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Its a Hit, Disney says The Acolyte is the Biggest Disney+ Launch of 2024


‘The Acolyte’ Reaches 4.8 Million Views in One Day, Biggest Disney+ Launch of 2024

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/the-acolyte-ratings-viewers-biggest-disney-2024-1236028166/

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The context is interesting: biggest hit of the year from a failing company losing money left and right in their pursuit of politics.

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The failin' NYT!

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Disney makes billions just from subscriptions, moron!

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They are losing money!

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"Weinstein's Acolyte got 4.8 mil views in one day. It's a hit according to us, and don't ask us to give you a shred of evidence." - Iger Disney

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Still got Weinstein Derangment Disorder?

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Still defending rapists?

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👏💥👏💥👏💥

bravo disney

you know between the two sides, disney feminazi marxist scum and the disney-hater delusional manbaby chuds, right now i think i'm rooting for the disney scum. the anti-disney chuds have become so much worse of a nuisance 😑

too bad acolyte sucked though
might tune into see that new darth zoomer vader fight the they/thems
otherwise i couldnt get into it 😞

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i haven't seen it, is it better than Ahsoka ?

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nah the opposite

i was able to finish ahsoka and thought it was pretty decent
i just couldnt care about anything that was happening in this one. it felt so much more zoomery
and what they do to our girl matrix trinity... lets just say ..i was not amused 😐

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It's OK, it's not bad or good but we're only 2 episodes in so far. I'm interested enough to watch the 3rd Episode when it drops on Tuesday. So many parrots infested with brainworms lurk on this website it's insane. You'd think this show was the worst thing ever created based on what they are saying so my guess is many haven't even seen it. I like the idea of a set of identical twins being seperated at a young age with one being adopted by an evil force and the other a good force. The acting is very good some of the special effects are a little off but still good if measured by non Star Wars shows. it's cetainly not the creation of the devil like so many people on here are crying about. They seriously need to touch grass.

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Completely agree. I was initially put off by some of the effects and the costumes but overall it's not that bad.

I think this is the only other comment made by someone who's watched the two episodes on here!

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So you accept that it sucked and you still side with them and not with people saying “It sucks”

Just a weenie bit weird.

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obviously it sucks for being boring
not for the host reasons that specific set of retards want it to
of course you know that

as for those people, if they kept their whiny grievances to disney thatd be one thing...just irritating ideologues fighting one another

but because nobody cares about or listens to them there in disneyland
they try to bring that shit everywhere else
annoying the rest of us who dont want to lick the balls of george lucas or endlessly fantasize about the long gone good old days of their childhood thats never coming back

so now theres progressive boogiemen and ciswhite-male replacement conspiracies under every rock, in every property 🙄. wonderful

yep i'm thinking i side with disney now 👍
even on their shit 💩 🤣

and hey maybe even now, especially on disneys non normative normalization whateverthfuck agenda..since the typical losing desperate impotent lashing out is possibly starting to get as funny as it is pathetic... so the more disney wins the more i imagine i'll get to laugh, too 🥳🤭

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That's an idiotic statement.

"I know I'm eating shit but I will side with the people feeding me shit and I will continue to eat shit and support them feeding me shit just because some people that I don't know and don't impact me in any way tell me I'm eating shit".

Yeah, makes sense.

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Yup that is weaponized hatred right there, from a wackadoodle that thinks his opinion matters especially when it is so thinly substantiated.

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Weaponized Retribution has such a much smoother ring to it 🤗🎈

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"Want in one hand, sh*t in the other and see which one fills faster."- my father

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he sounds non binary 🤓

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Orly? Then it's high time you dust off your modern Archie Bunker and let the hate begin!

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none of that makes sense. and you mistake me for something else

i've never been attached to star wars. igenerally t's one of the lesser sci fi franchises, clearly targeted at children (and child brains), with cartoonish dark/light, goofy side characters/costumes, and an entirely commoditized/merchanidzed universe

i don't care if the new show of the day is shit. disney is not even responsible for 1% of movie output per year. if it makes something shit i don't watch it, watch something of the 99% else, and move on with my life. i dont continue eating anything. i also manage to not whine about it endlessly because, in contrast to the manbabies, my brain is more fully developed for my age

regardless, disney star wars impacts no one except those who choose to consume it. whether it is woke this and dei that, that has no impact on anyone else. ergo, those upset by it are upset because they choose to be. this is next level parasocial obsessive infatuation...

meanwhile the world turns and disney continues outputting the product that it has a right to and that it owns. clearly they have a new star wars. the past is dead. but a whole lot of people are too stupid to realize that. do you really envision yourself in 30 years still not understanding that?

lastly..i actually argue that i'm impacted every time try to have some otherwise innocuous movie discussion and some dumbass injects out of place anti-woke/dei whining that they've learned from being anti disney -totally fucking derails everyting. since i choose involve myself in this regard, i choose to take a side here: LONG LIVE DISNEY 🎉🎈🎊🥳🎊🎈🎉 ALL HAIL KATHLEEN KENNEDY, The Queenslayer

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You make no sense.

