I always wonder why people have given them a pass. They’re a shitty company and always have been and it’s like just cos they have the IP for Star Wars then they seem to get a pass. How many more examples do people need to remember that Disney is shit
I’m a middle-aged dude with a wife and teen. Disney fucking sucks. Amazon fucking sucks. Spotify fucking sucks. Facebook fucking sucks. Instagram fucking sucks. Google fucking sucks. My local cable company fucking sucks.
Even if I wanted to live as a hermit, I have to either make compromises or make my family hate me. No TV, No music, no social media.
It’s unfortunate but true. It’s tough to be an absolutist if you don’t live in a vacuum.
I pirate and self host and it was surprisingly not all that complicated to get going. Any learning on the subject has been far less a hassle too versus the constant subscription juggling and then shows and movies going missing and then subscribing to something else and yadda yadda
Pretty sure it’s less that they have the IP for Star Wars and more that they have the IP for a bunch of extremely popular children’s movies and so on. Also stuff like Disneyland.
Think it does make a difference since the Lucasfilm acquisition was only like a decade ago, and frankly Disney’s handling of Star Wars has been controversial at best. It’s just a bad example.
It’s IMO pretty obvious why people give Disney a pass. They’ve spent a great amount of effort cultivating a certain image and basically feeding it to kids growing up through many different sources (movies, TV shows, theme parks, random shit like balloons in parades, etc.).
It’s a holdover from when the company was ground breaking and artistic.
The current era of dogshit remakes is new and horrible.
Thats a pretty typical for any innovative founder led company.
Once the founder dies or retires, and the people who learned directly from that founder are no longer in charge, the drive for max_profits becomes the only goal for the company.
Enshittification starts rapidly accelerating until the company finally craters, gets bought out by a private equity fund, and then gets hollowed out for the last squeeze of value until the empty corpse is left smoldering in a dumpster behind the bankruptcy court.
I always wonder why people have given them a pass. They’re a shitty company and always have been and it’s like just cos they have the IP for Star Wars then they seem to get a pass. How many more examples do people need to remember that Disney is shit
I’m a middle-aged dude with a wife and teen. Disney fucking sucks. Amazon fucking sucks. Spotify fucking sucks. Facebook fucking sucks. Instagram fucking sucks. Google fucking sucks. My local cable company fucking sucks.
Even if I wanted to live as a hermit, I have to either make compromises or make my family hate me. No TV, No music, no social media.
It’s unfortunate but true. It’s tough to be an absolutist if you don’t live in a vacuum.
I pirate and self host and it was surprisingly not all that complicated to get going. Any learning on the subject has been far less a hassle too versus the constant subscription juggling and then shows and movies going missing and then subscribing to something else and yadda yadda
Pretty sure it’s less that they have the IP for Star Wars and more that they have the IP for a bunch of extremely popular children’s movies and so on. Also stuff like Disneyland.
It’s not really a detail that makes a huge difference in the point I’m making
Think it does make a difference since the Lucasfilm acquisition was only like a decade ago, and frankly Disney’s handling of Star Wars has been controversial at best. It’s just a bad example.
It’s IMO pretty obvious why people give Disney a pass. They’ve spent a great amount of effort cultivating a certain image and basically feeding it to kids growing up through many different sources (movies, TV shows, theme parks, random shit like balloons in parades, etc.).
It’s a holdover from when the company was ground breaking and artistic.
The current era of dogshit remakes is new and horrible.
But yes, the company has also been shit to it’s employees and customers for decades. Don’t forget the Mickey Mouse Copyright act.
Both of them.
Thats a pretty typical for any innovative founder led company.
Once the founder dies or retires, and the people who learned directly from that founder are no longer in charge, the drive for max_profits becomes the only goal for the company.
Enshittification starts rapidly accelerating until the company finally craters, gets bought out by a private equity fund, and then gets hollowed out for the last squeeze of value until the empty corpse is left smoldering in a dumpster behind the bankruptcy court.