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Disney’s Business Model is Turning Kids Into Dysfunctional Adults Its customer base isn’t kids. It’s messed up adults.
frontpagemag.com ^ | Fri Apr 8, 2022 | Daniel Greenfiel

Posted on 04/08/2022 2:38:42 PM PDT by dennisw

“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children," Walt Disney once said.

Walt’s unique strategy of building an entertainment empire for kids once made Disney a trusted source of family entertainment. That didn’t last long after Walt's death as Disney started releasing R-rated movies and adult television programming under the Touchstone label.

A decade later, Disney bought Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax. During the 90s, while Disney's more family friendly brand was releasing animated cartoons, Miramax featured Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, and the Scream sequels. During this time Weinstein was accused of sexual harassment and assaults. Some of this was taking place even as Disney’s “family friendly” brand released The Hunchback of Notre Dame with its depiction of a lecherous Catholic villain praying before a cross while ranting about his lusts. This was what Disney had become.

In the new century the barrier between the two schizoid faces of Disney has come down.

Disney isn’t for kids anymore. Its movie business is dominated by Marvel blockbusters. Half of Disney+ subscribers, its big bet on the home streaming future, are adults with no children. ‘

What about the theme parks?

60% of Disneyland visitors were adults with no children. Only 36.7% of Disney World visitors had children under 18. The largest demographic for the theme parks, like the movies, are millennials. They are also members of the fandoms who are likeliest to spend money on licensed merchandise, and on toys and movie tie-ins that are Disney’s bread and butter.

And Disney is rapidly adapting with theme parks and resorts that emphasize its Marvel and Star Wars properties more than classic fare. Its Galactic Starcruiser hotel, aimed at Star Wars fans, costs $4,809 for two adults. Why bother with kid stuff when you can sell $13 beers?

Disney may have started out feeding the imaginations of children, but now its business model is acquiring intellectual properties with active fandoms and milking the adult fans for every cent.

Its political opposition to a Florida law barring teachers from pushing sexual issues on kindergarteners might be out of tune with the old family values Disney, but the company’s actual base, like that of virtually every entertainment corp in the country, is a narrow slice of upscale urban millennials with lots of disposable income and no families. Wokes are Disney’s base.

In 1966, the idea that a single adult would spend more money on Disney merchandise than a family of four would have seemed ridiculous. In 2022, it’s just the new normal. If you doubt that stop by a theme park and see how many of the adults with no children wearing every single piece of Disney merchandise on sale would love to lecture you about queer theory.

These are the people Disney caters to now. Not little girls who want to be princesses. That’s why its theme parks will no longer address little girls as princesses. That’s also why rides like Pirates of the Caribbean or Jungle Cruise are being revamped to be more politically correct. Disney’s new woke demographic is much pickier than even the pickiest child could be.

It’s also sexually creepy.

Disney’s new demographic are adults who have never properly grown up and on some level still think of themselves as children. That’s also the profile for the average child molester. And of the kind of adult who insists that schools force children to “explore their sexual identities”.

Healthy adults raise, protect and care for children. Deeply unhealthy ones erase the barriers between themselves and children in ways that can be merely immature or outright evil.

Disney is a messed up company with a messed up base. This is no secret to theme park employees who will, anonymously, spout about it at forums. But some of those employees have also been caught up in child sex investigations. Disney has the clout to make much of that go away through its advertising budgets and the incredible power its theme parks wield over local governments in California and Florida (though Gov. DeSantis has warned that’s going away.)

The growth of Disney paralleled a post-war child-oriented family culture. The collapse of that culture into counterculture sent the company astray. And after decades in the wilderness reemerged with cartoons full of show tunes that catered as much to Broadway lovers as to children, to an indie film movement with a seamy underbelly, and finally perpetual fandom.

Disney found its post-Walt success in moving beyond selling universal family entertainment to tapping into obsessive subcultures. As a company that had nurtured fandom in children, it was uniquely positioned to capitalize on the transformation of adults into overgrown children.

