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Elon Musk Wants Us to Cancel Netflix over a Trans Character. I Don't Blame Him.

Elon Musk's boycott call led to a 4% drop in Netflix's market value, wiping out up to $17 billion amid criticism of its diverse and gender-themed content.

  • On October 1, 2025, Elon Musk launched a campaign urging users to cancel Netflix over alleged pro-transgender content in children’s shows.
  • Musk initiated the boycott after highlighting Netflix’s animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park, claiming it pushes unhealthy transgender themes to kids, though the show centers on supernatural adventures.
  • The campaign amplified on social media with the hashtag #CancelNetflix and led many users to share cancellation screenshots, intensifying the backlash and public debate.
  • Netflix shares fell 4.3% by October 2, 2025, erasing up to $20 billion in market value as investors reacted to Musk’s calls and related subscriber concerns.
  • Netflix has not officially responded to the boycott, and analysts note such celebrity-led campaigns may cause short-term market fluctuations but not long-term subscriber losses.
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Elon Musk's boycott of Netflix brought to mind the case of his daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, who publicly declared himself transgender in 2022; "my son, Xavier, died," replied the tycoon. The post Elon Musk calls for boycotting Netflix for driving "trans ideology" and agenda wake first appeared on SinEmbargo MX.Read the full text on sinembargo.mx

Netflix faces one of the most disturbing periods of the year since the entrepreneur Elon Musk started, on the last Thursday (1o), a public campaign for users to cancel their signatures. The open bottle, which quickly ran into the X/Twitter, opened a series of dropouts in New York Bolsa, shutting down billions of the market value of the streaming giant. Everything started when Musk published a series of posters critical of what he called the “ide…

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The Canary broke the news in United Kingdom on Friday, October 3, 2025.
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