Last week, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that the company was looking to put AI-generated, user-generated creations on Disney+. To Dana Terrace, creator of the animated Disney Channel series owl house, This news was the last straw, and he has made his stance clear.
“Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care,” he wrote on Nov. 13. “Fuck you General AI.” If that wasn’t enough for you, he made another post about the initial Disney/GenAI news that clearly stated, “Pick up a pencil or die.”
Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl’s House. I don’t care. Fuck General AI.
– Dana Terrace (@DanaTerrace) 14 November 2025
Like many creators in the animation industry, Terrace does not like the controversial technique, which has been considered a form of copyright infringement. In response to the oft-used refutation of AI helping non-creative people increase their creative strengths, Terrace argued that those people “make movies and art every day. Every director, show runner, artist, filmmaker I know is a regular person, with limited resources, picking up a pen, pencil, and stylus to make movies and art. All artists are regular people! That’s one of the beauties of art and storytelling. Virtually no GenAI is exposed to the poison of data centers. “Can do without it. Ppl town.”
All very solid comments from Terrace, who has generally been cordial about Disney over the past two years owl house ended its three-season run, even though she didn’t always have the network’s support when it came to the show. Instead, he has decided to move on, scrapping any hopes of a spinoff or revival and focusing on his current Glitch series, knights of guinevere,
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