Disneyfy
English
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[edit]From Disney + -fy, with reference to the Disney theme parks.
Verb
[edit]Disneyfy (third-person singular simple present Disneyfies, present participle Disneyfying, simple past and past participle Disneyfied)
- (transitive, usually derogatory) To make something (especially a location) more acceptable or marketable by removing potentially distasteful, controversial or boring elements, particularly at the cost of its history and culture.
- 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests, Workshop and hearing on New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park:
- Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music.
- 1996, Douglas Coupland, “Postcard from Palo Alto”, in Polaroids from the Dead, New York, N.Y.: ReganBooks, →ISBN, part 2 (Portraits of People and Places), page 117:
- The overall feel on today is prehistoric. There is a mood of dilophosauri and raptors lurking hungrily in the oak copses—of the savagery that lurks to recapture even the most Disneyfied of environments in the absence of vigilance.
- 2018 August 29, Farhad Manjoo, “‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-29:
- Every summer, the most popular European destinations get stuffed to the gills with tourists, who outnumber locals by many multiples, turning hot spots into sweaty, selfie-stick-clogged, “Disneyfied” towns.
- 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:
- Frieze has become a corporate snooze. Have the galleries been actively encouraged by its big-business owners to Disneyfy themselves?
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