I was here before this channel completely exploded 🎉🎉🎉🎉 (1.5k Subscribers)
@devangel361414 сағат бұрын
There's something really unfortunate about Celebration and other planned communities like Seaside, where there were amazing and intricate plans to revive the sense of community and neighbors. They did nothing to protect it from investors and those with no plans to be part of this community and did not envision the vacation rental and AB&b type value of these homes. Which has virtually destroyed the concept. Very sad that most of our coastal and resort areas have literally been bought by foreign investors and real estate conglomerates. This has made taxes reach levels that deter individual property owners from remaining or buying homes in these areas as primary home owners.
@helllajennifer18 сағат бұрын
You need to turn off the background music. It’s anxiety inducing
@jayjayaye2 күн бұрын
This was incredibly in-depth and I'm glad I clicked on this out of almost nowhere. Much more personal and investigative than I was expecting. Just great work. My family moved to FL around the time that the town was founded but we settled in the next county. I grew up with the rumors of Celebration. Our favorites: Residents weren't allowed to order pizza delivery from anywhere except Domino's because of the Parks' brand deals. If there were shades or curtains in the front-facing windows, residents weren't ever allowed to close them to lend to the transparency of the community and encourage that trusting old-time feel. Tourists would just walk up into peoples' yards, sometimes even barge into their homes, exclaiming about how life-like everything was and couldn't be told off when they did. And that kids who went to Celebration schools had their pick of Disney jobs after graduation. Didn't know what was or wasn't true about those, of course, and didn't really care. It just seemed like such a bonkers place. In high school, you'd run across students from Celebration at parties or as parts of friend groups and they were just odd. Odd in a different way from the home-schooled kids, but still definitively strange. I will admit that I didn't think there were many great qualities to Disney the man (I am not a fan of the franchise, business, parks, etc.) but perhaps I didn't know about him like I thought I did. His understanding that a shift to a vehicle-centric society had been detrimental was spot-on. Celebration, however, and other FL communities that look somewhat like it (Lake Nona) definitely do not manage to reverse the trend, however. FL is just such a spread-out place and now the "15-min cities are meant to imprison us!" conspiracy theory is catching fire, unfortunately. Anyway, congrats on this. It was some damn hard work and feels like honest investigative journalism.
@timmywashere11642 күн бұрын
1:10:00 I have that same laptop :D Also this is a great doc and I love the interviews and depth you've gone into.
@birbluv95955 күн бұрын
Very nice documentary
@zgaspo5 күн бұрын
seriously an incredible in depth look into such an interesting project. amazing job!
@thecinesister6 күн бұрын
A fantastic documentary! I can’t be the only one who got “Living+” vibes from that Storyliving by Disney part at the end…
@yheetdreamz66166 күн бұрын
Fantastic video man.
@Dcoz5946 күн бұрын
Amazing work! Great documentary. Thank you!
@user-kv2tj4du8p7 күн бұрын
bravo! I didn't plan to watch this entire video-yet watch the entire video I did. it is excellent. what great work. you really care about people-and that shows in work. this piece has a lot of heart actually. and the world (certainly right now in the u.s.) could use any extra heart it can get. I liked and subscribed. I look forward to more videos from your channel.
@danamania1508 күн бұрын
Incredible documentary. This deserves MILLIONS of views!
@jul.escobar8 күн бұрын
Great video Tyler!
@kevinmccoy7818 күн бұрын
Me, ninety minutes ago: "okay, another KZreadr-basically-reads-the-Wikipedia-article video for background noise." I was so wrong. Original interviews, a site visit, and a well-structured narrative made this an incredible treat from a channel with shockingly few subscribers. Thanks for making this and good luck with your future success.
@stubbs30239 күн бұрын
So cool that you got interviews from the people involved! I’m sure they were so excited to talk about this again, crazy that it is not more well known that they were so innovative!
@ShadeBeee10 күн бұрын
This is really well done!! Thank you for all your efforts.
@jbmiller328011 күн бұрын
The Celebration School concept seems to be emotional torture for introverted kids that would otherwise thrive in a 20-30 student classroom.
