Disney is in a bit of pickle now - Kotaku In Action 2

Disney is in a bit of pickle now (thatparkplace.com)

posted 14 hours ago by Nohomo 14 hours ago by Nohomo +61 / -0

The Walt Disney Company Scrambles to Adjust After Election But Can't Find Conservatives in the Company

Talk about a panic! The Walt Disney Company is reportedly rushing to find majority voices after the election now that they realize they’re losing the biggest swath of the country. There’s just one really big problem: they can’t find any conservatives withi...

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– FrozeInFear 3 points 6 hours ago +3 / -0

I'm a bit confused about this passage at the end:

but it also deleted out the talent earned through generations of success. Replacing it is impossible in the near-term and difficult in the long-term. It turns out, the geniuses they ran away with dogma, found other places to play.

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.

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– raptor_jesus 6 points 5 hours ago +6 / -0

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

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– Theacefospades 5 points 3 hours ago +5 / -0

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

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