Owl House creator urges fans to pirate show in response to Disney’s AI plans

Published: Nov 17, 2025, 10:41

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Owl House creator Dana Terrace has clapped back at plans to introduce AI user-generated content to Disney+, urging fans to unsubscribe from the service and pirate her show.

Disney CEO Bob Iger sparked controversy when he announced plans to bring short-form user-generated content to the company’s streaming service using generative-AI.

On a recent Disney earnings call, Iger said (as per THR): “The other thing that we’re really excited about, that AI is going to give us the ability to do, is to provide users of Disney+ with a much more engaged experience, including the ability for them to create user-generated content and to consume user generated content – mostly short-form – from others.”

Iger called it “the biggest and the most significant change – from a product perspective, from a technology perspective – since we launched the service in 2019.” But not everyone is in favor of the move.

Owl House creator Dana Terrace urges fans to “unsubscribe” from Disney+

Owl House characters flying through the air.

Dana Terrace is the creator of Disney Channel hit The Owl House, which launched in 2020, and ran for 43 episodes across three seasons.

Terrace is very much against the studio’s plan, tweeting: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. F*ck gen AI.”

Terrace kicked off her tirade by sharing an article about the news, writing on X: “PICK UP A PENCIL OR DIE.”

In reference to the proposed features, Terrace said: “‘If you pay us we’ll let you make your own content slop! That we will own!’ YOU CAN DRAW AND WRITE AND POST YOUR OWN SH*T FOR FREE. Bob Iger and his ilk are f***ing ghouls.”

While writing about working without AI, Terrace added: “A ‘regular person’ can already create movies. Regular people create movies and art everyday. Every director, show runner, artist, film maker I know is a regular person, with limited resources, picking up pens, pencils, and styluses to create movies and art. EVERY. DAMN. DAY.”