Disney's Disturbing Cult Town
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Welcome to episode 1 of 'Distopia.' Today, we're diving deep into the unsettling underbelly of Celebration, Florida-a town conceived and originally developed by Disney. Marketed as the 'perfect' community, Celebration harbors a dark and scary past that belies its cheerful facade. From disturbing events to unanswered questions, this video peels back the layers of artificial happiness. Whether you're into video essays, horror stories, or uncovering the creepy aspects of Disney lore, this episode has something chilling for everyone. Hit that subscribe button and join us as we reveal the haunting truth of Disney's Disturbing Cult Town
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I had just gotten my drivers license in the 90’s and while driving to WDW I got lost in Celebration and couldn’t find a way out. I asked a random woman I saw in her yard for directions. Her reply was “why would you want to leave?” So creepy.
A 90s me would absolutely want to pitch a tent and claim to live there because I was invited to stay forever. See how long it took to get arrested at Disneytown for a lark.
😭 aw hell naw
@@tjrune3432something tells me you wouldn’t want to go to this town’s jail. Actually it’s probably more of a dungeon.
bruh this is some horror movie shit
@@TinkerTailorSailorTy In my head, I'm kinda picturing the Hot Fuzz hole-in-the-ground vibes.
I can't even begin to imagine the hell of living in a town with the sort of people who would choose to live under a Disney-run HOA.
Oh God... That sounds like my own personal version of Hell.
Dear god that would be hell... that would be actual hell!!
So..... Disney has been warped for over 30 years now?
That sure explains a LOT.
And IMHO, the very presence of an HOA reduces the value of a home by at least 30%. Am I right?
This was a truly frightening view of a Disney dystopia.
@@johnwolf2829I think it (IMO) devalues a home even further. I would never EVER choose to live somewhere with an HOA. There’s no way in hell I’d be paying for a house (especially now a days) and then having someone dictate how I care for my property, where I park my car, what kind of curtains show through my window etc.
This whole situation makes me think of how Epcot was meant to be this, but an entire CITY. It’s genuinely terrifying to think about how that would have gone now that i know they actually did it on a smaller scale
dear god....
you know, perfection itself is a flaw.
i'd rather live in my normal, glass half-full world than a perfect world.
especially one that's so fake.
So glad EPCOT ended up being what it is now.
Telosa is gonna be the modern day epcot
The answer to, "Wouldn't it be great to live at Disney all the time?" is: NO. Because what makes it fun and special is that it ISN'T all the time.
Disney is indeed about escapism and illusions. The expression 'The Devil's work' can't be fitted better to any other company. If there ever were an 'evil entity' in the form of a company, Disney is it. 'Evil' cannot be conceptualized better. It is as clear as day, Disney is bad for your children. Hell, bad for grown-ups too.
I can’t even understand the appeal for people that go annually or even more often. It’s really not fun enough to be a more than every couple years thing. I went one time as a child and that made it seem way more special
To me that's the equivalent of asking if you want to live at six flags and hell no
@@derrick7648eh I have annual passes and it’s nice to just pop in and ride something real quick. Or just to go out there for dinner or something. There’s lots of stuff going on out there constantly so it’s not like it’s the same thing every time.
about the 2022 incident with anthony todt, the wife did not participate in the murder. anthony was found to have been committing fraud and was set to go to federal prison, and murdered his family. he spun up this story about his wife believing in a new age cult and wanting to “set their family free” etc. but it was all anthony
I just got to the part where he included the wide in his evilness and it makes me so sad that apparently there's enough people that believe the monsters lies that the misinformation spread like this. Chris Watts said the same type of thing so I wonder why people believe Anthony Todt but not Chris Watts
@@BriEMcN especially when this murder happened years ago and quick googling tells you HE did it and why, not that they both did. seems like kind of an oversight in some pretty simple research.
