Disney - Death Of An Empire

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-The Fall From Grace-
Disney as a company is a global media conglomerate on the brink. Once a beloved animation studio, it’s gone on to purchase major intellectual properties to expand its reach. But in the last year, the company has experienced significant financial losses in almost every area of media it reaches: streaming, theatrical, and its theme parks. This video essay breaks down Disney’s situation from its small scale beginnings to the present.
-Time Stamps-
0:00 - The fall of an empire
1:44 - Record losses and other disasters
03:48 - Skillshare
04:56 - History of Disney
05:50 - The Pixar purchase
06:59 - The Marvel purchase
08:19 - The LucasFilm purchase
09:28 - Spider-man and 20th Century Fox
11:32 - Start of the decline
12:55 - LucasFilm: Deconstructed
14:22 - Marvel: More, more, MORE
15:31 - Pixar: A victim of Disney+
16:35 - Live-action remakes: they’re terrible
17:01 - Price gouging theme parks
17:50 - How’d they let all this happen?
19:11 - Fighting with the fans
21:29 - Is this fixable?
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[@UnderratedBurnyBadger]

It's honestly very simple. Competition breeds innovation. Disney itself saw that back when Don Bluth left the company, proceeded to hand Disney its *entire* ass at the box office, and then Disney made better products in response. But now that they own everything, there IS no competition. They have no reason to try and do better. Until they stop owning everything, we will get nothing but stale crap no one wants to see.

[@YAGLMS6083]

Competition should be supported and praised. Also executives from the higher ups of any major studio corporation should have their finger in the creative process of a film director, writers, producers, and etc. Don't give a unreasonable harsh time schedule for vfx artist, editors, and anyone involved in the film and show making process.

[@rgygduysdgyuygsduysd]

Same happen to the NFL video game Madden, no competition means the same crap every year.

[@takerhulk3163]

Reminds me of when wwf bought wcw and ecw

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

MS is even doing the same thing with Activision Blizzard & ZeniMax, making everything exclusive to PC & Xbox platforms. When they fully acquired Rare from the Big N, the quality of Rare took a serious nosedive and there was little to nothing being done with the studios.

[@princesspikachu3915]

@@KTJohnsonkidThunder They even censored Conker when they remade it. A game that was originally made for the Nintendo 64 but Microsoft and X Box censored it. Fortunately I still have a working N64 and Conker’s Bad Fur Day and I have most of the good games Rare made for Nintendo’s systems except for the Donkey Kong Country franchise.

[@unclecorey1495]

People have seem to forgotten that the Pixar company was formed by former Disney animators who formed their own company. To say that Disney “acquired” Pixar basically confirmed Disney’s strategy of buying out any creative competition. This is the basic model of Disney.

[@franknbeans8904]

Acquiring instead of creating seems to be slowly doing them in now. Their best eras and movies were when they were smaller and had much more competition, because they had to hire the best and to take creative risks. Now they're just doing rote films and shows with no creativity, their movies are overproduced and dull, and they are destroying most franchises they touch.

[@belstar1128]

I thought Disney bought pixar right after toy story came out

[@unclecorey1495]

@@belstar1128 There was actually a mini documentary about how the Pixar folk struck out on their own because they had chafed at the draconian interference of corporate Disney. As far as why they sold said competitive corporation back to the original tyrants, who can say.

[@josiptito9412]

this is the way.

[@justinarzola4584]

Pixar already had a relationship to Disney since Disney distributed most of their films,them buying star wars and marvel was a bigger surprise.

[@nathanc6516]

Pretty ironic that Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the movie that got Disney started, and it's remake is the movie that will end them.

[@kindzadza134]

Kinda poetic, if you ask me

[@TimCarter]

It was already ending, but you could call it the final nail in the coffin.

[@johnxgalt8312]

It looks like the CEOs are deliberately trying to destroy Disney, all I can say is, keep up the good work.

[@3257bm]

Totally, Totally agree.

[@alejandromaldonado6159]

This is actually bittersweet and sad. We all knew Disney used to be good. But nowadays...

[@matthewrosenthal753]

I agree with all of your points but you forgot one: Disney’s outright refusal to fire people that are consistently turning Billion dollar IP’s into absolute dirt.

[@AngryLittleAmericans]

You are ABSOLUTELY right! Why hasn't that happened yet!? They qould fire their production workers, no question. But when it comes to Kathleen Kennedy or Kevin Fiege and what they've been turning out, nope, completely untouchable

[@CarloNassar]

There's a question I have regarding that. Have they done anything that's actually immoral (examples: really insulting tweets/speeches, sexual assault, murder)? Because I don't think the IP thing is enough for a reason to fire them, but that's just me.

[@matthewrosenthal753]

@@CarloNassar When you have something that can generate billions of dollars in revenue, and all you do is cause said IP to hemeridge money. That is reason enough to be fired. Disney is in the business of making money not losing it.

[@CarloNassar]

@@matthewrosenthal753 That's understandable, but I'm still not sure.

[@goffe2282]

They fire plenty of actors who say or tweet stupid shit, as if that was a reason to lose your job. I stopped watching the flash and the mandalorian because actors were fired for no good reason. Now.... Most people probably won't just dump shows like me, but I don't have time to watch everything I want anyway so there are worse reasons to dump shows :).

