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9. With the added pressure of far-right influencers to remove shows for going against their worldview, such shows may have even more difficulty finding placement. This means that there could be less representation for LGBTQ+ families, who make up a significant portion of American life.

8. The renewed targeting of LGBTQ+ animators and storylines is troubling. Given the animation industry’s recent downturn and difficulties in finding work, LGBTQ+ storylines may be even harder to place just by virtue of the economy around animation.

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7. In recent years, platforms like Disney have curtailed LGBTQ+ programming. In 2022, Disney+ Junior Mode removed shows with LGBTQ+ characters, such as the popular Owl House. More recently, the platform removed references to a transgender character’s gender identity in the Pixar series Win or Lose.

6. Musk himself boosted posts targeting shows well beyond children’s fare, singling out adult programming with transgender characters or themes, including Sense8, Tales of the City, The Umbrella Academy, Disclosure, and Will & Harper

5. Within a day, her outrage metastasized into a broader campaign against all LGBTQ+ content, with posts from conservative influencers targeting shows featuring Pride flags and demands that Netflix adopt a Don’t Say Gay-style policy across the platform.

4. It began when LOTT posted a Dead End: Paranormal Park clip where the character Barney comes out as trans. “I’m trans norma, and everyone at school knows, and everyone at home knows… and being here, it’s like a whole new place. I can just be Barney, and I can choose if and when I tell people,”

3. Within days, Twitter’s owner, billionaire Elon Musk, was leading a boycott campaign against the streaming platform, using his perch to punish it for daring to feature LGBTQ+ characters—representation that reflects the families of millions of kids.

2. On Monday, Libs of TikTok—the far-right account notorious for stoking violent threats against LGBTQ+ people—erupted over a kids’ show featuring a transgender character. The target was Dead End: Paranormal Park, and the outrage quickly snowballed.