@@jillian9706 yeah it's honestly incredibly disappointing that he's spreading this misinformation about someone who was 100% a victim of that monsters actions- in more ways than one considering he also tried to blame her for his own monstrous actions- when it's such an easy thing to check. Like how does someone make a video and talk about something like this and then take a killers flimsy excuse as fact without finding out that he was lying. It's not like it's a secret that he lied. The more I think about it the more upsetting it is bc I don't see how he could've done even the bare minimum of research on this without seeing that he lied about his wife killing the kids to try to get out of trouble. Which makes me wonder if he did know but thought it would be more compelling or interesting if he said the wife did the killing too? I mean I don't want to falsely accuse him of that but I just don't see how he wouldn't find that he lied about it while doing his research about the case. Sorry to ramble I'm just so sad and confused about why he'd include that lie
Seems like the only thing missing from _Celebration FL_ is a demonic golem in the shape of Mickey Mouse that rises out of the ground and kills you if you don't follow the neighborhood rules perfectly.
As far as we know it's missing that 😰
well mickey mouse (at least the steamboat willie version) is public domain.
theres already talks about there being horror movies about the character.
i think one based on celebration would... actually make a good slasher movie.
I think Bentley Little already wrote that book. It's called The Association.
There’s an X files episode about this
@@MightyK08 Exactly what I was referencing!
Not sure if anyone's said this, but Anthony'Todt's wife, in all likelihood, didn't kill their children. It was just Anthony himself, who couldn't live with the shame of being caught for his crimes and being nearly bankrupt. He decided to take his family down first before, going himself. Which he didn't even do the coward.
I just thought I'd better inform you, that she's a victim in this case if no one else has done so.
I wasn't even aware anyone DIDN'T think he did it. You can't do any amount of research into that case and not think he did it.
Really glad someone pointed it out. I think it's good to talk about the issues with Disney, the obsessed fans, and its real estate problems, but it isn't hard to research to learn that that version of the case was an excuse by the killer himself. The killer didn't even live in that town as much as his wife and kids to begin with.
Feels more like the OP wanted to use it as 'proof' about the cultish mentality and reframing it to prove a point is harmful to the victims of that tragedy.
He did it and I watched the trial... He was the most insufferable narcissist I have EVER seen... There's a great video on this guy. He was found guilty of murder of his entire family. There's no doubt or question.
He is nothing more or less than a monster.
From what I saw I don't know how anyone ever put up with him.
Ive gotten a lot of comments about this, i will be making a video on him in the future due to this info. Thank you
Is there really people who actually believe his obvious lies?? I really hope not that's depressing af. Isn't that what Chris Watts said too?
I lived in Celebration from 1997-2014. Went to 1st thru 12th grade at the schools there and for sure received standard grades (I remember because I was a bad student and had to get my mom to sign my report card) and had maybe 20 kids in my classes. There was a very small private magnet school, called the Navigator school, in town that was around for a couple years, but I think it’s weird that you make it seem like the entire school aged population went to this school.
There were no fake bird sounds, and they played regular music in the downtown shopping area.
The crimes that you described were sad for sure, but attributing them to living in the town is a little odd. The pond didn’t like suck the cars into it; these people drove their cars into the pond on accident before that part of town was developed. They built a wall to keep it from happening again after they realized what had happened. The homicides, deaths and events that occurred around them were sad and disturbing, but they didn’t have anything to do with like the town brain controlling them and forcing them to commit these acts.
The HOA was a bit strict sure, but not much different from the HOA in the neighborhood I currently live in. Pretty standard in FL. We had town wide garage sales twice a year that you could participate in if you wanted. It was siiiiick. I got some awesome stuff from well off families looking to part with their old trinkets.
I understand the purposes of bending the truth for entertainment purposes, but this video just rubbed me the wrong way. I enjoyed growing up in that town enough. Felt safe, a little boring maybe, but not creepy. Our HS football team sucked, pizza shop in town was mid, and they never let me see Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen brain which was hidden somewhere in town. 7/10 town - would maybe recommend if you don’t mind living in, a now, over crowded kind of boring town.
Woah I went to chs and ck8 from the years of 2010 to 2023
Thank you! I lived there from 1998-2009 and my parents have been there since 1997. The comments crack me up though, brings back the days when it was new and people thought we were paid to walk our dogs lol.
Yeah people act like Celebration is some creepy place out of a Stephen King novel, but they’ve never actually been there or even know anybody from there lol. Celebration is a totally fine place to live.
@LeanMrfuzzles lol yeah I've lived here since I was born and it's definitely much better then surrounding areas 😅
Bro has been brainwashed
My late husband and I went here twice. It had such a creepy vibe. The second time, in 2019, my husband joked that he was glad our vehicle was nice enough to be seen there. That’s the vibes we got.
