Disney is in a bit of pickle now
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I'm a bit confused about this passage at the end:
They don't give any examples of talent getting kicked out (I can only recall Roseanne and Gina Carano) and finding success, and it's not like it would be so difficult to find a 'conservative' foil for the right price.
Can you name a single Disney animator at all? I can't think of any. Those sort of people can take their skills elsewhere fairly easily and adjust their style to match another, less toxic studio
This.
There's been numerous moments over the last few years where somebody writes an article noting that Disney shut entire studios for certain diciplines, not because they weren't profitable, but because they no longer employed anybody to work in them.
2d animation is one. But there were others too
The guy who made Anastasia was a former Disney guy.
The guys that are in charge of Phineas and Ferb also wrote and drew for Family Guy, SpongeBob, and whatever the sex talking dingo was. Disney as a company competes with Universal and Nickelodeon, while the people working for them go back and forth.
Disney only has one artist for all the animated Disney movie characters. He's mostly used for the theme parks now.
Running off John Lasseter is probably the biggest mistake they made.
Also, when Jennifer Lee was put in charge of Disney Animation, she immediately went to work promoting DEI hires to positions they weren't qualified for. At the same time, experienced animators (i.e. straight white men) were given shit jobs and locked out of promotions until they gave up and left for jobs at Dreamworks and Netflix. She did so much damage that Disney is now offshoring their animation work to Canada because they literally aren't capable of doing it in California any more. It's why Wish was such a shitshow with such terrible animation.
Edit: I almost forgot one thing. Disney tied their employees' bonuses to DEI goals. Every employee would have to list out everything they have done to promote diversity. This had two purposes: to pay their foot soldiers more, and to force conservatives to identify themselves via their lack of participation so they could be fired. This is probably what the article was referring to.