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More than one drove. Upper bound is infinite droves.
A drove has at least 4 people in it so we can establish an upper bound of 2.4 billion droves.
I think your upper bound is too many droves, the limit is total Disney Plus subscribers.
Here is some potentially useful data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1095372/disney-plus-number-of-subscribers-us/
To me it looks like their numbers may be trending down already so a boycott could be extra effective. If they have lots of customers already considering leaving then giving them an excuse like participating in a boycott in defense of free speech could help accelerate that trend and make a bigger impact.
Well yes, it's not a very tight upper bound, but I was bringing it down from infinity. I'm glad the scientific process is working and we're refining this (in droves) over time.
Given that each person can hold as many accounts as they like, the number of accounts that've closed is anywhere from 8.01 to (2.4billion-.25)*4infinity (because I had only one account). I can see why they’re panicking