Disney's Recent Struggles Mocked With Board Meeting Parody Video
Disney's recent woes regarding its ambiguous attitude towards Florida's «Don't Say Gay» Bill and internal issues have been parodied in a TikTok video. Disney has recently been going through a difficult time in terms of its public image, despite positive reactions to its recent releases, Encanto and Turning Red. Though Disney's troubles are multifarious, including a feud between the company's current CEO and his predecessor, most of the recent backlash against them has focused on its monetary support for a Floridian anti-LGBT bill.
Florida's Parental Rights In Education Bill has recently been widely referred to on the Internet as the «Don't Say Gay» Bill and has become the subject of intense controversy, particularly due to Disney's ambiguous neutrality regarding the bill and monetary connections to its proponents. If passed, the bill would legislate against the teaching of any LGBT topics from when children are in kindergarten until the third grade. Despite a statement ostensibly condemning the bill, the company's general inaction has been the source of discontent amongst employees and has led to walkouts amongst staff and talent, including by the cast of Raven-Symone's sitcom, Raven's House.
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A TikTok video from Daniel Toomey for Morning Brew imagines a board meeting at the Walt Disney Company in which the company's executives and shareholders discuss the reaction both to the company's neutrality regarding the «Don't Say Gay» Bill and its additional troubles regarding the feud between former CEO Bob Iger and current CEO Bob Chapek. Toomey imagines Chapek and Iger as passing notes between one another like high-schoolers in the midst of the discussion, while
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