Disney Has A MASSIVE Problem Disney+ is DOOMED

Disney has had many issues over the last few years, with Disney+ being one of the main driving forces for this. Losing billions of dollars, millions of subscribers and requiring a constant deluge of content like Willow and She-Hulk to keep the service going, it's not an easy task.
Bob Iger has sat as the CEO of Disney throughout most of this, and as the WGA strike continues and Disney gets a lawsuit over cost shifting within the company. Can Disney+ continue as a successful platform for Star Wars, Marvel MCU content and many other IP's? Were Peter Pan and Wendy & the Little Mermaid a mistake?
Follow me on Twitch = / disparu
Follow me on Twitter = / disparutoo
Gotham Knights Review Playlist = • Gotham Knights Reviews...
The Mandalorian Review Playlist = • The Mandalorian Review...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Review Playlist = • Obi-Wan Kenobi Review ...
Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Reviews Playlist = • Lord of the Rings: The...
Playlist of Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power Commentary = • Lord of the Rings: The...
Velma Review Playlist = • Velma Reviews - HBO Max
She-Hulk Review Playlist = • She-Hulk: Attorney At ...
Subscribe to this channel = / @disparutoo
#Disney #BobIger #StarWars

[@disparutoo]

Disney has been struggling with keeping subscribers on Disney+ months now. While making Disney+ streaming service profitable has been even more of a challenge. But with the WGA writers strike standing in the way of modern innovations such as AI, while asking for other workplace changes to help bake in previous issues on shows to future productions. How long can Bob Iger continue down this path without radical change within the Disney company. As Disney get sued by investors over "cost shifting" for Disney+ and they start dumping Marvel MCU shows all on one day for the first time ever. Seemingly to hide the show and minimise the attention it will receive. After losing 4 million subscribers in a single quarter, can Bob Iger turn Disney around? Does he have what it takes to even WANT to make the necessary changes to make it a success? Or is it time for change? Let me know your thoughts down below, and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@44Quantum]

Realistically? No.

[@schism5797]

Dude... is that a Dale Keown Tshirt? that looks sick..

[@schnecks2180]

I'm struggling to understand the importance of ESG with bad writing. I can tell you in engineering, things got a bit crazy. I can only imagine the writers rooms with check boxes on multiple spreadsheets. In the end, the customer is always right. BUT for a writer, the customer isn't us.

[@ikept_the_jethryk2421]

I just got off the phone with Obama he says those jobs aren’t coming back and they should learn to code

[@magicfeliuri2681]

indeed

[@44Quantum]

Good, I hope Disney goes bankrupt. They haven't been the Disney I remember from my childhood for a long time.

[@mr.puddintater1805]

What I worry when they go bankrupt. The politicians will bail them out with tax payer monies. People better wake up.

[@jtehmain8261]

Yeah same here.

[@John-Doe-Yo]

No shot they go bankrupt.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

Just out of touch elderly who have a one track mind for money. They are losing money from using strategies that usually work but ...they're out of touch with the 2 recent generations and the up and coming 1

[@Thranotheoneandonly]

it wont tho to many people go to the one good movie they put out every few months which bank rolls the next garbage agenda movies...not to mention ESG wont let disney die since its one of the biggest media companies that WEF can spread influence through...they will bank roll it if they have to and they have before

[@batmanforpresident9655]

The more money Disney loses, the happier I become.

[@DragonGoddess18]

Same

[@MeltonCrest]

@@darthkai8242 Not good enough, complete annihilation of the company, i won't accept any less.

[@BigMike-1998]

Let Disney burn bout time 😂

[@RandallBalls]

They don't care about money. They have all the money, and their friends are the ones who print it. What they care about is demoralizing you and destroying your media. And their parent company takes care of plenty of other parts of their agenda If this was about money, they aren't stupid and they know what people want. They do not care.

[@allaroundarbiter4809]

😏🍿

[@DragonSmoke91]

I never thought I'd ever be rooting for Disney to be destroyed.

[@amandapanda5087]

Same here.

[@guiltybastard7859]

Disney is already destroyed and they did it to themselves.

[@DragonSmoke91]

@@guiltybastard7859 Which is strange because Woke culture isn't new to cinema. So where did Disney go wrong?

[@furnoprime9439]

@@DragonSmoke91 ​​To me, they went wrong the moment they put worthless agendas over their actual paying costumers in an attempt to appease folks who don't care for and were never going to buy whatever products their pushing in a big enough number to make up for the old customers they flipped off. All those palookas care about is that it's "diverse enough". Whether or not the story is worth telling or the characters are worth writing home about is of little concern to those blunderbuffoons

[@DragonSmoke91]

@Furno Prime I work three jobs of which across these jobs three quarters are Black and a quarter are women. These people don't have the same hang-ups that writers in Hollywood believe they do, or at least not to the same degree. Nobody talks about these new movies; nobody could shut up about End Game. It wasn't that long ago writers still cared. Going back further, Starship Troopers is one of the wokest movies I've ever seen, but nobody cares because the story is pretty good. I won't lie. I guess what I'm getting at is what changed to cause writers to flip the script and make it about the message over the story?

[@PerfectTangent]

The greatest fiction of the Terminator franchise is that there wouldn't have been people helping Skynet to win.

[@reginaphalange9417]

💯

[@StephenGillie]

"Skynet said he'll make me king after he's done killing all humans!"

[@PerfectTangent]

@@StephenGillie Worth it

[@zoltanz288]

@@StephenGillie honestly all it had to do was offer free beer, just offer it not give it.