We had a nice dinner, and got some pics near the fountain. Then we left, and knew we would never be back. Just too weird.
Interesting to hear, I literally just posted, that they probably do not allow people who live there to have junky cars
Lmao I live in Kissimmee, celebration is a well known rich area, drove there for Uber with my shitbox car and I felt too poor lmao to exist there my suspension was squeaking
@@laundrysauce354 , 😂, yep! That’s exactly how we felt. We live in a nice area where we are, but it felt different there. Not even that the people had that much money, but that they wanted it to appear that they did. Like, a feeling of desperation.
We stayed in Kissimmee. I don’t know how you deal with that traffic all the time! It was rough.
@@laundrysauce354 that’s a funny image
Celebration Town: he was the best [town] around!
Other People: What about the people he murdered?
Celebration Town: What murder?
There is no murder in Celebration Town
@mixedupmatt3658 only the crazy guy who knocked off his wife, two kids, and their dog.
Heck, this sort of thing goes all the way back to Walt Disney himself. If I'm not mistaken, one of the original plans for Epcott was essentially a closed off town run by Disney and that was back in the 50's.
yeah pretty much! EPCOT stood for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow,” it was the 60s and he proposed what we would now call 15-minute cities. he wanted it to be a futuristic utopia city, kinda got bastardized as a theme park and this seems much closer to his original idea.
@@nanananananananana00you had me until “15 minute cities”. There’s nothing wrong with having things within walking distance so people don’t have to be car reliant. Having to rely on having a car is such a huge a expense and barrier out of poverty. The car, insurance, repairs, gas. Designing cities in a way where places are more accessible by walking or biking would be a benefit to everyone. You could still use your car to drive everywhere you want, but the main places everyone needs to get to would be closer to where we live. Many European/Nordic cities operate this way and it’s a benefit to the people and economy.
@@UltimateGenosyko that wasn’t meant to be a dig at 15 minute cities at all, it’s my goal to move to a walkable city. im not sure if it’s just the comparison to celebration but i never said or intended to imply they were bad lol.
@@nanananananananana00 oh okay haha
@@nanananananananana00 there are so many irrational people against it so it’s hard to tell lol, why anyone would be against a walkable city is beyond my understanding.
A town full of Disney adults sounds like a nightmare.
Cultists* ✌🏼
I’ve been through a few different “alternate learning” schools in my childhood, and all of those schools focused on small classrooms, flexible schedules for the students, and lots of freedom of the students to move around as they needed for focus. We still had a grading system, assignments and lessons. What you described sounds horrible. 80 kid classrooms???
Yup sounds crazy! I really want to hear from someone who lived in Celebration or who went to school there. How crazy was it? What was taught? Like? Lol
@desireesmith862 hi I live here and I went to the k8 from 2010 to 2019 it definitely was supposed to be an experimental school but when I was there it was normal 😅 so I can't really speak on what the school was like in the 90s
I do remember you used to be able to go on the way back machine and see the old website from the 90s when they were talking about the school
You can’t make a perfect town when the residents are humans. Honestly, I think this town would be cool for a week. Like an eerie gimmicky kind of vacation for those who want to take a safe dip into madness. Beats walking out of your apt to a broken lobby window, armed car jacking and the citizens app blowing your phone up.
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The average home price in 1996 was $166kz. The median house price was $140k. My first home in 2000 was $120 and it was a starter home on a pretty low price housing market - and I was a 22 year old single mom.
So no, $120k in 1996 was not out of reach for most Americans.
Came here to say this. It’s about $250,000 today, roughly. I’m sure there were more expensive homes than that, but the initial price of 125k was actually entirely average.
Thank you. I was looking for this comment. 😂 $125,000 was perfectly reasonable for 1996 new construction.
Celebration is like if you took media-illiterate business majors and presented them with Brave New World, The Giver, Divergent, The Stepford Wives, Pleasantville, Wandavision, The Truman Show, and select episodes of Black Mirror, and they got excited at all of the neat ideas they could implement into their perfect neighborhood.
As long as I'm safe, free, and comfortable, for me, a perfect neighborhood would be one characterized by its eccentricities, quirks, surprises, and even, imperfections, where people could authentically express themselves in positive ways, and I didn't always know what to expect. I'd be kicked out of a place like Celebration probably as soon as I moved in, because I wouldn't be able to resist colouring outside of the lines.
