DC’s FanDome occasion is a big enterprise for the comedian firm, raking in tens of thousands and thousands of views throughout 220 nations and in 12 languages. After simply two years although, Warner Bros. Discovery seems to be placing the occasion on pause, if not canceling it for good, in line with a press release from the corporate (by way of IndieWire)

“With the return of in-person occasions, Warner Bros. Discovery is worked up to have the ability to interact with our followers stay at quite a few comic-cons around the globe and won’t be scheduling DC FanDome for 2022,” the corporate mentioned in an official assertion.

DC initially kicked the occasion off in 2020 as a approach to hook up with followers through the COVID-19 pandemic, providing an eight-hour stay stream within the format of a digital conference. The occasion featured bulletins, panels with creators and actors, and fan-focused occasions. 2021’s viewership garnered “triple the fan site visitors” of the 2020 present, in line with a assertion from Warner Bros. following the earlier occasion.

The total Warner Bros. empire, together with DC, has been in the course of a shakeup because the merger with Discovery concluded earlier this 12 months, marked by the cancelation of the Batgirl movie and plenty of animated packages. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav promised to chop $3 billion in prices all through the corporate as a part of a restoration effort following the acquisition, and it appears FanDome is probably going a casualty of that. Zaslav promised to “shield the DC model” throughout a latest monetary name, stating that the corporate has a 10-year-plan specializing in DC, “just like the construction that Alan Horn and Bob Iger put collectively very successfully with Kevin Feige and Disney.”

While Batgirl has been canceled and successfully buried, nonetheless on the horizon for DC are Black Adam, The Flash, and the recently-delayed Shazam: Fury of the Gods and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Harley Quinn was renewed for Season 4, and live-action sequence Titans, Peacemaker and Doom Patrol are presently set for Season 2 and Season 4 respectively–though with Batgirl’s cancelation, we’re not taking these as a given.