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crows 🖤
@doomfunk.rip

speaking solely for my own experience but, as an american military kid of the age i am, we had disney on vhs on tap everywhere i lived and few other enticing films. I'd rent nemo or NIMH or pick up matsumoto at the street market in berlin but disney was what we had at home.

Sen, but Spooky@dresdencodak.com

I'm convinced that, at least for millennials, that this notion of Disney animated films being a universal childhood cornerstone is mostly post hoc marketing. I watched Little Nemo 50 times as a kid and The Little Mermaid once, but only one of those has a media giant reselling it to me for 30 years.

crows 🖤
@doomfunk.rip

i've probably seen certain disney films hundreds of times. i am not, however, a disney adult; i understand a presence of the disney channel is a critical component and we just never had it, and i detest Going Places and Doing Things and Being Seen so if I'm at the parks I'm sealed in space mountain.

crows 🖤
@doomfunk.rip

i think a thesis i can fully support, unifying mine and sen's experiences, is that the disney adult has extended an upbringing of being not-quite-a-disney-kid into being a full extension of their being. making up for lost time, in a sense, or trying to bottle youth by hanging the concept on disney.

crows 🖤
@doomfunk.rip

or a disney adult who was a disney kid is maybe just peter panning, scaffolding the desire to never grow up on a core of their developing being. or (you know who you are, this is said with love) something from youth with too much meaning to let go forms a concrete and lasting attachment to disney.

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