As I think about it, though, in theory, it's not a bad idea to give HOA-happy Karens and Brents and hardcore Disney Cultists their own total environment away from the rest of us---problem being, if they happen to venture outside of the bubble to which they've become accustomed, they'll likely be even *more* spoiled, entitled, and out of touch with reality as a result of having been indulged and catered to so much!
If you call the cops in Celebration, do Officers Mickey and Goofy show up at your door?
no...just Dopey and Sleepy...
corporate towns are weird af
I love that this place exists. It is just insane. There is no other way to describe it. The level of dystopian control is mind blowing.
Indeed, it's why Disney's whole thing about family friendliness is so hypocritical to me. Also this town sounds like some Stepford Housewives madness.
More horrifying than Joseph Seed's cult town or even that one town in Halloween 3 season of the witch where a mask maker owns a whole town in fear and surveillance
Didn't expect to see a farcry 5 refrance
I live here since kindergarten and in my sophomore of high this guy is full of bs lmao its literally just a high income suburb ur gonna find crime everywhere tand the guy killed his family when i was in 6th grade he was my friends soccer coach his wife was not involved he did that shit himself
I live in north Florida and have been through and by Celebration a couple times. The architectural regulations allways made it look off to me.
I grew up in the panhandle and Seaside/Watercolor had uncanny vibes, too. I imagine that’s why they filmed the Truman Show there.
I did one year of schooling in Celebration, shit was wild
Glad you escaped
I have GOT to hear more about this
Please share
You gotta tell us bro
Tell us
I drove through celebration about 20 years ago. Hollywood backdrop were the exact words i said! My husband at the time noted no bikes in the driveway, no sprinklers on, no sidewalk chalk art, no signs of actual life! When the movie Vivarium came out, I thought this is what Celebration felt like
Eerie and spooky.
I have driven through Celebration, Florida, and this is how I would describe it: Walt Disney World meets Norman Rockwell meets The Twilight Zone meets Peyton Place meets The Truman Show meets The Stepford Wives.
YOURE RIGHT
“Muzak in the lobby helps patients to ignore
The fact that writhing agony waits right behind the door”- A Little Dental Music, cut song from Little Shop of Horrors
Yeah that’s quite the vibe I’m getting
Did they literally call THAT TOWN a Utopia, it sounds more like a Dystopia to me. 😬💀
As soon as as you said Utopia, my first thought was 'if there isn't free housing and free healthcare it isn't utopia, not even close' and then you mentioned how much the houses were. The fact that children couldn't walk to school was also a major red flag.
The fake bird sounds would drive me crazy. If they wee so obsessed with birds and the different seasons, they definitely should have chosen a different state than florida (obv I know why they chose Florida).
Why do you think free stuff is for a perfect world? Are the doctors and nurses supposed to work for free?
@@TheHaughtyOsprey We pay teachers don't we? If housing was covered, or at least subsidized, we would manage on much lower salaries. I don't necessarily think it all needs to be free, but America is definitely behind on healthcare costs and access and rent is getting way out of control.
you'd think a super safe town like this WOULD have children walk to school
yea it's a lot of dreck really! nothing can necessarily be free but costs can be lowered and everyone can have access to what they need/want@@jin394
Imagine the music, after years, -all aged and miserable setting the tone for their deranged village slowly brainwashed into an actual zombie land…, sheeesh, eek.
Interesting video, had not heard of this. One thing that made me wonder though: $125K in 1996, adjusted for inflation, is about $242k today. That is well below the average house price in Florida ($402k) or even the national average (386k). It seems that they were actually rather affordable.
The price of housing rises faster than inflation does, we are in a housing crisis. Houses were cheaper on average back then. That would be a very high cost for the time, but that price for a house now would be a steal.
I was an adult in 1996. That was not considered super expensive for a house at that time. Especially in that area.
Idk whur the info.came from this, but the regular houses thur were much more than 125k. That, if anything could've been the startin price point for the small, 1/1½ "townhomes" they had many of thur(?). It sounds correct to me on that line of figuring.
I remember them startin more like the 150s but they coulda had some at 125. The regular, 2-3/2s were much more, however. That , I remember.
I've had issues with Disney since the 90s. People said I was crazy, now half the country has issues with Disney, reguardless of political affiliation.
