trust.
I think a lot of people believed their politics was an app like facebook or tiktok.
We're early adopters and people will follow. When in reality it's the opposite, the early adopters get bored and move on, and rigid types just never have any interest.
Basic thing to build a product on. Don't alienate people of a particular race, gender, age group, income, or political persuasion.
