You will never look at Disney or Universal the same way again.
cone-shaped sandwich—known as the “Handwich”—that was introduced, and swiftly aborted, at the Magic Kingdom in the 1990s. Both are a profound reminder that America is less than 300 years old, and that our monuments and ruins tend to be engraved with the visage of Mickey Mouse. But my personal favorite Defunctland entry might be a mammoth 103-minute feature on the sociological
—a system that allows attendees of Disney parks to skip the queues of certain rides, which effectively institutes a caste partition on family vacations. Yes, the Happiest Place on Earth is forever beholden to the almighty dollar.In this way, Defunctland shows us just how much of a lens into culture amusement parks can be. “It’s untapped territory, and untapped analysis,” Perjurer explained. “People don’t analyze theme parks the way we analyze other forms of art.
This might sound like niche material, but Defunctland has become one of the most popular and acclaimed channels on YouTube. Perjurer’s FastPass documentary has reaped an astonishing 17 million views, to go along with 1.7 million total subscribers. The first Defunctland video was uploaded in 2018 and dug into a short-lived Tomorrowland attraction called
. Just five years later, he was making enough of a profit from his theme park coverage to call his hobby a job.Perjurer keeps practically all of his biographical information close to the chest. He refuses to go on the record about his age, or his real name, or anything concrete about the amount of money he generates from the advertisements that dot his oeuvre, but he does concede that he lives in Florida and grew up in Kansas City.
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