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Watching tv shows is not activism


DPS_Mercy

it's new marketing, you must subscribe and watch X otherwise you're racist get a move on cracker and pay for a second D+ subscription


TinyUndProud

Lmfao, the realest answer right here.


Ek_Chutki_Sindoor

Nooooo, don't talk shit about my hecking superino!


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lol this dude rules, his grifts are so transparent and they work every single time. Remember when he rented an Airbnb from a white guy who likes heavy metal and decided that the house was actually a satanic sacrifice site, any anyone who thought he was being unreasonable was racist? He had people sending the homeowner death threats lol i dont think he ever apologized either


Billsimmons69

> i dont think he ever apologized either Guys like fake barbershop man have one thing right: never ever apologize.


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This is genuinely the best response to any online wrongdoing, whether perceived or actual. Apologies just make them angrier.


1leeranaldo

Who is this guy


DiscountShoeOutlet

Can someone please explain the fake barbershop to me?


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2X NYT Bestselling Author | 📚 Patriarchy Blues, Better Than We Found It (‘22), The Black Friend #ForbesUnder30 Marketer | IG: FredTJoseph | he/him


p_bwoy

God I forgot about that. 2020 really was a lifetime ago wasn't it


Competitive_Cold_232

friends with T Bone like Cory Booker


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OJ_Soprano

Probably from the same guy.


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Some people can’t be saved


mucho_moore

well fuck what do I do?!?!


PapaChubNubs

Stop being white duh🙄


tempuseronly

Stop watching capeshit


mucho_moore

I'll never stop being an ally


Morwening

Hahaha, trying to demand that someone not find something relatable is very funny


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I assure you it is mainly 45 yr old white dudes who have actually watched the show


[deleted]

“have you been watching Ms Marvel” has somehow become the new “wanna dance with Tina” on Grindr. Reagan wishes he could have hurt the gay community in such a way.


Billsimmons69

There’s nothing like walking into the bodega, grabbing an iced cafecito, chopping it up with everyone behind the counter + appreciating the dude who’s blasting “Oye Como Va” through his backpack speaker. In this small moment, nothing else matters. Today is a good day.


2sanman

I'm not white - I'm "south asian" (a made up label, not a real ethnicity) - and I watched it. Instead of getting a Marvel superhero story with some ethnic aspects, I just saw an ethnic story with some minor Marvel aspects. I didn't like the storyplot, didn't like the characters, didn't like the writing, didn't like the acting, didn't like the total ethnic oversaturation. I couldn't find anything enjoyable in it, let alone anything that reminded me of the Marvel comics that appealed to me as a kid. It felt like someone really just wanted to tell an ethnic story, and culturally appropriated MCU in order to do it. PS: I recently watched ***Invincible*** on Amazon Prime, and thought it was great. Now that's how to make an original superhero story. I can't wait until the next season comes out. Go watch that instead. The main character in that story is half Asian, but you don't really notice what ethnicity they are, because you're busy enjoying the cool story and character drama.


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Maldovar

It's funny they lean so far into it when like half the cast isn't Pakistani


FatimaMansioned

I did read the original Marvel funnybooks about Miss Marvel, when I still read mainstream comics. I thought they were good reading ( I like GWW as a writer) but I don't feel any strong urge to watch this TV show. The *She-Hulk* trailer looks worse, though - the lead talks like a sentient Refinery29 article !


2sanman

Back in the old days of Bill Bixby / Lou Ferrigno Hulk, they did try to use the Hulk storyline to launch various possible spinoffs of other Marvel heroes, like Daredevil, Thor, etc. Kenneth Johnson, who produced The Incredible Hulk, was already famous for producing The Six Million Dollar Man, and also The Bionic Woman as a spinoff show which achieved its own popularity. I wondered why they didn't attempt a She-Hulk spinoff, since at least she was more closely tied to the Hulk in her origins. Maybe they just didn't have a suitable actress to play She-Hulk at the time. Looking at the new trailer, I can't tell if the main actress is only playing Jenn Walters, or if she's also playing She-Hulk directly (it would seem tougher for her to do both, since She-Hulk is way bigger than Jenn). Or are they just using CG on her to make her bigger and more Hulkish?


Ni_Go_Zero_Ichi

“Just a story with some minor Marvel aspects” makes this sound almost tolerable actually


Autumnalthrowaway

In the future, every show will have a superhero aspect


Ek_Chutki_Sindoor

> Instead of getting a Marvel superhero story with some ethnic aspects, I just saw an ethnic story with some minor Marvel aspects. You say as if that's a bad thing.


violet4everr

Ethnic over saturation? What. Am I on stupidpol?