@DavidGreelish12 күн бұрын
Very detailed and thoughtful. I enjoyed the story and your analysis very much, especially taking an unbiased look and not vilifying the town.
@lucylolo253514 күн бұрын
This was fantastic, thank you so much for your work and thank you KZread for recommending this to me!
@ghostsophy433214 күн бұрын
I sit here shocked watching this. Somehow seeing my town in a KZread video makes me not be able to conceive how I lived here from 9 to 17. Especially because we couldn’t afford it the entire time.
@Miguel-Raton15 күн бұрын
WHOAH!!! I've heard & known about Cotino for a while a now & felt like whenever I heard/read about it, I had a feeling like it reminded me of Celebration. But I had no idea it was a Disney project!!! Rancho Mirage is like a 15, 20 minute drive frome my current home!!! This is blowing my mind right now...!!!!
@brettsavoie633216 күн бұрын
This video is incredibly well done. I don't really know what drew me to this video in this first place, but once I started I couldn't stop. Amazing work, one of the best youtube docs I've seen
@simplyselina17 күн бұрын
I grew up in central florida for a time from like 97-02. Celebration is a part of my family’s history too. Going there during Christmas they’d make fake snow out of foam and put on winter wonderland displays. When my dad was ending this life my friends and I parked up there to do teenage/early 20s things and forget the world in a place that seemed just as magical but way less expensive than Disney. Really interesting to watch this video and understand the full story. I honestly thought it was still “Disney’s celebration” haven’t been since 2017 though and back then I had way too much to deal with to have actual thoughts. Miss you daddy, forever grateful for the memories we made in Florida.
@jul.escobar8 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing. ❤ My dad also created magical memories w me in Disney. He is gone now too. I'm glad we got to experience this time w our dad's. We were blessed.
@brianmarini188817 күн бұрын
I would have loved to be hired by Disney to just... walk dogs and smile at people all day.
@baralisabeth21 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@EdMcMiller22 күн бұрын
Hey Tyler! New subscriber here from your Disney doc. Hope you keep it up! It was a video to rival some of the best Disney documentarians on the site.
@CamNelz24 күн бұрын
Honestly, as a Celebration resident it’s a pretty nice and awesome town, it’s always expanding and it’s always renovating into something new and cool. I do wish it was in the hands of Disney still, but with the stature of the town today, it’s a pretty nice town still and I think it is getting somewhat better.
@CamNelz24 күн бұрын
My Celebration residents here 👇🏼
@vila777_25 күн бұрын
it’s a damned shame that this idea didn’t take off in the states. suburb culture has isolated people there. remote work and the pandemic made it worse, now many people spend all day on their private territory and only occasionally venture out into the public. a lack of exposure to other people’s lives makes the idea of “other people” feel like an abstract concept, because there is no physical proof of it in front of you. like the trend of calling other people “npcs”, some people nowadays can’t imagine that others have inner worlds. maybe that’s why so many people act rude in public now. we’re too isolated from one another. everyone in the grocery store is a stranger that we’ll never see again, so why care? each person is no different than an npc. communities like celebration are needed for humans to thrive, not just survive.
@annatevka883028 күн бұрын
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@thehumanexperience45428 күн бұрын
Great video man, its a shame you only have 1k subs, ill do my best to pass this around like a business card. great example of Florida history and an even greater example of a documentary.
