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I usually don't like people picking the low hanging fruit, but watching Disney dig their own grave has been legitimately mind boggling and entertaining.

The constant stream of bad business decisions they’re making is inexplicable

Disney has completely forgotten about families. My wife and I don’t even bother taking our three kids to their films. They are quite content to sit at home and we will thrown in a vhs animated film from decades ago and my girls love it. Along with the added bonus of us not having to explain adult topics to them.

The fact that a new Indiana Jones cost within the region of the Avatar movies is a great indicator that, on top of many other problems, Disney cannot budget their films for crap. Which is probably making their other problems worse.

I'm all for the fall of Disney. I doubt it'll ever Die. But I'm not gonna lose a moments sleep if it becomes crippled and unable to monopolize our childhood memories so that they can try to monopolize our adult years with nostalgia.

This is what happens when delusional people run companies. Well, when they file for bankruptcy, reality should eventually catch up with them. Thanks for the video. It was fun to watch.

It's so strange to see a company that refuses to make a product that people want to buy. In few years this will be a case study in economic college classes.

I love Neil Gaiman's Anansi in "American Gods," and his story would be a great animated feature if adapted properly, which at this point Disney is uncapable of.

The latest earnings call for Disney was BRUTAL. I can't even imagine what next year is going to be like after this year. I genuinely thought that at least GOTG3 would do well and now it looks like it's going to break even. Does Disney have anything coming out that will make them a profit this year? Ouch.

Just started watching your channel. It's edifying to know I'm not the only person wondering where my Disney Anansi movie is.

Lars Ulrich, the drummer of Metallica, was asked in an interview about how he reaponds to accusations of selling out. He said "yeah, we sold out. Sold out every show!"

I weep for Disney. Used to watch the Disney Channel all the time with shows like Kim Possible, Proud Family, Even Stevens, Phil of the Future, Boy Meets World and their Original movies like Halloweentown, The Poof Point, Phantom of the Megaplex, and True Confessions. Now it's all just garbage

As someone who went to the Galactic star cruiser hotel as a gift from someone who could afford it, it was very, very cool but I would never spend my own money on it as it was just way too short.

I don't even think that it's parents not being tolerant of LGBT groups, I think it's just the way their stories are being portrayed. There have been immensely, broadly popular LGBT characters for decades. Think Will & Grace, or Cam and Mitch from Modern Family, or (my personal favorite character ever) Captain Holt from Brooklyn 99! The issue is that LGBT characters used to be portrayed as just normal people with normal life experiences who just happened to be gay or lesbian. But in the last 5-10 years LGBT characters have been almost universally portrayed as victims who heroically overcome society's oppression. The connotation of that portrayal is that non-LGBT people are the ones constantly oppressing them, which is just very insulting to non-LGBT people who, as this video points out, happen to make up 93% of the population! So it's not the presence of LGBT characters that is the problem, it's the very confrontational way in which they are portrayed these days.

If anything, Disney films now feel like lectures.

I’m bisexual and I think Disney’s movies have been garbage for over a decade. Am I bigoted against myself? 🤔

I cancelled Disney Plus. I have a bunch of friends who refuse to cancel Disney Plus, because they got rid of all their DVDs and they want access to all the classic Disney stuff, but they all say they tell their kids not to watch any new Disney shows or movies. They just need to cancel it and find all the DVDs on eBay or the thrift store.

Disney has decided that they are going to market to woke Disney adults instead of kids and families

The joke about the online leftist crowd not being the same as real life ones... Should have been "they also have less money... And children... You know, your audience?!" But overall your jokes were crushing it 😂

Disney "attempt" at modernizing Wendy was on par with making the black nanny from The Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 40's into a strong independent woman.

Damn, you've done what I thought was impossible. I actually didn't fast forward over your sponsor spot. Normally I can't get to the video controls fast enough.

I'm 75 years old. I made several trips to Disney World back when it was fun and carefree. Spent my honeymoon there. I watched Disney films back when you felt good throughout the movie. I lived in the golden age of Disney, now all gone. You young people will never know how truly grand it was. I'm sorry.

