What is driving people to act in such a childish and profane way about a theme park attraction? Is it social media or is it the harshness of today’s conversations?
Splash Mountain has been trending off-and-on for the last twenty-four hours or so. But rather than trending on Twitter for normal reasons, it seems there is a war on the social media platform and it’s gone in some of the most bizarre directions. It’s hard to describe without just showing the tweets.
Posting this again because it will forever be relevant until Splash Mountain gets torn down 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Dmr9H3L6Bt
— Oscar Winner Barbenheimer 🩷🖤✨ (@thederpyhipster) August 10, 2022
Holy shit. The SECOND Splash Mountain closes down will be the biggest celebration of my damn life. Idgaf about the ride itself, I just can't wait for real life clowns like this to shut the hell up. This is the INSANITY were dealing with. pic.twitter.com/MjpA4iPkpz
— Shaun Ranks the Parks 🎆 (@rankingthemouse) August 10, 2022
The entire current Splash Mountain discourse on Twitter is like 5 or 6 delusional fans that at worst keep spamming the same hashtags, and dozens upon dozens of people calling fans of log ride "racist shitty people". It's tiring. 😴
— Brer Oswald (@BrerOswald) August 10, 2022
Hi guys. This apparently needs to be said. If you're a new follower, just so we're all on the same page, please be aware I have supported retheming Splash Mountain since even the idea was first floated. If that's an issue, feel free to move on. https://t.co/pYRn0ad6cr
— Stephen "Dirk" Libbey (@ThemeParkDirk) August 10, 2022
Listen, I don’t know really what to make of people who are telling others to unfollow them over a theme park attraction disagreement. If you’ve made a major crux of your life be a retheming of a theme park attraction, you’re not mapping out reality in the best way. There are actual, real atrocities happening in real life. People have cancer, there’s genocide, babies need loving parents, etc. I think retheming Splash Mountain is a dumb idea that could hurt the domestic Disney Parks for a decade — but I’m not going to remove people from my conversations for thinking otherwise. And calling people all sorts of awful epithets for having an opinion on a log flume? C’mon… it’s grow up time.
I’m not sure if all of this being bloated enough to trend is indicative of a human problem or a problem in the way Twitter makes people behave. Either way, people shouldn’t be stooping down to the level where they’re acting in ugly manner over such a thing.
Luckily, Fake Disney Facts knows what really is going on with Splash Mountain… and in leaking the information early, they may just help us all unite around something everyone apparently loves:
Minion themed construction walls have gone up in front of Splash Mountain pic.twitter.com/tsCrPV57ot
— Fake Disney Facts (@FakeDisneyFact) July 8, 2022
It’s a minion world and we’re all just living in it.
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