If Drinker is even half right here, then 1) I’ve been deeply unfair to Bob Chapek out of ignorance of Iger’s misdeeds, and 2) the mouse is doomed.
Yet another loud, self-victimizing YouTuber with an over-the-top persona screaming about the “woke”. Reality is, Iger’s awful, and Chapek was awful too. They’re middle-manager types that climbed a corporate ladder, threw out any creatives from the top ten or fifteen rungs from the company, and leaned as a hard as possible into the “business” side of the business/art dichotomy of filmmaking. The only reason people like them champion diversity and representation is as a shield against criticism. Diversity, allowing underrepresented demographics to tell their own stories, and fairness are good things, but Disney has weaponized them, churning out mediocre content they don’t have to put much effort into, and if you don’t like it you’re a bigot. If anything, what Disney’s done is far, far worse—they’ve convinced a lot of people that it’s acceptable to be a troll, to be racist and sexist through their lackluster, halfhearted attempts at inclusion in entertainment media.
Under Iger’s tenure, we’ve seen
- the death of the entire 2D animation industry as a whole, so much so that Mary Poppins Returns required 2D animators to come out of retirement to work on the animated sequences
- Disney breaking numerous antitrust laws (that are ignored thanks to lobbying and donations) through purchasing Lucasfilm, Pixar, Blue Sky, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, and more
- prop up not one but two separate streaming services for their content (again, possibly breaking antitrust laws regarding production and delivery of entertainment content) (and yes, Hulu is owned by Disney)
- a campaign of weaponized nostalgia that has infected the entire industry
- bullying theaters into giving Disney products higher priority/more screenings
Disney has a massive control over the entire film industry at the moment. They are also into “too big to fail” territory. They have political allies to protect them from antitrust investigations and to write favorable policies on copyright law, they have their public-facing shield of progressive ideologies that they don’t really espouse, and they own a lot more than they really want you to understand. It would take something of an earth-shattering degree more than the global pandemic to throw Disney into such disarray that we get a real revolution of the industry. Chapek is getting the boot because he was unlucky enough to preside over the pandemic, that’s pretty much it. He wasn’t some “champion of the un-woke” just as much as Iger isn’t a “champion of the woke”.
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But that never happens 