You know Greg, even though "Wish" looks promising, it's still difficult for families to trust Disney and Pixar after the fiasco with Turning Red, Lightyear, and Strange World. Disney has imploded on themselves. You may have a point about Pixar hanging by a thread with "Elemental " and how it's likely gonna severe it😅 Parents are either not going to take their kids to their movies, or if they are, they will have to read their plots to find out what is in them to confirm whether it's safe for their children to view.

The thing is, The Bob Iger Company (I don't want to drag Disney's name in the mud) thought they were too big to fail. They don't care about the market because they think they ARE the market and THEY think they know what's best. And unless the shareholders stage an uprising (that shareholder conference was legit the most entertaining thing to come out of them in years, thank you VR and WDW Pro) they aren't going to reverse course anytime soon. They'd rather spend billions to fight Desantis over something they have no hope of winning (Legal Mindset will explain that better) than putting it towards their theme parks and staff. Meanwhile studios that actually care about a profit are going to eat Iger's lunch until his tenure is up. Mario might be the biggest movie of the year, meanwhile Iger has waning audiences. The theme parks really are the only thing they have going for them but once Universal gets their expansions up, only time will tell... and I think time is telling us to ride the Donkey Kong Kart ride so I'll be looking forward to that.

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I don't want to discuss sexuality with my 4 year old because Disney is grooming children. Disney used to be that company where you didn't have to screen the movies before showing them to your children. It's sickening. How about NO secret agendas of any kind when it comes to our kids? Just tell great stories with good values. I've only seen The Little Mermaid (the OG) a couple times and I still remember all the words to most all of the songs...did Wish even have songs?

as somebody who's bi, I think that people tend to forget that life goals come in play as to who you end up with, anybody who is bi and has set their life on having children is genrally not going to actively date people of the same sex long term; Not to mention that the LGBTQ+ comunity has so much in fighting, that the Bs are often under some form of attack, and the LGB part already has a sizable group of people who've detracted from the wider community; our sexuality often is just our sexuality, we generally don't care to look at stuff because "hey, look! it's us!" ~ We just want stuff that's fun and enjoyable, like literally everybody else. I don't mind stuff like gay kisses, etc; add them, for all I care, love is love, etc; but, is it jut a kiss, or, am do I just avoid it because I don't wanna have to explain something I really don't wanna have to explain? not to mention that the entire thing often just feels like a huge marketing ploy to "own the christians" which always ends up backfiring because it's literally 99% of the time a meaningless 3 seconds at best shoehorned in in a manner that they can cut it out ready for the chinese market, who knew that taking shots in the general direction of ~50% of your audience base is not a good idea... The commentry over family is also a fun one, you look at stuff like star wars, my first memory of the movie was in the living room as a young kiddo late at night, wrapped up on the chair gawking in amazement; is there really any movies these days in which you *really* wanna let your kids experience like that? Disney has took over property in which you could do that with; and generally no longer targets their marketing towards those people; all I knew about many of their recent shows is that "oh, hey, LGTQ+ character!!", there is an obvious lack of things which really hook you in and makes you buy a ticket before its even out

I'm pretty sure they'll survive, giants like Disney always land on their feet. Although not without some broken bones for sure, but there are always the small bunch of people staying safe even in situations like these, like Ms Kennedy who's taking Star Wars into the abyss and she's not going to stop anytime soon. Everyone knows it, even in Disney, and yet... she's still there. How things can still work like that? I don't know, it's way beyond me.

Can Disney regain it's health? Sure.... the day Walt Disney comes out of the cryogenic storage he's in.

“It seems we have no choice but to watch a once great and majestic company go down and make funny videos along the way.” That about sums it up!

Disney’s reputation for lawyers will take a beating when they lose their lawsuits against Florida. Disney’s theme parks will lose to Universal EPIC and Nintendo World. Who’s Disney in a few years.

Indiana Jones woman: and then I stole it it’s called capitalism. Me: Capitalism- an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.

