I pointed out before about the odd mismatch between Disney animated films having a strong preference for heterosexual monogamous and married relationships (especially in films like Cinderella and The Little Mermaid), and some Disney stars (those who appear in live action productions and the like) going on to seemingly undermine these values themselves as they grow up. Hayley Mills would be one example who starred in films like The Parent Trap (eventually to be remade in the 1990s starring the red-haired Lindsay Lohan) and Pollyana, who’d go on having an affair with a married older man and then having an affair with a man closer to her age. If marrying a divorced woman, unless if it’s on the grounds of infidelity, is still committing infidelity it still seems strange why the classic Disney animated films promote lifelong monogamous relationships, when some of Disney’s own live action stars fall short of this whenever they get divorced somewhere down the road, especially after having affairs of sorts themselves.
Certainly not all child stars turn out badly as they get older, whether if they worked for Disney or not, but because Disney has become the defacto family entertainment brand for years and one that’s technically more biased towards lifelong monogamous married relationships in a number of its films (The Incredibles, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Zootropolis/Zootopia, among others so far), but wherein the child stars of its live action productions go on having affairs and divorces themselves that it feels much more jarring this way. Moreso than if they came from Warner Bros because Warner Bros is not something that’s strongly this associated with family entertainment the way Disney is for decades, well to the same extent since Warner Bros has already released this much adult-orientated films without putting it under a special label the way Disney did with Touchstone for years and now more recently 20th Century Fox/20th Century Studios at this point.
Even if not all former Disney child stars do this, it still makes for a particularly odd irony between the messages many Disney animated films promote and the lives the Disney stars lead as they get older, where it’s surreal to think somebody who appeared in a live action Disney series called ‘The Suite Life of Zack and Cody’ would go on cohabiting with another former child star. Where one would assume that if Brenda Song were to get into a relationship with Macaulay Culkin, that logically they should get married and she should start calling herself Brenda Song-Culkin by then. To this day they never got married, despite raising children together, and as of late the would-be Mrs Macaulay Culkin still voiced cartoon characters for the House of Mouse. Together with her would-be husband, the Mr Brenda Song in her life. One would wonder what went wrong in the House of Mouse then? Celestial said that those in Hollywood mix occult rituals with sexual abuse, that inevitably ruins people’s souls (and morals) halfway through.
Somebody said that a Disney boss may’ve molested his female colleagues, I wish I could find it but it’s something that I remembered. It’s as if Disney never seems sincere about its intentions and messages, where its yes to a lifelong monogamous married, heterosexual relationship is really a no when you have Disney stars turning out to have affairs and divorces themselves. Christina Aguilera has been noted to have affairs with women, even when she was a married to a man, and with Disney films like Mulan (which she contributed a song to) also centring on a monogamous relationship between a woman and a man that it seems even weirder why in real life she’d go on having romantic relationships with women more than men when the Mulan films were about a married relationship between a man and a woman. Fellow Disney star Britney Spears has had a string of failed relationships with men, three of which ended in divorce, coupled with her aborting her would-be first child with her boyfriend Justin Timberlake is just as jarring when a good number of Disney animated films have female characters who only pine after one man.
She too could’ve been molested by a Disney executive before (and so was Christina) that would explain some things, but it still makes for a weird irony given the lives they lead diverges significantly from their cartoon princess counterparts. When many of the Disney princesses do get into relationships themselves, it’s often with just one man and in some films, they get married eventually and never get into affairs with other people of any sex/gender in any way. They never separate from their spouses, something not a number of Disney live action stars can consistently live up to. If The Little Mermaid’s any indication, if the other woman shows up she’s often on the side of wrong. Yet people like Hayley Mills were also the other women in their lovers’ lives, especially if they have (had) wives of their own when these happened. It makes for a strange irony that’s also found outside of fandom where Disney animated films tend to promote and depict lifelong, monogamous straight married relationships, but its own live action stars frequently fall short of it. Well not all Disney stars fall into this trap either.
