I hate Disney

There are few things in this world collectively regarded by society as sacred. I would argue one of those things is the Walt Disney World Company. Most people agree the Disney parks are the 'Happiest Place on Earth'- which is why people consider me sacrilegious when I say: I hate Disney. I hate everything about the Disney corporation. Let me give you a little bit of background.
Disney cartoons were very much apart of my childhood. My dad used to record old school cartoons (actually animated and created by Walt) on VHS tapes, and boy, did my siblings and I watch the heck outta those! We loved Donald Duck and the Silly Symphonies. They still make us laugh. The truth was that those cartoons were actually creative and quality.

I think it was around the early 2000's when the famous 'Disney quality' started to decline and become trashy. I remember watching the "Zoog" robots on Disney channel and thinking "this looks like the cheapest animation I've ever seen..." That was also the age of the low budget films, such as Halloweentown, Brink, Smart House, and Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. These live actions films were painful to watch. So low budget that I remember thinking I was on crazy pills because I was the only one who seemed to see them for the low quality they were.
But whatever, if the Disney corp chooses to stray from Walt's original vision and produce garbage, that's their right I suppose.

But my siblings and I still held on to what Disney used to be and rejected pretty much everything that came out after 1995. Fast forward a few years. My cousins took my sister Kaitlin and I on a road trip to California with a surprise stop at Disneyland. We were both overcome with emotion because we'd spent our childhood watching late night segments on the Disney Channel exploring the Disney Parks. We couldn't believe we were actually there, seeing those things in real life. We got up early the next morning and made our way to Disneyland. I remember feeling like the Disney magic wasn't completely dead. They still had structures in the park from when Walt Disney had designed it. They had characters walking around that I actually recognized and a lot of the rides referenced cartoons from Disney's early days. I had a renewed faith in Disney!

Now fast forward five years. I was in my first semester of school at Utah State University and I saw recruiters on campus advertising internship opportunists at The Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. My interest was peaked. I went to a meeting and decided I wanted to audition to be a character performer. Long story shortened, I was accepted into the program and hoped on a flight to Orlando to start my 6th-month internship. At first Disney World seemed just as magical as Disneyland, but the longer I worked there the more I realized just how unethically the Disney company runs their business. Because I hadn't paid attention to the prices for admission when I went to Disneyland (because my uncle paid for everyone) I was absolutely shocked by what Disney was charging for a day pass NOT including a park hopper.

This was around the time of the r

the Walt Disney Company turning into a "rapacious, soul-less" company