[@ronniebots9225]

once skynet became selfaware and a threat to human existance, the right decission would be to terminate it. But if it was non fictional, there would be protestors agaainst terminating the selfaware skynet and advocating for robot rights. Saying that it would be murder.

[@Nonamearisto]

"We want our shows to reflect the diverse world we live in." Fine, than perhaps we could have Chris Pine as Mansa Musa or Tom Cruise as Nelson Mandela. That makes about as much sense as the "diversity" crap Disney is pushing.

[@tremere3337]

Or Mel Gibson as Martin Luther King.

[@JoesCornerstadios]

Rossie Odonnel has Martin Luther King

[@JoesCornerstadios]

Wippie Goldberg has General Lee

[@KP-rs5tu]

Dylan Mulvaney as Cleopatra

[@Nonamearisto]

@@KP-rs5tu I could see that happening these days, sadly. If he wants some ancient figure who (probably) committed suicide in Egypt, try Antinous, "lover" of Hadrian.

[@Nonamearisto]

In a very real sense, wokeness in media begins in the writing room. The woke plot lines, the woke scripts, the woke garbage, it all has to be written down. It's where toxic lines like "But your white male entitlement wouldn't let you see that" are written.

[@Zara-Bari]

To be fair, I think an AI trained on the stuff could do that part just as well.

[@phantomstarlight1366]

And of course they'll say lines like that with ancient historical settings or fully alien worlds where its even more out of placeaq

[@mrbigglezworth42]

@@phantomstarlight1366 but how else are they going to make these fantasy lands, “reflect their lives experiences?”

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

No, it starts above that. The writers and show runners are hired, not fired, and shows approved by the higher execs. Woke product is not the problem, it is the symptom of the rot going all the way to the top.

[@jamespfp]

I think you've missed the mark by focusing on the writing room and presuming that the writers inside it have to be blamed. As I see it, it's Committees involving production executives who are actually at fault, and for sure they can find writers who will attempt to back their proverbial plays when it comes to the Woke narrative agendas. Let me put this another way: the fanatical agenda pushers aren't writers, in the same way that political "leaders" don't always write (or even edit) their own speeches. This ought to absolve the writers (somewhat) for the fanatical aspects of it; for most of them, it's just a regular jerb to pay for that Hollyweird home.

[@daniellogan-scott5968]

My degree is in screenwriting and I took part in the WGA strike in 1988. I only interviewed with a producer once and the first and only question he asked me was, "What does your father do?" I did not get it at the time, but he was checking if I was connected. I had an opportunity to apply for an internship through the WGA, but coming from a lower middle-class family, I could not afford to work with no pay for a year. That was pretty much the end of that career choice. My point is, these tick-box writers may be from a protected group, but they are not from poor backgrounds and they were already connected to get the job. This is a class issue and being a writer used to be a working class profession but over the past forty years it became an elitist one.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

"What does my father do? He is in the delivery business." "He works for UPS? Delivers packages?" "He delivers horse heads."

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

If your family loves to eat bageIs ‘n Iox and celebrates Hanukkah, then you’re a shoe-in. That’s what the inquiry was about.

[@russ254]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 shame on your anti-semitism!

[@matthewbowen5841]

The answer is always: waste management.

[@basilmcdonnell9807]

I think you have identified the problem. They have ended up drawing on a tiny pool of candidates for writing, when at one time they drew from the whole world. I work in animation myself, and "the writers" are a tiny group of uneducated, unimaginative dolts. Resulting in dreadful, childish output. Sad really.

[@zrich1585]

Wait, I have a fix. What about if Disney stopped making poorly written woke trash remakes and started making none political family friendly new films. It's just a crazy idea.

[@enkisdaughter4795]

It's so crazy it could never work😱

[@Landobytes]

With that statement.. you are more qualified to be disney CEO than the bob's 😄👌

[@kelechiojobor933]

and get rid of the woke cult and talentless hacks in the company.

[@raulsaavedraviolante4350]

The most sensible comment I've ever read. As much as I dislike present day Disney, I'd rather see them turning around and getting his act together.

[@Xbalanque84]

Any solution that doesn't involve the livestreamed seppuku of all the woke staff in the company is no solution at all.

[@JThomas887]

The D+ programming is terrible....it's a disgrace what they did to Boba Fett

[@jasonmckenzie2835]

Not to mention that absolute rape of Obi-wan

[@BurnDoubt]

From the Book of Boba Fett to the File of Fennec Shand in just two episodes

[@mamv80]

Duude that was a massacre! did u see the "professional writer"? he can't barely make sense for 1 minute

[@ShaneDouglas713]

That's Bobby Fett

[@QigongGreyDragon]

Star wars in general has been destroyed as soon as I seen Kylo ren I actually walked out the cinema. I've never seen the actual new films they were absolutely garbage 💩

[@Nonamearisto]

A smaller writers room is less likely to get woke. The more one hires, the greater the odds that one of them will be a wokist, and all it takes to ruin a show is one woke writer. Like one cockroach on a dinner plate.

[@mattandrews2594]

Complete nonsense. The Last Jedi was written by Rian alone, and look how that turned out.

[@FA-nd9uk]

You are being naive they are already woke

[@lostinmymind7488]

That's completly against what's been happening to writer rooms over the past decade or 2. Writer rooms are getting smaller, with less connection to the actual production of the show, that's the reason for all the strikes + plus the pay issues

[@jonathanchester5916]

Disney ONLY hires woke, I hate to call them writers, more like twink propogandists.

[@douglaskennedy6940]

More like spreading wokiv out of their putrid tadpole and excrement tainted pie hole.

