From the last thread:
peteykirch said:
I cannot stand Shawn G Orlando.
Dude is the male version of Jenn.
A complete wolf in sheeps clothing. He does realize that Dimbo only did those things because he was caught? Yes it's nice he tried to make amends, but that doesn't change the fact the Slackers hold some abhorrent views of people who don't look/act like themselves.
I actually really like Shawn and respect his opinion on a lot of things. My husband is Chilean, so I get to see firsthand a lot of the microaggressions that happen to non-whites (and he's super white-passing, he just has a very Latino name, so he's VERY OFTEN singled out whenever people make racist anti-immigrant comments "Oh not you, you're one of the good ones" despite him being a born US citizen! - this happens FREQUENTLY!) so I feel like I understand WHY Shawn is just so outspoken about the Disney vlogging community. HOWEVER
I super disagree with his reasoning for liking/respecting the Trackers. Their entire apology and subsequent donation was entirely performative. They proved this by how low effort their "time to help" segment was - they absolutely just googled charities and read off the website. Their donation live stream was very poorly run and exactly how NOT TO send individual donations to charity. They ended the time to help segment and said they'd continue it on Fridays but gave that up entirely after only like two or three times, and of course never on Fridays. They then went on to NEVER MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT GEORGE FLOYD AND OTHERS AGAIN.
bleeping performative garbage. There's no respecting that.
I will agree with Shawn that the Trackers have always and forever been a family channel, though. That's their demographic. They need to give up the whole travel/theme park thing and just focus on doing fun things with their child. That is ultimately what is keeping them in business right now, not the Disney/theme park stuff anymore. Trying to straddle both content silos is probably going to hurt them in the end.
Edit: also i had never seen that Michael Kay picture before (I don't really follow him) but
yikes.