[@andyt2979]

Two big reasons why modern Disney movies are failing: 1: Most of their properties rely on audience nostalgia, but you can't get nostalgic about something that refuses to go away. 2: The lack of original stories, replaced with remakes and spinoffs, is because coming up with new and original movies requires creativity, and investing in them requires taking a financial risk. Disney is a corporate bureaucracy, and is thus capable of neither.

[@Not_interestEd-]

Also don't forget they're starting to lose their monopoly over the mouse, Steamboat Willie entered the public domain.

[@Ryan-gh4iz]

Many people may find Disney's forced diversity in its movies insulting, but I find Disney's forced diversity because of ESG rating way more insulting. To both us and the actors who thought they were being paid because they were fit for the role.

[@misanthropic_tendencies]

Walt Disney is turning so fast in his grave that we could give the entire world enough electricity.

[@SpareMango]

Nothing I love more than witnessing the slow painful death of Disney in real time

[@Asiandiskool]

For what they did to Star Wars, I'm enjoying their utter collapse after destroying the franchise with their fucken trash

[@dariogonzalez8989]

I'm with you in this, but I'd rather see this company die faster, otherwise they'll get a chance to recover and see this as a chance to sell actual trash at the general public again for ten years at least.

[@oSamiSrzo]

My issue with it is that they're taking everything they own down with them...

[@limerobloxgaming8567]

Same

[@easter_sunday]

My uncle once said "Never beg people to take your money." This is what Disney expects of longtime fans. I don't know how a company can claim they're making films for "fan service" while simultaneously attacking fans over perceived bigotry. I'm personally sick and tired of it and IMHO they deserve to go bankrupt.

[@BleedForTheWorld]

It's no longer valid to claim that it's perceived bigotry when that element is crystal clear after so many years of the same exact rhetoric against minorities in media. Woke? What does it really mean and why does the term keep being brought up when it's minorities in media? Seems awfully familiar it keeps being brought up every time.

[@toddmicky4078]

If Disney does happen to go down I really hope fox becomes independent again. It did not deserve to get absolutely demolished by Disney

[@kenneths.perlman1112]

1.If you hate your customers just close your shop. 2.if you want to be in politics run for office.

[@kennyholmes5196]

It wasn't fatigue of the property that did them in. It was fatigue of poor writing.

[@steveroberts9222]

Good point! I realized this when I watched Mary Poppins two. This was nothing more than a money grab! Terrible movie, and a huge disservice to the original. That was the last time Disney got any of my money.

[@itsblitz4437]

@@steveroberts9222 good on you!

[@princesspikachu3915]

@@steveroberts9222 There isn’t a Mary Poppins two. And Mary Poppins Returns was a surprisingly good movie that did service to the books. The original film was notorious for changing the character and making her nice. Mary Poppins Returns kept her snarkier attitude and intrigue that are found in the books. Though it still deviates from the books as the movie is a sequel more towards those. Also Dick Van Dyke dances on a desk in that movie and I wish I could still move like that in my 90’s.

[@jamesbarbour8400]

And all the woke crap !

[@kennyholmes5196]

@@jamesbarbour8400 No, the Woke stuff works if it's implemented properly. it's the Fauxke stuff that needs to go. you know, the stuff that people call woke that isn't actually woke. Bad writing is one such fauxke thing.

[@kyledahlquist9423]

As a long time Disney hater, I couldn't be happier. Monopolies are inherently anti-consumer, especially in media.

[@guillermosobernesspeare6066]

I Hate Disney since I was a Child.

[@tylere.8436]

I've always had a rather bitter dislike for the company since they bought Pixar and for leaving traditional animation which they stemmed from. It's only time that they are crumbling from their own arrogance and greed. They won't go away given their assets right now, but they will probably be looking for the highest bidder if they persist in their losses.

[@4lackofbetter]

I may be in the minority but I really enjoyed Quantumania. It just goes to show a movie that is "not bad" and part of the MCU is not enough to be successful anymore. Good or bad what matters is whether it gathers enough audience to make money. But Disney has lost sight of what made them successful in the first place and instead hell bent on pushing a social agenda their audience doesn't want.

[@itsblitz4437]

​@@4lackofbetterbut wasn't Ant-Man himself was side lined.

[@cadenadelreino1442]

That’s why the „extreme“ form of capitalism isn‘t good either. Capitalism needs some rules at least to function. Disney buying Marvel, Pixar, Lucas and 20th Century Fox should have been against some law…which I thought existed in the US but well.

[@aliyashoshanna1001]

this is ACTUAL social justice. Disney gets what it deserves and justice is served.

[@omkardutta201]

Reject Disney, Embrace piratebay

[@joeygarza9550]

YARRR!!!

[@selaor_______mon3951]

HORRAY FOR PIRATE BAY

[@zennymajora5041]

Can confirm. Arrrrgh.

[@davidbriceno2759]

It's funny how the marketing of Disney movies changed from "hey, look at this wonderful story with a colorful cast of characters, that you can enjoy with the whole family" to "hey, did you know that a bunch of bigots are attacking our movie? come to see our a movie to prove that you are not a bigot", trying to guiltrip the audience to watch their horrendously lazy productions, it always cracks me up 🤣

[@princesspikachu3915]

Disney must think the whole world is nothing but racist bigots at this point. 🙃

[@Sniblet]

Corporations can't believe in anything but their own success (Disney owns FOX News). They can't, and wouldn't voluntarily drown themselves to own bigots. Either a LOT of people aren't worth their salary, or someone's numbers are going up. There's likely a reason Disney's faces talk politics on Twitter, and not on posters and TV ads. They still do the colors and wonder, fun for the whole family, adventure of a lifetime (again) spiel on more traditional media.

