The company’s recent fan convention was conspicuously lacking in young people, but it has plans to re-enchant them
“Kids these days are too into their iPads, or too into the influencers,” Nancy Sanchez said
you ever read a sentence and immediately realize the person that said it has never spoken to a person under the age of 30?
(With full understanding that the person that said this is only 25)
Yes. It’s like how boomers refer to everyone under the age of 40 as a millennial. They’ll be screaming, “these damn millennial don’t want to work” blah bla blah go fuxk yoursef madam . It’s like ma’am these guys and gals are 23. Not millennial
While still thinking millennials are “just kids”.
It doesn’t make sense either. There’s probably 100s of apps that are capable of serving Disney content to people. This is another case of ‘young people are broke and you’re greedy’. Whereas old Disney was a VHS tape or DVD that you could play over and over again, currently basically all their content is on Disney+, which is an expensive monthly subscription.
Sounds like boomer talk to me …. But she has a point. My kids are definitely not interested in passively sitting and watching whatever dreck for two hours.
Maybe I’d phrase it like:
… kids these days have a lot more choices for entertainment and are more likely to prefer shorter form and more interactive entertainment
They can’t re-enchant kids that were raised post-enshittification, good I say
Maybe make new movies instead of rehashing old shit
Because they didn’t have very many good, original products when the current crop of teenagers were kids.
Other than multiple billion dollar movie franchises… But I guess they technically weren’t original Disney.
This made me realize I’m old because I don’t think I know any gen z people, really. Youngest coworker friend is 30, I think, which is I think a baby millennial.
But as a ~40 year old guy… the only Disney stuff I can remember consuming on purpose is marvel, and that’s from before the acquisition.
We really should break up large companies though. Competition is good, generally.
I would just like to take this opportunity to say that I hate that Disney is bundling its subsidiary streaming companies into Disney+. Disney is the one I use the least, I dislike its UI, and I hate that they are encouraging all of us to go back to a cable TV model where everything is bundled together.
I would get rid of Disney and keep the rest, but the SO uses Disney while I don’t. If he bundles it all (as he plans to, because it’s a few dollars cheaper), I will probably subscribe to Max separately just to avoid the Disney UI and Disney advertising garbage. Making it not-cheaper.
Edit: It only saves $8 per month to bundle them all, and I would be paying something like $18 per month to not have to use Disney. Not bundling seems like a no-brainer for us. I’d pay an extra $8 for the better UI and not having to look at Disney content/ads.
This is such a poorly researched article / headline. They’re using D23, an expense location based event as a stand in for interest/engagement. The price of entry will be the main barrier and GenZ still largely doesn’t have the money for these kinds of things.
Given Deadpool and Inside Out 2 killed at the box office, I think actual research would be needed to understand how GenZ feels about Disney.
They can’t re-enchant kids that were raised post-enshittification, good I say
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