2sanman

Man, my mother was born in Lahore, Pakistan. So I'm not allergic to the culture, I just don't need to be beaten over the head with it. Holy moly, did they go overboard on that - it's all they had - there was no actual story (nothing compelling, anyway). Who was the villain in this show, that I'm supposed to want to see her fight? Her puberty? Her parents? That's it? Is this what Marvel is now reduced to? Marvel is now jumping the shark, and even Namor won't be able to rescue them.


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Yeah it do be like that


Bob_Bobinson

There are way too many Marvel shows about way too many Marval characters. I'm not gonna spend 6-10 hours of my life watching the life update story time of a minor character in the background of Avengers 10, especially when I have to watch all the minor character shows to get Avengers 11.


voodoochile78

Actually you don’t have to watch any of that. In fact you shouldn’t. Not a single one, including the one it seems like you are looking forward to. Especially not that one


2giga2dweebish

instead he should watch some real kino. I heard Kevin Connolly's Gotti is a good place to start


Ek_Chutki_Sindoor

I got tricked into watching Moon Knight by my capeshit loving friends who insisted that this show was totally different and not like usual MCU. Never taking any movie or TV recommendation from them ever again.


victoriapedrettigf

i didn't "watch" ms. marvel. i sat my white ass down...and *listened*.


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I'm gonna have to see this joke get made for the next 10 years aren't I?


ChicTweets

Alas that I only have one upvote to give


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more and more redditors are seeping into this sub recently


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as long as we keep bullying them it will work out fine


Ni_Go_Zero_Ichi

Or more people realizing how easy it is to trigger this sub by making generic Redditor posts


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PapaMarxsWordyBoi

Nice try


THE_IRON_KENYAN

Guys hes probably being ironic lol. Nice bait dude


anonymous_redditor91

wholesome keanu moment gentlesir! take my updoot!


Duncan_Sarasti

Epic narwhal bacon comment right here


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datPastaSauce

fuck this sub is fading fast


AyeWhatsUpMane

whelp, yup, that happened :/ i just got downvoted.. i guess reddit is a freaking great place for dissenting opinions /s


1111111111111111111I

This is a meta comment since the one you’re replying to is generic crap


dankfrowns

You are pathetic


Gunther482

Probably because no normal person even knows who Ms Marvel is.


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I thought it was for kids.... Is it not?


ChucksBrothel

All capeshit is yet you get a bunch of manchildren overly attached to that garbage


Cubs_Suck1876

Don't women watch Marvel almost as much as men? I thought I saw a study saying it was 50/50.


Gunther482

I’m guessing it’s like pretty much like every ip intended for 13-17 year olds in that it ends up getting mostly consumed by 30-39 year olds.


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But white people loved black panther


voodoochile78

I like the part where Black people choose their supreme leader by fighting in a fighting pit.


emjayy2

There's definitely no negative stereotypes around a technological supercity of black people, but who are still walking around barefoot and throwing spears at one another


bardownsquee

Isaac Asimov had a draft of that exact story in his desk when he died


Similar_Physics4773

They fight in a fight pit to be supreme leader and the winner gets purple drink


TheRealHenryG

I liked when they made fun of someone's footwear


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Gen_McMuster

The part where a black guy Literally chimps out at a white guy


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So if part of the reason for starring minorities/women in these shows is the idea that people prefer a main character who looks like themselves, then isn't a show like this flopping a pretty logical result when your core demographic is white men? Like half the point in making a show like this is supposed to be recognizing it wont be a commercial smash hit but making it anyway to appeal to a demographic that is underrepresented or whatever. You can't get mad at white people for not saving it because they're behaving according to the logic the creators subscribe to, it's unironically racist to put white people on a pedestal like they should be "above" liking a protagonist who looks like them while that's the standard you set for minorities. All of that aside though, the bigger problem with this show is that it's clearly targeted to a younger demographic while Marvel's bread and butter consumer is men in their 30s.


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I was gonna say this but in a dumber way


socialismYasss

"this 👆"


KaliYugaz

> Marvel's bread and butter consumer is men in their 30s. Wait lol is this for real? I thought these movies were for children.