@HorussZahhak-dm3mv28 күн бұрын
So I used to be a former resident and student of Celebration Florida, and I would like to point out a couple of things. While the original vision for Celebration was to build an idealized community, the fact of the matter is that the community itself was destined to cater to a specific socio-economic demographic. Because of the initial lottery system that people originally bought homes from was divided into two phases, one private longer phase and then a smaller one near the very end of the lottery process which was opened up to the public(the latter of which being a much smaller time frame), because of this lottery process of assigning homes most of the original homeowners were also from a specific socio economic class. Not everyone can afford to be there at the lottery at such a last second, nor would I even wager that "everyone" would be informed of such an event. This leads to a very white and very affluent foundation of a community, and when the most affluent and influential people of said community are in charge of the: - banks - education - press and media You get a very narrow and non inclusive vision for what the path ahead looks like for Celebration. As someone who lived AND went to school there, Celebration is not the nicest nor is it the most accepting town or community I've lived in. As a hispanic I have personally experienced or witnessed myself: • Microaggressions • General racist remarks • Classism remarks • Elitism remarks • General scrutiny from the CROA Celebration not only presents itself as the idealized white american community, but it also further perpetuates this idea through nepotism and resources presented by key figures who hold a lot of wealth and power in the town. There's a reason why not everyone is accepted into the PTA and why you need to make a certain amount of income to even be considered to live there. I'm very glad you pointed out the key important decisions in how Disney themselves had a key in their involvement in making Celebration the exclusive, classist elitist and racist town that almost everyone outside of the town itself in Osceola county recognizes. As a suggestion, I would look into the Florida Project and how that movie tells the story of the intense gentrificafion that the 192 Area faces (the same main road that Celebration is on btw).
@pookiedookiedoo28 күн бұрын
this was such a fantastic, well put together video. i am so so impressed with your video creation skills and i am proud to say this is a documentary i will recommend to everyone i know :)
@IntoTheAntVerse29 күн бұрын
I enjoyed watching this. I watched the whole documentary! I lived in Orlando and Kissimmee throughout my teenage years. My family knew that I would visit Celebration frequently. The restaurants, the culture, and the attractions all fascinated me, and it made my family feel very at home. I always wondered what it would be like to live in Celebration, go to Celebration School, and be one of the neighbors in the community. Even today, I find myself intrigued by that thought and always hope to one day be able to own a home there. This made it even more intriguing. However, I’m not too sure if this is something I can commit to now. It has a lot more growth, but I do admire how the townspeople helped build it and continue to make it even more beautiful.
@jasminlynrichards999129 күн бұрын
The algorithm was algorithming when it put this on my feed. Sunscribed.
@inventedcool107629 күн бұрын
I disagree with Jackie - the school isn’t the heart of the community anymore, purely because less people are having children. In a Disney town, I see a strong likelihood of getting millennial Disney adults, which are likely not to have kids. Her experience is valuable, but I think she is looking at community from the lens of history and her experience. You have to accommodate the lifestyles of who you want to live there, otherwise it will fail.
@HumblElephantАй бұрын
Commenting for the algorithm but also to document that this guy’s at 967 subs right now - this channel is going places
@djvt574Ай бұрын
this is so so good. impressed with how little (not any?) stock imagery you've used. brilliant doc
@zzz6valvolineАй бұрын
Walt would be horrified at how car dependent the US has become.
@QuincyDisneyVeganАй бұрын
Tyler, you totally are the next Kevin Perjurer from the DefunctLand KZread channel. Great start to your channel!! I'm liking Forward to seeing where you go and how you grow
@billbruff9613Ай бұрын
A real testament to the ongoing social and economic segregation in American communities. Unfortunately Walt Disney's grounding experiences were in white, middle american agricultural communities. Both Main Street and Celebration reify these outmoded, ethnocentric, middle class perspectives.
@Wilderness-WillАй бұрын
This is the best researched and presented about Celebration I've ever seen. EPCOT and Celebration have always fascinated me because while the original plans grandiose and even kind of bizarre, I think Disney (the man) was way ahead of his time in recognizing that the postwar "build baby build" philosophy toward zoning and community planning would have disastrous consequences for the sense of community in American towns. We still haven't really reckoned with that problem today-- but Disney wanted to try, half a century ago, and he had the resources to set some powerful precedents-- he just didn't have the time. I have to wonder whether the world would be any different if that man had been granted five more years of life. Celebration was a failure that I don't think necessarily deserved to fail. Cotino and Asteria deserve to fail, and I pray they do.
@charliemacsartАй бұрын
This was a fantastic documentary! Really interesting to learn the history of the town and what it's actually like.
@traxmachinedjАй бұрын
Amazing video! Huge fan of Disney history and oddities. My family stayed in celebration at a hotel last year and piqued my interest about Celebration. Thanks for the video as it answered all my questions.
@hardyenigma1003Ай бұрын
great video!