But for every Ricky Ullman, there’s a Justin Timberlake. He too also starred in Disney productions, likely got molested by Lou Pearlman, was set to have a child with Spears and isn’t above putting out two raunchy albums himself. The second one even had a Parental Advisory: Explicit Content warning slapped on its cover, his own songs have also been played on Radio Disney before alongside his contemporaries Spears and Aguilera, as well as newer ones like Sabrina Carpenter (also raunchy) and Olivia Rodrigo (progressively potty-mouthed). Explicit fanfiction is one thing, Disney stars coming to do explicit albums is another. One even more depressing transformation is what became of the Jonas Brothers, who all came from a Christian family themselves and likely would’ve been molested by a Disney executive too. The Jonas Brothers have been compared to Hanson, also a similar brother band, but since the former had already starred in big-name musical productions thus giving them a major headstart over the latter.
In the case with the latter, they certainly had their first taste of fame but in local shows that were presumably taped by their family and a few others, meanwhile the Jonas Brothers starred in big-name musicals like Oliver, Les Miserables, La boheme, A Christmas Carol, The Velveteen Rabbit and Beauty and the Beast. But this also makes them more suspectible to worldly influence at any point that they eventually caved into it, Nick Jonas in particular ended up marrying a Hindu woman (Priyanka Chopra) that he could end up converting to Hinduism for real this year in the summer. He might be on his way to getting there, that it does make one wonder what he could’ve ended up doing if he (and the rest of his band) quit the secular showbiz industry earlier. If they swapped showbiz for a life of singing in choirs (and other Christian things), it could’ve turned out better but if Michael Tait’s any indication, the Christian music industry would be far better off not imitating its secular counterpart too closely. Lest it also ends up with the same problems.
Although it’s not inherently wrong to listen to secular music, doable in theory and in principle, but harder to pull off in practise and moreso if Christian musicians are pressured to follow secular music trends, regardless if that sort of stuff risks ruining their inhibitions if they have convictions around things like swearing. At best secular music is something that can be enjoyed rarely, given the potential for idolatry is always around the corner (it’s like this with me with some bands), since much listening time has to be allocated to not only real Christian music (the sort that strives not to follow worldly trends this much) but also to sermons (long or short). Likewise with things like Disney and football, they’re not inherently wrong in and of themselves, but it’s very easy to turn them into idols. At best they can be enjoyed for brief intervals, since much time has to be allocated to other things like sermons and reading the Bible again, given I do struggle with idolatry myself and do harder to not give into it anymore.
I used to watch a lot of secular programmes and listen to secular music for long, but not anymore as of now and Disney is one of those things that’s easy to turn into an idol at any point. It gets much worse when it comes to Disney having a streaming service with so much content to choose from, much of it’s secular, that streaming sermons in a successive go would’ve been more spiritually sensible instead. It’s not unique to Disney itself as it can be found with many more things in life, but being a fan of any these things can make it harder to be a good Christian. Realistically one could learn to live without consuming this much secular media (for as much as they can consistently maintain it, as the flesh battles with the spirit) by forgoing it in favour of its Christian counterparts more, it’s like this with me when it comes to secular music that over time I came to listen to it less and less. As of late it’s really rare for me to listen to secular music, much rarer if I watch something like secular productions like Treasure Island.
That’s not to say I don’t consume secular media anymore, or even sinful ones from time to time, but it’s increasingly tempered by a stronger reliance on Christian media. Even if enjoying Disney and the like aren’t bad in and of themselves, they’re still easy to turn into idols at any point. It’s like this with me with some bands before, as of late I’m trying harder not to have idols even when the urge shows up. But there’s much to be gained from not loving the world much, which Disney’s very much a part of, that also goes for other things like not only Warner Bros but also Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon’s the channel behind things like The Fairly Oddparents, Rugrats and Hey Arnold, with its own issues with sex pests preying on minors (and likely occult acts behind the scenes), and its own child star turning out to be an adulteress in the form of Ariana Grande. Though these programmes aren’t bad in and of themselves as well, they’re also easy to turn into idols at any point as it is with me and Rugrats. The thing with Rugrats is that although it’s about small children having adventures, the 2020s reboot had one adult character get reimagined as a lesbian single mum.