[@GeneralPotatoSalad]

Yeah, the writers didn't care when people talked about how deepfakes could replace actors or speech synth could replace voice actors or trailers edited by AI came out. If anything they were cool with it because it meant less obstacles for them and their vision. But now, it's all "SOLIDARITY!"

[@theequalizer9154]

Yes. Now, the WGA members are shouting, "We're All In This Together". Yeah, until the lifeboats come up short.

[@Likexner]

Typical leftist thinking. My problems are everyones problems, but everyone elses problems are not my problems.

[@KatoKrazy]

I agree at the backlash from the voice actors having their voices used to train the AI. They should get massive compensation for that.

[@TeensierPython]

They should read their contracts closely. They may have said it was fine. If not. Sue away!

[@primmakinsofis614]

It gets stickier given that U.S. copyright is VERY clear on this point: ONLY works created by a human are eligible for copyright protection. If something was AI-generated, it's not copyrightable.

[@ReformedSauron]

At this point no sane voice actor should sign a contract unless they reserve the rights to collect on anything that AI produces with their voice as well. Perhaps make a law about it.

[@Kpizzle1289]

Why wouldn’t they just learn to code if they lose their jobs?

[@andrewkelley9405]

BOOM

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Exactly!

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

Coding is the first thing AI will take over. Second ones are writing and art design.

[@TeensierPython]

That’s what they told my dad when he lost his factory job. Also told that to a welder buddy of mine when he got replaced by a robotic welder.

[@JeffSense]

@@aahzmandiaz2767 AI code is great, but it will have to be double checked on physical hardware for years to come.

[@linus116]

Peter Pan and Wendy should of been in theaters so Disney could lose more money.

[@amandapanda5087]

Yes

[@macturner2196]

Wendy was like a mother to the LOST BOYS. Not girls. That was the whole point. Not for her to be a hero. But to be the mother they never had.... Why do modern writers think they can create something, better than stories that have kept their popularity for CENTURIES? Modern writers look at classics, and think, they can FIX everything wrong with the original. So stupid.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

"Modern" = Woke If you look at what they 'fix', you see what the Woke hate.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

They're not talented enough to create, so they destroy what others have created. Like when a bratty toddler stomps on her older sister's beautiful sand castle on the beach, because she knows it's better than what she could create. But bratty toddlers grow up. Wokeists often don't.

[@MysteicVoltronus]

The irony is Peter Pan is also a story of toxic masculinity as Peter is brash, short tempered, and likes to solve all his problems with violence or indifference. Wendy showed him that as leader his job was to take care of the Lost Boys, not lead them into battle against his enemies. Then they just wrote all of that out of the story for some reason.

[@Hassohappa]

The demand for more writers as the number of episodes goes up is kind of hilarious. It just seems like the more writers you have the more issues you'll have trying to maintain a coherent plot... Almost like they don't care about that they just want a guaranteed number of work hours and a guarantee of enough extra writers they don't have to actually work all the hours they're paid.

[@phantomstarlight1366]

Yeah. Ironically, thats where an AI would shine the most. Using it to check for consistency issues. Using AI as a tool rather than a replacement is the ideal

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

More writers are only going to screw it up more. Some of the best comedy was only written by two writers eg. Fawlty Towers and the Blackadder series. Frasier had 6-8 and they said it was necessary because of Frasier and Niles' highly sophisticated interests like opera and wine tasting and obscure luxury products. The whole group of writers contributing their bit of info were able to write believable dialogue for 2 knowledgeable snobs. 😂 From a few seasons near the end, the episodes were less funny, and for the last season, they brought back the original writing team, which was a very good decision.

[@Knirin]

@@phantomstarlight1366 it can’t do that.

[@phantomstarlight1366]

@@Knirin There's absolutely some things AI can notice. There's also some it can't. But the point is they are getting better fast.

[@WolframHeart-xp2px]

"Too many cooks in the kitchen" situation. Less writers can help maintain the same quality overall. Just need to make sure you request too many episodes at once, otherwise the writers will have to stretch the plot needlessly.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*Power to the independent writers!* *May the contractors reign supreme!*

[@BurnDoubt]

Raise your hand if you're shocked to find out these terrible shows have already been using AI to write the scripts. (Hint: no one should be putting their hands up)

[@merlin5411]

First time I’ve heard about it, but no in no way not surprising

[@primmakinsofis614]

Fun fact: if you could prove that the scripts were AI-written, you could give that evidence to the U.S. Copyright Office, and if the use of AI was not disclosed on the registration for those scripts, the Office could revoke the copyright granted.

[@avarissenusert]

✋

[@MephiticMiasma]

dunno. Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

[@TheRenofox]

-Only humans can create new things. -I agree wholeheartedly; Hollywood writers aren't humans. Is there a way to mail insults to the strikers? I want them to know I've wished them to get fired for years already.

[@HerculesBallsInc]

To add another layer to that insult, we should get AI to write them insults.

[@UsmevavyPanacek]

@@HerculesBallsInc Manage it's learning properly and it could be incredibly savage.. Unless you're a normal person that doesn't get hurt by words, but for some of those "words are violence" crazies..

[@FeatherRanching]

I assumed the writers had already been using AI, probably for the last 4-5 years. The story structures were too smart while being too stupid. They'd miss glaring continuity errors but include weirdly specific references. They'd incorporate interesting themes, but forget about them almost immediately. They'd build emotional resonance, and then fail to deliver, or even recall it. It all neatly falls into that specific uncanny valley that AI art always manages to strike.

[@matthewbowen5841]

Who knew Tommy Wiseau would be the archetype for future writers?