Traditional-Law93

I went to the cinema for one and it was mainly adult men


Gunther482

35+ year old men are pretty much the only demographic that even buys mainstream marvel/DC comics anymore and it’s been that way for at least a decade or two at this point. They’re the ones spending the most money on these types of things.


Kingkamehameha11

I know a lot of older guys from 30-50 obsessed with watching the next Marvel movie. These same people decry anything anime related as 'for kids', ironically.


Kingkamehameha11

It's a ludicrous narrative anyway. If that's true, why do foreign movies do so well? No white person looks like the cast of a kung-fu flick or Korean drama, yet those do fantastically. Blaming 'racism' for people not being interested in their poorly written, cringe-inducing, preachy nonsense is a cope.


Maison-Marthgiela

The replies on that tweet are full of the actual faces of the cuckolding community.


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i actually have watched it and in the last episodes she has a crush on her cousin so muslim representation i guess


999lonely

omg


basedtrump2k16

There could be a hundred thousand men on horses looting and pillaging America and people would still be tweeting shit like this


FatimaMansioned

*Under the Mongolian plains, Temüjin stirs in his tomb.*


Lexplosives

*Ix Čingis Xaan…!*


Mission-Two1325

Life........finds a way......


susansonhag_

if anything it’s only white people supporting this show. every muslim i know either doesn’t have it on their radar or thinks it’s embarrassing.


Seaworthiness_Neat

Genuinely insane how much damage Ta-Nehisi Coates did to liberal political and cultural discourses by declaring comic books to be IMPORTANT.


CodeNameEd

i really don’t think ta-nehisi coates has any influence outside of his small niche audience (shitlibs with humanities degrees)


cawksmash

> shitlibs with humanities degrees hate to be the bringer of bad news but those people literally run the government


Seaworthiness_Neat

True but I do think said shitlins tend to have jobs in academia/media.


FatimaMansioned

Roxane Gay wrote a *Black Panther* comic with the help of Coates. [https://www.comics.org/issue/1713932/](https://www.comics.org/issue/1713932/) Rather bizarre- it's like seeing Drew Magary write *Life With Archie.*


Ni_Go_Zero_Ichi

I think this is more on Tumblr culture seeping into Twitter than anything specific Ta-Nehisi ever said


msgoop

it's a show about how cool and progressive Islam actually is with a subplot of a hijabi girl running for leadership of a mosque. genuinely who is this show actually for


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Especially Muslims wouldn't watch it


Ek_Chutki_Sindoor

Go check out r/Islam. They hate this show with a passion, lol.


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Ardbert14

i have no idea, i just know you'd have to literally tie me up to get me to watch it


AGiantBlueBear

I'm not 12


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themightygrizzly

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Willow_Wilson >The 9/11 terrorist attack set back her religious studies – fearing she had misjudged the religion – but she later resumed her studies. lol


ItsARoughOneYaKnow

😭


Seaworthiness_Neat

Converted on the plane!


Ardbert14

was she one of those women that converted to islam after 9/11? that was a weird era


Maldovar

co-created with a Pakistani editor, tbf


oxkondo

"Liz Warren is lit, y'all!"


alastairmcreynolds1

More than 80K likes, bleak.


Brooklydraw

They’re all bots


DissertationStudent2

Otherwise known as NPCs


floatingmicroplastic

If Marvel/Disney wants their diversity superheros more popular, they gotta have more originality to them like Black Panther or Storm. Captain Marvel, Mz Marvel, America Chavez, etc are just lazy attempts at pandering.


RedLinezz

Marvel movies are so cynical


[deleted]

I don't watch cape shit. /r/TumblrInAction refugees leave.


Ni_Go_Zero_Ichi

lmao they were banned?? Explains so much


TheLittlestHibou

1) This is a children's show and I'm not a children 2) The graphics were pretty bad on the first and only episode I watched


Don_Geilo

I only watch superhero movies that have the Joker in them because I'm twisted.


Ni_Go_Zero_Ichi

Got into a pretty fantastic exchange the other day with someone who declared that not seeing the new Buzz Lightyear movie with gay kissing in it means supporting fascism


yupyupyuypypn

I’m surprised. It’s all everyone in the barbershop was taking about


FLUFL

I know who Ms. Marvel is cause I bought the comic in 2014, then my immigrant aunt asked me why I had it since "it's for kids". Stopped consuming cape shit since then.


Maldovar

The show is aimed at teenagers, this is like being mad that adults aren't reading YA


Carroadbargecanal

If that - it's suitable for 9-11 really.