In the earlier version she did have a husband who’s rather wimpy, my siblings called her a soccer mum and there are heterosexual women and couples who’re like these two, making her a lesbian certainly shocked some people. But it seems the more secular media condones sinful actions like not only infidelity (as it is in Rocko’s Modern Life, another Nicktoon by the way), but also homosexuality the more untrustworthy or questionable they turn out to be. Actually it’s kind of surprising in hindsight why something like Rocko’s Modern Life got away with depicting infidelity twice, whereas something like Ren and Stimpy and also Invader Zim get condemned for being too disturbing, why would a parent object to gore in an animated cartoon but not a cartoon woman with such a revealing outfit exposing such huge breasts without realising this would lead people to struggle with lust? (It’s like this from my personal experiences with my late mum.) Though there are Christians who do reasonably object to whatever Disney and co put out, but from my own experience here in the Philippines outrage only happens when it’s outright occult (Gravity Falls).
Even when not all of Disney media is outright occult/LGBT/whatever that obviously offends people, it’s very easy to make an idol out of Disney (or anything else) at any point. The emergence of a Disney-specific streaming service has only made it worse because it could make it easier for one to forgo the need to worship God by listening to a sermon (and reading lectionaries and devotionals while they’re at it) just to bingewatch their favourite Disney movies since childhood, though similar things can be said of others like ESPN to an extent or something like Netflix and Crunchyroll just the same. (On YouTube and Tiktok, things like sporting events are best enjoyed for brief, rare moments since one’s better off using those to stream sermons instead.) Somebody like Angelamarie Ucci went on saying that idols can disappoint people and it’s like this with me with one musician before, it would be no different if it’s a legacy brand like Disney that it would be just as discouraging to read that Uncle Walt molested a young lad in his care. Or anything else really. Well to tell you something about my family, I have an aunt who watches Disney films in her spare time.
She also likely listens to sermons and reads lectionaries, I also have a cousin who went to Disneyland and likely watches Disney films herself. But the latter also struggles with a raging porn addiction that cost the life of her husband and currently her job, that it does make for a weird contrast between the perceived wholesomeness of Disney films and some of their fans indulging in far less wholesome things (I’ve done something similar before). Another one also likes Disney but isn’t above doing porn of its characters himself, then again animator and cartoonist Carl Barks had done something similar before. So did Toby Bluth who’s even the younger brother of Don Bluth, or for another matter Chris Saunders just the same. Where it still makes for a study of ironic contrasts between Disney’s aim to be a wholesome family brand and its employees partaking in less than wholesome activities and obsessions, be they animators, musicians or actors, that it’s going to be hard maintaining this wholesome air when the people working for it doing contrary and contrarian things.
It’s debatable if demons may even use animations to possess people (which makes it like a weirder version of The Exorcist where Pazuzu decides to possess Reagan through something like Sleeping Beauty), or if these same productions get used by witches to bewitch people with, but if bad company corrupts good character when you have perverts working alongside their squarer peers that it’s going to poison the well anyways. It could even poison people who consume such media themselves, that makes it harder to overcome these strongholds if they don’t actively minimise their exposure to these (it’s like this with me with some cartoon characters, though not from the House of Mouse). Add to that Walt Disney made a deal with the Devil to get rich and famous, where it’s going to be really hard avoiding such negative influences if it’s deeply ingrained in childhood. So this might explain the contradictions in Disney as a whole, where you have technically wholesome live action series and animated productions on one hand. On the other hand you have Disney professionals cheating on their spouses and/or cohabiting.
Ucci’s point makes sense when she said something about Beyonce singing the song ‘Single Ladies’ despite being a married woman by now, that it could also apply to Disney where it parades stories about characters getting into lifelong monogamous, straight and married relationships with their lovers. Yet ironically a number of Disney stars aren’t above cheating on their spouses and also divorcing them, others aren’t even above cohabiting with their lovers that both Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song should’ve been a married couple by now. The would-be Mrs Culkin and her would-be husband went on voicing characters in a film about a married couple, a rather jarring irony in hindsight that makes one wonder if Disney as a company actually practises what it preaches. And even when it doesn’t seem to be openly hypocritical, it’s still very surreal why former Disney stars act so contrary to their cartoon counterparts. Disney media doesn’t always outright promote the occult or even rebellion, but there’s still something contradictory about them in some ways others can’t articulate well about.