[@geladice4755]

Honestly as a star wars fan, I think the best thing Disney could do would be to let go of my favorite franchise and stop raping it for money. They're the worst thing to have ever happened to my beloved franchised.

[@stantonvalberg9814]

Had such hope for the sequel trilogy. Sad it ended up being just trash.

[@YT1300MF]

Same here. I’ve reached apathy at this point. I’ll always have the original trilogy, tainted as that is now by having the sequel trilogy basically undo all the accomplishments of Luke, Han, and Leia, but I just don’t care about it anymore.

[@adamprice3466]

Middle aged nerds ruined Star Wars before Disney got it. In fact they are the reason it was sold to Disney in the first place.

[@princesspikachu3915]

@@YT1300MF What sequels? There’s only 6 movies. The originals and the prequels. The only sequels I know of exist on fan fiction websites and Disney just adapted the works of 12 year old fan fiction authors.

[@Asiandiskool]

I really wonder what made Disney think destroying Luke fucken Skywalker's character and replacing him with the biggest Mary Sue in history think that was a good idea an that everyone will jump on board. Holy fuck what a shit company.

[@allenanderson4911]

It took you 22 minuets to say: Corporate suits tried to drive the Creative Bus...and should have let artists lead the company...like they used to. It's essentially what happened to the music industry.

[@Monkeytheluffy56]

The reason fall down to nothin more "Disney has heavily overestimated its value in people's live, at this point the big budget movies are as much valuable as a KZbin video to the audiences, and non ironically, the KZbin videos have a greater entertainment value at almost 0 cost."

[@tricivenola8164]

I feel sorry for little kids growing up now. The boys think they're doomed to incompetence, and the girls think they have to master kick-boxing.

[@C9-0L2-7BV8]

Also forgot kids wondering what gender they really are.

[@scottsummers4154]

“ Give the people what they want” Disney has done the opposite of that for almost a decade. The sad part for me and I’m sure others is, it feels deliberate.

[@DoctorDestyNova]

But they set box office records in 2019. The people who liked outnumbered those who didn’t for a while

[@oSamiSrzo]

@@DoctorDestyNova box office doesn't mean good.. just means a lot of people bought garbage in 2019

[@SomePkmnlovingdude]

Disney: Oh come on folks, what am I doing wrong?! Person 1: You race swap characters! Disney: We only did that so we won't look like racists! And it's called diversity! Person 2: You made every female character OP! Disney: Do you want us to p*** off feminists by making women look weak?! Person 3: You shove LGBTQ down our throats! Disney: Hello, LGBTQ is a thing now! Person 4: You remake animated classics into live-action garbage! Disney: I thought you people loved nostalgia! Person 5: You shut down Blue Sky Studios! Disney: They were too expensive! ....plus I already have Pixar. Pixar: Hi. Person 6: *sighs sadly* Face it Disney, your an empty shell of your former self. Why can't you just open your eyes and wake up already? Disney: I- *is unable to think of something to say, and leaves with no argument*

[@DoctorDestyNova]

@@oSamiSrzo I hope a lot of people are broke now, so they can share my experience of having little money to buy garbage 😆

[@DoctorDestyNova]

@@SomePkmnlovingdude The irony of swapping is that you essentially give other cultures the message that they are only relevant for being in a copy of a western story.

[@Bapakgila]

I grew up a 5-minute walk from Disneyland and had a mother that worked there for 33 years so imagine what people like me feel about this disaster. I actually met Walt Disney as a kid a few times and walked the halls underneath the park many times. Everything we grew up is completely gone now, I mean everything. The Woke generation has completely taken over this corporation so don't expect anything to change for the better.

[@Abdullah_the_Palestinian]

What do you mean by everything ans what was Walt Disney like ?

[@starmnsixty1209]

I cheer every time a Disney film, or other product, flops. They truly suck.

[@megaman37456]

The fact Disney has a clear monopoly in the movie industry, and is literally buying it's competition and nobody is looking to do anything about it is very telling.

[@JonathanGaeta]

I don’t get why the U.S. Government stepped in to stop Disney

[@patrickreville4978]

The reason why is that it will always fall no corperation will surivive if they get too big. The only way they can surivive is with the government which it , the government, gives the ability to create a monoply through increasing regulation etc. These regulations won't really matter to Disney or any other giant corperation because they are able to just eat it small bussiness can't. Sp when all these small bussinesss fall or get consumed by a bigger corp. It will leave a industry with few competition.

[@kurtshastany1945]

Nonsense assessment, WB, UNIVERSAL, SONY all Stull exist n make big successful films

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

@@kurtshastany1945 And Paramount

[@OhSayWhatIsTruth]

@@JonathanGaeta Because contrary to popular belief, Disney isn't a monopoly

[@luxuryidentities3092]

People don’t realize that once you get to a certain level of power, it’s not about the money anymore. It’s about control.