[@Truffle_Pup]

This goes back 15 years, when the good writers first went on strike. Since then the good writers have found other careers, and the bad writers have slowly risen to the top. It's clear as crystal.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

Yeah, there was a hard divider in quality around that time. I went from watching TV on a daily basis to giving up nearly everything in the span of a year or two.

[@DraQinn]

Writers strike is the equivalent of a painter that isn't selling artwork demanding that people pay him anyways, for "art" they don't want.

[@aleccampbell7707]

And less hours for writing post-strike because studios scale back budgets or greenlighting projects

[@thejoeker8439]

It’s more like the equivalent of an artist who no matter what you ask them to draw, they draw a self portrait and then run off with the money, and every artist starts doing it while running off the talented artists and then they start insulting you by calling you a bigot when you call them out for it And now they’re demanding to be paid more for their work and demanding better benefits for their self portraits

[@SirBlackReeds]

So, the writer's strike is full of Hunter Bidens?

[@bastiangugu4083]

I think the ESG rating as part of this problem. This fraudulent rating system needs to go before anything useful will happen.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

ESG is a brilliant way to leverage a political ideology into the market.

[@HerculesBallsInc]

ESG may be PART of the issue... but it was only really invented in 2009 and it's not really interesting to most investors. The roots of wokeness go much deeper than that, and it's the government more than the public really funding ESG initiatives. Without either of these, ESG would be no different from any of the many, many other systems for activists to tell people which companies are good or bad.

[@bastiangugu4083]

@@HerculesBallsInc You are right, wokeness goes much deeper. It's in my eyes a "neo"-marxist ideology hell-bent on destroying the fabric of society. It has nothing to do with justice or similar in a society. I think it gets support from clearly capitalist entities because it prevents the forming of real social movement as it separates people. Divide et impera.

[@fictiontheorizer4253]

@@HerculesBallsInc ESG started in the 1960's actually.

[@HerculesBallsInc]

@@fictiontheorizer4253 Depends on how you want to define your terms, I suppose. There's always been folks who wanted to judge based on those characteristics, but there haven't always been consultants who spend all their time attaching arbitrary numbers to a score that they specifically call 'ESG'. The UN put out a report in 2006 that popularized that specific term. Really we're both right. Yay!

[@Tajarim88]

The world WE live in today. Not PEOPLE. THEM. They need to go away. I want my childhood back!

[@Xbalanque84]

Failing that, I want them to receive a well-earned cosmic spanking that _reduces their coccyges to powder._

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

"All of that collective action just turned out to be every man for himself." What a great jab. Frankly, I find the kerfuffle hilarious and entertaining.

[@Spartan8676]

Why do they want so many writers? It's easier for only 1 or 2 people to write a story and is usually way better

[@amandapanda5087]

Too many cooks in the kitchen

[@DraQinn]

These writers that "cautious" of AI now are the ones using self-checkout stations. Their laws and policies made it impossible to afford employing actual humans, now their writing is making it necessary for more robots.

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

I short. NPC are fighting AI.

[@primmakinsofis614]

The humans have one big advantage in the U.S.: their creative efforts are copyrightable while the output of AI programs is not. American copyright law is very clear on the human authorship requirement.

[@joelvannatta3266]

​@@primmakinsofis614 laws change, especially in response to new innovations, and as AI becomes more common I can see copyright laws following suit.

[@GIBBO4182]

D+ is a grade for their streaming service…and that’s being kind!

[@MariaIsabellaZNN]

They should change their name to F-

[@GIBBO4182]

@@MariaIsabellaZNN 😂 how about, F D+

[@karlthorsten9118]

Disney+ should be more accurately graded. T. For TROLL.

[@Pandemona01]

Let them lose millions. Eventually the truth about woke policy will sink in when it is too late. A lot of creatives will be getting the boot. Money is the only value that matter in business. I feel sorry for the average worker that has nothing to do with politics and just need the cash to live and pay bills. What a disaster.

[@ReformedSauron]

In a way their collapse, or at the very least destitution, would be a massive blow in the culture war against their ideology. Always think about that light at the end of the tunnel. If this forces of purged from within against woke ideals, I will also consider that a win.

[@dramaticwords]

I suspect writers are currently using AI -- which is why the quality of screenwriting has plummeted in recent years. They just don't want producers to use it and cut the writers out of the loop.

[@KaosNova2]

AI is programmed and generally consistent. The writers are generally not consistent

[@aleccampbell7707]

Or handicapped by diversity bingo and studio interference

[@KaosNova2]

@@aleccampbell7707 It’s because people have individual egos and sometimes they will switch writers, creating inconsistencies.

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

AI writing is a lot older than many people think. For example, there were essay generators 20 years ago. It wouldn't be surprising at all that people who figured out how to get a degree doing this ended up making a career out of it.

[@ChickenMcThiccken]

oh i don't think so. AI doesn't write "woke" garbage

[@philipbutler6608]

Disney would be offended by what they are turning out now. Disney was all about wholesome entertainment for children and adults. He loved American History and story’s with morals and lessons of character. Victimhood is the antithesis of Disney. He wouldn’t bash any race or accuse people of unfair advantage. There are very few real new thoughts most writers tell the same stories with different names and scenes. Even Tolkien used literary models of Men on A Quest, Mythology, The rise and Fall of characters and races he even used stuff he hated like allegory. Personally I think that Lord of the Rings was the last time real Landscape will be integrated as a characteristic of the movie with CGI. Fewer films will be made in real landscapes. The Music and Landscapes were as important as any actor. The use of film and video will diminish sadly. Like real voices of singers replaced by auto tune. The problem Unions can’t deal with is anyone can write and produce profitable entertainment with a $1000.00 camera or a phone.