@goodluckrubberduckАй бұрын
The school system of education used at celebration school is common now. Not very progressive at this point. It is pretty much what most ESE programs use(Exceptional student education, aka special needs). I'm a special needs educator and I use the grouping and leveled format for my students (I use non-letter grades as well). It is an effective style of teaching for nontraditional learners and does yield results. However, it may not work with all students, especially those who are more traditional learners. I believe the failure of the school came not from the type of education used, but from the management of it and communication with the families.
@jvdosАй бұрын
you have the same name as some... interesting people in orlando.
@jazzyboi1700Ай бұрын
This was excellent! I have subbed and I patiently await more documentaries.
@MavisdundundunnnmanstonАй бұрын
Im so confused by this video. It feels like disney made this. Oh well, ill sub for now
@11StarlingAАй бұрын
So glad I found this series! The depth of research and the seamless storytelling truly set you apart. It’s hard to believe you’re just starting out - your skills are seasoned and captivating. Keep shining and putting out videos!
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I was here before this channel completely exploded 🎉🎉🎉🎉 (1.5k Subscribers)
There's something really unfortunate about Celebration and other planned communities like Seaside, where there were amazing and intricate plans to revive the sense of community and neighbors. They did nothing to protect it from investors and those with no plans to be part of this community and did not envision the vacation rental and AB&b type value of these homes. Which has virtually destroyed the concept. Very sad that most of our coastal and resort areas have literally been bought by foreign investors and real estate conglomerates. This has made taxes reach levels that deter individual property owners from remaining or buying homes in these areas as primary home owners.
You need to turn off the background music. It’s anxiety inducing
This was incredibly in-depth and I'm glad I clicked on this out of almost nowhere. Much more personal and investigative than I was expecting. Just great work. My family moved to FL around the time that the town was founded but we settled in the next county. I grew up with the rumors of Celebration. Our favorites: Residents weren't allowed to order pizza delivery from anywhere except Domino's because of the Parks' brand deals. If there were shades or curtains in the front-facing windows, residents weren't ever allowed to close them to lend to the transparency of the community and encourage that trusting old-time feel. Tourists would just walk up into peoples' yards, sometimes even barge into their homes, exclaiming about how life-like everything was and couldn't be told off when they did. And that kids who went to Celebration schools had their pick of Disney jobs after graduation. Didn't know what was or wasn't true about those, of course, and didn't really care. It just seemed like such a bonkers place. In high school, you'd run across students from Celebration at parties or as parts of friend groups and they were just odd. Odd in a different way from the home-schooled kids, but still definitively strange. I will admit that I didn't think there were many great qualities to Disney the man (I am not a fan of the franchise, business, parks, etc.) but perhaps I didn't know about him like I thought I did. His understanding that a shift to a vehicle-centric society had been detrimental was spot-on. Celebration, however, and other FL communities that look somewhat like it (Lake Nona) definitely do not manage to reverse the trend, however. FL is just such a spread-out place and now the "15-min cities are meant to imprison us!" conspiracy theory is catching fire, unfortunately. Anyway, congrats on this. It was some damn hard work and feels like honest investigative journalism.
1:10:00 I have that same laptop :D Also this is a great doc and I love the interviews and depth you've gone into.
Very nice documentary
seriously an incredible in depth look into such an interesting project. amazing job!
A fantastic documentary! I can’t be the only one who got “Living+” vibes from that Storyliving by Disney part at the end…
Fantastic video man.
Amazing work! Great documentary. Thank you!
bravo! I didn't plan to watch this entire video-yet watch the entire video I did. it is excellent. what great work. you really care about people-and that shows in work. this piece has a lot of heart actually. and the world (certainly right now in the u.s.) could use any extra heart it can get. I liked and subscribed. I look forward to more videos from your channel.
Incredible documentary. This deserves MILLIONS of views!
Great video Tyler!
Me, ninety minutes ago: "okay, another KZreadr-basically-reads-the-Wikipedia-article video for background noise." I was so wrong. Original interviews, a site visit, and a well-structured narrative made this an incredible treat from a channel with shockingly few subscribers. Thanks for making this and good luck with your future success.