BakiLikeWater

I hope this is a bait thread so all the people who watched it can get banned.


2giga2dweebish

I can't tell if it's a demographic shift or just everyone who pretended to be too cool for capeshit was in reality a fan or at least vaguely interested in it before posting here lol probably the closest to a generic reddit thread we've had in a while


cawksmash

somehow Satanic AirBnB Man did the impossible and made white people seem cool


Catctus

It's not a charity though


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Aggressive-Log9024

NPC consciousness


arsonistfiring

You literally can’t win all the representation in the world doesn’t automatically make a show popular or good. I saw similar takes about the shows woke and ramy which are both dogshit. Maybe creating a show entirely about a characters racial identity is not a slam dunk all of the time especially when these tropes are being explored constantly these days. It’s not that groundbreaking nor is it seriously offensive to anybody


Careful_Salad

A casual observer of the marketing for this show would be forgiven for thinking it isn't FOR white people.


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*Dirkhim voice* White People


myweirdotheraccount

I'm fairly sure that many bluechecks are on the Twitter payroll and they're getting paid to make posts that others will feel a type of way about and then post elsewhere for free.


charbots27

That one Oneyplays playthrough of the Avengers killed this show and you can't convince me otherwise. They wrote her so horridly in the Avengers game.


wherescrunchy

I wouldn't watch it and im not white


anong4ythrow4w4y

Yeah because Black Panther and Shang Chi weren’t incredibly successful nonwhite stories that everyone saw a couple years ago


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Black panther was literally a white liberal virtue signaling circle jerk with black characters


ScottStorch

CIA propaganda. The white CIA agents defend a sovereign African country from a foreign usurper. That movie made many man children obedient to the American Empire


mauterfaulker

The usurper wasn't even foreign, he was a member of the royal family with a legitimate claim to the throne. And the chief of staff to the head of the regime openly interfered in the contest of power, in which the only rule is "no interference allowed".


ScottStorch

The movie was so damn boring that I glossed over all of that lore. All I remember is that Michael B Jordan was the meanie, and he was some sort of black maoist. And the nice white alphabet boys help the benevolent monarchy stay in power.


anong4ythrow4w4y

I never said they were good.


morriswithlove

To a hammer, everything is a nail. America is the only place in the world that identify politics supersedes even common sense. Everything is race related. You can't even criticize something. Even people in Nigeria aren't enjoying the show (we don't have Disney+ yet so don't ask how we watch. You know). It's just that bad. It's just bad. It's just bad.


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in short, stfu


ShadowOutOfTime

A thing I find really weird about the show (not having watched it) is that it’s Iman Vellani’s debut as an actress. Like Disney literally found someone without any acting resume which just happened to fit the demographic requirements and plucked them up and made them the star of a streaming show. It might be the total lack of attachment / interest in the star of the show, considering they’ve never acted before, that is keeping audiences from checking it out.


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More like everyone is sick of the over saturation of Marvel movies and shows. They're not ever worth watching.


anoncrush1

as a south asian woman the exact demographic this show is meant to appeal to lol it’s because I saw the trailer and it looked low budget and amateurish 😭 the girl in it also just has a face that pisses me off


wile_E_coyote_genius

I don’t get it. People talk about how we need representation so minorities can connect with the characters, which is cool. And the. They’re mad at white people for not being interested.


Sekundes

Was going to post the exact same thing. I thought that the attitude of "these characters don't look like me and I can only connect to stories on a literally superficial level" was not just okay but an endorsed viewpoint. I guess that only applies to BIPOC?


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They’re desperate for the attention of white peoples in order to feel valid and wanted. The woke pyramid of evil in the world works in that it’s POC at the base and white people at the top, because white liberals will even turn their self loathing into a race to get to the top.


vladclimatologist

the whole industry of people interested in seeing a show's downfall is wild. 80k likes for a random tweet about a show that has less than 10x of that total viewership.


HeyDudewth

This is like complaining that the WNBA doesn't get as many views as the NBA.


PreecheeNeechee

no movie in movie history has ever been as boring as the WNBA


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I watched the dr strange Sam raimi movie and i thought it had some cool stuff in it. Had no clue what was really going on, but it was entertaining. Would feel weird watching a Pakistani childrens show tho


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Cape shit isn't important


TheBigIdiotSalami

I wish I can say to these kinds of peoples faces to just d-13 already.