A lot of people are in denial
Wait, what first caused you to start having beef with Disney???
A bad park/ride experience??
I love the alternative for the F word is "futting" or even "fudging" maybe unintentionally caused by the editing in this video.
I lived in Celebration and graduated from Celebration High school. My house was not built very well and you could tell it was built quickly. They definitely don’t play Muzak or bird noises at least not anymore.
It was definitely a bubble and if you leave Celebration you’re faced with reality, central Florida, which is not the most welcoming environment. My family didn’t like the bubble feeling and how it wasn’t so nice outside of Celebration, so we moved away after only living there for two months.
It’s not as exaggerated as it seems. It did feel fake but it also had its upsides. You could ride your bike to town or around the beautiful neighborhoods. It was beautiful inside the town. It didn’t feel super creepy living there, just fake. Oh also they definitely don’t import leaves during fall when I lived there.
They stopped doin all that "fake" stuff back in early 2000s. WDW Corp. Hasn't owned it in a very long time time(I believe 2005). It's all privately owned homes and businesses now, and just runs as a regular town/city in & part of Osceola County. It's no longer a municipality of WDW.
I'll also say, a lot of areas in Central FLA are still nice (altjough who knows for how much longer(?)), some are still quiet, atm rural areas still exist, & natives & locals are very warm and hospitable (all within the greater Orlando area). It's the immediate surrounding areas of Celebration that are inherently aweful, & packed full of ppl from all over that are not very friendly. It's hard to find an actual Floridian anymore, that's one a the big problems. Many ppl are no longer Friendly , loving locals... they've all but moved away because of the incredibly bad element that had been increasingly moving in since the early 90s. :-/ idk why, but FLA attracts about 85+% bad ppl & less than 15% decent ones.
I visited about 8 years ago and I thought it was pretty beautiful and surreal. What was weird though was the little downtown area had these businesses that looked to be only for show and the alleys and some of the other areas were chained off which made some of that stuff seem more like a museum town.
@@KwizMatix Fakery re-enforcement...
The original plans for EPCOT was a "city of the future" where the residents would essentially be living under Walt's dictatorship.
They took “a cult following” to another level.
There is no evidence that Walt Disney was a Nazi sympathizer at any point in his life. This accusation comes solely from Art Babbitt who was known to have an abrasive personality and greatly disliked Disney on account of their fallout during the union strikes. Babbitt had became very wealthy and lived a lavish lifestyle due to being one of the top paid animators at the studio, and Disney felt betrayed by Babbitt for leading the strike. Disney fired him several times and was forced to rehire him due to court decisions, and Babbitt made up these claims as part of his lawsuit. In actuality Disney was a political progressive who hired women and people of all ethnicities, in a time when this was extremely uncommon in the film industry.
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You and me both, most definetily nice to see so many new people enjoying my content
They were so hellbent in creating the perfect magical utopia, that they ended up turning it into a nightmarish dystopia.
I live in celebration lots of these weird rules either don't exist anymore or just aren't enforced I never had any problems walking to school 😅
I live here to, north village this video is just made because it’s trendy to hate Disney right now. Disney hasn’t had anything to do with celebration in almost 20 years.
Ever since I was a kid, I always had the feeling that the disney corporation was a monster hiding behind a cartoon mask.
I read an article in a reputable magazine that Disney was being run by the "gay mafia" and it was a very evil and toxic work environment, and that was his reason for leaving the company and I think he got fired because he complained.
Kinda like the wizard in the wizard of Oz. You can't see him behind the curtain but you always get the eerie feeling he's watching and waiting but you're not quite sure for what or for who. And you get the feeling that he was the mastermind behind the whole plot from the beginning.
I liked the video in itself, but I don't see how this is a cult. People who love the water might move near a lake, people who love skiing might move near a mountain. Nothing wrong with that.
Nice Video😗👍
Yiisshhh....the more you talk about the town , the more it remind me of every town in horror movie i watch . A seemingly "perfect" town has dark stuff on it ground .
(Although i do feel little for the people who come this town just for escapism itself)
Thank you! Thats what it felt like to me too when i first made this video
Definitely getting some "Stepford Wives" vibes...