[@donandrei468]

Disney should get "the Bud light" treatment until they quit all this woke sh!t

[@foxlancaster4044]

And even after they quit. Disney needs to just end. Yours truly, Florida

[@doboi8121]

Yep. Too many consoomers though

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

The bud light treatment is a total cancellation. Nobody expect the company to walk back anything. We know they won't. We expect them go bankrupt now. Will not happen to Disney, though.

[@jonathanchester5916]

They already are. Plus is for lawsuits

[@CatTerrist]

@@foxlancaster4044 Ahhhh yes, Florida being fucking retared to the literal second largest employer in their shitty state. WHAT COULD GO WRONG Oh wait

[@blank3531]

Self destruction is crazy how far Disney has follow

[@StephenGillie]

It's like that Twilight Zone, where the guy sees the goblin taking apart the airplane, and nobody will believe him. Disney is the airplane here, and instead of telling others we're mostly watching with a big bag of popcorn. 🍿

[@upschutt4842]

The writers' strike logic concerning AI makes as much sense as their writing logic for their masterpieces.

[@FlyingNinjaish]

No, that's the only part of this that makes any sense. These things always look harmless right up until there's nothing you can do about it. AI a problem that needs to be solved before it's intractable.

[@marychocolatefairy]

I was sure Flounder's voice actor got a call from Disney telling him to defend them. Hiding behind a teenager is peak modern Disney, lol.

[@silverscorpio24]

I hope this strike lasts all year.

[@PickBit]

Please by all means keep refusing the demands of the writers. The longer the strikes go on the longer we can spare ourselves their garbage. It is a true blessing for art and entertainment!

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

Fire all diversity hires, and pay more for the remaining talented writers. Problem solved.-

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

They also have to settle every lawsuit no matter how frivolous, because taking it to trial means all these secrets being made public record in discovery. So there really is a lot to gain by figuring out how to be successful transparently.

[@Steel-101]

How to fix Disney: they really need to drop Disney+, bring back the beautiful hand drawn cartoons(like the old days), remove the woke content, sell Marvel, sell Star Wars, change CEOs, fire all the crazy political activists(do the same thing for Marvel and Star Wars), revive old TV show ideas(like the treasure planet TV show), put more movies in theaters(and DVD), and make better Pixar movies. In a perfect world this would happen lol 😂.

[@MikaelLV]

That doesn't sound like a lot of ESG score.

[@MrProy33]

I want my old Disneyland back. Galaxy's Edge is a slap to the face of Walt's vision, and his memory.

[@Zachery_]

Nothing necessarily wrong with Disney+, if it went away I’d buy Disney movies/shows on Amazon prime video, I was collecting dvds/blu rays but then I realized most of the time I don’t want to go get the disc, I have some in case the internet goes down, but the majority of the time I’d like my movies/shows digitally and Disney+ is easier than buying all the movies/ shows I like, That being said I’ve cancelled Disney+ for now and will likely come and go as I please instead of paying annually, but I’ll likely take extended breaks and may rarely come back, just like Netflix has lost me for years now, haven’t been interested in a Netflix show enough to come back

[@Steel-101]

@@MrProy33 The last time I went to Disneyland(or world I can’t fully remember), I was 8 or 9. It must’ve been around 2001 or 2002. I do remember the rides, The funny mascots, and all the cool stores. Prices were pretty decent back then too.

[@Steel-101]

@@Zachery_ well the thing is that’s my concern. These massive companies are trying to push digital purchases way too much and the problem is that all of the purchases are lost if the Wi-Fi is cut. Example is the Xbox store. On Google it says that you can play digital copies off-line but my Xbox says a different story(needs online to play). So do we really own anything?

[@unidentifiedguy8253]

Bob was in control the whole time, but he appointed Snoke...I mean Bob Chapek, but somehow Bob Iger returned.

[@spacecadet35]

@6:42 Minimum number of writers? Huh? I remember the series West Wing. The first FOUR seasons were written by a single writer (with occasional help). Aaron Sorkin wrote nearly every single line of dialogue for 84 episodes. And that is why it was so good.

[@marychocolatefairy]

Not only that, but at one point David Kelly was writing TWO hit shows all by himself. The Practice and Ally McBeal. And then there's JMS writing almost every episode of Babylon 5, as the show was his vision. So yeah, that's the most ridiculous demand for me. And as others have pointed out, the larger the writers room, the more likely there is for some untalented sjw to get in.

[@nobodyshome6792]

Joss Whedon wrote Firefly, Dollhouse, Buffy and Angel almost entirely solo. Miles Millar and Alfred Gough did Smallville, with occasional others for single episodes. Several of our most beloved shows, and the longest running shows were written by a few people. Hell Seinfeld had 1 writer... though sometimes a guest writer as well.

[@Stealth86651]

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the older, intelligent/talented people at Disney are long gone. Any remaining are probably jumping ship soon if they haven't already. If I worked in the film industry, I wouldn't want to be associated with a company who fails this much all of a sudden.

[@kadourimdou43]

How many flops has Disney got now. I’ve lost count.

[@olafsigursons]

Conover, the guy that will go down in history as the guy that said AI is a gimmick just by the guy that said the internet was a fad. He really has no idea what he is talking about.

[@nobodyshome6792]

Or the guy from IBM that said "I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers."

[@abfawkes261]

I remember when employees did what their bosses/ employer told them to do. But at Disney, the boss does what the employees tell them to do. I would LOVE to see Disney completely shut down. Not likely, but I can dream.

