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   Ned Yeung (ned@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 07:50:33 JST Ned Yeung

   Capitalism kills art. #Union #sagaftra #wga #strike

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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 07:50:33 JST Sexy Moon

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     It was Toy Story lol, it made like 12x as much money as its budget, 30 million dollars which was less than Disney's Pocahontas that made 6x back on 50 million. They tried Treasure Planet, spent 140 million dollars on it the most ever for traditional animation. It made back one quarter of its budget. Toy Story is like a trillion dollar franchise now.
     
     Anyway as the picture mentions, capitalism in Asia and Europe is happy to keep making traditional animation, and since then Disney does it again too.
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 07:52:57 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @Moon @ned TIL disney blockbusters are 'art' that capitalism kills
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     Yami no senshi (yaminosenshi@mstdn.jp)'s status on Friday, 27-Oct-2023 17:05:41 JST Yami no senshi

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     @Moon @ned also their last 2D animated Movie Home on the Range flopped massively

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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 13:41:29 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @ned I'd argue it also killed anime because after the bubble burst in Japan there wasn't as much money flowing around for studios to try making their weird anime experiments and everything got narrowed down into whatever otakus would specifically pay for.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Sunday, 29-Oct-2023 13:44:21 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @Moon @ned I remember Toy story being this big attraction because it had both the gimmick of being the first real entirely CG movie and also had a plot that was actually fun to watch, elevating it past the usual tech demos of the time.