Disney, 100 years later

 This is slightly OT, but it resume of the way the Disney studio and corporation have regressed a lot on the late times.

Here's a scene of Steamboat Willie featuring Mickey Mouse, now at Public Domain.

And here's what Disney cartoons looks to be... now!

See the regression of what Walt and company had envisionned almost one century back to a serious artform? Walt will surely turn to his grave by looking of what the corporation have do to the studio... he have built by released his first Alice Comedies shorts back animation was a newer form of entertainment and medium!

And it's not mainly my opinion if the company does lots of terrible decisions lately. 

 

Even John Wilson and Mo Murphy from the official Razzies blog had mentionned what the studio's Centenial does lots of problems to catter a lively audience with their newer features. Maybe except Pixar's Elemental, the company is still too greedy to doing anything that ask y'know, common sense, besides of a serious backlash of homophobic boycott formented by Ron De Santis. No mention that last year's Razzie Awards had dishonored the downrightly unnecessary Pinnochio remake. Proven once more that bad decisions were made based of datas and not what the public (Like those who pay them tons of bucks for their shitty platform) ask.

Past Disney TV cartoons were more than not praised and also, awarded for taking risks and showing a mirror of the world we'll actually live. Gravity Falls have landed that, even if the writing if very often nondescript. The loosely-adapted remake of Ducktales was one that had divide both fans of the better 1987s animated series and the original comic stories from the likes of Carl Barks and Don De Rosa. And then back to home, stuffs like Amphibia or The Owl House had proven to be effective, but here's the thing: They been over too early. And in 2024, we are stuck with amateurish, bobbly Insta-things no one watch like The Ghost and Molly McGee (See the Fibber McGee influence here?) and Kiff?

Even Jerry Beck pass to the act for make a very informative post on his Cartoon Research blogpost, responding to some uneducated moron on Facebook of what "Disney Ever Do?". One of the most childish kind of ignorance, especially for the long history of the studio, when Walt and Roy, Iwerks, Kimball, Ollie, Johnston, Jackson and others have participate to the success and achievement of a journey that had ran for many decades of an important pan of the popular American culture, exploring newer ways to make animation not only a entertaining way to moving inanimate pictures, but like a serious medium, that are able to tackle the topicals of the time.

Especially if a lot of bloggers considered Walt like a horrific Satan by be more caring to money and profits. I'm disagree with that. He wasn't an angel, and a kind of evil person either. The 1941s strike from his own studio by ex-animator Art Babbit have changed the perception we have to those who work on this industry, and by that time newer cartoons characters like Woody Woodpecker and Bugs Bunny being the newer hip things in town than it was for old Mickey Mouse!

It's also scary to says that the Disney company, as a whole, smells hypocrisy when they says that they made and producing things for kids. Do you know Britney Spears, Demi Devato and Miley Cyrus have all started their career there? And how many SEXUAL ABUSE this company may have push them?

When lots of fans still cheerish the excellence of a studio that had took the magical spirit of animation like a truly engaging artform, others like me are still pessimist of this blatant hypocrisy and uncomfortable attitude the conglomerate have developped since I-don't-know-when. Though it have anything to do with the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers TV show, any caution is required for what the lots of mistakes the corporation have do since the very dismal box-office results of 2022s Lightyear. What could we do with this?