Disney has a big problem. It's running out of kids.
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Children used to grow up watching Mickey Mouse on The Disney Channel. Now they're all on YouTube.
  • sentientity@lemm.eeEnglish
    35·
    4 months ago

    Youtube is imperfect but it’s a sprawling place filled with a vast array of cool stuff made by all kinds of people. I struggle to see this as a bad thing. One company cannot and should not own any market forever. Disney isn’t entitled to being kids’ go-to forever.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    17·
    4 months ago

    I would have eaten YouTube for breakfast, lunch as dinner as a kid. Self-directed learning is much more fun than literally anything else I’m supposed to be doing.

    • sentientity@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      100%. The educational channels didn’t really pick up until I was an adult, but I think I would have been a better adjusted kid and probably a more functional student if I had those things at a younger age. (Though the comedy of early YouTube was pretty rad).

  • Snowclone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    Until they pick up content of adults screaming like lunatics about a homebrew horror game after any single thing happens in the game, my kids aren’t gonna watch D+

  • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    4 months ago

    YouTube kids is such a cancerous place. I’d definitely want my kids to just stick to Disney+

    • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      We haven’t hit that point in capitalism yet.

      Won’t be surprised if they go for google or M$ or vice versa. Would be the next natural step in owning everything from the movies to the devices you play them on.