[@ikmor]

Thankfully didn't work out in this case

[@wyattgeorge9696]

Yes, that's why companies continue to be woke, despite losing money

[@luxuryidentities3092]

@@wyattgeorge9696 yup. They very clearly have people at the top who want to shift the moral structure of society and individuals. And that is worth infinitely more than money. Plus, most of the time, they own a whole bunch of other stuff that people don’t realize they own, so they end up getting their money too anyway

[@user-hs1rc5ck5e]

Charging 16 bucks for a gas station level burger at their parks is enough to earn an F-off for life

[@godex6893]

"..mcu productions went from being events to something youll completely ignore.." So true 😢💔

[@stafonvoncamron]

Snow White 1937 made Disney. Snow White 2024 will end Disney.

[@ronkihini]

Well said, my friend, well said. 👏 👏

[@MultiGamer600]

It would be so poetic if that's the case.

[@TrIsTAN-le1su]

Politics aside I cant imagine how that movie would work in today's age, theres about 10 minutes worth of plot

[@ronkihini]

@@TrIsTAN-le1su which one, 1937 or 2024?

[@dreamguardian8320]

That could be a big possibility.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving company.

[@kjpperson]

Disney took every single part of entertainment only to self-destruct right away. Leaving us alone in the dark era of the internet. Well done genius.

[@aaadesktop]

What i find so ironic is that Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs built the empire. And it’ll be the new Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs that will destroy it.

[@dabbingraccoons6416]

Their greatest kickstarter into fame will be the final nail in the coffin

[@thesupershinymegagengar2034]

How poetic.😌

[@hatuletoh]

When a company tells you they dont want you as a customer, believe them.

[@ladyerind199]

You had me with the Macho Man Savage edits 😂 RIP Disney

[@carlosreeves6221]

Ooooo Yeeeaaaaaa!!!! ….that’s all I needed to say

[@Coolgamer..]

RIP Disney, the empire that bite they hand that feed it.

[@brandonscott5544]

DISNEY'S GOING UNDER.

[@metaljacket8128]

Hope it burns

[@jasonmaclean719]

The cream of the crop😎👍😎

[@davebodi]

Get Woke, Go Broke !

[@jfrancobelge]

Frenchman here. The Disney magics was not purely American, it was international. I'm 66 and I still have fond memories of the Disney comics that my parents and grand-parents bought me in the 60's - in French of course. The oldest emotional movie experience I can remember of is when one of my aunts took me and my cousin to a theater in our local town to watch the Jungle Book, then the lastest Disney movie. My own children, now in their 30's and 20's, were brought up on videos of the Disney classics, the firs song my 30-year old daughter was able to learn was the Snow White "house cleaning song". We've visited Disneyland Paris four times, and when I was younger I visited Disneyland in Anaheim while on a vacation in the US. This long explanation just to say that my family and I were Disney fans... we WERE Disney fans... nowadays, none of us won't even consider spending one penny on a new Disney movie or the three-hour drive to Disneyland Paris. I keep my old videos and DVD's of the real Disney movies like a treasure.

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

Disney: lacks mass appeal to boys Disney: buys up Marvel and Lucasfilm to correct this Disney: pushes girl power crap into properties that appealed to boys

[@Gyrfalcon312]

Also Disney: _lacks more mass appeal among girls and women than they realize_

[@zico739]

You know what’s funny? Star Wars Legends was full of powerful and cool female characters that newer fans will never know about.

[@Butterfly-ll7mm]

Disney never lacked mass appeal to boys be fucking for real💀

[@jt6924]

@@Butterfly-ll7mm until recently that is

[@shadow.banned]

Toxic femininity.

[@dandynoble19]

To quote Zemo: "An empire toppled from the outside can rise again. But the one crumbling from within, that's death, forever."

[@SirPickleVII]

I would love to see disney to back to its roots and make 2D animated movies. There is just something about their older animated films that feels different and expressive in its own way.

[@Special_Agent_Frank_Horrigan]

Film company makes a good movie Disney: ill have that one

[@joshgill2871]

What bothers me most is the wholesale destruction of legacy characters like Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones to promote new characters. Leave the legacy characters alone and simply create the new characters in a quality way. Disney’s failure to understand this is the reason I have no empathy for their current failures.

[@toreadoress]

I don't care they own the IP, I don't care what they say, to me the sequel movies and the characters in them are not cannon.

[@baldeagle5297]

@@toreadoress Yep. It's just fan fiction written by people who were never fans.

[@jinvid]

I absolutely HATE the fact that I have to go to ONE company for all my entertainment needs.

[@trooperjoe73]

Here's my secret: I don't. I don't watch anything Disney, after End Game & The Force Awakens. I gave up sports after athletes starting kneeling. Meaning, I don't watch TV, I don't watch anything streaming (nothing), and the only sport I watch is UFC. I don't miss it in the slightest. Although, I do enjoy watching the dumpster fires from the comfort of KZbin and various channels here. I enjoyed Star Wars, grew up on comics and love Marvel, etc. I gave it all up, and don't consider it canon. Just like they destroyed the comics with liberal propaganda, they destroyed the movies. Know what's funny? They chased off their main audience. This is all Gen X childhood. We are the ones with disposable income, homes, and children. Once they lost me - they lost my wife and kids. If my kids ask, I tell them it's garbage now. They say, ok, and no longer care either. I saw Sound Of Freedom, though. Great movie.

[@stevencarmichael1985]

@@trooperjoe73 Same. I basically don't watch anything you can see is pushing their stupid ideology from a mile away. I think a lot of people feel the same way and its the reason why they are losing money now.

[@Crackedcripple]

Do what you want because a pirate is free

[@stevencarmichael1985]

@@Crackedcripple YOU ARE A PIRATE!

