If that’s where the money is then the movies wouldn’t all be bombing. Disney literally wrote in their just released earnings statements that earnings might be negatively impacted by misjudging political sentiments on hot button issues

Adventuring with her dwarf friends

Hell I knew about South Park because of the internet in 1997 and “The Spirit of Christmas”

Correct. Google was founded in 1998-ish and I remember using it by 2001.

There were also several famous ex-Scientologists by then who’d written books

Yes it’s common knowledge to Star Wars fans