I was one of two people who sued Disney over Zootopia. Our cases were dismissed but the judge was impressed with my case brought by two law firms. I was in a David and Goliath situation but stood up to them. It hurt my work in Hollywood but I couldn’t sit back and not stand up for my work. The documentary is on the Betrayed by Hollywood channel
Oooh I'ma check it out!
We live in Jacksonville but drove down to Celebration Florida to have lunch with some friends recently. As we drove into the Celerbation area, I said "what kind of Stepford place is this??". What had a great time with our friends at lunch but I couldn't get out of that area fast enough. I know it sounds like I'm being dramatic but there was just such a creepy vibe to the whole thing.
As soon as I saw the video title I was like "ah. Celebration." Glad my random knowledge of stuff due to watching Disney's death spiral can sometimes make connections.
You never think like anything like this could happen. This would make one hell of a creepy mini - series. Sounds like a good idea.
I personally live in celebration, it's more of a quiet midwest town rather than the way you described it. There's no cults, creepy mickey mouse spies or disney run HOAs (Disney removed themselves from the whole city in the early 2000s). It's just a nice town that people who want to grow up and raise their children choose to live in.
Like i say in the video, yes you are correct, this happed in the 90's
In 2014 my band stayed at the hotel here for a few days while we were on tour and playing The Fest in Gainesville, as well as their PreFest in Ybor City. Celebration wasn’t anything crazy or spooky at all, it was just a tiny little town that got weirdly super empty at night but that was the only somewhat strange thing. The main square has a few restaurants and bars, a movie theater, down the road was a strip mall with a Publix, and just a ton of old people and golf carts, pretty normal. We had no idea about the “weirdness” of the town until after we left and I’m sorry to say I didn’t see or experience any of that. It really just seemed like a boring rich people retirement community that you’d expect to find in Florida. No one was weird to us despite being a group of long haired tattooed band people, people mostly just ignored us and did their own thing like anywhere else you’d go to. It did definitely feel like a movie set with the architecture and how things were laid though, which makes more sense after watching this
Celebration is a great little town. Going there is a joy.
A Disney-fied Truman Show sounds like hell
This sounds like a "Stepford type of town " and Disney always had to be in charge and ya no wonder it never worked. Plus having bad things happening in the town ......tsk tsk tsk.....SMH
This video seems well researched but ot has a lot of inaccuracies and suggestive statements that aren’t grounded in fact. Sure Celebration is creepy, but it makes Celebration seem like it’s actually a town, and that Disney controls everything. The reality is that it’s nothing more than a town in name only, a master planned community originally built by Disney as a way to sell off some of the unused swamp land at the edge of their property. It doesn’t have its own zip code. The “celebration hospital” is owned by AdventHealth, like at least 4 other area hospitals and it also services Disney World and the surrounding area. The schools are named Celebration but they are public school that operate under Osceola county school system. It’s also not isolated by itself, it’s directly beside the Four Corners area of Orlando and Kissimmee. A lot of weird stuff has happened there and Disney is overall a dystopian company, but this video makes it se much more like a small town USA type area, when any semblance of that is just because of the theming. Also it’s worth noting that Golden Oak is not the same as celebration. It’s still full of rich people but they are strictly vacation homes. You aren’t able to make golden oak your primary residence and it doesn’t have any schools.
It's a massive gated community with an extreme HOA.
Great vid. I visited Celebration about 8 years ago. It looks and feels like a movie set. That area with that pond is like right off the heart of their little downtown area but everything there feels super fake. It’s almost hard to believe real people actually live there in fact because you get the impression everybody I came across there were tourist. Very weird place indeed.
This town has been living rent free in my mind for YEARS, ever since I saw it mentioned off-hand in a Disney facts count-down video. Even as an 11-12 year old, this town seemed like something more disturbing once I put some thought into it...
To this day, I still have no idea why ANYONE would want to live there, Disney enthusiasts or not
I worked for Disney once, and can confirm the company's often blood thirsty and cultish tendencies.
Did you have to do a blood sacrifice to please your boss? Or should I say, leader?
Wait, I believe you’re talking about the Todt family murders- authorities have no reason to believe his wife was involved, that was just his repulsive defense strategy.
Omg! They are building one of these “towns” about two hours away from me in Raleigh. Crazy
It’s way closer than 2 hours, unfortunately. They’re building it in Pittsboro and it’s 55+.
