Woman Is Refusing to Share Streaming Services with Friend Who Canceled Her Own: ‘She Called Me Stingy’

A woman has called out her friend for asking to use the streaming services that she pays for.

On Thursday, March 20, the woman explained on Reddit’s “Am I The A——?” forum that her close friend canceled all of the streaming services for her TV to “save money,” while joking that she “could just use” her friend’s accounts.

“At first, I thought she was kidding, but after she canceled her subscriptions, she kept asking for my login information,” the woman said on Reddit. “I told her I wasn’t comfortable sharing since I pay for these services myself and don’t want anyone messing with my recommendations or getting me locked out for too many users.”

“She called me stingy and said that since I wouldn’t even notice her using it, I should just let her,” she continued. “I still said no, and now she’s upset, and said I’m being selfish over something that costs me nothing extra.”

“I feel like she made the choice to cancel her accounts and shouldn’t expect me to cover for her,” the woman concluded.

Having asked if she was in the wrong for refusing to share her streaming accounts, hundreds of people shared their opinions on the situation.

“Why didn’t she offer to go halfsies with you?” one person wrote. “Anyway, you are under no obligation to share with her. None at all.

“She decided to cut the streaming services, she should have been prepared to do without them,” they continued. “If they were that much of a necessity to her, then she should have considered cutting something else from her budget and kept the streaming services in.”

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Another commenter was a little harsher, saying, “Your friend clearly is a mooch and is quite entitled to demand that you give your password info to her.”

Sharing a similar opinion, a person wrote, “Your friend’s concept of saving money is kind of funny. She intends to save money by coercing and gaslighting you into paying for her basic services. Tell her to stop being stingy and pay for her own subscriptions. It’s not your job to subsidize her streaming.”

Other responses to the post suggested the woman should make her friend pay half and then change the password if she doesn’t come up with her part of the bill, which the OP [original poster] responded was not a bad idea to remedy the situation.

However, another commenter offered a way to shut down the conversation about sharing streaming accounts altogether. “Tell her you canceled them to save money,” they joked. “That’s a good move,” the woman responded.