[@jinvid]

@@trooperjoe73 I commend you fellow Gen X'r. Same here, I tell my kids it's all garbage. My daughter wanted to watch the new Little Mermaid. I told her absolutely not, because it's garbage. Their movies were the highest grossing these past few years because we got to see our childhood come to life PROPERLY on the big screen. And then came THE MESSAGE! and we all tuned out. Voting with your wallet is the only way to show them what's up.

[@Sparrow1115]

I grew up on Disney, but as I got older I've started to realize how bad Disney is

[@justsomeguywithahat850]

I think overtime they just become a lot more greedy. Old disney was just passionate

[@Kellie9]

They really have just exhausted any nostalgia i used to have for them these last years

[@anthaleus3154]

Disney: stop turning our beloved heroes into broken, old acts. That’s NOT how you do fan service.

[@eugeneso7738]

It is a bit ironic. There was a content creator for children that, about 35 years ago, realized that the only way they will stay in business is that if they paid more attention to quality than to quantity. The company I am talking about is Nintendo. They realized that the strategy of crapping out as many low-quality games as possible for the sake of profits was what destroyed Atari. Note that a third-party game maker is only allowed to make up to 5 games per year for a Nintendo console. This mindset helped Nintendo a lot. The new Zelda game (Tears of the Kingdom) was released five years after the last one (Breath of the Wild). The buildup of hype and the advances in the game engine has led to elevated sales. On the other hand, Capcom released a new Megaman game every year, with little improvement in each subsequent title. This destroyed what was once a promising franchise. Disney could learn something from Nintendo.

[@gxbasemedia]

6 year gap between the Zeldas.

[@gxbasemedia]

6 year gap between the Zeldas.

[@angeloalvarez5520]

American companies do not think that way

[@Hepheat75]

Disney is the modern day Roman empire, it rises only to fall.

[@imaginasean]

Rome never fell, it churched!

[@Hepheat75]

@@imaginasean That it did lol

[@johnh.tuomala4379]

Sic transit Gloria!

[@youfoundwaldo77]

I hate to be this person because i always hated when old people did this when i was young but things were better in the past. There might be one or two movies a year that actually make me hopeful for the future of film, this year so far was barbie. In the past I would be over the moon with excitement for the next block buster film, but now id much rather pick up a book by a lesser known author because the film market is over saturated with soulless adaptations of previously loved characters and stories. I could go on about this for hours but the gist of it is that disney along with many other entertainment powerhouses have lost all their heart and focus on profit rather than creativity, forgetting what caused people to love those things in the first place.

[@TXNIZ]

Disney and Hollywood really going down with the ship over politics is hilarious. All they had to do was not that and this calamity doesn't exist lol.

[@Livvvid]

As millennial, i think we were at fault. As my generation got older and into the writing, producing, exec roles, our politics had overwhemled decision making and made it impossible to assess a situation with an honest take. Its the only way I can think of that makes sense of why woke tactics continually fail yet companies like disney tell shareholders a completely unrelated reason for why something failed.

[@slappy8941]

Well they ran out of ideas a long time ago, so it was just a matter of time, regardless. The wokeness is just a symptom of a greater sickness.

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

Disney forgot they needed writers. Good writers. Writing is not easy, you can't just hire someone who used to write blogposts on Buzzfeed, but that's all Disney seems to hire nowadays...

[@sa9245]

Reminds me of people who spend a lot on their wedding day and cheap out on the photographer. A good photographer can make even the most basic wedding look amazing. But an expensive wedding can look like total shit if you hire someone because they're cheap.

[@NegativeSevenTen7079]

Turns out if you focus on selling people ideas instead of seeling them cool movies, people stop liking you.

[@vestavind]

What saddens me most about this whole situation, is that I will never live to see a good Star Wars movie at the cinemas again.

[@evronian1129]

The fall of Disney only goes to show that no matter how well off and powerful an empire or entity might seem, if they let their pride get the best of them, they are destined to fall.

[@ShinbrigTV]

George Lucas: I sold off Star Wars for future generations to enjoy That aged liked fuckin' milk

[@jolo6051]

Remember when people used to say not even 2 years ago that Disney is too big to fail?

[@thehillbillygamer2183]

Everyone knows what's wrong with Disney Star Wars Mary Sue woke but this blue hair guy that made this video and said one word about it

[@user-sq4jz9up6g]

My Parents didn't have to worry when I went to see a Disney movie Now I worry when my kids see one and what propaganda and Wokeness they're exposed to

[@BadlyRoy]

I still can't believe the hubris of buying Star Wars for 4 Billion dollars and just launching into movies with no plan whatsoever. They absolutely thought they couldn't fail.

[@chesscomsupport8689]

Disney is doing a much better job than DeSantis of destroying Disney.

[@MrSKlim]

LMAO, so true. Desantis still the man though, but that was good.

[@roberthernandez7792]

If Disney's doing so good why they raising ticket prices and why are their latest movies doing so horrible

[@MrSKlim]

@@roberthernandez7792 you misread his comment. Reread it, slowly.

[@taki7546]

I hope they go broke in every way I can imagine. The woke remakes are one thing, but trying to avoid the law and replacing their artists fully with ai is just such a scummy move and shows how dystopian Disney really is. I hope they go down, together with Universal who are just the same

[@Oscar95451]

What did Universal do?