[@magicfeliuri2681]

Agreed

[@ronniebots9225]

thats why i think it would be a good thing if disney gets sued into teh ground by the investors and shareholders. In capitalism the only responsebility a coorperation has is making money for their investors and shareholders. And Disney is not doing that. It is loosing market share, it is loosing shareholders worth. It is driving the stock price into the ground. And it can stop but disney is refusing it. That alone should be grounds for massive lawsuits and demands of firing the CEO

[@HerculesBallsInc]

Not likely? Disney has been at the brink of bankruptcy a number of times, and historically huge companies fail regularly even though they seem like megaliths. Remember America Online? Napster? IBM? Woolworth's? National Cash Register?

[@SirCanuckelhead]

I just watched a studio ghibli movie last night. It was about a 13 year old witch in a slice of life movie. I am not a fan of this type of movie but it was such an easy and good watch. A nice story made with passion and care. The little details suck you into the world, a random little fantasy story had so much character and feeling in a movie. They are spending more, over more hours of film and can’t even come close to that feeling or character developed.

[@ironpluca2373]

It is just a shame that Studio ghibli is attached to this cancer organization

[@kkcombs622]

Kiki's Delivery Service is a classic

[@twister1154]

Miyazaki despises AI, tbf. More so than any Hollywood writer, probably. He considers it "an insult to life itself" and would probably back any organization that would want to get rid of it.

[@nobodyshome6792]

@@twister1154 he would likely not even care at this point. He is wealthy and in his 80s.

[@twister1154]

@@nobodyshome6792 I very much doubt it. It's not like it was said too long ago. Rather, it takes a lot to go from "I find this to be disgusting, this is the end of humanity" to "eh its okay".

[@fionnaitsradag5152]

Well, I can't really feel sorry for them. They kept new writers out, good writers, just because they didn't tick a woke box. Now if the bad writers get replaced by AI, I shall point and laugh.

[@sunso1991]

The whole thing about ai work being not copyrightable is incrediably laughable. Even drawing by an ape or natural formations are copyrightable, Ai work will just be copy righted via corporation legal personhood

[@KaosNova2]

That’s the thing, there is no solid line, and even when AI does write, a person gave the AI instructions on what to write, what to draw, etc. The more precise the details that are written to the AI, the more effective the AI will turn out the work.

[@twister1154]

All the data an AI uses was taken from already existing works. AI fans say that because it was broken down, it doesn't count, and art is basically stealing anyway so it shouldn't matter, but it's not uncommon for people to easily point out what the AI took from, or that an AI "redid" their work, posting side by side comparisons.

[@KaosNova2]

@@twister1154 AI doesn’t simply make it. It makes the story based on the instructions, and by extension, the imagination of the person who scripts for the AI. AI are programmed and follow rules, so they will be consistent in what they put out.

[@sunso1991]

@@twister1154 by the same logic, most of the stories are just retelling and regurgitation of older stories. Medieval tales, folklore, ancient epics, classic adventure heros journey, biblical references, Shakespeare tragedy. Don't tell me writters didn't learn from those and reuse those stories for their own scripts

[@sunso1991]

@@KaosNova2 totally I just finished my instruction book called "Navigating Midjourney". The ai is more like a tool, the one that built the ai and the user that prompted the ai still need to be heavily involved with the creative process.

[@tjroelsma]

Bob Iger brought the activists into Disney because he wanted their support for the political career he saw for himself after Disney. That backfired massively, because not only have the activists embedded themselves deep within Disney, Iger can't fire them without losing a lot of face, as he is the one who brought them in. His plan to blame it all on Chapek has also misfired massively, as nobody believes Iger retro-actively blaming Chapek for the activists within Disney.

[@The80sKickAss]

Here's the catch that they don't want you to think about. The writers say they don't want companies to use AI. But what stops the writers from using AI and just phoning it in for a paycheck?

[@Bootlegdaeternal1]

They already do. They're hypocrits.

[@greatamericanradio5937]

They have virtually limitless resources, and they don't care how much money they lose. They don't measure success or failure like we do. Most people try and chase their dreams with their own businesses or careers. We measure ourselves by how well we can do for our families, and by trying to be a Force For Good in this world. They don't. They measure success by how many children they corrupt, mislead, and destroy. Understand that, and never forget it.

[@Kal_g]

Disney's destruction can't get here fast enough.

[@WandererRTF]

The thing with the AIs is that they may well drop the users into a quagmire of legal issues especially if used for writing. After all the AI uses the stuff already made to extrapolate something but rarely cares about the things like copyrights. And it won't be the AI blamed if a copyright infringement occurs.

[@TheSharkIsWorking_23]

Another thing the writers are fighting for is to be on a production pass the brainstorming room. Writers are brought in to come-up with ideas for episodes and plot lines, but for only the brainstorming room, then they’re not kept on to actually write out the episode(s). They are fighting for studios to keep them on longer than just the creative brainstorming room.

[@thomasdudley7982]

Dadgum Disparu. You really nailed it. You've exposed just what is going on with Disney and the WGA. Brilliant video.

[@Tribies]

The future lies in manga now days because a really good manga that then might become an anime with really talented animators is so much more enjoyable than anthing disney puts out.

[@anneserkin1964]

This is my favourite take so far and that includes the Disney watch of VR and CF. Kudos for making news I already know fresh and fun. Your posts are always enjoyable and entertaining, maybe Disney should hire you to save them. Nah let them die!

[@ConquerYou]

The funny thing is there’s a writers strike, but what I don’t understand is what that affects. I barely watch any scripted shows. They could ‘strike’ for a decade and I wouldn’t care one iota.

[@Charmayne7]

First, I want to say how much I enjoy your content. Second, I'm sure it must be a sin to enjoy the suffering of everyone involved in this mess, but I just can't stop.

