Today several users reported that a handful of significant Cartoon Network shows—including Ben 10, Steven Universe, Regular Show, the 2016 Powerpuff Girls revival, Amazing World of Gumball, We Bare Bears, and Chowder—were suddenly no longer streaming on Max with the turn of the month, with no prior announcement of their impending removal.
Just removing Steven Universe alone seems insane to me. I’m not into it, but it has a massive fan base.
The World According to Jeff Goldblum was a show made by and for Disney+. They deleted it for tax purposes. There is no legal way to watch the show now. Completely gone.
Jesus Christ. I had to look into this. Yeah. Apparently these companies that own streaming services can just remove their own content they hold the rights to if they’re having a “line not go up as much as we’d like it to” year, and receive tax credits back from the Federal government. A multi trillion dollar company, in order to pay less taxes AND siphon off taxpayer dollars to add to their coffers, is allowed to choose to make their service less valuable. What a load of fucking horseshit.
Go Capitalism!
Same with The Mysterious Benedict Society. I did find a site that would sell it to me on a disc, but once I received it, it became clear to me they didn’t actually have a license to do so and just sold me a bootleg. Oh well. I dunno why Disney just didn’t want my money in the first place.