[@taki7546]

@@Oscar95451 They‘re the same as disney in terms of ai. Atm they‘re trying to find any possible loophole to get rid of their human artists and to replace them. Money hungry bastards. And the worst part is that they’re doing this while there are still strikes going on

[@cm3368]

@@taki7546 Don't think there's any truth to that, various courts have already ruled against any copyright claim to AI-generated works, so if Disney or Universal were using AI in their productions then they'd lose the rights to it in which case anybody could use it freely for whatever purposes they wanted

[@2103038335]

@@cm3368 If that's the case then why are the strikers freaking out about it? Why is literally every news source that covers the strike taking AI deadly seriously?

[@John-hc8zx]

It's not dying fast enough.

[@RaquelAdriana-jp6sd]

Disney went from getting everyone excited to the next movie to a point where whenever people hear that a movie is being produced by Disney, fans fears that something might go wrong. If people fears your product instead of being excited for it, that's a bad sign. Not to mention that went a movie or series flops they now blame the audience instead of keeping their mouths and fingers shut and rethink what they did wrong. Either they learn from their failures and clean the brand's image or continue to insist on getting politically involved and collapse like a tower being demolished.

[@CyberKnightMiky]

If they think 6000 dollars for a family is a reasonable price for a Star Wars hotel, they've lost their goddamn minds! Ohh... How the Mighty have Fallen!

[@LordMort-jk8gq]

Disneys live action Snow White is going to be the equivalent of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.

[@ApostleofLoveMedjugorie]

Bob Iger fiddled while Disney burned....ego maniac...worse than Nero..RIP Disney...

[@Mamala2024]

Let it burn baby. The Disney I knew has been dead for year’s. Now it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

[@brunoflmg]

Well said.

[@carterd5364]

I really am proud of all the people standing up to Disney like this! Me and many others have discussed these problems for YEARS, and I’m glad more and more people are waking. While I do want Disney to return to normal and it will happen, there are many of you that have said that Disney first needs to be reduced to ashes before it becomes good again; And I am totally with those people.

[@gkroll8467]

Put all the drug addicts homeless pi’s at the magic kingdom

[@ElectricalExistence]

@@-TheMovie_Cynic-Tele-Gram_me benchode

[@orangeslash1667]

@@ElectricalExistence Stop it!

[@ElectricalExistence]

@@orangeslash1667 why would i stop calling a scammer a name?

[@orangeslash1667]

@@ElectricalExistence Because your spamming the same vague thing over and over again. It's really annoying.

[@torchrandom9059]

As someone who once looked up to Disney and was inspired by both the likes of them and Nintendo to create their own stories and experiences to one day share with the people (that hopefully they'll enjoy), I have to say I'm kind of glad Disney's crumbling. For one, it means less competition, and more importantly it serves them right. You know you've gone bad when a highschooler formerly edgy OCs is able to write better than your most recent Marvel product. I don't like to stroke my ego that often, but I can say I can at least use subtext and suspense unlike the garbage that was Secret Invasion

[@AllyMonsters]

Now let 1000 people edit your script and see if it still comes out like ya think.

[@torchrandom9059]

@@AllyMonsters lmao true. I'd rather have horrible writing because I'm an armature writer than have horrible writing because 1000+ people edited the script to be "woke".

[@AllyMonsters]

@@torchrandom9059 Well most media is bad to mediocre. No matter what influence it has. The whole "woke" thing is just souless rich people trying to pander to different audiences because every big corporation is run by the marketing department. They don't care to go after white straight males anymore, because to them... they don't understand yet that it's not an audience that is inherent as they assumed it would be.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

The Disney company started dying when Walt died. His brother Roy O. took over, but he retired and then died, leaving Walt's incompetent son-in-law Ron Miller in charge. That started what I call "The Herbie Period", where we got a slew of Love Bug movies, the "death" of EPCOT, etc., and the corporate "suits" took over. Roy E. Disney, Walt's nephew, saved the animation department for a while, but he's gone to join his father, Roy O., and his uncle Walt. Even Marty Sklar, the head of Imagineering, is gone now, so it's all just the corporate suits and their lackeys now...

[@alexkx8599]

When did EPCOT die?!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@alexkx8599 the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow was never really born as Walt envisioned (hence the quotes around "death", meaning the death of Walt's vision). I was there the summer it first opened, and my thought was, "This ISN'T the EPCOT that Walt showed us on TV! I wanted to live there, not some amusement park..."

[@polonusx]

Disney start with Snow White and wants to end with Snow White. 😂

[@alesksander]

Its like poetry.... or circle of life.. end and beginning XD

[@orangefacedbuddah1776]

😂😂👍👍

[@Papi_C]

In regards to the large push of diversity/social justice themes in a lot of recent Disney properties, I think it’s important to remember how political opinions, social issues, messaging about diversity, etc., has always been incorporated into filmmaking, or any sort of media. I think the difference between then and now is the capacity in which they do it. I consider myself a film lover, and I love seeing subliminal messaging, or the thoughts/opinions of writers/filmmakers put forward in an artistic way. Even if I don’t agree with the point they’re making, I can still appreciate the level of thought that goes into those messages being put forward in a meaningful and interesting way. Nowadays, it feels like every Disney property does this big song and dance about diversity and inclusion, and it repeatedly slaps you in the face as you watch anything they make. It’s like I’m being talked down to for an hour and a half during each movie I watch. I have no problem with race or even gender swapping of characters if the actor/actress is the best person for the role and genuinely fits a character really well. You brought up Zoë Kravitz and Jeremy Wright in another video as their roles in the Batman. They were both outstanding, and genuinely fit their roles extremely well. But often it feels Disney casts minorities just so they can get articles written about them and garner social points, even if that actor/actress doesn’t fit the character at all. Its like they have a checklist for every movie they make to include minority x or gender y and it’s not only lazy, but outright putting pandering before putting out a great and passionately made film.

