" In retrospect, it seems clear that “Inside Out” was when Pixar’s Silicon Valley brain trust began to peel off from the universe and float into the metaverse,

" In retrospect, it seems clear that “Inside Out” was when Pixar’s Silicon Valley brain trust began to peel off from the universe and float into the metaverse, borne aloft by a kind of totalizing cleverness. " Aka disappeared up their own bum. Lost the un-self-conscious being-in-itself, and went from "Pixar making movies" to "people trying to make Pixar movies"