A Small World Fire Sparks a Bigger Disney Blog Debate
A recent portable phone charger fire on the iconic “it’s a small world” attraction at Magic Kingdom has sparked more than just a quick evacuation—it has ignited a massive debate within the Disney community about the current state of Disney news blogs. From the rapid response of Disney cast members to the frustrating rise of repetitive, SEO-driven content and ad-heavy websites, Lauren and Eric Hersey dive into why fans are increasingly turning away from traditional blogs and heading straight to Reddit and social media for their Disney updates.
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A Small World Fire Sparks a Bigger Disney Blog Debate Transcript
Lauren Hersey: Welcome to Dis & Hers, the show about what’s happening in the Disney community from his, hers, and your perspective. I’m Lauren.
Eric Hersey: And I’m Eric, and on today’s show we discuss how a fire breaking out in its small world helped a community come together to discuss why most blogs be are becoming less helpful and a little bit more annoying.
Lauren Hersey: But before we get started, we wanna take a second to remind you that Diz and Hers can be found on all your favorite podcast platforms and also in video format on YouTube and Spotify. We’d love it if you could head over to Apple and give us a review and let us know what you want to hear us talk about on a future episode. All right, so let’s get this party started. it has been a weird week to 10 days at the Walt Disney World Resort down in Florida.
Lauren Hersey: Like Eric said, there was a small fire at a small world.
Lauren Hersey: And as we kept digging, we were looking at, okay, so the wilderness lodge, we know we talked about the AC mishap.
Lauren Hersey: Then we know that there was an evacuation after a fire alarm.
Lauren Hersey: There was the fire at the Dolphin, which looks like it was at the bourbon bourbon steak restaurant.
Lauren Hersey: and thankfully nobody was hurt in any of this. Then we had the crazy lightning storm that draw knocked out like 75% of Disney World’s attractions.
Lauren Hersey: And now there’s smoke on Smallworld. What in the world is going on here, Eric?
Eric Hersey: Well, you know, there’s there’s part of me that thinks that it’s because the internet is available and that all of us can easily tweet, blog, and put it on the internet.
Eric Hersey: But w I have to be very thankful for that because that’s why we have a show here.
Eric Hersey: But let’s talk about what is actually causing the issue with this a small world.
Eric Hersey: So from what I understand, it’s a portable phone charger. It sparked fire.
Eric Hersey: So a guest portable phone charger briefly caught fire while guests were boarding it’s a small world at the Magic Kingdom.
Eric Hersey: It seems like the gat cast members did pretty good when it came to Handling the situation right.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, I mean the cast members jumped right in, the fire was extinguished within minutes, nobody was injured.
Lauren Hersey: And thankfully with all the things I just rattled down through that nobody was injured.
Lauren Hersey: and the attraction then reopened later that day. But w what was weird to me is like I didn’t realize that portable phone chargers could just, you know, burst into Flames and I think that that’s why in on airlines now they want you to bring them on in a carry-on or in your personal item and not in a checked bag.
Lauren Hersey: Have you ever heard of this?
Eric Hersey: Yeah. Yeah.
Eric Hersey: Well, no, this is what this is what the airlines have been saying and I noticed that the last time we flew is that they’re a lot of them are saying all right, it can’t be in the overhead bin, right?
Eric Hersey: That’s the whole thing is ion lithium ion batteries and and I’m assuming that’s the you know, the portable charger ones that we have.
Eric Hersey: And I mean they’re all they come in all shapes and sizes now.
Eric Hersey: I don’t know if there’s some that are better in terms of less likely to bust out in the flames.
Eric Hersey: I know the ones that we’ve been buying recently are the ones that plug right directly into the wall because it’s just It was always one of those darn things where you had to find a charger to charge the charger and it just became such a nuisance.
Eric Hersey: So you’ve been leading us towards the the ones that plug directly in the wall, and they seem pretty sturdy.
Eric Hersey: They don’t seem to get too hot, but they can.
Eric Hersey: So I imagine just, you know, summer heat, different air pressures, all types of, you know, charging your own phone and getting hot that way, that’s what caused this.
Eric Hersey: I mean, it didn’t make any permanent damage beyond what just the the battery itself, right?
Eric Hersey: To explode in their hand, they drop it and That’s kind of what the deal was.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, and people were talking about the like white residue from the extinguisher, that kind of stuff.