So cool that you got interviews from the people involved! I’m sure they were so excited to talk about this again, crazy that it is not more well known that they were so innovative!
This is really well done!! Thank you for all your efforts.
The Celebration School concept seems to be emotional torture for introverted kids that would otherwise thrive in a 20-30 student classroom.
Very detailed and thoughtful. I enjoyed the story and your analysis very much, especially taking an unbiased look and not vilifying the town.
This was fantastic, thank you so much for your work and thank you KZread for recommending this to me!
I sit here shocked watching this. Somehow seeing my town in a KZread video makes me not be able to conceive how I lived here from 9 to 17. Especially because we couldn’t afford it the entire time.
WHOAH!!! I've heard & known about Cotino for a while a now & felt like whenever I heard/read about it, I had a feeling like it reminded me of Celebration. But I had no idea it was a Disney project!!! Rancho Mirage is like a 15, 20 minute drive frome my current home!!! This is blowing my mind right now...!!!!
This video is incredibly well done. I don't really know what drew me to this video in this first place, but once I started I couldn't stop. Amazing work, one of the best youtube docs I've seen
I grew up in central florida for a time from like 97-02. Celebration is a part of my family’s history too. Going there during Christmas they’d make fake snow out of foam and put on winter wonderland displays. When my dad was ending this life my friends and I parked up there to do teenage/early 20s things and forget the world in a place that seemed just as magical but way less expensive than Disney. Really interesting to watch this video and understand the full story. I honestly thought it was still “Disney’s celebration” haven’t been since 2017 though and back then I had way too much to deal with to have actual thoughts. Miss you daddy, forever grateful for the memories we made in Florida.
Thank you for sharing. ❤ My dad also created magical memories w me in Disney. He is gone now too. I'm glad we got to experience this time w our dad's. We were blessed.
I would have loved to be hired by Disney to just... walk dogs and smile at people all day.
Thank you!
Hey Tyler! New subscriber here from your Disney doc. Hope you keep it up! It was a video to rival some of the best Disney documentarians on the site.
Honestly, as a Celebration resident it’s a pretty nice and awesome town, it’s always expanding and it’s always renovating into something new and cool. I do wish it was in the hands of Disney still, but with the stature of the town today, it’s a pretty nice town still and I think it is getting somewhat better.
My Celebration residents here 👇🏼
it’s a damned shame that this idea didn’t take off in the states. suburb culture has isolated people there. remote work and the pandemic made it worse, now many people spend all day on their private territory and only occasionally venture out into the public. a lack of exposure to other people’s lives makes the idea of “other people” feel like an abstract concept, because there is no physical proof of it in front of you. like the trend of calling other people “npcs”, some people nowadays can’t imagine that others have inner worlds. maybe that’s why so many people act rude in public now. we’re too isolated from one another. everyone in the grocery store is a stranger that we’ll never see again, so why care? each person is no different than an npc. communities like celebration are needed for humans to thrive, not just survive.
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Great video man, its a shame you only have 1k subs, ill do my best to pass this around like a business card. great example of Florida history and an even greater example of a documentary.
So I used to be a former resident and student of Celebration Florida, and I would like to point out a couple of things. While the original vision for Celebration was to build an idealized community, the fact of the matter is that the community itself was destined to cater to a specific socio-economic demographic. Because of the initial lottery system that people originally bought homes from was divided into two phases, one private longer phase and then a smaller one near the very end of the lottery process which was opened up to the public(the latter of which being a much smaller time frame), because of this lottery process of assigning homes most of the original homeowners were also from a specific socio economic class. Not everyone can afford to be there at the lottery at such a last second, nor would I even wager that "everyone" would be informed of such an event. This leads to a very white and very affluent foundation of a community, and when the most affluent and influential people of said community are in charge of the: - banks - education - press and media You get a very narrow and non inclusive vision for what the path ahead looks like for Celebration. As someone who lived AND went to school there, Celebration is not the nicest nor is it the most accepting town or community I've lived in. As a hispanic I have personally experienced or witnessed myself: • Microaggressions • General racist remarks • Classism remarks • Elitism remarks • General scrutiny from the CROA Celebration not only presents itself as the idealized white american community, but it also further perpetuates this idea through nepotism and resources presented by key figures who hold a lot of wealth and power in the town. There's a reason why not everyone is accepted into the PTA and why you need to make a certain amount of income to even be considered to live there. I'm very glad you pointed out the key important decisions in how Disney themselves had a key in their involvement in making Celebration the exclusive, classist elitist and racist town that almost everyone outside of the town itself in Osceola county recognizes. As a suggestion, I would look into the Florida Project and how that movie tells the story of the intense gentrificafion that the 192 Area faces (the same main road that Celebration is on btw).
