Why Disney+ is Drowning

The Disney community will not be ignored

Jordan Fraser
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Photo: Disney.com

Disney’s long heralded streaming service has been live for a few months now, and things may not be going so smoothly.

In the beginning, the service was plagued with bugs. Fans were unable to skip TV show episodes, or even play a lot of them. The frame rate was questionable, and entire movies were just missing.

Well, that last problem hasn’t been solved yet.

A lot of movies and TV series haven’t been uploaded to Disney+ yet, and there’s a lot of reasons why.

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The marketing department and their big damn mouths

Disney didn’t help themselves out by marketing this streaming service as the one place to find all your favourite Disney properties, and Disney fans are not messing around.

Like Apple fans, Disney fans are extreme. Money is no object to these fans, what they want is access. They want to throw money at the company and be given all the access they desire.

After years of dealing with the “Disney Vault”, an artificial way for Disney to hold films back for 10…

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