Posted on 02/10/2023 7:16:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Disney shares are up Thursday on news that the company is cutting costs and letting go of 7,000 employees. But the real news is that the formerly family-friend studio lost 2.4 million streaming subscribers — and has no plan to end the woke programming that drove them away.
My friend and colleague Lincoln Brown has all the details for you about the layoffs, involving about 3% of the company’s workers.
Do you know who isn’t getting the boot? Disney+ producer Latoya Raveneau, who admits to pushing a “gay agenda” by “adding queerness” to children’s programming wherever she can.
Or Jim Morris, who heads up Disney’s Pixar division. Pixar has been slowly losing steam since Disney purchased the computer animation studio from Steve Jobs in 2006, and its last three films — Luca, Turning Red, and Lightyear — have all been massive flops. Lightyear might have been the worst of the lot. It took a beloved Toy Story bad-ass astronaut whose catchphrase was “To infinity and beyond!” and turned him into an all-too-typical clueless white male clod who couldn’t even successfully leave a single planet.
Or Kathleen Kennedy. She runs the Lucasfilm division, purchased from George Lucas in 2012 for $4 billion. Since then, she’s run the Star Wars franchise into the ground with a combination of bad scripts and “the Force is female” wokeness.
Worse is the damage done and yet to be done to beloved characters like Han Solo and Luke Skywalker, who became unrecognizable, unlikeable, and unheroic in The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, respectively.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
One character that has been the focus of discussions about LGBTQ+ representation is Luke Skywalker. In June 2022, a short story was published in Stories of the Jedi and Sith, in which Luke Skywalker was depicted as being attracted to a man. This story is now part of Disney’s Star Wars canon.
“Writer Sam Maggs, hired by Disney’s Star Wars,” the report continues, “openly admits to including queer characters in her work as part of her mission to promote LGBTQ+ representation in the media.”
It’s one thing to include gay characters, whatever. It’s quite another to ret-con a decidedly straight character like Luke just to send a message to old fans. And that message is: “Everything you love, we can destroy.”
If you watch Star Wars on Disney+ now, did they replace John Williams’ really good music with tracks from the Village People?
Get woke, go broke......................
Gee, why are we losing subscribers?!
“But the real news is that the formerly family-friend studio lost 2.4 million streaming subscribers — and has no plan to end the woke programming that drove them away.”
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Disney has become nothing more than a propaganda outlet putting “woke” before profit. Their shareholders can’t be too happy about that.
Disney employs 80 million people? Where is a math Nazi when you need one?
LOL! And Luke and Han and Leah are hanging out at the intergalactic YMCA.
“the real news is that the formerly family-friend studio lost 2.4 million streaming subscribers — and has no plan to end the woke programming that drove them away”
Destroying themselves because of their blind hatred for traditionally NORMAL America would be poetic justice.
it takes a lot of talent to take popular characters and make them gay
or maybe not
GO WOKE, GO BROKE!
Disney is now controlled by sex addicts who want to convince children to engage in felation relation. After all they are just monkeys with money.
DeSantis is ringing their bell by returning governance of Disney World to the State.
Its possible ..if the majority of them are in other countries.
and you really stretch ..employed to include janitors and landscapers ect.
“But the real news is that the formerly family-friend studio lost 2.4 million streaming subscribers — and has no plan to end the woke programming that drove them away.”
The loss has nothing to do with woke programming. Disney+Hotstar lost 3.8 million subscribers in India because they lost the rights to Indian Permier League cricket. They actually added subscribers in USA and Canada.
“Where is a math Nazi when you need one?”
Will my nifty Karma Kalculator suffice?
Its stock is about half what it was two years ago. Let’s hope it crashes to zero.
Walt must be crying in his grave.
It is what civilization has been waiting for for a thousand years.
It's like character-abuse or movie-abuse or mental-abuse to the fans.
Disney's been woke for decades. Still waiting for them to go broke.
In the 1990s, Matt Drudge had a radio show. His favorite word was "hemorrhaging." Every week, he'd breathlessly "report" that CBS, NBC, ABC were "hemorrhaging viewers! Absolutely hemorrhaging in the ratings!"
The internet was new then. Drudge, and other conservatives, were all exclaiming that internet would kill liberal media.
Well, it's been 25 years. Liberal media is still here, bigger, richer, and more leftist than ever.
Still waiting for the "go broke" part.
Gave up dizzy decades ago for other reasons, will stay disengaged. Sadly, there are some folks that will not be persuaded. And will still dump thousands taking the kiddies. As in other issues, maybe 10-15% of folks pay attention. Butt, funny dog tiktoks. 🙄
Must be the 80 million who voted for Pedo-Joe.
Wait till Disney releases “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”.
It has been delayed again and again for more then 2 years of reshoots as test audiences and critics have hated the film that wants to replace Harrison Fords character with a woman who looks like she never went outdoors.
The name of the film alone is stupid.
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