The post had all the trappings of clickbait.
The story began with a similar claim, reading,"The Walt Disney Company is about to do the unthinkable: retire Mickey Mouse."The headline was similar to other past, poorly worded headlines that had also come from Inside the Magic.
Under an Inside the Magic Facebook post about Mickey Mouse supposedly being retired by The Walt Disney Company, one user called Inside the Magic"the National Enquirer of worst Disney 'news' coverage." Similarly, a Reddit userHere's what the Inside the Magic story said under the headline about Mickey Mouse's purported retirement.
The main part of the Times' article specified that"only one copyright is expiring," that being"the original version of Mickey Mouse as seen in 'Steamboat Willie,'" and that"later versions of the character remain protected by copyrights":
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