Returning to the example of Bobby Driscoll, he should have been the coolest kid in his school. But he got bullied, did drugs and died ingloriously, whilst his abuser went on to create a theme park and more of them would be made after both men’s passings, though it’s still haunting why Disney as a company continues to be successful whilst continuing to bury his ghost. Celestial said that a woman whom Oscar killed would be avenged, so it’s logically God might also avenge Driscoll since he seemed to have read church tracts before he died. He might do this by getting the Russian government to dissolve the Walt Disney Company for killing Christians in secret, only to have the remaining assets get bought by Brazil’s Globo. Russia might do a lot to openly publicise the wrongs the Disney company did, essentially posthumously doxing Walt Disney this way. It will even do this for other Disney professionals over the years, effectively shaming many of them beyond the grave, and for the entire world to see and openly so.
But that’s not all folks as Russia will do the same for other US media companies like Paramount, Netflix and possibly a few more, it might not be above doxing American musicians for the same reason as to turn America into an example of what not to do. The Backstreet Boys could be next, given some members aren’t above having affairs with their fans, and one of them’s not above raping women himself that they too will be made into a warning for other musicians to unlearn from. Certainly not all Disney employees past and present are this ethically and morally inconsistent for most of the part, but I feel they wouldn’t be spared from this either and Disney would become one of many bywords of what not to do as a media company. Soyutzmultfilm might take its place as the face of family entertainment, if not it then some other media company would but it wouldn’t be American at all this time. Whatever that is but it’s not going to be American as America would be a massive hasbeen in the future, barely remembered by many then and even those who were around when it was actually powerful and famous, as with the rest of America, before disappearing.
Even much of American influence will be undone throughout the world in many ways that if Globo were to get a handle over characters like Mickey Mouse, most people would end up thinking he’s a Globo character instead. American influence might be greatly undone in the countries it heavily influenced, whether if it’s the Philippines in the East or Canada in the west, that it would be harder to recognise there was even any American influence at all decades later. The Philippines might be more peculiar because for an East Asian country that prides in being Christian-majority, it barely acts the part and doesn’t bother striving to repent either, that nearly all western influence will be revoked there. Not just the American influence but also the Spanish influence, that there will be very little to recognise any residual Spanish influence here beyond the surnames, architecture and religion (which will be about it by then). It would be immediately and greatly substituted by its Chinese and other east Asian counterparts by then, where the Philippines effectively and practically becomes just like any other East Asian county in nearly all regards.
Not just in name order and the like, but also food, mannerism, philosophy, holiday and stuff. Canada could be considered peculiar in its own right where it might stand out as an odd reminder that a country called America existed between it and Mexico (which by then would’ve largely disappeared into the waters and have its remaining terrestrial territories get handed over to these two courtesy of Russia), especially when it practically shares not only its language but also borders and history with it regarding their ties to Britain together. American influence is already getting undone there but America’s defeat in WWIII and its eventual disappearance would both accelerate and exacerbate this, should Canada consent to joining Russia in some way as one of its many protectorates, American influence will get eroded even more this way. Some Canadian politician might get emboldened to revive America on Canadian soil, petitioning it to get renamed to New America, yet he’ll also be seen as a laughingstock by his peers and the Canadian public.
The Saddam Hussein of his generation because Mr Hussein tried doing something similar, something similar to America’s spiritual predecessor in Ancient Babylon, but this results in a very different Canada that’s more indebted to Russia than at present. Or at least a version of Canada that’s more strongly tied to Eurasia than to the United States, culturally and geopolitically speaking in the future. Canadian culture would be Russified and Europeanised a lot, just as the Philippines will be easternised a lot (more like its neighbours in East China like China and Vietnam, should it become socialist following an American collapse), the war on Iran would continue as of late and it’s going to expand to other countries as the rest have turned against America. Since there’s a passage of the monster that Mystery Babylon rode on turning against her, this is a kind of fulfillment of Biblical prophecy in a way regarding how growing numbers of countries feel around America, since it’s been compared to her among prophets multiple times over. Interestingly one of the earliest symbols of America is a woman named Columbia, readily giving way to who the country has to been analogised to by these people, where it is truly Mystery Babylon.
America will get destroyed in the process, both internally and externally, as soon as the earthquake hits California. This will even ruin its multimedia industry a lot, prompting the cancellation of a number of productions halfway through. And this will be the end of America, the end of Mystery Babylon as well.