“People were saying Disney fans are a plague upon society — that they will be the end of Western civilization.'
The phenomenon of adults enjoying the theme parks has existed for decades, says Jodi Eighler Levine, a professor at Lehigh University who studies Disney and religion. As early as the 1990s, coverage of Disney’s fairytale weddings programs prompted plenty of sarcastic headlines about why grown people would want to get married in the vicinity of a cartoon mouse.
“There’s a real moralistic judgment of Disney adults,” she says. “It’s like, ‘How dare you, instead of putting all this money into buying a house or raising a family, put all this money into fleeting experiences?’ But that probably corresponds with changing cultural expectations for young adults.
From the Tumblr years, Brennan says, we started to see a slow trickle of content on the internet aimed at poking fun at Disney adults, such as a 2014 Bustle listicle called “” and a 2017 viral CollegeHumor video called “Adult Disney Fans Are Weird.
It’s a fair point, considering the list of things the company has done wrong is arguably longer than the list of things it has done right. More recently, newly appointed CEO Bob Chapek waffled on making any form of public statement about Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Don’t Say Gay bill, before ultimately issuing a statement coming out against the bill under pressure from LGBTQ employees, which led to
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