The way you guys talk about this stuff is all part of the same pointless cyclical media firestorm that happens every time. If your automatic response to any criticism or any reference to politics is “ugh, those Fox News types, am I right?” you are just the other side of the same coin. You are part of a viral marketing campaign. Some of you are okay with that, I think.
Oh God, we’re getting into this “both sides” shit now? Just because I don’t condone the rhetoric of every single anti-Disney YouTuber, purely because they don’t like Disney, does not make me a “viral marketing campaign”.
Believe me, I do not like Disney at all. They’re a soulless machine that stifles creativity and encourages bland safeness. And I’m not saying that everyone who hates Disney is anti-woke, either: there are many YouTubers who raise very valid, intelligent points about the company’s failings. But the anti-woke people take advantage of people’s natural animosity against Disney, and weaponize it to advance whatever reactionary talking point is “in” right now.
The “Fox News types” (and I stand by that comparison) tell their followers: “Are you feeling dissatisfied with the current Hollywood landscape? Have major blockbusters started to disappoint you recently? Well, it’s not because of the corporate system prioritizing the safest profit over anything else, it’s because of those GODDAMN BLACKS, FEMALES, AND GAYS trying to brainwash people into rejecting GOOD CHRISTIAN FAMILY VALUES!” If you see that kind of rhetoric as just harmless criticism, you might be part of a viral marketing campaign yourself.