“Crickets,” a friend at Pixar texted when I asked how Disney C.E.O. Bob Iger’s “entertain first” comments had gone over in Emeryville. If you remember, back in 2022, Pixar employees screamed censorship while publicly blasting former leader Bob Chapek for his inaction over Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, revealing that “nearly every moment of overtly gay affection” in Pixar movies “is cut at Disney’s behest.” In response, Chapek allowed a same-sex kiss to be restored in that summer’s Lightyear, which the Pixar folks considered a big victory. Then the movie flopped, though almost certainly not because two women smooched for a half-second.