[@bodybuild5975]

Hit the nail on the head. When hiring for diversity becomes your main priority and the constant in-your-face political discourse, you vilify the audience. When you vilify your audience, you end up driving a wedge between your audience and your product. Political commentary in film isn’t necessarily a bad thing, like you said. If it flows with the story and doesn’t overbear the story beats, it can actually open up room for discussion, in some cases it can expand, challenge, or change a person’s own beliefs. However, Disney’s messaging just feels too overbearing. It doesn’t make me think or open up possibilities to challenge my beliefs. It reads like their own messages were adapted from Twitter and I can’t help but eye roll at the obvious messaging.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

It's like Star Trek. People always say "Star Trek has always been woke". I know. _That's one of the reasons I liked it._ Star Trek: Discovery introduced a trans character just to have a trans character. It was obvious because they wrote him off the show as soon as they could. What's the point? If you want to tell stories about trans people you need to *tell stories* about them. Don't just have them exist and act like you've done something amazing. When Star Trek: The Next Generation did a story about gender identity I liked it because it actually said something. Now they want applause just for doing the bare minimum. All right I have to stop because I could talk for hours about how much NuTrek shits on all the work done by people for decades to create a franchise that was a cultural juggernaut and is still loved to this day.

[@crakhaed]

@@BiggieTrismegistus what'd you think about the new Picard season?

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

@@crakhaed It was pretty good but I think it stumbled badly towards the end. SNW is acceptable but I still don't understand why every freaking character needs to have a traumatic backstory. Pike's haunted by trauma that hasn't even happened yet! _Lower Decks_ was rough at first but I stuck with it and it *really* grew on me. It's the only NuTrek show that gets the spirit of Star Trek right. Hell, I had the day off today and rewatched the entire third season. At this point they need to do a Next Next Generation and move on, especially from Spock. For people my age (I was born I 1981) "Star Trek" means TNG, DS9 and VOY. That indicates that the franchise doesn't have to keep going back to the well of old characters to be successful. Ever since the 2009 movie it seems like producers think "Star Trek" is only the Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, Klingons, Khan and Tribbles. It is and can be so much more than that.

[@martianscienceenthusiast]

​@@BiggieTrismegistusyou're right. star trek was always about understanding each other and working together for a brighter future. It was never done to look good or be trendy, it was done with genuine heart. It's a shame that feeling has been quietly fading away.

[@tjminimoto]

Yay disney’s reign of terror is coming to an end

[@b.johnny369]

Evil! Not sad about it.

[@borgurman]

#fuckdisney

[@filipecaco]

I hope Disney Bankrupts, they never deserved to manage the creative media.

[@user-uh1lf3ez8c]

they own ALL the film and tv outlets. Even if Disney as a brand and name falls out of homes, they're still running the show behind most if not all other productions so either they'll learn from their mistakes until they start making more with the other companies or they get to try again with all the other studios they own and do well.

[@LifeWithMatthew]

I don't think over saturation is really contributing to the downfall of disney. If they were pumping out good movie after good movie, I'd be out there with my kids all the time watching them. The issue is that even ignoring the social issue they feel the need to spam, the writing of these movies is just hot garbage and they actively hate the people who the movie is supposed to be written for. Disney has been down this road before though. They just need to have the guts to clean house and get some people in whose focus is on writing a good story, not using a kids movie as their personal soap box.

[@TheRealNTM]

"Too Big to Fail" does not mean that something is incapable of failing. It means that said thing is so big and interconnected that it's failure would be catastrophic. The Bigger they are, the Harder they Fall.

[@whitetiana3022]

well it usually also means there will be a government bailout if they fail. problem with disney is they royally pissed off the reps...

[@velocitor3792]

The Roman Empire and the Soviet Union seem to disprove the idea of "too big to fail."

[@silluete]

Now it's cheaper to fly to Tokyo and go to disneysea for a week than go to Disney at florida for 3 days.

[@stephen5804]

THEY DID IT TO THEMSELVES.

[@Numenides]

That's how empires fall. They overexpand and implode - any storyteller or historian knows this.

[@TheChaosDragoness]

Look at the Roman Empire.

[@MisatoBestWoman]

The classic 2D animated movies will be forever iconic Disney will fall and we’ll move on

[@oasis613]

I really do dislike what's going on with Disney nowadays and everything that they're doing. I'm glad to see their long-awaited downfall after their actions, but the original movies of the 20th century and a few early 2000s ones will forever have a place in my heart. They were, at least to me, extremely refreshing and still are a joy to watch to this day. It's just such a disappointment to see what they're doing nowadays..

[@theworldwariioldtimeradioc8676]

My wife is a huuuuge Disney fan. Last year we watched a Disney film starring Bette Medler as part of a trio of witches, I forgot the name, and they had a scene with a drag show that had absolutely nothing to do with the movement of the story. I’m not a prude. I don’t care if an adult wants to see a drag show, but the movie was geared towards children and the scene had no purpose other than to expose the underage to drag. I just thought it bizarre and was waiting for the conservative elements to throw a fit.

