I've always had a fondness for the story of Disneyland, even if I've never been. I'm not even entirely sure why. Walt Disney was, charitably, a complicated figure, but I can see more readily what he was going for, and the homey gloss over the corporate greed is a little easier to believe. And there's a lot of be said for the lesson Orlando should learn from the rescue of California Adventure. It's funny, if you pump a lot of money into a thing, it makes people want to go more often.
But year, the characters are maybe emblematic of it. I can't imagine Disney World bringing out Merlin, of all people, which delighted JoJo. And maybe it's a function of being in a pool of striving actors, but the human-faced characters just seem more into it in the videos I've seen. The summer before COVID, one of the Wicked Queens went viral with her interactions with a particular vlogger. And Patrick had a video where he went to Oogie Boogie Bash cosplaying as Scarlet Witch and the Agatha Harkness (who I think may have been the aforementioned Queen) spent the entire interaction throwing drag queen-level shade at him. It looks like SO MUCH fun. There's just something that's much less cringy than watching, say, PMM or Tim Tracker interact with a Princess.
Patrick also has a video with a Peter Pan that clearly wanted into his pants, but that's for OnlyFans. Even my husband, who says he dies a little inside whenever he sees an adult interacting with a character, was charmed by it.