None of this is good for adults, for children, or for the culture. Neither is Disney. (EXCERPT)


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: adultmovies; antichild; bidenvoters; children; desantis; disney; disneyland; disneyworld; harveyweinstein; immaturity; lgbtqrstuvwxyz; mentalillness; merchandising; miramax; movies; pc; pedos; sex; singles; society; touchstone; waltdisney; woke; wokes
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To: dennisw

Disney is now run by sexual deviants.


21 posted on 04/08/2022 3:14:14 PM PDT by chopperk
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Long time ago I dated a girl who “had to” go to Disney about 3 times a year because it was Magical...

I suspected she had a long list of mental issues early on and ended it. Going to Disney multiple times a year was one of them.

When a grown adult thinks getting their photo taken with Tigger is appealing something is not connected right in that brain.


22 posted on 04/08/2022 3:15:33 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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23 posted on 04/08/2022 3:15:43 PM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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I haven’t spent a plug nickel on anything Disney for decades. I have zero respect for the passel of faggots.


24 posted on 04/08/2022 3:18:36 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what you get when gullible children run a 'news' channel.)
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To: dennisw

Walt Disney would be fighting against Disney today.


25 posted on 04/08/2022 3:33:58 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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26 posted on 04/08/2022 3:46:18 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: dennisw

Also the business model of the Democratic Party.


27 posted on 04/08/2022 4:21:31 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: dennisw

Disney brands list (partial)

Major media brands:
Disney — dozens of brands and venues
Walt Disney — multiple brands

A&E
ABC
ESPN
Fox (except FoxNews)
Hulu
Marvel
National Geographic (part owner)

Production and cable:
20th Century Fox
Black Rock Studio
Blue Sky Studios
Buena Vista
Fall Line Studios
FamilyFun
Go.com
Greengrass Productions
Hollywood Pictures
It’s a Laugh Productions
Junction Point Studios
Live Well
Lucas
Muppets Studio
Pixar
Searchlight Pictures
Soapnet
Touchstone
Wideload Games
Wondertime magazine

28 posted on 04/08/2022 4:28:51 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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The paragraphs below not only pull the curtain back on the Schizoid Disney faces. They tell us, why basically most of today’s tv shows, movies and fake news are aimed at:”The largest demographic for the theme parks, like the movies, and tv, are ‘the millennials’

“In the new century the barrier between the two schizoid faces of Disney has come down.”

Disney isn’t for kids anymore. Its movie business is dominated by Marvel blockbusters. Half of Disney+ subscribers, its big bet on the home streaming future, are adults with no children.

What about the theme parks?

60% of Disneyland visitors were adults with no children. Only 36.7% of Disney World visitors had children under 18. The largest demographic for the theme parks, like the movies, are millennials. They are also members of the fandoms, who are likeliest to spend money on licensed merchandise, and on toys and movie tie-ins that are Disney’s bread and butter.

Disney is rapidly adapting with theme parks and resorts that emphasize its Marvel and Star Wars properties more than classic fare. Its Galactic Starcruiser hotel, aimed at Star Wars fans, costs $4,809 for two adults. Why bother with kid stuff when you can sell $13 beers?

Disney may have started out feeding the imaginations of children, but now its business model is acquiring intellectual properties with active fandoms and milking the adult fans for every cent.


29 posted on 04/08/2022 6:02:09 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Playing “Make Believe” is for liberal adults/children. It is past time to grow up!)
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Grampa Dave, you have gotten the vital paragraphs from this article.. Disney Land and Disney World are now like many of our public schools. These schools and Disney Lands are not run for the benefit of our children. They are run for the benefit of confused single adults, and millennials. And slanted towards the Gay, Trans, Weirdos etc....

Who get off sexually from seeing and observing your children and grand children that you take there. And worst case scenario molest them.


30 posted on 04/09/2022 9:40:11 AM PDT by dennisw
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