[@Black_Revue]

Dr. Doom: Whoa, Don't look at me! I'm just chilling with Dr. Wily

[@mhc706]

you notice that TheWrap didnt share the number of or groups the participants of their "survey". "9 out of the 10 writers we asked if they loved ai taking their jobs said they didnt like it!"

[@badghost_]

My exclusive survey I did says, most people want Disney to crumble to the ground

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Wow I didn't think it was possible, but the belend at 12:09 truly is making a great argument for replacing writers with AI. What a pathetic joke to even call what the WGA writers display as "intelligence"

[@southerndiscomfort171]

exactly what I was going to say, hilariously ironic

[@lance134679]

My selfish want is for Disney projects to be of higher quality so I'll have more stuff to watch. However, this writer's strike won't do anything to help achieve that goal. They seem to just want to entrench the mediocre writers and keep dragging the quality down.

[@michaelkeegan9260]

They can just hire non unionised writers...

[@kentslocum]

We absolutely need more transparency regarding viewership numbers.

[@allenbond1807]

about the writers guild, it reminds me of when the rairoads became so unionized that they had three different unions in the locomotive cabin: one for the guy who looked out of the cabin window to the left, one looking to the right, and one down the middle.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

The writing from real humans has been bad. The AI will be learning from all that terrible writing and will automate bad stories

[@caftdynner9377]

I think next year I'm going to start moving backwards with movies and shows, from the 80s down...

[@ptonpc]

Considering the quality of writing in Hollywood and other places, it's not as if AI could do much worse.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

I'd prefer Star Wars by AI, than more Star Wars by Rian Johnson.

[@SRMoore1178]

Hey, flounders and other fish want to see themselves accurately represented on the screen too ya know.

[@DaisyValentine814]

The WGA wants it banned because if you think about it, AI has advanced massively in a rather short amount of time, meaning that it has the capability of becoming even better in another short amount of time. The writers want the protection before things start getting out of hand, so that way it's not too late when AI gets as advanced as it will.

[@tkps]

Hollywood's movie/TV writers have been extremely well paid for a long time. But entertainment has branched out further than that including being produced cheaper and often of better quality by overseas progamming/writers who finally have access to US distribution systems via world streamers. HW doesn't want it revealed just how well they're paid for doing very little whilst simultaneously demanding quota systems based on self protection & far left identity politics the world rejects. As world subs now overwhelm US ones, HW's running scared we'll find out. So they claim most demands are to protect streaming writers.

[@Quizzicall]

People will fight tooth and nail for being againts AI generated art and then literally turn a blind eye to any other AI threat to industries.

[@wake-upamerica6568]

Excellent points of view. Keep up the great work!

[@nhansen197]

The trouble with AI is that it's incapable of conceiving anything original. The trouble with Disney writers is that they are incapable of conceiving anything original without destroying a beloved franchise in the process.

[@13253415]

There is no problem here. Humans are also incapable of conceiving anything original. Anything human creates is derivative of what they already experienced.

[@lightborn9071]

Don't worry, they gonna teach the AI to do the same.

[@lexnight8345]

​@Lightborn True... if they train it with the same bad writing, that's what the AI will create .. we won't even notice if they got replaced. I saw some short story created by an AI about some game characters ... it was scary good

[@dustinmobbs4245]

Well where Disney screwed-up is they failed to realize that us "boomers" and older generations that grew up on these classics that they're ruining are still the target audience. We still decide whether or not to take our children to view this content. And you know what? I'm never going to just mindlessly take my children to see a movie or program without knowing what is involved with it to begin with.

[@dandare9055]

Writers: "AI is a terrible crap, it cannot write anything engaging or even making sense" Audience: "And you are worried it might replace You?" "Writers: "Hey, I did not say we are better in any way, you seen recent movies?"

[@daniell1483]

The strike looks to me like a fear-induced response to what AI might become in the future. Scriptwriting is truly more demanding than what an AI can produce today, but the concern is about tomorrow. And frankly, I think the writers' fears are well-founded.

[@primmakinsofis614]

As long as the works of AI programs CANNOT be copyrighted in the U.S., the human creator has the big advantage. U.S. copyright law is very clear: ONLY works created by humans are eligible for copyright protection. The U.S. Copyright Office has already refused to register works created by AI, and in the case of a graphic novel written by a person but illustrated by AI art, copyright was granted to the writing but refused for the artwork since it was not human created. This human authorship requirement is well-established, long-standing, and backed by legal precedent.

[@WandererRTF]

@@primmakinsofis614 I really don't think that has much to do with it as that is very easy to circumvent. Nothing prevents an actual person from taking credit for something AI-generated. After all, if computer art is considered a production of the person behind the keyboard why wouldn't AI art (even things like a script) be a production of the person typing "run" on the console. However, what AI generates depends totally on what is used to train the AI. So you can kind of see the argument for not allowing AI to write or rewrite or AI productions to be used as source material for writing (BTW, nice euphemism for taking credit for what the AI produced). In a similar way using copyrighted material to train the AI scriptwriter will lead (sooner or later) that AI scriptwriter producing copyright infringements.

[@daniell1483]

@@WandererRTF Well said. And frankly this looks like the sort of thing that will eventually face legal challenge.

[@decay79]

Honestly not very different from the workers in a factory line being worried that machines will take their jobs.. And the why if they think it can't.. Well as mentioned AI is getting better all the time, might be they dont think it can atm. but soon it will be able to, likely surpass em..