this was such a fantastic, well put together video. i am so so impressed with your video creation skills and i am proud to say this is a documentary i will recommend to everyone i know :)
I enjoyed watching this. I watched the whole documentary! I lived in Orlando and Kissimmee throughout my teenage years. My family knew that I would visit Celebration frequently. The restaurants, the culture, and the attractions all fascinated me, and it made my family feel very at home. I always wondered what it would be like to live in Celebration, go to Celebration School, and be one of the neighbors in the community. Even today, I find myself intrigued by that thought and always hope to one day be able to own a home there. This made it even more intriguing. However, I’m not too sure if this is something I can commit to now. It has a lot more growth, but I do admire how the townspeople helped build it and continue to make it even more beautiful.
The algorithm was algorithming when it put this on my feed. Sunscribed.
I disagree with Jackie - the school isn’t the heart of the community anymore, purely because less people are having children. In a Disney town, I see a strong likelihood of getting millennial Disney adults, which are likely not to have kids. Her experience is valuable, but I think she is looking at community from the lens of history and her experience. You have to accommodate the lifestyles of who you want to live there, otherwise it will fail.
Commenting for the algorithm but also to document that this guy’s at 967 subs right now - this channel is going places
this is so so good. impressed with how little (not any?) stock imagery you've used. brilliant doc
Walt would be horrified at how car dependent the US has become.
Tyler, you totally are the next Kevin Perjurer from the DefunctLand KZread channel. Great start to your channel!! I'm liking Forward to seeing where you go and how you grow
A real testament to the ongoing social and economic segregation in American communities. Unfortunately Walt Disney's grounding experiences were in white, middle american agricultural communities. Both Main Street and Celebration reify these outmoded, ethnocentric, middle class perspectives.
This is the best researched and presented about Celebration I've ever seen. EPCOT and Celebration have always fascinated me because while the original plans grandiose and even kind of bizarre, I think Disney (the man) was way ahead of his time in recognizing that the postwar "build baby build" philosophy toward zoning and community planning would have disastrous consequences for the sense of community in American towns. We still haven't really reckoned with that problem today-- but Disney wanted to try, half a century ago, and he had the resources to set some powerful precedents-- he just didn't have the time. I have to wonder whether the world would be any different if that man had been granted five more years of life. Celebration was a failure that I don't think necessarily deserved to fail. Cotino and Asteria deserve to fail, and I pray they do.
This was a fantastic documentary! Really interesting to learn the history of the town and what it's actually like.
Amazing video! Huge fan of Disney history and oddities. My family stayed in celebration at a hotel last year and piqued my interest about Celebration. Thanks for the video as it answered all my questions.
great video!
The school system of education used at celebration school is common now. Not very progressive at this point. It is pretty much what most ESE programs use(Exceptional student education, aka special needs). I'm a special needs educator and I use the grouping and leveled format for my students (I use non-letter grades as well). It is an effective style of teaching for nontraditional learners and does yield results. However, it may not work with all students, especially those who are more traditional learners. I believe the failure of the school came not from the type of education used, but from the management of it and communication with the families.
you have the same name as some... interesting people in orlando.
This was excellent! I have subbed and I patiently await more documentaries.
Im so confused by this video. It feels like disney made this. Oh well, ill sub for now
So glad I found this series! The depth of research and the seamless storytelling truly set you apart. It’s hard to believe you’re just starting out - your skills are seasoned and captivating. Keep shining and putting out videos!