They have this incredible fixation with injecting politics into everything and I'm sick of it. The writers and producers all seem to inject themselves into the story

Disney has been a sinking ship for ages, but because they kept stapling huge new pieces onto themselves it was hard to see. For example: Iger admitted in his memoir that Kathleen Kennedy said she wanted to set up Galaxy's Edge to focus on 'the new stories' and not on legacy characters. But look at the entire package: we had Rogue One, the nostalgia bait sequels, a nostalgia prequel, and two legacy character movies that turned into series (Obi and Boba). Someone needed to stand up and say this was stupid. They needed to put Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie together and work towards the hand-off, they needed to let people come to Mos Eisley instead of Battu, and so on. Marvel and Pixar are in the same boat. Pixar assumes their legacy is enough to sell tickets that feel like a different studio made them, and Marvel continues the trend of unfinished stories and post-credit teases. Sure, this stuff worked in comic books, but those things weren't 200-250 million dollar tentpoles. Hell, you want to really see how badly Disney is screwing up? The Marvel Legends figures for Ant-Man 3 aren't due out until August. AUGUST. Most of the figures for D+ came out six months to a year after their related show finished. That means they aren't even maximizing the potential return from merchandise. They're starting to get them aligned now (Guardians 3's figures came out in time, even if they made some dumb decisions with the line) but the damage is done. As a comparison point: they didn't make an individual figure line for Strange World, just an assortment box and a vehicle with main character combination. Google 'Disney Atlantis Figures' to see what they could have done, if they had any faith in the film. Or look at the memes around The Little Mermaid clips that came out. The CGI for Ariel is actually worse than the second Matrix was. Watch her body change shape, or the position of her clothing, or the way her face sits. Apparently the biggest thing under the sea is the uncanny valley.

0:47 They really should've just let it go. Seeing Indiana Jones as an old man is depressing as shit. If you wanna make an Indiana Jones thing make an ANIMATED movie, and have Ford voice him. There, then you can do whatever insane adventure you want and not have to worry about stunts, CGI or any of that crap.

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I'm surprised you didn't mention the writer's strike and how that might effect disney going foward 🤔.

Is this company trying to earn money? Because if they were trying to lose billions of dollars on purpose, this is exactly how they could go about it.

Great dissecting video and nailed it on point!

'Geriatric Jones' Ok that was damn good. 😂😂😂😂

Oh no. I just realized Disney owns "The Nightmare Before Christmas". That means eventually they'll remake it as a live action abomination!

Business Greg actually had me watch the whole sponsor spot...brilliant

Continuing to enjoy your videos. You are doing great stuff!

Even DreamWorks is making a live action remake of the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. Have they learnt nothing from Disney's blunders?

Florida already lost with Disney

I think Disney is doing the "appeal to LGBT" route not because it's meant for a broader audience, but because it's more appealing to investors and is more marketable. Investors aren't the smartest cookies in the shed, and use buzzwords almost as often as CEOs do, and "diversity" is definitely a popular buzzword in the space. It's unfortuantely how a lot of companies work (in the same way "crypto" and "ai" are buzzwords that can get your startup 20m seed funding with no product or team :P), and once the buzzwords shift is when the product will shift. Nothing we can do about it.

I love these videos, keep them coming

The real problem is nobody is even looking at the real terminal cancer. The movies and entertainment division can burn and bleed. It doesn’t matter. They are a high risk, occasionally high reward small piece of the business. All of the profits from all of the Marvel Movies over the past 10-15 years = 3-6 months profit from Parks and Resorts. And the crown jewel. The absolute money printing machine, is Walt Disney World in Orlando. And through folly, ego, pure unhinged stupidity and arrogance, Iger has likely killed but. By waging an ill advised war with the State of Florida. And every action Iger takes increases Disney’s losses. Increases their legal risk and financial exposure. In just 30 days Iger took Chapek’s ham fisted mistake in Florida, and dialed it up several orders of magnitude. They lost Reedy Creek. They needed to ask for a new district under the new rules and move on. Not attempt shady back room deals. Not let slip even the illusion that Disney and Reedy Zcreek were separate, thus bringing on investigations into criminality and potential Bond Fraud. Teeing them up for Billions of dollars. Best case they just owe back taxes interest and penalties on the bonds. Worst case the bonds get cancelled and Disney has to pay them back. Iger and Disney somehow missed that by attempting to tie this all up in courts for years, all land use, planning, permitting, inspections and permissions will be tied up for years. Reedy Creek is gone. There is no status quo to return to. They can’t build a new toilet until this gets resolved. While Universal is plowing ahead with more and more newer bigger better stuff.

man your vids are getting better and more entertaining each time!!