If you don't care why do you post? You are endlesly whining about people that don't like shit. Are you for real? if you are not impacted and don't care because you don't care about SW why the fuck do you whine about people that care about how shitty SW has become? Are you stupid or something?

For someone that "doesn't care" you spend a lot of time and energy defending someone that you actually accept that they produce shit ...

And even if you are not attached to SW ... and you "don't care" you still support producing shit.

That is the problem.

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so... between eating brown shit and slightly yellow shit, you prefer the brown shit. Ever considered of maybe not eating shit - or rooting for shit?

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to the contrary
millions of people are scarfing down their gourmet meals

your shit-tasting tastebuds are now in the minority
i dont know what to tell you 🤷‍♂️

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Box office and ratings prove you wrong. They churn out shit and get ... shit. Because people like you that like shit are the real minority.

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stop crying. did you think saying this makes you better? you literally said you hated it and even mention they/them. you ARE the disney-hater delusional manbaby chud.

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And according to Amazon, The Rings of Power was a huge critical and commercial hit, even though only about a third of viewers finished it and fans hated it. Streaming services can say whatever they like; we don't have to believe them.

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^ This ^

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i can bet you my left nut everyone who worked on that show hated it except the feminist writers. no one in their right mind would be ok with the prison scene where she magically beats up 2 guys. they literally could not even fathom a possible way it could happen and so they couldn't even show it happening. it just cuts to it in the show. one moment she's behind bars and the next she's outside beating them up.

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And now we are taking World Wide numbers into consideration. That can click any time of the day. Can click by accident. Can click off after a few minutes.

Compare it to good numbers from TV of old and is it that good? Those TV numbers you couldn't click any time to watch it. They were country specific, not world wide.

I've seen Youtube videos go into 100,000s and millions in a week coming from a dude in his bedroom talking into a mike.

4.8 word wide numbers, anytime clicks from one of the biggest IPs of all time, from the biggest entertainment company ever isn't that impressive.

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and what's 4,800,000 times 7.99/13.99 per month in youtuber math monies?

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Avoiding the question?

4.8 million viewers who clicked for half a second within the window of a week/month at any time of the day in any part of the world isn't as impressive as 4.8 million from one country, who had to be sat in front of the TV when it aired, such a tight window.

Especially for a show from one of the biggest IPs of all time from the biggest entertainment company ever, and a premiere to boot!

"youtuber math monies" What are you blabbing about?

Watch the very next episodes drop to small YouTuber viewing figures because this dreck has the lowest viewer ratings of any show apart from Star Wars Holiday Special.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/06/06/the-acolyte-has-the-lowest-star-wars-audience-scores-since-the-holiday-special/

Oh and by the way. The Holiday Special pulled in 13 million viewers, peak time Christmas season.

What's that in AD REVENUE MONIES?

https://regainwellness.medium.com/why-the-star-wars-holiday-special-was-the-worst-thing-to-ever-air-on-tv-104d018ff52d

lol

You like dreck and that's ok.

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4.6 on IMDb.

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That is what happens when Disney does not own IMDB.

On rotten tomatos it is 91% and on the 'Most Popular on RT' list, that is how well money works.

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Yep if this was an amazon production the rating would magically be 7+, surprised Disney did not pay to make it look better on IMDB.

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Or Amazon did not want to promote for a competitor.

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Good point. lol i did not think of that.

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Audience Score is 26%


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I guess they were not paid enough, at least not to a point they were willing to rig the audience score.

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review bombing

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f a k e sc o re s

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Always be skeptical of the access media. Sites like Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline, IndieWire, etc. work for the studios, not the audience.

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Movie studios spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertisements, for one blockbuster, and we are reading their articles for free, so of course entertainment media work for movie studios.

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all those websites are owned by the same company

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Yeah, that is actually true, they are all owned by Penske Media Corporation.

That is kind of a trend these days, media ownership concentration and the rise of super media giants.

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I think I'll wait till all eps are available to stream. I went into ahsoka after 4 were available and I did not like waiting through the cliffhangers.

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how does Views make it a hit?
the people watching have already paid for their Disney+ subscription.

audience reviews is what determines if it's a hit..... and the reviews are terrible. both on rotten tomatoes, imdb and everywhere else.

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>how does Views make it a hit?

On a streaming service, people who view your product keep subscribing to it. It's how they measure success.

That's why TV shows with low views get cancelled. Or specifically, low completion rates.

>audience reviews is what determines if it's a hit..... and the reviews are terrible. both on rotten tomatoes, imdb and everywhere else.

Reviews mean absolutely nothing to Disney, Netflix, Amazon. They only care about viewing figures.

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social engineering is a different beast, I'm afraid - the money going into this is unlimited - forget about the old business models, they no longer play a role.

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Who knows. Most Disney series are miniseries anyway, and don't get renewed in the first place.

But just go watch something else.

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