Netflix Will Survive the 'Cuties' Cancellations
Art is often controversial, but one recent addition to the Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) catalog is stirring up some potentially unwanted attention. Cuties -- a French coming-of-age film with a culture-clash bent about a Senegalese girl in France with a conservative Muslim upbringing trying to click with her new dance team -- is coming under fire from naysayers arguing the film sexualizes its 11-year-old characters.
Cuties is far from the raciest thing you will see on Netflix starring minors, but some grassroots movements have a way of getting companies entangled in the weeds. Subscription analytics company ANTENNA reported last week that its trend tracking of the leading streaming service finds Netflix cancellations in the first five days since Cuties' Sept. 9 debut were five times the number of defections the platform experienced in the previous 30 days. It's a pretty jarring statistic, but like knocking a movie many of the #CancelNetflix hashtag-wielding critics probably haven't seen, you don't really have the whole story here.
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