Lauren Hersey: But I don’t know, they didn’t release as far as I know the brand of portable charger this was.
Lauren Hersey: but we went to the comment section to see what people were saying.
Lauren Hersey: And hey f hey Disney community, come into Disney’s Defense and giving a lot of praise. normally sometimes we’re pretty critical, huh? but guests thought that Disney handled this one really well.
Lauren Hersey: they talked about how cast members stayed calm, that the guests were evacuated quickly and calmly, communication seemed clear.
Lauren Hersey: So very, very little criticism there. People were talking about what brands of, you know, portable chargers you should get.
Lauren Hersey: like I think they said anchor was a good one.
Lauren Hersey: But the question is, I mean, is this an example of Disney at its best during an unexpected situation?
Lauren Hersey: Because on last week’s show we talked about, you know, with the AC being out at the wilderness lodge and communication being spotty at best.
Lauren Hersey: And everybody kinda got a different answer depending on when people went to the front desk.
Eric Hersey: Yeah, I think closing down rides is a little bit more of a routine thing for, you know, cast members to deal with.
Eric Hersey: I mean, if you’re looking as a small world, how many people are you getting on a boat?
Eric Hersey: You know, maybe twenty at the most. I you know, the twenty-five there.
Eric Hersey: So you basically had this explode, whatever happened, get them out of the way harm’s way, evacuate the the system.
Eric Hersey: They probably used to evacuating in all types of cases.
Eric Hersey: I mean, I imagine if there’s a protein spill, they’re used to evacuating in some aspects.
Eric Hersey: So I don’t think this was too much different except for wherever the the fire extinguisher was which I’m trying to think.
Eric Hersey: Where would that be? Like do they just have one up in that?
Eric Hersey: You know, it’d be great, you know how you wave their person up in the, you know, the the tower.
Eric Hersey: You wave to him. I wonder if that’s just they throw down the the extinguisher and and take out the the fire.
Eric Hersey: I’d love to see that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we do get some snarky people, right?
Eric Hersey: We get some snarky Reddit comments, which I love.
Lauren Hersey: I doubt it.
Lauren Hersey: That would be a hazard in its own right. we’ll have to look next up where there. so the the y yeah, we gotta love some snark. so I did lead with that everybody was pretty supportive of Disney in the situation, but RSB so says, so now Disney will ban battery packs.
Lauren Hersey: And then they go on, they’ll rent the battery packs though.
Lauren Hersey: And then someone else says, if if they could ban you from bringing your own charger, it would in theory mean that they can rent out more of their own.
Lauren Hersey: From a business perspective, that sounds like a win.
Lauren Hersey: The ideal solution would be for a dangerous chargers to no longer be a thing and for now the general public to be better educated on the telltale signs of bad chargers.
Lauren Hersey: So, Ivy, do you think Disney would ever ban like ban chargers so that you have to like get a fuel roll?
Lauren Hersey: ‘Cause they get hot too.
Eric Hersey: Well that’s so so they think that yeah.
Eric Hersey: I mean, it’d be difficult. W right now you’re you know, I do think some of those chargers do set off maybe the the metal detectors.
Eric Hersey: You know, I always put mine in my hand and kind of walk through.
Eric Hersey: I always feel like that’s the one that’s gonna set it off.
Eric Hersey: I know things like the cans, you know, the SPF cans will set those off. They’ve always warned there.
Eric Hersey: So I but they use fuel rods in there right now.
Eric Hersey: And they don’t really make money per se off fuel rods, they get the one time purchase.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah.
Eric Hersey: And you go and you can continue. They’re not charging like I think Universal Charges and Sea World charges and so many other ones, but Disney’s not charging.
Eric Hersey: So because they’re so reliant on you being on your phone and having a full charge and capturing those memories and so forth.
Eric Hersey: So it’d be really interesting. I guess the dirty move, and we don’t want to give them any ideas, is to ban all outside party political you know, all outside portable chargers and then charge for the chargers, that would cause all types of ruckus and chaos.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, people would not like that. And then speaking of snark, we have Colonial Bungle that says, Let me fix the title of this for you.
Lauren Hersey: Small World Fire breaks out and it’s a small world, caused by Disney requiring cell phones for everything and making guests need to recharge their phone from a portable battery pack.
