CUTIES BACKLASH: Netflix Signups Plummet With Only 177,000 New U.S. Users, Down 1.3 Million From Forecast

 

Netflix has reported a dramatic fall in third-quarter subscriptions following the backlash which ensued as a result of the release of the highly controversial ‘Cuties’ movie that was advertised then hosted on the platform.

 

Even though millions of potential consumers around the globe are in lock down, Netflix’s pallid subscription reports raised many eyebrows. Netflix fell shy by less than two-thirds of its expected new subscribers, dropping from a forecasted 3.57 million to 2.2 million worldwide. Only 177,000 of those new subscribers were amassed in the United States, where Netflix boycotts over ‘Cuties’ raged over the last several months. In the same quarter of 2019, Netflix gained 6.8 million net subscribers.

 

The ‘Cuties’ movie drew international outrage on social media as the movie depicted scantily-clad preteen female performers in various sexually suggestive dances, poses, and predicaments throughout a film whose metanarrative was to expose the cultural clashes experienced by traditionalist-leaning migrants in a sexually permissive secular-liberal French society when coming of age.