Update: The Nielsen ratings for the week of Feb. 17–23 have been released, covering the timeframe when the final two episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man dropped. It’s a similar story to the earlier episodes, as detailed below—they failed to make the Nielsen charts. At the bottom of the list is Netflix’s Gabby’s Dollhouse with 496 million minutes watched, meaning Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ranked even lower.
It also suggests that, now that all episodes are available, no one has binge-watched the series.
Previous from March 14:
Joining X-Men ’97, the woke Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man animated series that recently streamed on Disney+ is nowhere to be found on the Nielsen ratings charts.
Marvel released the first two episodes, which failed to chart. Then, three more episodes dropped—but they also missed the rankings. Now, episodes 6 through 8 are absent from the latest Nielsen streaming originals chart. Since all episodes were released within a three-week window, it also seems that no latecomers showed up to binge-watch the series.
As I’ve gone over, Disney automatically has Nielsen turned on in your Disney+ accounts.
What are the ratings?
The Nielsen charts for the week of February 10–16 have been released, which covers the period when episodes 6, 7, and 8 of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man streamed on Disney+.
At the bottom of the list is Netflix’s Cassandra at #10 with 465 million minutes, meaning all episodes of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man fell below that mark. And animation isn’t the issue—Amazon’s Invincible comes in at #9.
Marvel fans aren’t interested
It’s a similar story with X-Men ’97, and live-action shows like Daredevil: Born Again, Agatha, Skeleton Crew, and The Acolyte—as well as movies like Captain America: Brave New World, The Marvels, and Quantumania. Marvel fans just aren’t interested—and they’re not watching. It doesn’t help that none of the above are particularly good, either.
Can’t blame Superhero Fatigue
Superhero fatigue also can’t be blamed as recently saw Deadpool & Wolverine bring home over $1.3 billion at the box office for Disney. Likewise, Spider-Man: No Way Home brought in almost 2 billion dollars. The Spider-Man audience isn’t tuning in to watch Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, where characters that have existed for decades have been changed for the woke agenda.
Should be on chopping block
Both X-Men ’97 and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man are getting additional seasons, but it doesn’t appear to be because of high viewership on Disney+. The extra seasons were likely part of the shows’ original deals—presumably backed by DEI funding. Otherwise, with numbers this low, they’d probably be on the chopping block.
Message is loud and clear
And yes, the message is loud and clear—the same one fans have been sending for years: don’t replace our favorite characters, don’t virtue signal, don’t blame us for your failures. We just want quality content and entertainment that doesn’t come at the expense of your agenda.
How’s it been working out?
