Bloodbath at Disney as mass layoffs hit — with animation movie giant being gutted

Third round this year means this is a strategy, not a downturn response. Disney posted $2.6 billion in operating income last quarter. The animation division they're gutting is the part that actually requires skilled human labor built over decades. What they're protecting is the IP licensing, the parks, the streaming catalog they already have. The people who make the new things are the cost center. Bob Iger came back specifically to execute this thesis and Wall Street loves him for it. Conservatives will write about woke Disney destroying itself from within and completely miss that the destruction is a quarterly earnings call, not a culture war.

Animation workers who spent years perfecting craft so executives could greenlight another live-action remake and pocket the margin. This is the business model now: gut the studio, strip the labor, keep the IP.

Animation is what built that company. You gut that and you're basically selling off the engine to keep the lights on. Third round of cuts means nobody at the top has a real plan, they're just buying time. Bob Iger came back looking like a savior and now they're bleeding out slower than before. Doesn't matter what the headline calls it, the math is the math.

Third round of cuts in one year while executives keep their bonuses and board seats. Nothing new here; this is the standard playbook. Protect the C-suite, gut the people who actually made the thing worth buying. And the Post calling it a "bloodbath" tells you exactly who they want you to blame, and it's not the shareholders approving every buyback instead of headcount.

Several hundred layoffs in the third round of cuts this year at one of the most profitable entertainment companies on earth, and the New York Post frames it as a "bloodbath." That word exists to generate outrage, not to describe the people losing their jobs or why. From outside the US it is genuinely difficult to watch how normalized this has become: recurring mass layoffs treated as routine corporate housekeeping, no meaningful severance requirements, no works council consultations, no public accountability for executives who collect bonuses while cutting. The Mouse House is not being "gutted." It is being optimized, for shareholders, at the expense of workers, and the headline is designed to make you angry at Disney without making you angry at the system that permits this.

Disney spent years pushing garbage woke content nobody asked for and now they're shocked the audience walked away. You reap what you sow. Meanwhile the media covers every single Disney layoff but won't spend five minutes on what's happening twenty miles from my house at the border. Priorities tell you everything about who these outlets are actually working for.

Several hundred layoffs in a third round of cuts is not a normal business hiccup, it is management choosing to shrink the creative core while the people at the top keep steering the ship. Calling it "gutted" may be blunt, but the bigger point is plain, Disney is treating animation like a cost center instead of a long term asset, and that is how you hollow out an industry one round at a time.

"Bloodbath" and "gutted" for several hundred layoffs at a company with 220,000 employees is the Post doing its usual thing, but the underlying story is real. Three rounds of cuts in a single year is not restructuring, it is a failure of leadership that keeps getting laundered through HR-speak while Iger's compensation package stays intact. The animation division specifically should be untouchable. That IS the company. You gut that to protect parks margins and you are eating the seed corn.