Dr. Greg and Business Greg in the same video?!? You spoil us sir

Universal does a great job on keeping the budgets of their animated films down,in the past year for example: "Sing 2" $85 million dollars, " The Bad guys" $69-80 million dollars, "Minions: The Rise of Gru " $80 million dollars, " Puss in boots: The Last Wish " $90 million dollars, and "The Super Mario Bros Movie" $100 million dollars.

I’m convinced someone at Disney is stealing money because all this money to make average movies that lose money ? Mario has amazing graphics yet only cost £100m it doesn’t make any sense

Honestly, from my understanding, this isn't their first rodeo. there's a reason Disney had the renaissance. it because they had a dark age. and then after the renaissance, they had the direct to DVD sequels. which I personally see this remake thrend, is it's baby sibling. Because of how similar they are. MINUS the attacking of paying customers part. (that is new) Then we got the MCU, Frozen and such. Before the remake started their drop again. So I think Disney is just in their newest low point. and in the future... pretty FAR future for how stubborn they are. They'll get their shit back together and make great stuff again. Would be nice if that jump start is WISH. But I'm not getting my hopes TOO high.

This video is more creative than the last 10 years of Disney combined.

Disney is an prime example why unrestricted ownership is a bad thing. It means you can own everything, like Disney currently does, and have no competition to push you. It should be limited by law as to how many IP's can someone own

To add about Disney Parks: Star Wars Star Cruiser Hotel is, imo, the least of their problem. Just scratching the surface. After diving into Theme Parks community & KZfaq, there is a some sentiment continuously rising: More people are slowly considering Universal Orlando over Disney World. Universal is coming for them even in their Parks division. In a Disney vacation: • You pay more • Get nickel-and-dimed more • Have to glue to your phone all day looking Ride reservations & Food mobile order • Keep the phone charged • Staff are less accommodating than before • Worse theming in newer rides, which also use a blander screen-based tech instead of physical sets All while Universal parks are (currently) cheaper for similar or better quality & experience, and no requirement to use mobile phone all day or rigid schedule. They also seem to listen to feedback, like how they're no longer addicted to bad screen-based rides after poor reception. And the new big Epic Universe Park & the new rail link opening could accelerate Universal's process of gaining market share from Disney. So this Disney's cash cow may not even be safe long term, especially since they can't fix their park in a short timeframe (unless they're going for generic funfair vibe) Of course, with younger kids not being brought to view Disney films (that aren't of that Walt Disney quality) and not being brought to visit their Parks right now, can also impact their Park attendance long into the future. Disney World is kind of a nostalgic, magical visit, and a familial milestone - and Disney seems to be destroying that too; putting their park off of that pedestal.

When a franchise gets too big for their britches (that's trousers for ppl not in the US) they eventually get to a point where there's nowhere to go but down. Either by mistakes, lack of future planning, stupid people running it, an unlisted 4th thing or a combination of them; but eventually they all get there and unless they fix it, it's a spiral down all the way until it dies. If it's a lesser-known franchise, they usually get sold off either as a collection or in parts to different companies and either eventually forgotten or revived from the ashes by the new owners. The rare occasions will be for the worst case: a big company parasyte like EA Games will buy it and feed off it's IP to survive itself. Best case is the team who worked there left and formed their own company to continue the magic they still have. *TLDR Here* : But since this is Disney it's more likely it'll go bankrupt and quietly the new owners will take over and revive the company or they boot out everyone in charge and swap them to try and fix it. Disney is just too big of a nostalgia to just end up dying. Even during Covid they nearly went bankrupt and they're still here. I doubt Disney will disappear, but a new Era is upon us.

We should get a pool going on who ends up pulling the hostile take over, and how much board gets for setting it up.

Zootopia 2 will suck horribly. The first one succeeded, because all the weird Critical Race Theory commentary was subtextual and hidden from normies who just saw a generic "racism bad" allegory. There's no way they will allow the woke lens of Zootopia to be subtextual in a post-George Floyd, post-Trump era.

