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Engadget
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Engadget
Disney Plus and Hulu's new 'Perks' feature offers discounts, tickets to movie premieres and more
Disney Plus and Hulu have come up with a new idea to draw in subscribers: an updated "Perks" program. If you sign up for a subscription with either of those services, Perks will give you freebies like a six-month DoorDash membership, discounted stays at Walt Disney World and 20 percent off Adidas shoes. You'll even get a shot at winning items from Hulu shows, like actual A Handmaid's Tale robes and wings (which seems a bit on the nose in our current times). The offer is now available to current and new Disney Plus subscribers and will launch for Hulu on June 2nd. Other companies participating including Microsoft, Pure Green, LG and Funko, with new perks arriving every week this summer. If you subscribe to one of Disney's Disney Plus and Hulu bundle plans, you'll get access perks from both programs. An international launch is set for later this year. Disney Plus counts 126.0 million paid subscribers worldwide as of March 31 this year, thanks to 1.4 million new signups in the first three months of 2025, according to Variety . Paid Hulu subscribers rose by 1.1 million during the same period and now stand at 54.7 million. By comparison, Netflix counted 301.6 million paid subscribers globally at the end of 2024.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Powerful Reason Why White Folks Are Afraid of A Possible American Dystopia, But Black Folks Say 'Bring It On!'
A lot of folks believe that President Donald Trump and his administration are ushering in dystopian America of sorts — one in which only wealthy white people will be able to survive without needing to fight one another over will presumably only consist of the rodents we're fortunate enough to catch. But while many prepare to adjust for this new 'normal,' it'll be business as usual for Black have lived in a dystopia since the day we were torn from our homeland. That's why you always hear Black folks say 'we gon' be alright.' Because we've lived through worse. According to the Oxford dictionary, a dystopia is an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice. But when have we not lived in such a state? Was not the separation of children from their parents, brother from sister, the destruction of Black families an example of a life lived in the bitter embrace of injustice? What about living through chattel slavery? Being told that the divine created us for a life of servitude? Our ancestors had to fight for everything they received. Freedom, the right to vote, the right to live where we pleased. These were all gained not because they were given, but because they were acquired by those who would not take no for an answer. Those brave Black men and women who dreamed a better future for their children and grandchildren. Who would not rest until the rights they saw others enjoy was theirs. That is what it means to live in a dystopia. What we have survived is as bad, if not worse, than any author or filmmaker could envision. You may say 1984 by George Orwell is a dystopia, but what about 1719? The year the first slave ship arrived in Louisiana. Perhaps you think Margret Atwood's 'A Handmaid's Tale' is an unrivaled dystopic vision. I suggest you research the experience of Black women in America. Or, better yet, just watch '12 Years a Slave' (a dystopian film if ever there were one) and watch how Massa treated Patsy. Or watch Roots and observe how Chicken George came to be. Living in a dystopia is nothing new to us. We were born in one. Live in one. And yet, we never lost our joy. We created art that white people tried to steal. We created food that was filled with soul. Our dystopic experience never beat us down for we were even able to find love. So, is going through a reckoning of its on making. Those who voted thoughtlessly have welcomed a dystopia of their own making. But we know how to survive a dystopia. In fact, we can thrive in spite of living in one. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
