Disney is Dead: The Coming Disney Crisis Happening Now

Disney is like a coin with two sides

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
6 min readAug 15, 2022

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How do you feel watching Disney destroy Western media?

An overreaction? Maybe. But even if you're a diehard Disney fan, even if you watch every animated movie, decorate your home with Mickey Mouse memorabilia, and have an annual pass to Disneyland, you have to admit that one company having this much control over entertainment is scary.

Here's a chart you need to see:

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Oh, sorry. That's the old chart.

Here's the new one:

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We are already living in the Blade Runner world. One where a company will re-release and re-create the same movie 20 times in theaters, on BluRay, and digitally because they can. One where a movie's success doesn't come from a creator anymore, but from a board of directors and bean counters who track data and demographics.

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com