Yeah I tend to boycott genocide, racism, slavery, regime change, that sort of thing. So you might consider me some kind of anti-US .

While I’m not in favor of boycotting culture, I do feel like boycotting products and services that incorporate it.

So I try to buy boycotted cultural products secondhand whenever possible.

This way, I can legally obtain culture, but it prevents American companies from making any additional profits. (Naturally, I avoid using Amazon[.]com when making these purchases.)

The problem then arises when an American artist performs in the country where I live.

Naturally, experiential entertainment cannot be recorded, meaning it cannot be purchased secondhand. This issue determines whether a boycott is feasible based on how individual artists respond to corruption in the United States.

Separately, I also try to avoid cultural dependency on social media platforms such as YouTube and x[.]com by prioritizing domestic alternatives (such as Nico Nico Douga and mixi2).

US americans don’t have culture, the people and nations they oppress do, capitalists then comodify and export that

either way, while usa dominates english language entertainment, I don’t pay for it anything I consume, and I’m exploring more non english language entertainment

I generally try to avoid American, but I’m not so strict about it that I check the origin on the games I play (most of the time you can’t find that out anyway). I also buy them on Steam anyway, because Linux support.

I’ve already swapped out basically everything American of mine, but as time goes on I’ve been thinking of narrowing my target. The companies I’m mainly focussed on are below:

• Amazon
• Tesla
• Microsoft
• Apple
• Google
• Facebook
• Netflix
• Disney
• Boeing
• The gun companies
• The car companies
• The computer chip companies
• Visa/Mastercard (if that were possible)
• The banks (if they even exist in your country)
• Exxon/Chevron (I’m dubious on promoting a local community oil industry though)

I still use American streaming services (currently Amazon Prime) but I do the thing where you subscribe for 1 month and then unsubscribe for 2 years.

The reason I’m boycotting is to undermine America’s power. I don’t think boycotting indie games made in America does that. It would weaken their currency but the effects are marginal. The real impact comes from buying alternatives until they get to a point where they can compete, and in the arts America does have that competition.

I‘m not boycotting US media since I‘m way too much of a fan of some TV shows or movies they make. That said, I made sure not to pay any money for it which I originally started doing when streaming first enshittified.

If I ever feel they’re altering the content as to avoid upsetting the administration, I might move away from US media.

American Culture is Common Culture at this point…

For years, the United States has benefited most from globalization. They either don’t admit it or don’t realize it.

Not even trying but I dont really play games and dont really wach shows or movies, every other food >> american “food” and my music is 95% european (rest random, mostly south american) because the techno/trance here is way better

Include anche la lingua inglese. Da adesso su Lemmy si parla solo Italiano.

Mainly groceries. Games I almost exclusively buy second hand and media I… find…

I don’t see why someone would boycott nerd things from america or hippie things or such but like I could totally see boycotting stuff from the south and other conservative areas like country western music and certainly the flag or any other nationalistic shit.

In terms of tv movies etc moving it’s gonna be hard to make a lot look credible. The mask has slipped and we have now seen the true psyche of many. I watched the boys a few years ago. It seemed silly at the time.

I’m from Russia, so I don’t need to boycott American corporations myself, American corporations boycott me themselves. :D
It’s a joke.

But in reality, I just try to minimize my purchases from multi-billion dollar corporations whenever possible. I prefer buying indie, open-source or custom. Nothing about culture. As others have already said, nowadays American culture is mostly common culture. Sometimes I think about buying a Chinese CPU or GPU. And in general, I have a pretty limited budget.

I boycott economically. So I’ll eat a hamburger, but not one from McDonald’s, et al. I’m not even sure what boycotting a culture even means, nor what it would entail and/or accomplish.

So I don’t buy anything that winds up lining the pockets of Americans. That’s my boycott. This means that, for example, my next smartphone will not be running iOS or Android. It means I don’t go to American chain restaurants or buy brands owned by American companies (even, perhaps especially, if they claim, like a certain famous brand of ketchup in Canada does with its tomatoes, to source the raw materials in the host country). It means that I will not pay to see an American movie, nor to listen to the music of an American band.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. I cut netflix and will not watch the end of Stranger Things, although I watched the first four seasons. Incidentally-not-coincidentally also because of Zionism on this one. Nor Avatar 3 currently in theatres while I saw the premieres of the first two. I operated a paradigm shift in my mind: despite all the good people in the US, fuck the American way of life forever. I am moving back to Korean polars for entertainment.

Edit: I will cherish my Jeff Buckley discography for life, but he’s long gone so there’s nothing new to boycott.

If Netflix, KFC and MacDonalds is “culture”, then yes.