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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9644016" data-attributes="member: 18">So? And? The TV shows are all set in the pre-sequel eras (except the kids cartoon Resistance). So they're hardly relevant to the sequel IP discussion.Also Disney+ is pulling a profit now and has been for over a year. Q4 2024 was $321m in profit, for example. Not insane money but it's money and more importantly it's been increasing and is likely to continue to. They certainly made some loss-leading decisions in order to get people to subscribe previously, but that's how it goes.Not even slightly true from the figures I've seen, so I'm going to dismiss that claim lol.That's why I said "older Gen Z". About 35-40% of younger male Gen Z/alpha currently have fairly extreme far-right-adjacent opinions, including an absolute ton of misogyny, homophobia and racism. I'm definitely not saying your son is anything like that, to be very clear, for all I know he's super-cool and I will assume that, but certainly a significant proportion of male kids he knows in his life or at school will be, probably including at least some of his friends. The same is not true of women/girls in that generation, notably (so there's a divide). Keeping their male kids from becoming like that is a major concern for most of the parents I know.Disney are fundamentally in a bit of trouble there. Either they cater to these opinions held by a big minority of male kids, and annoy girls and the majority of male kids, or they're going to lose popularity with them. My guess? They don't cater, because they've survived eras where most people keen on them were female before.It's also possible younger Gen Z/alpha change their views as they grow up and have to actually live in the world, it's too soon to tell.</blockquote>

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