The boss of Tela called on his 227 million subscribers on X to leave the platform, in response to the animated series “Dead End: Paranormal Park”, which follows the adventures of a transgender adolescent.
New controversy for Netflix. This week, the American streaming giant was the target of many criticisms of Internet users, who accuse him of promoting a transgender speech. Attacks supported in particular by Elon Musk, who called on his subscribers to terminate their subscription to the platform: “Cancel Netflix for the health of your children”he wrote on his social network X on Monday.
At the origin of this controversy is “Dead End : Paranormal Park»an animated series which follows Barney, transgender adolescent, and norma, young autistic girl, in supernatural adventures within a haunted park. An inclusiveness rejected by Elon Musk, who accused the work of “Push trans ideology” with children. “It’s not acceptable”he reacted to a surfer reminding that the series is intended for an audience from 7 years old. Although Netflix abandoned the series in 2023, extracts were again relayed on X by conservative accounts such as Libs of Tiktok, which affirms in a tweet that “Netflix openly seems to boast of discriminating white people”.
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On Google Trends, requests «Netflix Elon Musk» et «boycott Netflix» have exploded in recent hours, and Tesla CEO has also relayed several publications reporting an increase in unsubscribe to the platform. A trend impossible to verify, the company not wishing to comment on this new controversy. But these criticisms were able to participate in the decline in the action of the streaming giant, which lost 2.3% this Wednesday and remained slightly in the red, this Thursday.
Hamish Steele, creator of the series, denounced on Bluesky “Lies and slander!” Netflix does not promote for the moment! ”. He added having received “Extremely unpleasant and strange homophobic and anti-Semitic emails”who pushed him to temporarily withdraw from social networks. According to the Association Glaad de Défense LGBT+, incidents aimed at transgender people increased by 14% in the United States over the period between May 2024 and April 2025 compared to the previous twelve months.
