BREAKING: We interrupt your eBaum’s World scroll to inform you of a major change headed to the terribly-rebranded Max streaming service — CNN News Alerts are coming for your Game of Thrones rewatches.


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As media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery reportedly prepares to give CNN a starring role in their growing streaming portfolio, allegedly announcing a 24-hour live-streaming news service entitled “CNN Max” next month, per Variety, several Max viewers may find themselves plugged into current events — whether they want to be or not.



“Among the features the company will try out are ways of alerting Max viewers to breaking news while they are watching something else on the service, whether it be an HBO series, a Turner Classic Movies selection or an old episode of Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” Senior TV Editor Brian Steinberg wrote of the change in a piece clearly targeting the streamer’s octogenarian viewers, and octogenarian viewers alone.


Though this move may seem incredibly intuitive — after all, who doesn’t want updates about the climate apocalypse and the Russia-Ukraine War and peppered throughout their mindless viewings of And Just Like That… — several TV buffs were less-than-thrilled at the prospects of their latest show being eclipsed by Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell’s latest senior moment.


“We watch tv to dissociate from the news you dinguses,” wrote Twitter user @LEBassettof the news.


“Zaslav will not see heaven,” added @scumbelievable, referencing Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.


“Are they *trying* to lose subscribers?” asked @KevinMKruse, as @craign471 argued that this change could bring about the end of Max as we (briefly) knew it.


“Inevitably the response will be: ‘Viewers will test out pirating Max shows to avoid CNN news alerts from Warner Bros. Discovery,’" they speculated.



But whether you’re dreading this change or all of three (3) people looking forward to seeing Anderson Cooper’s mug superimposed above the Euphoria teens, here are several of our favorite reactions to this terrible, terrible news.