Lauren Hersey: And then somebody chimes in and says, Yeah, this is a time where the guest isn’t to blame here at all.
Lauren Hersey: A portable charger is a necessity to be at the park.
Eric Hersey: Yeah.
Eric Hersey: So I it breaks up the conversation of like how dependent do you have to be c become on your phone, which we kind of just talked about.
Eric Hersey: I mean, with the My Disney experience. You know, if you’re buying a lightning lane or even looking for different times, you’re pretty dependent on having that phone.
Eric Hersey: And phones just don’t seem to last long. not to mention your wait times and you’re, you know, you’re on TikTok or Instagram or you’re you’re doing something on your phone while in line now, even if you’re doing what Disney wants you to do, which is play their What was it, their app, the Play Disney app?
Eric Hersey: You know. Yeah. I mean, you’re still playing on their phone and now with mobile order and so forth.
Eric Hersey: Like I just don’t think you could make it a day on you know, through the parks without charging.
Eric Hersey: I mean, we get the we switch out ours two, three times a day.
Lauren Hersey: does it yeah.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, and we are don’t just use them for our phone.
Lauren Hersey: Like we if we’re going in, you know, July or August, like hot months, like we have a rechargeable neck fan, you have your Apple Watch.
Lauren Hersey: So the portable charger I just got, you can put your Apple Watch on and it will charge that.
Lauren Hersey: You have your like AirPods or Earbuds. So, you know, I think that there’s a major need for a portable charger.
Eric Hersey: Yeah, and I d So I don’t think they’re gonna ban it anytime soon.
Eric Hersey: I it would be interesting to say, Hey, we have to ban certain types, but they haven’t done that yet.
Eric Hersey: They haven’t ever said you you can’t come in with your poncho, right?
Eric Hersey: And you can only buy Disney approved ponchos. So I think that Yeah. So I think we’re safe there.
Eric Hersey: I think we’re safe there. It would be interesting if they have to make some type of announcement about portable chargers and or if we start seeing signs different places saying, Hey Now.
Lauren Hersey: And you could bring food and everything in there.
Eric Hersey: Be aware, these get hot.
Eric Hersey: like what are you gonna do about it though? I I mean, I don’t know.
Eric Hersey: This had to be just a one off scenario. We don’t hear too often about that.
Eric Hersey: But then again, we have seen a lot more fires lately, or at least it seems like there’s more attraction fires.
Eric Hersey: I don’t think they’re all from the lithium ion batteries though.
Lauren Hersey: No, no.
Lauren Hersey: I think this was the only one, but you do see far more education at the airports about it.
Lauren Hersey: And just like, you know, unfortunately when that little child was, you know, eaten by an alligator crocodile, at was that at the Grand Floridian, they had to start putting the signs up, warning of the wildlife.
Lauren Hersey: So it would not surprise me if there’s another incident that maybe they will put some signage around the parks and resorts.
Lauren Hersey: And remember when there were some kind of like not flesh eating mosquito, but there was some kind of mosquito issue where they were putting the the bug spray in the rooms.
Lauren Hersey: They did give warnings for that. So that wouldn’t totally surprise me, but I don’t think they’re gonna ban, you know, portable chargers anytime soon.
Eric Hersey: Yeah. Yeah, the lawyers are just getting involved. That’s all the signs and stuff mean, right?
Eric Hersey: The lawyers are basically saying, All right, you need to do this, do this, do this to cover your butt.
Eric Hersey: but I’m sure there’ll be some more explosions. Well, I’m surprised if not, if somebody didn’t get injured, but now it’s a matter of I’m wondering if there are more explosions of these batteries than I even realized.
Eric Hersey: I’ll have Google and see what causes these types of explosions, or fires for that matter, but If there was somebody injured Yeah.
Eric Hersey: it’d be interesting to see what kind of I mean, I hope it wasn’t a fuel rod because I would be very disappointed if those machines are all pulled and and once again that thirty dollar fuel rod that I bought maybe years ago is no longer good.
Lauren Hersey: yeah, that would be I think you’d have a lot of salty Disney fans if they did that.
Lauren Hersey: And Universal, if you’re listening, get on it. Like let’s let’s be able to swap those out for free.
Lauren Hersey: But as we were going through the comments, another another, you know, thread started within this one.
