As a major blunder, petitioners demand 'Good Omens' to be removed but from the wrong company

Everyone these days have become so opinionated and want to have a revolt about anything and everything which includes filing petitions. It almost seems to be a trend where petitions are filed left, right and center where at times, many of them don't even make any sense.

And while we talk about it, here is another example of the same. According to a report in The Verge, a Christian group filed one a petition asking Netflix to remove the series called Good Omens from its library. There is only one small problem with this though - Good Omens streams on Amazon Prime Video and not Netflix.

The petition was first reported by The Guardian, which discovered that a Christian organization known as the Return to Order campaign launched the petition on its website asking Netflix to remove the series, which is an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s beloved satirical novel from 1990 about the apocalypse. The petition argued the show was another flagrant attempt to “make satanism appear normal, light and acceptable,” adding “this type of video makes light of Truth, Error, Good and Evil, and destroys the barriers of horror that society still has for the devil.”

The petition collected more than 20,000 signatures at the time of The Guardian’s report but seems to have since been removed. That’s likely due to the petition’s founders discovering that Netflix doesn’t have any say over whether Amazon decides to take down the show from its site.

Gaiman has responded to the petition in jest multiple times on Twitter, calling it absolutely beautiful. He’s also thanked people who have taken the petition as a way to share their own stories about personal connections to Good Omens and various religions. It seems to be a pretty positive experience for Gaiman overall.

“I love that they are going to write to Netflix to try and get #GoodOmens canceled,” Gaiman tweeted. “Says it all really.”

The petition is absurd, but it’s an exemplary case proving what the state of online petitions have become in 2019.