[@Myst109]

rey is literally the worst mockery of a 'character' that ive ever laid eyes on in my entire life. i pray for Lucas, as insane as he can be, buying star wars back from disney and declaring everything disney has made as non-canon. im willing to make that faustian deal.

[@orangefacedbuddah1776]

Lucas is the big reason why star wars failed.

[@_stealth_313]

I remember when Marvel movies were must sees for me and my family. Now we aren’t even aware when a new one is releasing

[@jasondismuke4837]

Ol' Walt is spinning so fast, he's thawing himself out.

[@Runco990]

I used to have a home theater in my house. Today I don't even own a TV. That's pretty much the state of shows today. And you get tired of re-runs eventually. So why not opt out altogether and enjoy the sunshine outdoors. And it's free!!!

[@patthewoodboy]

same , I still have a TV but I havent turned it on for over a year

[@thesupershinymegagengar2034]

​@@patthewoodboy Or you can play video games...like a normal human being.

[@patthewoodboy]

@@thesupershinymegagengar2034 theres nothing normal about playing video games , unless you can define normal.

[@mikeylicksit]

disney's new style of dollar-store writing earned this unsustainable failure. i'll never forget the twerking she-hulk. way to go writers and disney studios... you failed in only the most obvious way by forgetting about your core audience. all of these results have been earned (garbage in, garbage out). i'll never forget the blaming of fans, with labels such as rrrrrrrrracist, toxic, and every -ist and -phobe word they had in their quiver for us. a solid f. and u. has been earned. it will take decades to recover.

[@DdHenley307]

Not having a plan for the sequel trilogy is mind blowing. Spend 4 billion dollars and then just wing it. Now Star Wars has around the same prestige as the Fast and Furious franchise

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

It has the prestige of one of the cheap straight-to-DVD Fast and the Furious knockoffs.

[@jalander8817]

Civilizations die of suicide, not by murder. -Arnold J. Toynbee

[@nathankinman7753]

Evil eventually overplays its hand.

[@michelburkett347]

Amen

[@IrishRebel88]

"Disney won't ever disappear entirely" Yeaaah, tell that to Sears, Blockbuster, Kmart, Radioshack, Tower Records, Toys-R-Us and Sports Authority - to name just a few who people thought would always "be around." lol

[@johnepants]

Shhhhh, lefties can’t stand when you bring up reality.

[@tashante]

Add Kodak

[@babyblue3717]

I used to dream about working at Disney when i was a kid up until i was a teen. I watched every single release on opening night. I bought all the products i could. Its absolutely devastating to realize i dont care a bit about this company anymore. I resent it. Even the movies i used to love so much, used to watch every other week, dont have the same effect anymore because of the bitter taste i get from comparing their golden days to now. Its insane. I hate this.

[@CamSiv996]

My thoughts are likewise.

[@AsaTrenchard1865]

Things you love don't make you weary, but contemptuous backhands from someone you thought was your friend get old quick.

[@HaRacycEBLErAtIng]

'Oh I just can't wait... to see the fall of Disney Empire!' So glad that I was a Disney nerd until '17.

[@atom_gray]

Nice work, Blue. You did your homework and it shows... 👍🏻

[@JmannTW]

Buying FOX and not immediately starting production of X-Men movies was the stupidest move and just waste of money from Disney. That alone explains that company is in hands of idiots.

[@d3rrick10493]

Ehh, I kinda disagree. They had to find a way to make mutants existence make sense. They had to find a way to explain why people in the MCU love superheroes and hate mutants. Apparently, the plan is to lay the grounds for that in Deadpool 3, which from the leaks seems like the most exciting and well realized Marvel movie since Endgame. Three bad years does not exactly seem like a death knell. I'm still gonna hold off on the whole DISNEY IS DEAD thing juuuust a bit longer.

[@Its_me_6]

With every day, the companies get scummier and the small indie projects get more and more impressive.

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

Lucas sold to Disney because he felt too old to make movies. He had already written scripts and was supposed to be a creative consultant. Disney scrapped his scripts and didn’t return his calls.

[@demavend6847]

The meme edits on this whole entire video are on point. Excellent commentary as well.

[@Infinite.Worldz]

This video should be shown to stockholders.

[@velocitor3792]

Companies blaming their own customers for product failures is my favorite unintentional humor, these days. I would live to see Xerox call it's customers racists, for liking Canon copiers better, or have Pepsi blame the failure of Crystal Pepsi on misogyny.

[@edstringer1138]

or New Coke

[@RaxeOnYT]

If Walt woke up today to see what has happened to his brand and what they are supporting, he would probably rather stay dead.

[@user-uh1lf3ez8c]

Walt was also racist so... If you respond to this, tell me he's not because WTF, he was literally alive to oversee the creation of Song of the South

[@sirclarkmarz]

I think he would be more concerned with how much power the Jews and women have gained in Hollywood

[@RaxeOnYT]

@@user-uh1lf3ez8c Song of the south wasn't racist, and neither was Walt

[@user-uh1lf3ez8c]

@@RaxeOnYT It portrayed black people the exact same way that Florida is teaching slavery now

[@RaxeOnYT]

@@user-uh1lf3ez8c I just would like to know what side of the political isle you are on if you don't mind me asking