Dead End: Paranormal Park Made Elon Musk Ditch Netflix—Should You Watch It?

Elon Musk spent the week telling people to cancel Netflix. The spark? A kids animated series, a flurry of posts from the usual X suspects, and Musk throwing his full weight behind it. It is very online, very culture-war, and yes, it got weird.

Where this started: a canceled kids show on Netflix

The first domino was a post from Libs of TikTok highlighting Netflix's animated series 'Dead End: Paranormal Park' (the show ended in 2023). The series follows a transgender boy named Barney and his autistic Pakistani-American friend on paranormal adventures. The claim from that post was that the show's LGBTQ+ themes were inappropriate for its target audience.

"This is not ok."

That was Musk, quote-tweeting the clip on September 30, 2025. From there, he started amplifying more posts calling Netflix content "woke" and urging parents to pull the plug.

The creator controversy that added fuel

Separate posts dredged up comments from the show's creator, Hamish Steele. In one, Steele referred to conservative commentator Charlie Kirk as a "Nazi." Some of the same accounts also claimed Steele had mocked an assassination of Kirk. That claim does not line up with reality; consider that part dubious at best. Either way, the combination set off a pocket of users who said they canceled Netflix in protest and tagged Steele and the platform directly.

Musk joined that wave, sharing a screenshot from an X user showing a canceled subscription and replying "Same." For what it's worth, it isn't clear if Musk even had an active Netflix account before this.

The campaign expands to other Netflix kids shows

After the first volley, more titles were pulled into the crossfire. Posts targeted 'Transformers: Earthspark' and 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous,' arguing both shows push gender identity topics on young kids. Musk kept signal-boosting those complaints, and he didn't stop at content notes. He also elevated claims about Netflix's politics, including a post alleging the company has anti-White policies and another saying 100% of employee donations go to Democrats. Those are his and others' assertions, not independently verified facts.

• Sep 30, 2025: Musk amplifies Libs of TikTok on 'Dead End: Paranormal Park' and says it is "not ok."
• Sep 30, 2025: Users circulate Steele's "Nazi" comment about Charlie Kirk; cancellation posts aimed at Netflix start rolling in.
• Sep 30, 2025: Musk replies "Same" to a screenshot of a canceled Netflix sub; unclear if he had one to cancel.
• Oct 1, 2025: More posts target 'Transformers: Earthspark' and 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous' for gender identity themes; Musk urges people to cancel Netflix, framing it as better for kids' wellbeing.
• Oct 1, 2025: Musk boosts a claim that all Netflix employee political donations go to Democrats.
• Oct 2, 2025: Musk keeps repeating the cancel message and agrees with more posts knocking Netflix content and politics.

Netflix's stance

Netflix hasn't addressed Musk directly. The company has stood by its content approach overall and, as of now, hasn't made any public adjustments or apologies tied to this flare-up.

And then the Babysitters got dragged in

The pile-on reached Netflix's 2020 live-action series 'The Baby-Sitters Club.' Libs of TikTok resurfaced a scene they said pushes transgender ideology on kids and then shames other characters for misgendering a boy. Musk boosted that post too as part of his cancel push.

Context on the show: it is based on the long-running children's book series, ran from 2020 to 2022, and was praised for sticking close to the source material. The cast includes Alicia Silverstone, Sophie Grace, Momona Tamada, Shay Rudolph, and Xochitl Gomez. The premise is exactly what it says on the tin: middle-schoolers launch a babysitting business and deal with the fallout. Despite ending in 2022, it has been popping up again on the service recently, which is likely why it ended up back in people's feeds.

The bigger picture

This is very inside-baseball for the right-leaning corner of X: an account posts a clip, Musk amplifies it, and suddenly a bunch of unrelated titles get swept into a broader narrative about kids TV and politics. Whether this turns into a meaningful subscriber protest or just another multi-day outrage cycle remains to be seen, but for now, Musk is loudly telling his followers to bail on Netflix.