Lauren Hersey: So people were just talking about the fire, they’re talking about Disney’s response, they’re talking about different brands of portable chargers, and then People started saying or complaining about how Disney news gets reported online.
Lauren Hersey: So there were so many comments saying the same thing.
Lauren Hersey: They were saying that every Disney article says the same thing.
Lauren Hersey: It’s like just each paragraph is rewit rewritten using the same like information but using different words.
Lauren Hersey: And so then people were saying that they’ve stopped reading Disney blogs.
Lauren Hersey: They’re just going to Reddit to get the real story.
Lauren Hersey: And so I was digging into this because you could see there was a lot of frustration with the way that Disney News is being covered today.
Lauren Hersey: And it caught my attention because you and I, I mean, like we work in digital media like every day, day in and day out.
Lauren Hersey: So after the break. We’re gonna take a look at why Disney fans are getting so frustrated with the Disney blogs and why do so many articles feel exactly the same?
Lauren Hersey: And has Google and AI completely changed the way that people are covering Disney forever?
Lauren Hersey: So now we’re switching gears and we’re talking about why Disney fans are getting frustrated with the blogs.
Lauren Hersey: We talked about while we were reading about the It’s a Small World fire, how this other conversation caught our attention.
Lauren Hersey: So looking at Suspicious Visit. They they started all of this where it says unrelated, but I virtually hate when blogs have become three paragraphs of literally the same thing, just reworded over and over again.
Lauren Hersey: And then it’s a good time responded with unrelated, but I virtually hate when the blogs have become the three paragraphs being rewritten over and over.
Lauren Hersey: What readers are saying they hate most is the same paragraph just rewarded.
Lauren Hersey: Disney guests all agree they hate when blogs have become they’re nothing but rewarded over and over again, said user suspicious visit.
Eric Hersey: beautiful. That was nicely done. Nicely done. It’s a good time. I think that was great.
Eric Hersey: I didn’t I didn’t recognize what they were doing until that third paragraph. That that might be it.
Eric Hersey: But no, it’s it’s it’s pretty interesting. I love it when these threads go on these slide tangents.
Eric Hersey: This is what I believe is the show is all about because it’s like, all right, what are we really talking about?
Eric Hersey: That’s when we start really getting in the nitty-gritty where no one else is talking about.
Lauren Hersey: All right, so you know, like I said, Eric and I are in this business.
Lauren Hersey: I work in corporate communications and have worked in, you know, news and Eric in digital media.
Lauren Hersey: And the reality is that every outlet receives the same thing.
Lauren Hersey: They get the same press release, they get the same Disney Parks blog post, they get the same official proved photos and the same public information.
Lauren Hersey: That a lot of times is why the coverage sounds similar.
Lauren Hersey: It’s literally people just grabbing the same information without a lot of context.
Lauren Hersey: and I think that that is what people really are wanting.
Lauren Hersey: The first time I noticed this was on Pinterest when I used to go and get recipes.
Lauren Hersey: So back in the day when Pinterest started, you could be like, I want this recipe for buffalo chicken dip.
Lauren Hersey: And now it’s like, you know, what is buffalo chicken dip?
Lauren Hersey: my grandma and I made buffalo chicken dip when I was a kid.
Lauren Hersey: And every time I make buffalo chicken dip, I listen to Stevie Dix.
Lauren Hersey: And so it’s like, well, why do you need all of this like colorful context when you just want the recipe for buffalo chicken dip?
Lauren Hersey: So like what is it, Eric? Like why do they do this?
Eric Hersey: Well well, I mean that’s the common trope right now.
Eric Hersey: It’s the recipe ones, the ones it’s like literally all you need is these steps and then you have the fourteen paragraphs about the the ancient history of it.
Eric Hersey: So you said it perfectly. well a lot of it comes down to manipulation of Google, right?
Eric Hersey: And that is primarily what you’re saying is you get X amount of stuff, but Google once rewarded how often you said these certain keywords. in a paragraph.
Eric Hersey: So what you were you were almost incentivized and there were a lot of, you know, digital marketing, you know, experts out there saying you need to have 500, 750, a thousand words on each blog for you to kind of beat out the other.
Eric Hersey: And they called it kind of the skyscraper method because you know back when skyscrapers were being built, you’d have one that was a hundred, you know, stories tall.