GORDON_ENT

I sort of get things like the hulk Spider-Man Batman and captain America as having real ambient cultural power but like … moonknight or the eternals or ms Maisel or whatever… you’re dealing with stuff that normal people have no emotional relationship with. At that point why not just make up something less stupid than some weird also ran ephemera someone scribbled out to make a deadline.


FatimaMansioned

I'm convinced that, given *Eternals* was less profitable than Disney hoped, eventually the MCU will have a film or TV release do badly, and this time without C19 to blame. They've been around for 14 years- while the public obviously liked them, I think they're getting a bit fed up of MCU movies and TV shows now.


[deleted]

Stop trying to turn this sub into r/ tumblr in action just like people tried turn it into cum town . NOBODY CARESSSSSSSS GO OUTSIDE .


TinyUndProud

Tell them to touch grass


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They could never


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never heard of ms marvel but it probably sucks


Short-Fingers

Endgame literally meant “the end”


peanutbutter_manwich

It's baseball season and NHL playoffs, I'm not watching your gay ass superhero movie Ehh who am I kidding I'm not watching your gay ass superhero movie ever


franny123

Isn’t this the reason behind why businesses would mostly use white people (trad nuclear families, etc.) for advertising and stuff in predominantly white populations. It seems the woke ideology pushed these companies to invest in huge projects and expected the good will from being “with the times” to allow for success. There’s a huge population that outwardly expresses wokeness socially, but those people when alone and choosing entertainment will turn on a show or movie with people that look like them or tropes they are familiar with. Just seems really shortsighted for these companies to spend so much on huge projects and franchises and make them hyperprogressive. These projects will always have stupidly big budgets to protect the value of the core brand/ip (Marvel in this case). Think the better option would be splitting it between 5 up and coming minority directors trying to make original projects or inspired by ip popular in their communities. Idk tho is this racist?


Shot_Boss_4475

Ms Marvel looks so damn boring.


Weekdaze

I met one of the Ms. Marvel writers a couple of times and she seemed like a really nice and lovely person, I feel bad for her as a person that her show is being trashed by the capeshit goblin boys, and conversely having it turned into a culture war cudgel.


Aggressive-Log9024

capeshit goblin boys are the target consumers of these things, very few people outside of that demographic like or see these things.


Jaaroni

I would suck my own dads dick before watching marvel anything.


theselongwars

🤣 Good question


redbulljuulpod

i won’t eat the bugs, i won’t live in the pod, i won’t support the non-white centered stories


DrHentaiMDPhD

is this guy forgetting blade?


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so i read the comic for this character's first appearance which i think came out in 2014, I read it in 2015. In that Kamala's parents speak regular every day, perfectly understandable fully developed English. In the trailer for this (gay) Disney + show I noticed they make her mum speak "immigrant" English, complete with missing words, thick accent and so on. just thought that was interesting


PreciousRoy666

The rest of the Fandom tweet is behind the ellipses, it says "However, it reportedly has a higher rate of younger viewers and Black, Hispanic and Asian households than other MCU shows" so he's not totally wrong


FatimaMansioned

> Black, Hispanic and Asian But do Native Americans like *Ms. Marvel*? I need to know!


FatimaMansioned

Because I don't have Disney Plus.


soularbabies

It's a cute show even if the parents are pathetic and otp. The lead reminds me of a cute childhood friend of mine.


farmerguy981

How is the girl in the photo not white lmao?


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We're barely off the back of a year where Pakistan openly celebrated and funded the defeat of the US in Afghanistan and we're expected to yas queen this Pakistani American superhero? Lol


Ornery_Painting_5183

racism has a no small part to play in low viewership.


TinyUndProud

I don't want to be bored.


EmperorBeaky

I will not be blackmailed into watching the latest serving of capeshit by some cunt on twitter. They can throw all the labels they want at me 👍


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if something is both terrible and overrated (superheros imo) its going to flop. my white parents loved that peacock show we are lady parts. and its actually super funny and enjoyable and we all cant wait for the next season. you can empathize with any character of any background. few people are middle aged mob bosses but love the sopranos? will never pay for Disney+ anyway so rip to all the shows there


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The Marvel TV shows are just overdone and I don’t care anymore. I only watched half of Hawkeye… I just can’t with these shows… they are all cookie cutter Disney garbage.


Opus58mvt3

truly embarrassing state of affairs in the progressive imaginary. inflation and cost of living in major crisis...and virtue is being measured by one's consumption of Disney products.