{"id":469080,"date":"2025-10-02T18:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469080\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T18:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T18:26:17","slug":"elon-musk-tells-227-million-followers-to-cancel-netflix-citing-three-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469080\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Tells 227 Million Followers To Cancel Netflix, Citing Three Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759429577_459_960x0.png\" alt=\"cocomelon\" data-height=\"730\" data-width=\"1296\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>While <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\" aria-label=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> is not intertwined with the Trump administration anymore, with his DOGE days over, he is still pushing many political causes, including a crusade against what he deems \u201ctransgender ideology.\u201d That has extended into a new campaign against Netflix, where in a few dozen tweets over the last 48 hours, he has urged his 227 million followers to cancel the service.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who has a transgender daughter, has repeatedly been tweeting \u201cCancel Netflix\u201d while retweeting large right-wing accounts like LibsofTikTok and Benny Johnson, who have been spearheading this. The accusation is that Netflix is \u201cindoctrinating\u201d kids with ideology, in addition to other claims.<\/p>\n<p>At least three specific shows were cited in referencing trans issues over the course of the tirade:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Baby-Sitter\u2019s Club \u2013 There\u2019s a scene where there\u2019s pushback about misgendering a child in a hospital<\/li>\n<li>Dead End: Paranormal Park \u2013 A series that has a trans main character.<\/li>\n<li>CoComelon \u2013 There\u2019s a segment where gay dads allegedly try to \u201craise their child transgender.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Baby-Sitters Club<\/p>\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Of note, two of these shows were canceled years ago. The Baby-Sitter\u2019s Club, despite 100% scores from critics, was canceled in 2021. Dead End: Paranormal Park ended in 2022. Cocomelon is still on, obviously, but it\u2019s a show with 13 seasons spanning 28 full hours of content. And there\u2019s a lot of reading into the scene cited in any case (the child is simply choosing whether to wear different kinds of clothes during a playtime dance).<\/p>\n<p>Those who have instigated this have claimed the campaign has gone \u201cviral,\u201d with screenshots of users posting that they\u2019ve canceled Netflix. There\u2019s no indication yet this has made a noticable impact on the service yet, but it is of note that the first man to have a $500 billion net worth as of this week is waging a public war against the largest streaming service on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, thousands of shows and hundreds of thousands of hours of content on Netflix. There are plenty of trans storylines across loads of movies and shows, but these three were pulled as \u201ctargeting\u201d kids. Those behind the campaign have also raised charges claiming Netflix \u201cdiscriminates against white people,\u201d showing various charts and graphs. <\/p>\n<p>Dead-End: Paranormal Park<\/p>\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<p>Transgender issues were a frequent flashpoint of the last election, and while there are roughly a thousand other controversial policies being implemented in the Trump administration, a frequent target has been gender-affirming care for the underage, restricting access to those tools and procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has not issued a statement on any of this and again, two of these shows aren\u2019t even on the air anymore. It stands to reason this may be the \u201cthing of the week\u201d that people want to yell about, but Elon picking up the charge makes it more high-profile than it would be otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow me <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\" aria-label=\"on Twitter\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulTassi\">on Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\" aria-label=\"YouTube\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ?sub_confirmation=1\">YouTube<\/strong><\/a><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ\" aria-label=\",\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCg6K8i6OGobyZNoPIsCW9uQ\">,<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paul.tassi\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paul.tassi\/?hl=en\" aria-label=\"Instagram\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paul.tassi\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick up my sci-fi novels the <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08G1MRFTM?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&amp;binding=kindle_edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08G1MRFTM?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&amp;binding=kindle_edition\" aria-label=\"Herokiller series\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B08G1MRFTM?ref_=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_tkin&amp;binding=kindle_edition\">Herokiller series<\/strong><\/a> <strong>and <\/strong><a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KYDGG73?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KYDGG73?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk\" aria-label=\"The Earthborn Trilogy\"><strong data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KYDGG73?binding=paperback&amp;ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk\">The Earthborn Trilogy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Elon Musk is not intertwined with the Trump administration anymore, with his DOGE days over, he is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,156291,295,451,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-469080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cocomelon","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-netflix","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115305983947047795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}