by Kandiss Edwards
February 7, 2026
Shortly after “Changing into” made it to no. 6 on the Most Watched listing, it was eliminated.
Michelle Obama’s 2018 Netflix documentary, “Changing into,” drew a surge in viewership as viewers protest Melania Trump’s documentary “Melania.”
Obama’s documentary has seen a uptick of 13,000% in line with Folks. “Changing into” has reentered Netflix’s prime ten most watched films. The documentary movie outpaced the premiere weekend numbers for the present First Woman’s much-roasted theatrical launch “Melania.” The hassle to overshadow Melania’s opening weekend seemingly started on social media. A person on X urged that it “could be humorous” if anti-Trump or Professional-Obama viewers took half in a sweeping effort to embarrass the sitting president and his spouse.
@nathancjun wrote: “It will be humorous (aka: superior) if we may collectively all make ‘Changing into’”’ the Michelle Obama documentary primary on Netflix the identical weekend Melanie tanks on the field workplace.”
TikTok person @stevevonandbritt unfold the phrase on the platform, garnering over 300,000 likes and 1.5 million views on her name to motion.
Whereas the facility of the individuals prevailed and the documentary reentered the highest ten viewers seen Netflix seemingly tried to thwart the hassle. Shortly after “Changing into” made it to no. 6 on the listing, it was eliminated. One way or the other, Michelle’s movie ranked on the “Most Watched Children” films. Many customers took discover and levied threats of subscription cancellation if the documentary was not returned to its correct place.
@stevevonandbrit captioned her followup publish: “are ya’ll cool? Cease this BS and put the film again on the highest 10 films listing! Everybody hold watching Changing into till it hits NUMBER 1and make sure that Netflix continues to see us.”
@jaimemoss3 took the net outrage straight to Netflix by calling the customer support quantity to make her grievances heard. She urged others to do the identical.
She captioned her publish: “Play along with your mom. You solely have a few hours to place the film again in its correct class.”
It seems the web outcry is working because the film has returned to its correct class and is now labeled certainly one of platform’s Most Appreciated movies. Nevertheless, many social media customers have documented cancelling their subscriptions.
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