It seems that the ‘culture war’ is still raging on, even after President Trump’s triumphant comeback victory in the 2024 US presidential election. The new ‘theatre of war’: the American streaming giant Netflix, and the ‘commander’ leading the charge is eccentric billionaire Elon Musk again.
Users on Musk’s social media platform X have unearthed that Hamish Steele, creator of the 2022 Netflix animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park, had made some peculiar statements about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In the aftermath of the killing, he posted on X in response to an unidentified other user: ‘You sympathy [sic!] for any of the families slaughtered by your weapons but one random nazi gets shot and it’s a public statement. You’re such a f***king evil shit.’ With the term ‘random nazi’, he is presumably referring to Kirk.
Since the outbreak of the controversy, Steele has made his X account private. However, on another platform, BlueSky (which primarily caters to far-left progressives), he did comment on the issue, writing: ‘My Instagram comments are now flooded with replies saying I AM CHARLIE KIRK and that I celebrated his death (which I never did) and all I can think of is Yvie Oddley [sic!] shouting “WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH ANYTHING?”.’
Elon Musk has also chimed in on the matter. He has reposted a tweet by X user Matt Van Swol announcing that he was cancelling his Netflix subscription in the wake of the revelations about the cartoon director’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s death, along with the caption ‘same’, suggesting that he is doing so as well. His reply has recieved over 200,000 likes.
However, troubles did not end there for the streaming giant.
As the controversy was brewing on X, people started to look into Hamish Steele’s animated show on Netflix as well. And, as it turned out, the cartoon geared towards children featured scenes promoting the transgender agenda.
In one scene, the main character confesses to another character that he is trans, telling her in the same scene that his experience has ‘reminded me how important it is to live your life without apology.’ The protagonist of the children’s programme on Netflix is Barney Guttman, a Jewish transgender minor. He is voiced by Zach Barack, the first trans actor ever cast in a Marvel movie, having appeared in the 2019 film Spider-Man: Far From Home.
While people are currently voicing their anger at Netflix for having produced the controversial cartoon, it is important to note that the show was actually cancelled in 2022, and was only in production for two seasons and 20 episodes.
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