Disney-Pixar Bracket

About

Disney-Pixar Bracket refers to a social game spread through Twitter in which people fill out a tournament bracket, modeled after the NCAA college basketball championship tournament bracket, of Disney and Pixar films, declaring which one they like best.

Origin

On March 22nd, 2018, Twitter user @Yeeitsanthonyy^[1] posted a bracket on Twitter pitting various Disney and Pixar films against each other, inviting others to fill out the brackets. The tweet gained over 43,000 retweets (shown below). Additionally, the user created polls on Twitter and conducted a tournament based on user votes.

Spread

After the bracket was posted, Twitter users began filling out the bracket to express their taste in Disney and Pixar films. For example, Twitter user @smjxmj posted their bracket and gained over 7,000 retweets and 30,000 likes (shown below, left). User @ashcrosson posted a bracket with Aladdin as the winner, gaining over 310 retweets and 2,200 likes (shown below, right).

Other Twitter users made jokes by making their winner a film that was not represented in the bracket. For example, Twitter user @FrankAngones created a photoshop which featured The Great Mouse Detective as the winner (shown below, left). User @TheBiggerJohn uploaded a similar image, making the joke with A Goofy Movie (shown below, right).

The spread of the brackets was covered by Daily Dot,^[2] ComicBook,^[3] and Nerdist.^[4]

Various Examples

Search Interest

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