Eric Hersey: And then you have the next person want to be a little bit bigger.
Eric Hersey: So they made there’s 101 and then 102. And then sooner or later you get these buildings that You it didn’t need to have this many floors, but it was just a matter of we want to be the best.
Eric Hersey: So you get these blogs that literally can say something in in, you know, three paragraphs, and now you have somebody trying to make it six because doubling the paragraphs means it’s obviously better.
Eric Hersey: Well, that worked primarily a lot in the early days of Google.
Eric Hersey: And what you’re seeing now is there is a shake up in the industry.
Eric Hersey: There’s obviously Google, you have yourself AI now with AI answers and overview.
Eric Hersey: So But people are it’s hard for people to get rid of the what worked for them in the past.
Eric Hersey: So you still see these things where it’s just like, all right, we need to talk about this small world fire.
Eric Hersey: And they’re thinking they have to use the world, it’s a small world fire, you know, four times four times within three paragraphs or seven times.
Eric Hersey: And they have all these little tools that tell them you got to say it so many times for the Google to pick up and this and that.
Eric Hersey: And and sometimes it’s right, sometimes it’s wrong. But that’s why you’re getting all this regurgitated same stuff, especially. from a where you rank because at the end of the day someone’s gonna type in, you know, what’s up with the small world fire and someone’s gonna, you know, the top result is gonna get the clicks.
Eric Hersey: And I think it all comes down to the next thing, which is ad revenue, right?
Eric Hersey: So do you you’re familiar how ad revenue works on these websites, right?
Lauren Hersey: Mm, yeah.
Eric Hersey: So like ultimately you’re gonna get third party ads from like Google. It’s called AdSense and you’ll see it’s the annoying ads that pop up on the side, pop up in the you know throughout the article.
Eric Hersey: But guess what? You you
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, and if you’ve like looked at something on the Disney store and now you’re visiting this blog, a lot of times you’re targeted with that specific item.
Lauren Hersey: so it could be based on where you’re located or what you’ve looked at, or unfortunately now what you talk about.
Lauren Hersey: so that is the those are called third party ads.
Eric Hersey: Right. Yeah.
Eric Hersey: So and and these users, you know, these websites are getting paid for, you know, how many impressions they get.
Eric Hersey: When you go there and you see an ad, you you essentially make them not a ton of money, but enough.
Eric Hersey: So they’re incentivized to get you to click number one.
Eric Hersey: But also, if there’s just one ad you see and you only have a you can tell the whole story in one paragraph, you don’t have to scroll.
Eric Hersey: And if you don’t have to scroll, you’re not going to see ad number three or ad number four or ad number five, which means you don’t make money.
Eric Hersey: So the goal is to get these. These pages basically. And that’s why you have paragraph one. let’s make paragraph two the same thing, but there’s an ad stuck between them.
Eric Hersey: And there’s an ad stuck between that. And it is obvious now at this point in time.
Eric Hersey: It’s like, hey, how many ads can we get in here? Because we get that click and we worked real hard to get that click. We can get more money.
Eric Hersey: And that’s essentially what has caused, I mean, it’s allowed to incentivize, you know, so we have more bloggers.
Eric Hersey: We have people that can make it their day to go to the parks and cover this information.
Eric Hersey: But you also have really, really bogged down websites with a lot of ads that you can’t really tell sometimes with if this is real content or is this a fake ad that you’re you know part of the content.
Eric Hersey: It gets really, really clustered and frustrating. And you can tell that that’s one reason why people are kind of like, Hey, we’re gonna go to Reddit instead.
Eric Hersey: Hence why now when you Google things, a lot of times it might be an official website, but a lot of times it’s either a Quora, a Reddit, a Facebook, because Google realizes a lot of people just want real answers.
Eric Hersey: They don’t want this, they don’t want this advertising and people that are incentivized to just get people there.
Eric Hersey: That’s where clickbaits come from, you know?
Lauren Hersey: Right. And we talked about like the worst clickbait websites on a previous episode.
Lauren Hersey: And so I mean it explains why, like Inside the Magic, for instance, they’re sending out the emails and, you know, posting on social media and they are straight up clickbait just to get you to go to at least have that impression.