Today Celebration is a really pretty little town, with beautiful scenic walking paths around the lakes and a nice community feel. Lengthy HOA rules are pretty much a fact of life in Florida, and unfortunately mold and shoddy construction are also common Florida problems. The Villages has a much worse HOA.
The “they rhyme with ‘Gazi’” sent me. Yes Disney has had a very dark past which is probably why so many of their princess/prince movies are so scary and dark.
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@@whitetipvelociraptor5759 I didn't say anything.🤷🏻♀
@@annien.1727 oh, so telling me that you rolled your eyes at my comment isn't "saying anything"?🤔🧐
PSST! You could've NOT told me that you rolled your eyes at my comment. You kinda made yourself look like a total jerk unto me and others who see our comments.🫤
Just trying to help you become a better person and look like a better person in the eyes of others.
@@whitetipvelociraptor5759 You know, it really took a while to calm down and rationally think about this. And I'm trying to understand your implement behind your words. You're not trying to insult me, you're just saying that I should choose my words carefully. Well, you should know that I have autism. Certain words and phrases trigger my emotions, especially negative one targeted towards the things I love. I previously thought you were making a sarcastic insult, but looking at it again, you weren't at all. Sorry about that.😓
I own a condo in celebration (vacation not my primary residence lol) and most requirements are correct but there is no rule to have a hidden Mickey in your house 😂
That seems like an unnecessary requirement because if you want to live there, you probably love Mickey and have a bunch of him in your home.
So, a far worse version of Fordlandia. But, I'm disappointed about how this place was not a surprise to me, Disney has gotten so far away from Walt's vision.
I knew it! I told my husband that the town was weird. It gave me creepy vibes. Thank you for this video.
Always listen to your intuition. ❤
Great take on this topic. These aren't new concepts either. The "company towns" in Kentucky or Pullman in Chicago, even Boulder City and Fordlandia, are examples of these types of experiments.
First of all I would like to say it’s refreshing to see a human doing one of these videos and not a robot. I knew that the town you were referring to was celebration before you said the name. I remember my Aunt and Uncle talking about this place. They described it like Stepford. They said the people were unusually and overly polite like robotic. I would like to check it out for myself to see if that’s true.
Never knew there was an actual axe murder there. Which now validates what I felt and told my then girlfriend (she was a Disney employee) when we visited Celebration. I remember telling her, "This place looks like and feels like straight out of Halloween." It was during Fall, too.
I took my aunt to Celebration one day last week. Seemed like everyone there who was walking a dog, it was a Goldendoodle dog. So strange.
Central Floridian here, Celebration is a pretty neat little area. I heard the construction quality was really bad and HOA's were crazy.
As a student of Urbanism I get tired with all the weird media frenzy over Celebration. Sure the town had its share of problems but I would not call it a ‘cult’. Celebration was part of the “New Urbanism” movement and was designed by many Post-modern architects like Robert Stern, Michael Graves and others, I think the design of the town needs to be more appreciated and provide examples to the rest of the us
The town that required residents to put a hidden Mickey on their property? Really?
It's just a cult. Stop lying to yourself
When Celebration was being built, I lived right down the road. Yes, it was like the Truman Show, as it was clean and new compared to the area right outside the town. . The city was just right off of the big tourist district 92 outside the Disney area (cheap hotel and food, that was where to go). So, Right outside was a lower $$ area. The music/birds ended fast, so it did not go on long. The cars into ponds, that is all over Florida. Not just Celebration. Crime in Celebration is low (it's a small area), still today esp compared to the next town nearest to it. Kissimmee. Heck< Orlando is terrible with murders! The hospital is NOT and never was Disney-owned. The houses and apartments were built too fast and had many issues. My friends owned a house there, they had a major fire due to how the home was built. The rules book was big, but in later years many rules were reduced. Go, down the road still near Disney where all the millionaires ( Tigger Woods etc.) live there are more Rules than Celebrations. (Isleworth gated community in Windermere) I did love going to eat there and going to the movies, it was clean and beautiful. Disney No longer owns the area. The town is still going strong, but not with the Disney vibe it had years ago. There are many businesses around the town and Disney does have offices still there.
you forgot to mention that you could buy a 5000 dollar glass fish in town but there was no place to buy a pack of cigarettes or a news paper .
As someone who lives by this place, the only time it gets “scary” is during the holidays
Why?
