At the moment, the retailer offers a similar gift card.
We reached out to Target to see when this gift card was last offered and will update this article if more information becomes available. In other words, it seems as if it someone found an image of an old gift card and circulated it anew to capitalize on new found outrage against Disney. When we performed reverse image searches on some of the viral photographs of this gift card, we traced those images back to 2015. We checked several major retailers (, , and ) but found none currently offering this gift card. While a few internet users noted that Minnie’s dress resembled a phallic shape at the time, there was no widespread outrage over this image. The card appears to have been released circa 2015 when it was available via retailers such as Target. Was This Card Released In 2022?Ī number of social media posts claimed that this was a “new” gift card from Disney, but it doesn’t appear to be a card currently in circulation. While the above-displayed image shows a genuine (albeit old) gift card, whether a penis is hidden in the shape of Minnie’s dress is a matter of interpretation. In the spring of 2022, amidst a flurry of right-wing attacks on Disney after the company came out in opposition to Florida’s so-called “ Don’t Say Gay Bill,” a new attempt to smear Disney was made when social media users shared a photograph of a Disney Gift Card that they claimed contained a hidden penis. In other words, some phallic shapes may be in the eye of the beholder. These rumors were generally false or examples of pareidolia, where people decipher images out of otherwise random patterns. In 1992, rumors circulated that the character Aladdin could be heard saying “ good teenagers take off their clothes,” and in 1996 rumors spread that the word “Sex” was written in the stars in “The Lion King.”
In 1989, for example, some sex-crazed Disney fans swore that they recognized a penis in the cover art for the movie “ The Little Mermaid,” and that a scene in that film featured a priest with a noticeable erection. The Walt Disney Company has been the subject of rumors for decades that claim they are intentionally placing NSFW images or language into their children’s entertainment catalog.