Lauren Hersey: But I mean, do you think that, you know, we as the Disney community have figured this out and so we’re just changing our patterns now because like I would much rather search on TikTok or YouTube or like look in the actual comment section to get a real answer versus going to some of these you know just
Eric Hersey: Well, I think we all kind yeah.
Eric Hersey: I I think we all kind of appreciate the Reddit because the people on Reddit aren’t necessarily incentivized to give their opinion.
Eric Hersey: It’s just people that want to give their opinion and and have to work a little bit harder than the next guy.
Eric Hersey: You have to, you know, set that up. I don’t think we as humans want to do too much searching though.
Eric Hersey: So like we have fun with it because we enjoy reading the comments and we can utilize some of it for our show.
Eric Hersey: But I think generally if I just wanted to know what the heck was going on with it’s a small world.
Eric Hersey: You want an article that explains it out that’s reputable.
Eric Hersey: So there’s still some of those websites that if you can deem yourself as reputable and trustworthy and not have too many ads, you’re gonna get the lion’s share sooner or later.
Eric Hersey: But I really do think the big distributing factor, like what’s gonna really just, you know, cause chaos is now AI answers will give this to you.
Eric Hersey: So as I was researching some of the shows, I asked a specific question and it literally was like, All right, here’s here’s where you have, and it has your sources.
Eric Hersey: So there’s no ads to be made. And this is obviously very controversial for content creators, is because when you don’t need to click on a website, guess what?
Eric Hersey: That person who’s doing all the work and AI’s taking the information and giving it out to you for free without the click, that person’s no longer getting paid.
Eric Hersey: But that also is a matter of like we kind of created that ourselves by creating garbage websites.
Eric Hersey: So it’s it’s tough to know who’s right and wrong.
Eric Hersey: Is Google and the AI products okay for just stealing people’s content? No, not really. That’s not cool.
Eric Hersey: But also are you creating such a negative experience that we no longer want to go to your website?
Eric Hersey: Because if we know all the sources here, we’ll just go to that website and we don’t have to Google things.
Eric Hersey: We just know what’s up. I think it’s a balance where if you’re a content creator and you’re really relying on content through ads, I think you really should look at it and say, all right, what it what am I doing here?
Eric Hersey: Am I servicing the customer? Because they’re going to find their information another way if you’re just annoying them.
Lauren Hersey: Right.
Lauren Hersey: Right. So I mean, looking at the bigger context here, so if everybody has the same facts, it’s an even playing field, like what makes one content creator worth following over another?
Lauren Hersey: Like if I if we’re looking at parks news, if I see like a local news station covered it, to me that is the most trustworthy because they’re not getting rewarded with just, you know, clickbeats and clicks and they’re regulated.
Lauren Hersey: But like take them out of the equation ’cause there’s a million different Disney content creators.
Lauren Hersey: Like, which ones are worth the follow and which ones aren’t?
Eric Hersey: Yeah, I think what in this day and age it’s gonna become more about matching your personality types, right?
Eric Hersey: I mean, there are certain webs websites out there that do that you trust for breaking news, but they’ve kind of earned that through various platforms.
Eric Hersey: Like we talked earlier, you know, it is Tom Bricker. a couple episodes ago was highly revered at and and paging Mr. Morrow.
Eric Hersey: He’s not a news blogger, but like when he gives you information, like you see people that like take it for what it is.
Eric Hersey: so I think that there are in this day and age where everybody has the same information, you’re gonna go with the people that you kind of created a relationship with, even if it’s a one way relationship where you’re actually witnessing them.
Eric Hersey: Sometimes you feel like you get to know them. That’s one reason why podcasts become so popular and in radio shows or YouTubers.
Eric Hersey: It’s like you feel like you know these people.
Eric Hersey: So when they give you information, that’s who you’re gonna go after.
Eric Hersey: So you’re gonna go after the one that you kind of relate to or you know more about and then you trust them.
Eric Hersey: So in a given circumstance, if we all break the same thing and you’re handed in front of you, you get to choose between 10 different websites, you’re gonna go to the one that you you’ve you’ve heard more about.
Eric Hersey: They give maybe their personal opinion or gave some type of personality aspect.
Eric Hersey: So I think some of these no face websites that people are just cooking up blogs and they that’s all they do is send stuff.
Eric Hersey: I think they’re probably gonna be less likely to be supported in the future.
