It’s unclear what led them to do so in the first place, and why the decision was reversed. Still, outright censoring words about queer identities seems like a stronger step than either company would usually take in 2021. TikTok also has a history of repeatedly breaking the intersex tag that activists used for activism and education, which the company claimed was a mistake. TikTok’s own built-in, non-Disney voices would read the word “gay” just fine, either by itself or in a ending is my favorite part #disneyplusday #disneytexttospeech #rocket #rockettexttospeech #disneyvoice #lesbian #lesbianstereotypes #ledollarbean #gaytiktok #lesbiantiktok #lgbtcreators #queertiktok #alphabetmafia ♬ original sound - KaraBiner (Kbwild)Ī TikTok making the rounds shows what would happen before the change - Rocket wouldn’t say words like “gay” or “queer,” but would say “homophobic.” Trying to select Rocket to read the word “gay” would result in an error message.ĭisney has never had a great track record when it comes to LGBTQ representation - many of its iconic villains have historically been queer-coded (something you couldn’t say using Rocket’s voice), and its more recent efforts at representation have been limited to single scenes or lines that are easy to edit out. Prior to the change, Rocket’s voice would skip over the words mentioned above (but seemed to have no issue with words like “transgender” or “bisexual”), though you could easily get the character to say it with phonetically similar misspellings like “qweer.” Trying to make it read text that only contained one of the banned words would result in an error saying that text-to-speech wasn’t supported for the language. Other voices, like C-3PO and Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, are also supposed to be part of the promotion, but unlike Rocket’s voice they have to be unlocked by using secret phrases. Rocket’s voice was introduced to TikTok’s text-to-speech feature as part of a Disney Plus Day promotion last week. TikTok hasn’t commented on why this happened, but videos posted to highlight the issue still have the words blanked out. The change, however, is very recent - The Verge confirmed that the voice wouldn’t say the words, but it started to do so in a subsequent test minutes later on Monday afternoon. This decision seems to have been reverted - you can now get the voice to read out those words, but it’s unclear why it was happening. TikTokers have demonstrated that Disney’s text-to-speech TikTok voice, meant to sound like Rocket the Raccoon, would refuse to read words like “gay,” “lesbian,” or “queer” out loud.
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