BBC Young Reporter @ LCS

Streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ have recently not hesitated to give a groundbreakingly feminist show the chop as soon as 'viewership declines', while letting shows go on for seasons on end that we all seemingly haven't heard a thing about.

As women, we believe that streaming services seem to have ulterior motives. Shows like The Wilds (2020), a show based around 8 teenage girls who are stranded together in a messed up social experiment, who received record-breaking responses from the first season had the guillotine dropped on them within just weeks or months of the second season. Prime video claimed that this was because of the responses they received from the second season, and that viewers had declined when the second season aired. However, this seems not to be the case. The trailer for season two received 9.4 million views overall and a whole 5 million views within the first week and a half of release, so, is this really the case? Are 9.4 million views not enough to renew a show but 4.7 million views are enough to renew a show for 6 seasons?

Shows like; Anne with an E, One Day at a Time, First Kill, Everything Sucks, I'm Not Okay with This, Warrior Nun, have all been cancelled by Netflix and labelled feminist. Netflix are currently on a massacre against Lesbian or 'Feminist' shows, it seems.

Many shows including:  I Know what you did Last Summer, The Wilds, Good Girl's Revolt, The Power, have also been cancelled. It's interesting that now we can start to see a pattern. All these shows have the theme of women in power.

Although many other streaming services enjoy a good cancellation of a feminist show, Prime Video and Netflix seem to be the biggest cancellers. These are also the most popular streaming services, Netflix gaining 232.5 million subscriptions overall and Prime video having 117 million subscriptions.

Even Cartoon Network decided to chop a 'feminist' show, saying "It had too many females in the cast." When referring to 'Tower Prep'. This is blatantly sexist, not even secretly.

This can very easily create a negative experience for young girls. Girls will now grow up without a significant role model to tell them that they could make it as far as a man in life. This will have the effect of children simply staying within their expected gender roles, and being terrified to break boundaries, leading to simply more of the same and yet another generation with too little progress and too significant amount of oppression.

We need to put a stop to this, as women and as a society. We can't afford to have another generation of girls growing up with a sole purpose of serving men, we need confidence and female empowerment.