Good video! Celebration is a weird place. Visited there 2 years ago. Just has a creepy vibe that’s hard to describe.
this seems really well researched, great video dude!
Glad you enjoyed it man, thank you!
no it's not wtf. bro doesn't cite a single source. there are quotes onscreen with no source, no link. couldve just read the wikipedia page.
This is why we need to start regulating what companies can and cannot do.
At first the fact that there was a lot of crime in Celebration wasn’t surprising even though it is a small town. I mean, my cluster of hamlets and villages has several big crimes committed a week. However, the crime in Celebration isn’t an organic thing. Especially when it comes to murder and home invasion. Out where I live it’s drug and weapons related, maybe the occasional stolen vehicle and robbery. That’s all.
There are many reasons why towns can be breeding spots for crime. In my case it’s isolation. In the case of Celebration I think it’s the population itself. That’s not something I normally attribute to crime though I think it is in this case. It’s made up of rich people who probably don’t care to defend themselves which makes it ripe for robberies. As for the murders I can’t understand that too well. The environment probably creates hostility in some weird way.
It might be the fake stuff sound and maybe it make people feel isolated
Typing this comment from a work trip in Celebration, FL. Sure it’s a bit stepford-y but it’s a lot nicer than most of the towns in Central Florida
Disney is so weird and evil to me that the opinion that I have about this whole façade of a town would sound just as a bat shit crazy/conspiratorial I think the people that can live there or allowed to live there for a certain reason and I don’t think it’s really meant for other people or outsiders to be there. It’s not just because of the pricing. It seems nefarious and strange.
Hey!😡 Disney is NOT evil, just a little misguided.
@@annien.1727 bootlicker 🤣🤣
Screw calling Snyder fans "cultists" because you are ESSENTIALLY what you define a cultist for Disney lmfao
….. So is this how they got the idea for Wanda Vision? Because everything was “perfect” in her town. But the people were somewhat aware every time she slipped up. This is uncomfortable and creepy.
I love that you are running Max Fleischmann cartoons in the background as you do your story on Disney!
This is the thing that people like Jim Jones dreamed about.
I live in Fort Collins, CO, which is what Main Street in Disneyland is based on. Last winter I was standing at a bus stop and heard tropical bird noises, and found it was coming from a speaker in a tree. I googled it, and FoCo had really done that Disney shit. Something about it made me deeply uncomfortable.
the rule about kids not walking to school is wild to me because you would think that would up the pull to their community by boasting it was safe enough to have kids walking unattended.
I don't believe it ever is or was a rule I mean I never had problems
This is like the real life "Truman Show"
That’s the thing about problems, they’ll still be there tomorrow.
Love this series idea cant wait for more! Good reporting 🫡
Been to celebration. As of today, it's a normal neighborhood, with normal people, and yes, real animals and nature. Very nice, well maintained. Has some issues just like everywhere else, but still above average. I've stayed in the hospital as well as was taken care of very well. I think the area is unfairly critiqued and easy to sensationalize.
I hope you get to talk about another cult town. It’s called Clearwater in Florida.
wealth and murder maybe strange bedfellows, but do often go together....
idk it’s definitely not somewhere i would choose to live but i went to starbucks in celebration this weekend and everyone is so so nice. i feel like after awhile the costume-iness of it all would cause a psychotic break lol
this is higher quality content than most channels with over 100k subs. banger vid
So I just found out that Disney is building another sort of residential project called "Asteria" about an hour or two away from my hometown here in North Carolina. My mind immediately went to this video. Should be interesting.....
I worked at Disney in college…. They were obsessed with ‘keeping the illusion’ to an insane extent.
Born/raised in Orlando & Celebration.. HATE DISNEY!!
"The most restricting conditions outside NORTH KOREA" 🤣💦
If I lived in a Disney town i think I would expect to live like a Disney cartoon
okay. the opening AD sounds like an AD for an irl silent Hill, specifically silent hill 1
sounds like almost every present gated community...
I feel bad for any Kids that might have grown up in such a hell-scape. Disney's cult has grown exponentially since the 90s. Sub earned :D
This video was brilliant - I was shocked to see you only have 1.6k subs! This was on par with a lot of video essays I watch from much larger channels, great work dude
Doesn’t Adam the Woo live there? This is where Stepford wives would live, weird. Great video.