[@geekdaddy5351]

The best job for AI in Disney Company is as CEO

[@misterdipster4241]

It's as important as keeping cash money to keep all the old DVD's and Blurays to show our kids and grandkids what fantasy really is.

[@jeffsummstl]

They want their movies and shows to reflect the diverse world we live in, but apparently they don’t want to make money or make people happy.

[@PWizz91]

Do you think the higher ups of Disney actually know that it’s the overly woke stories and employees that is causing the destruction of the brand?

[@elemomnialpha]

Nope, because the woke tend to be narcissist and nothing they do is wrong, it's ALWAYS someone else's fault

[@mattandrews2594]

Ah look, another commenter who somehow doesn't know that 2022 was Disney's most profitable year ever lol.

[@mattandrews2594]

@@shinken6636 A very simple Google tells you that Disney made $24 billion last year in profit. What's your evidence to say otherwise?

[@PWizz91]

Ok yes it might not be the downfall of the Disney EMPIRE, but it’s entertainment is plummeting… Disney+ lost 1.6 billion last year

[@little_dandelion]

They are pathological narcissists. Of course they are incapable of recognizing that wokeness is responsible, when wokeness is integral to their pathology.

[@repawnd1]

Rings of Power was written by AI, that's why it's so disjointed and lacks any spatial awareness.

[@jso416]

These same writer’s turn a blind eye whenever a corporation here in the U.S. decides to take their company overseas for cheaper labor laying off thousands of American blue collar worker’s and say “Oh well, nothing is guaranteed.” Now here they are, crying about large corporations replacing them for cheaper labor. Oh, the irony.

[@maravreloaded]

The massive "streaming bubble" is starting to pop with Disney.

[@the_absurd_hero]

Oh, it’s popped... now, we get to watch the crash.

[@Tinandel]

It is a bit odd when you put it like that. We've seen the argument for many years now that Disney has lost control of its own staff, but they sure seem willing to crack down in this case.

[@TS-qr3rk]

Disney: "our most creative dept is accounting!"

[@YouLousyKids]

The problem of A.I. is that all it can do is absorb and regurgitate. It can't create. But while it maybe cannot PLOT, it can generate the garbage writing that makes up a LOT of writing. Think everything that goes on cue cards for "The Price Is Right" and "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune." I know a woman who wrote for Jeopardy, but what if AI starts turning out all the questions? It will cost jobs, even if A.I. is not used (or not used as much) for feature movies and such. Also, if there are a few writers laying out the plot, can't A.I. write all the soap operas?

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

The writers are not the ones to blame for creative bankruptcy. They aren't the ones who start the concept of, for example, "Peter Pan and Wendy." That's a decision made up top. The writers are told that the old "Peter Pan" cartoon is going to be reimagined for a modern audience, and that's what the writers produce. But the problem is the people who actually make the decisions are afraid to try anything new. Are the writers responsible for wokeness? They probably love it, but again, somebody up top has to approve of everything before it's released. If whoever up top did not approve, then the writers wouldn't be writing that.

[@williehawkinsii4845]

So they're not getting paid by how many people watch the show to buy how many people could watch the show? Did I get it right

[@roncolemanlaw]

Very incisive analysis! Well done.

[@StorytellerForeverYT]

Glad someone says it for what it is 😢 heartbreaking, it's like watching Disney slowly die...

[@jimsteinmanfan80]

Once the ratio between what they could potentially earn and what they actually earn reaches say 10 times someone should by them. I hope Discovery would buy at least the Marvel part so we could se Green Lantern vs. Warlock, Punisher vs. Peacemaker and Daredevil vs. The Joker amongst others. Movies would take some time but comic books could come after just a few months.

[@Nonamearisto]

Here's a thought: AI scripts can be used for common shows and dumb movies which, let's face it, rarely have good writing anyway. Human writers could be reserved for higher-quality material which AI can't (yet) match.

[@sd5371]

Even "high quality" films are rehashing older story plots with a new coat of paint. New ideas are not coming out theyre being recycled.

[@Nonamearisto]

@@sd5371 I know, but that's another problem. Perhaps the AI could come up with some original scripts too.

[@alexfriedman918]

People used to ask: “Can a machine ever pass the Turing Test?” Now we are dealing with a whole union full of people who couldn’t pass the Turing Test themselves to save their life (or rather jobs), because a machine (or a stick, or a piece of dogshit) is more human than they will ever be! I sincerely hope none of them work again!

[@boqndimitrov8693]

the same people make the same mistakes, and then the public is blamed for the failures, simply because it is not at the level of their genius.

[@AzathothLives]

On one hand, I want to support worker's rights. On the other, these hack writers have destroyed most of the IPs I've loved. So... yeah. Mixed feelings. I worry for the few good writers, and what might happen to their work. Have been looking forwards to the second season of Andor, and this might put a wrench in that.

[@KitsuneAdorable]

I agree. I think they need to get off their high horses, and pay them less. And hire more competent writers. Unions work, and are honestly a good thing. Unless you’re the Hollywood writers and abuse it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Ugh. I miss 90s TV. 😫

[@oskar6661]

At this point, the studios should simply come out and say "Yeah, we're not going to negotiate on the A.I. because we are planning on using it and will be actively reducing our writer pool over the next several years". Just don't beat around the bush, just flat out tell them - what are they going to do?

[@SaltyBob355]

What they need is the HR hiring and firing decisions made by AI.

[@the_absurd_hero]

AI is only as good/ethical as the programmer who programmed and trained it. If you’ve got a pro-affirmative action programmer telling the HR AI to hire only a certain type of person, based on race/sex/creed/orientation (which is technically illegal... which is why affirmative action is nonsense), then that’s what the AI will hire.