Bob Iger steps down as Disney CEO... and Comes Back Again

The 2020s really hasn't been Pixar's decade. First Disney took away the theatrical releases for Soul, Luca and Turning Red and now this.
 
Everyone is a Fan of New technology.
The problem is that it is not in the hands of storytellers and stuff...its in the hands of awful Corporations and people who only See how they can use it to make all the money while having Not to share it with anybody.
 
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Disney has asked a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed earlier this year regarding a woman who passed away due to anaphylaxis after a meal at Disney Springs, citing an arbitration waiver in the terms and conditions for Disney+.

 
The [Star Wars Acolyte] show was unceremoniously cancelled, allegedly due to low ratings – but in the weeks leading up to its season finale, the cast faced relentless torrents of racist abuse online from so-called fans who couldn’t handle a Black actor leading a Star Wars series. In a video posted to her Instagram story, Amandla addressed the cancellation, noting that since the show was announced in 2020, she and the cast have experienced a “rampage of hyper-conservative bigotry, vitriol, prejudiced hatred and hateful language”. It’s an infuriating cycle: actors of colour are cast in Star Wars projects and are immediately made vulnerable to vicious bigotry. (John Boyega in particular has been outspoken about his experience with racism while part of the Star Wars sequel trilogy.)

“They’ve got to stop doing this thing where they don’t say anything when people are getting ****ing dog-piled on the internet with racism and bull****,” Jodie says of Disney’s lack of response to The Acolyte’s reception. “It’s just not fair to not say anything. It’s really unfair.”

“It would just be nice if the people that have all the money” – whether that be Disney or any studio – “were showing their support and putting their feet down,” she proposes. “Say this is unacceptable: ‘You’re not a fan if you do this.’ Make a really big statement and just see if any money leaves. I bet you it won’t, because people of colour, and especially Black people, make up a very large percentage of buying power. They might find that it’s actually more lucrative for them, but everyone’s using ‘woke’ like it’s a dirty word.”

She’s hopeful that the tide will shift one day: “Opinions change. What’s in vogue changes. We’re gonna get there at some point, to that place where people stop having a stick up their arse about people of colour being a part of IPs that were created by white people. You know why?” she asks. “Because we’re never going to ****ing stop participating.”

When people can’t envision sci-fi outside of an antiquated vision of the genre, being a person of colour in the public eye is unforgiving. Actors like Jodie are attacked just for existing, and when ratings aren’t as explosive as hoped, it seems that the blame falls on them. “We don’t get to fail upwards like a lot of white men,” she says. “I just feel that some people are allowed to grow and others have to be perfect, and if they’re not perfect – even when it’s great – people want to ****ing tear it apart.”
 
I’m just not sure what Disney putting out a “hey knock it off” statement is gonna do. The trolls will still troll, probably even more. I feel like they have done the “you’re not a fan if you do this” line and all that does is give the rage baiters more content to mine “Disney says F the Fans!”
 
I’m just not sure what Disney putting out a “hey knock it off” statement is gonna do. The trolls will still troll, probably even more. I feel like they have done the “you’re not a fan if you do this” line and all that does is give the rage baiters more content to mine “Disney says F the Fans!”
It's not trolling. It's Racist, misogynist, homophobic, and transphobic abuse. When you leave your employees to be attacked in such a manner, that's a failure. It's not about stopping it, it's about showing support.

One of the major issues is acting like this is normal. Okay. And thus it puts a target on anyone that isn't a cis straight white male in the business. Especially when the response is to just give in to such gross behavior.
 
Nowhere did I say just give in to the attacks. I’m fully aware of what it is and disgusted at it all. I want action that works not ramps up and energizes the attacks. Mani-Man in another thread said they should try working with YouTube and other social media to demonetize videos and posts that are from rage baiters, that is something I would like to see, but good luck with getting Elon/X on board with that.
 
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Nowhere did I say just give in to the attacks. I’m fully aware of what it is and disgusted at it all. I want action that works not ramps up and energizes the attacks. Someone in another thread said they should try working with YouTube and other social media to demonetize videos and posts that are from rage baiters that is something I would like to see, but good luck with getting Elon/X on board with that.
Musk you can forget, Disney doesnt even Advertise on Twitter i think.
But Youtube should be able to be swayed and forced into action.
I do think Disney openly supporting their actors, speaking out against hate etc...is always a good thing even if its just performative.

But more importantly is that Disney is starting to push actively against the toxicity.
Every Studio in any Entertainment Industry should do that.

There was a time where i would have said that giving these grifters etc no attention is the way to go...but people are allergic to this.
Instead they think directly quoting one of them and trying to dunk on them "will show them" while the grifters collect the money from the clicks etc and get encouraged.

So in the end its up to studios imo to tackle it, force youtube to take the platform away from grifters.
 
Nowhere did I say just give in to the attacks. I’m fully aware of what it is and disgusted at it all. I want action that works not ramps up and energizes the attacks. Mani-Man in another thread said they should try working with YouTube and other social media to demonetize videos and posts that are from rage baiters, that is something I would like to see, but good luck with getting Elon/X on board with that.
But then why label them trolls?

I think working with social media platforms should definitely be considered. But I think the #1 thing is to show public support for their employees and not let such content dictate the media they produce. It's all fine and good to say you support the LGBTQIA+ community. But if you're telling your artist to make their work less gay? What is the lesson there? The bigotry works.
 
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Disney is a massive corporation who makes family/mass entertainment for the largest amount of people, and pleasing their shareholders. They are not going to get deep involved in Internet culture wars, fighting against alt-right Youtubers. That isn't going to happen.
 
I think one must ask how the in person and on set feelings are, if they do not feel supported online. I remember when the Star Wars twitter account stepped up when the Reva actress was getting hate. But near as I can tell, they haven't done it since.
 

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