Eric Hersey: You’re gonna wanna support from people you know, like and trust, I guess.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah.
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, and right now, like what I value the most is like an individual’s perspective.
Lauren Hersey: Even if I’m like on TikTok or Reels or whatever, like if I I mean, ’cause I can be influenced just like anybody else, but I like when people are like, I actually use this, like this helped me save time, this helped me save money, this like I like things that are Hopeful like that or that explain it in a way that I’ve never thought of before.
Lauren Hersey: Like I was looking for, we don’t typically do lightning lane because we’re pass holders, but we were going down with Eric’s brother maybe a month or so ago, and I was looking for tips on lightning lanes.
Lauren Hersey: And because when I booked them, it was all like late times and I searched and I searched and I searched and I finally found an old blog from the Disney food blog that was like we have tried everything and this is the best way to get better times.
Lauren Hersey: And I mean I checked on reels, I checked on TikTok and nobody was giving that specific information.
Lauren Hersey: and so like I wanted to write AJ a letter and be like this was amazing.
Lauren Hersey: This certainly saved us you know, time and a lot of headaches.
Lauren Hersey: Like I didn’t realize that you needed to just get out of it totally, get back in and keep like how what do the kids call it these days, like mashing it.
Lauren Hersey: but it did the thing. And so I do agree that I think it’s the the trusted the trusted people that aren’t just, you know, filling, you know, word salad to make their articles longer.
Eric Hersey: Right. Yeah. I and that’s the case. I mean, we you were once now, granted, don’t get me wrong, this has had spread.
Eric Hersey: There’s reasons why YouTube videos are longer than ten minutes. There’s reason why podcasts become longer.
Eric Hersey: I mean, and we’re not no one is immune to this.
Eric Hersey: I mean, at the end of the day, if you are a content creator, you should get paid or at least you need to get paid to keep doing it because we all appreciate that kind of feet on the ground reporting, whether it be, you know, as a side hustle or so forth.
Eric Hersey: So we’re not saying, hey, advertising is bad, but we’re also saying like, you know, if you treat truth be told, if you, if you treat it and and try to expose and exploit every little bit of it, people will find the person who’s not and develop a relationship with them.
Eric Hersey: So it’s very interesting how people find and you know we’re in a web 3.0 economy now where like you can have these little pocket creators and Just you just need enough people to support them for them to keep going.
Eric Hersey: You might some these guys might not get rich off of it, but they do provide a really, really good source of information.
Eric Hersey: So I think supporting some of those guys is a a good thing.
Eric Hersey: And you know, and I see a lot Yeah.
Lauren Hersey: It like if you want people to continue to do what they’re doing, like I don’t know if people realize how much time that goes into creating podcasts or creating YouTube videos or creating videos on social media.
Lauren Hersey: Like it takes a lot of time and effort and dedication.
Lauren Hersey: So if you have a creator in your life and you can like support them monetarily, support them by like sharing their stuff or commenting on it, whatever, that all really does help a lot. A lot.
Eric Hersey: Yeah.
Eric Hersey: No, certainly. But I mean I I’m I’m kind of curious, you know, if if people are still out there reading the the Disney blogs or they all go into TikTok or they’re all going to Reddit like a lot of the people were saying there, Facebook groups, all that.
Eric Hersey: You know, I I know that if you’re asking me, I’m still much of a podcaster, but I do find myself watching a lot more YouTube for this information and and obviously hitting up Reddit a lot more.
Eric Hersey: And I do TikTok is is probably the number one reason people way are people are finding news now.
Eric Hersey: So it’s very interesting. So let us know. What do you what you guys what are you guys using?
Lauren Hersey: Yeah, we wanna know. And I mean, I go back to I just want better conversations.
Lauren Hersey: I like that two way. Like I love when people, you know, comment and we can talk back and forth.
Lauren Hersey: Like, you know, that’s part of the human experience. But anyways, starting all the way at the top, going back to the small world fire and the crazy week that Disney has been having.
Lauren Hersey: Hopefully things settle down as we are hitting the road this weekend.
Lauren Hersey: But That does it for this week’s episode of Dis & Hers. For more, make sure that you hit up DizinHers.com.
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Eric Hersey: And remember, watch what you post online. You might end up in next week’s episode. Thanks for listening
