a measured and appropriately serious video essay about zootopia. [Ad-free]

Zootopia is a city where animals of all kinds can come together to live in harmony. Well, unless you're a reptile. Or a fish. And as long as living together means living on opposite sides of massive walls.

Let's talk about Zootopias 1 & 2 — movies that have been praised for progressive messages, but that seem to uphold some pretty regressive ideas about race, policing, and how society should be structured.

Production Notes: this version does not have the patreon credits at the end (because it's already just for you beautiful people) and there will probably be an introductory montage at the front for the public version, but I will post that separately here as well. Let me know if there are any other issues you have with it, I welcome feedback from this community! Video will (probably) launch publicly on Tuesday. It will also likely go up on Nebula tomorrow or Monday depending on when that intro montage is finalized.