UMBERT ACTUALLY! EP 1 is here!

Walt Disney was a Union Buster?!

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March 18, 2026 - 17:04 UTC

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Fun episode....yeah and also he really hated unions he went to congress to say they were communist and blacklisted them.....and still today Disney and Iger the former Leo had bad blood with unions...makes me glad I quite giving them money since DSG bill thing
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It's so good!! Everyone did a great job!
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Walt was a terrible businessman. He had no idea how to run a company and was often blinded to problems by his own vision of what he wanted to make. But to dismiss him as some kind of fraud unworthy of recognition is just as bad as blindly idolizing him. (1/?)
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Walt was carried by his brother Roy in terms of the business side of the studio
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He took insane risks that would never have happened had the company had more corpo-minded leadership. Without those crazy gambles, we wouldn't have things like modern theme parks or feature-length animated movies. He was an artist with ideas, but not the business acumen to optimize production. (2/?)
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If Disney was alive, he would’ve been the definition of “Don’t meet your heroes”.
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THE SPAMTON GUY IS BACK!!! 😀 (This is a joke, I know he isn't Spamton.)
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Walt Disney was literally one of the worst people ever lived, and im tired of seeing people looking up to him
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Oh are these all going to be vertical or will the full episodes be normal resolution? And where will they be dropping? YouTube?
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I really dont like people trying to defend a dead man

What he did to snow whites voice actor is damn well enough to prove Walt wasnt a flawed man, he was a massive asshole who deserved to have his head frozen in a jar
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I remember hearing about the incidents at a hotel during the wrap party for snow white in 1938
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He was also a fucking Nazi afaik... Just an asshole in general. <.<
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lol was that @michaeljruocco.bsky.social I saw
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Maybe.
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Don't forget he was a government snitch who testified before HUAC and claimed the animation guild was full of communists
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I can't wait for the next umbert actually episode making fun of buzzfeed for disrespecting their workers consents by feeding their work into AI and the fact they OWN their shows.

You guys must know that by now, right?
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Correct. He believed in parentalism.
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Love these episodes. ❤️
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True. But if he were still alive today and saw what his company has become recently, he’d have a heart attack.
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Hot take, but I think the notion of Walt being some evil soulless monster is just as flawed as the idea of him being some perfect flawless saint. He was just a normal dude with both flaws and virtues, and it's wrong to both worship AND demonize him.
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Yes, his views on unions were sketchy, but he also fought hard for Uncle Remus's actor James Baskett to win an Academy Award, and Baskett became the first black man to ever win an Oscar thanks to Walt.
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Heck Art Babbitt(the one who spearheaded the Disney strike) groomed and married a 14 year old girl
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This doesn't surprise me at all considering what else he did
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If you want a 38 1/2 longer version of this:

youtu.be/HsP71i7O49U?si=jX2tS7Z7675dLGtM
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UMBERT ACTUALLY - Ep. 01
Animated & Produced by @Jellybox_Studio

CREW
Executive Producers: @genegoldstein.bsky.social, @adamconover.net
Showrunner: @starghettis.bsky.social
Line Producer: @sean8urson.bsky.social
Art Director: @kaseywllms.bsky.social
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Researcher/Writer: Sean Aitchison
Director: Laura Estrella
Storyboards: @slunchy.bsky.social
Animatic/Subtitles Editor: Sean Aitchison

Character Design: @enzozzle.bsky.social, Laura Estrella
Prop Design: Enzo, Laura Estrella
Background Design: Kasey Williams
Additional Design: Enzo, Laura Estrella
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Starting off strong with episode 1!! Disillusion those who idealized mr disney and teach the REAL history of who he was to his workers 🙌🏾🔥
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(Hopefully I don't need to clarify this is a joke)
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Finally Its here!!! Also dam Walt is worse than I thought.
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Disney was sexist, racist, an asshole that accused animators and union leaders of Communists to McCarthy, a shitty boss...

Curiously, the thing that most people joke about him, the antisemitism, is the one with less evidence.
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That urban legend came about through guilt by association mainly, in as much as a lot of the anti-Communist groups he associated with were also antisemitic
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Because people are never satisfied with how actually horrible someone is, they have to make stuff up.
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Have you seen Defunctland season 3 about the life of him
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He also hired black animator Floyd Norman to work his films such as The Jungle Book.
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You can easily debunked his supposed antisemitism with the amount of Jewish people that he hired
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I would also like to remind everybody that union Umbert was originally created for failed to provide any actual substantial benefits to animator aside from slight a pay raise.
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*a slight pay raise.
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There is that old saying “never met your heroes“ or something like that
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Didn't Disney also enlist the help of local mafia during the union strikes? Then he used his status of rooting out spies in Hollywood to make claims against one of the leaders of the union strike?
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first time hearing the term union busting and wow is it harsh
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YEAH UMBERT ACTUALLY IS HERE!!!! This is very informative and I’m excited for more episodes!
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Thought it was common knowledge that Walt was an asshole
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Yippee
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Yay yahoo yippeeeeee
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I think it's it's interesting that looking back at history and seeing all walt is as a person, which even inspired some elements of fiction like Bendy, where Joey was directed inspired by Walt.
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Yeah, I’ve been prepared in advance to know that Walt himself was NOT the “Whimsical Hero” I once believed him to be in my childhood. His “quote” towards those he neglected certainly backfired on him. Your post here does a good job addressing his follies and helping the true heroes be heard.👍
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The “quote” I heard from Walt Disney that kicked the hornet’s nest…
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Mind you one of the "heroes" They mentioned was a pedofile.
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yesss not enough people talk about how sketchy he was!! glad y'all covered it 😊
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Idk if it's intentional but I like the added irony in the fact that fake Walt uses a quote that the real Walt never even said.
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Great job everyone!!!
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Well, after this I’m gonna watch Knights of Guinevere again. I can’t wait for episode 2. Fuck Walt.
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There's actually people here DEFENDING him.

That boot must taste so, so good, huh?
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Most of this is old news to those of us in animation, but it’s always good to signal boost the truth so that all of the folks out there unaware of the full history can get up to speed.
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Voice acting here is PHENOMENAL!
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Yep I still hate Disney
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Ok, so basically I'm a dumbass for thinking this guy was actually good and not a horrible person next to Hitler, ok whatever, my voice doesn't count because I am a generic guy online who hasn't watch videos about the man, so yeah, fuck me, right ? youtu.be/qA62gwyoDZM?si=Bc6rSpfaEEkRJtiC
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Figuring those things out is the first step.

The next step is to read or watch something else than a video made by someone who was a tour guide at Disneyland for 8 years and is actually related to the subject of union busting.

Not the other things Walt Disney is accused of.
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why are you talking like this post was speaking directly to you in any way shape or form? weird behaviour
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why bring up Hitler out of nowhere?
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lol imagine being this passive-aggressive
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Audio-Animatronic Walt Disney... so one step closer to FNAD(since there's already FNATI)😅
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surprised yall didn't mention the animators coming to strikes with a fuckin guillotine
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They should also make a video based on the removal of lgbtq representation in animated films because this is why minorities need to be protected
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👀
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Yet you think people headcanoning characters as queer is disrespectful to queer people and can never answer why.
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This
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The future of so many media is in the hands of the indie scene it seems and I'm all for that

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Lol #unionyaoi
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Makes sense... I mean Epcot was initially designed to be a company town.
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