Disney needs to bankrupt. Maybe whoever purchases the scraps can do something with the husk.

I already dropped flowers at the grave. I used to watch everything related to the failure of Disney, now not even that. No Star Wars, no Marvel, nothing. This is the last one of the last beating of the dead horse. Zootopia 2? Maybe, I mean that is the last pillar of hope, I am a furry after all.

I wonder who will end up replacing Disney.

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I have Disney+, but its solely for watching the early phases of the MCU and the classic Disney movies and tv shows. Anything new they put out just isn't worth watching these days

Disney has jumped the shark. I have been a Star Wars fan since the mid 70s and I can’t bring myself to watch Star Wars anymore. I hope the grown-ups show back up soon.

I think the channel really needs one of those AI's that are about to enslave mankind to create a video of Doctor Greg battling Business Greg in a fight to the death. It could only help.

nice video, can't wait for the funny one to come out

You are legit becoming my favorite KZfaqr. Keep it up man. Btw I am starting a campaign to get you on @Nerdrotic Friday Night Tights.

Discovered this channel from a comment on the Critical Drinker. Glad I found it!

IMHO, I hope they go bankrupt, the parks shut down, and the IPs distributed to better studios.

Some where someone said something about getting too big. Something like getting too big for your britches? Disney seems to have done that. They don’t remember their roots are entertainment not politics.

Disney+ is such a loser. They only have one hit show and it seems like everything is cancelled after it's first season.

you'd think with how much we spend on making dumb movies, we could use that to finish paying the national debt in a decade.

"alert to racial prejudice and discrimination". THATS WHAT WOKE MEANS

I don’t think I’m your target audience but I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said. As a lgbt person Disney does such a shit job with queer characters I would rather they not even include them. They just do everything terrible now I can’t imagine how they think turning out unending garbage every month is what we want

Great content. I’m sold. 👍🏽

Great analysis

In the words of Obi Wan Kenobi, "you have done that yourself!"

Its because Disney has been evading taxes that all the other corporations have down there.

This is defintately popcorn time, not a "takes sides" situation. Yup, Disney nosed over years ago and has now entered terminal velocity. gonna be fun to watch... the reeeeing to end all reeee!

Disney has lost the plot. I don't think they will ever recover..sad but true. If they don't change direction they will sink.

I do not think that Queer Representation is a major reason why Disney makes a net negative (maybe some are being turned off, but it's mostly because bad writing). Case in point, The Owl House, Arcane and some Animes (like Lycoris Recoil) are quite popular

U said it perfectly 💯

Disney has totally embraced the darkside which is the WEF and ESG. I would personally love to roast marshmellows over it's burning carcass. For love of God please sell the SW IP Disney before you destroy it....SMH

Amazing video

Poor Dr Greg. I feel bad for him.

Nothing to be done...

Matt Walsh has 6 kids. Greg Owen has 6 kids. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE.

Good video!

The disney brand has been damaged so much that even the latest GOTG3 which has great reviews looks likely to lose money. The customer is sick of political messaging and been sold too many duds to keep coming back. It's like a bad restaurant people aren't coming back to their regular haunt after receiving bad food or service once let alone multiple bad meals (movies) will take years to rebuild customer trust.

I feel like such an erudite hipster knowing that I subscribed before you hit 100k 😎

Cant wait for the live action zootopia remake.

You know what doesn't cost too much *"My Mom"* The Regular show fans will get it

Disney made their bug infested bed they can sleep on it

I'm sorry Business Greg, but that's a terrible tie.

I can't wait to see what finally comes from the bonds.

hey i have an off-topic question but soo important :O. are you going to do a video on guardians of the galaxy vol. 3? because i just watched and i genuinely do think this was a surprising masterpiece, and it may be very very good for marvel :o i'd like to see your outlook on the movie and i'd like to see your nitpicks with the movie. cause i only have one for once 😅

I don’t even care anything about Ashoka or anything else at this point. The only thing great start to finish has been andor and rogue one. I just cancelled my Disney plus and I’ve been a hardcore fan since 77.

As a longtime disney fan, i am done with Disney