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The claim is that it's why the movie has that name, not why they made the movie.

Of course, that's why they used the generic word "frozen" with a lot of meanings, as opposed to the specific word "cryogenic" that people would actually search for.

Well, it could be because google sucks. Allegedly, the way google enshitifies their searches is to include parallel search terms in the query. Why does google enshitify their searches? Because people spend longer on the google site searching multiple times = more ad time. So, searching for either cryogenic or frozen individually on google may include the other search term, meaning that when searching for cryogenic and disney, you will more than likely get results for frozen and disney, which are probably ranked higher.

So the theory is now that Disney named one of their most successful films "Frozen", not because it's a good name for a story inspired by "The Snow Queen", but it's actually to stop people finding out the rumours that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen by having results about the film outrank results about the conspiracy theory, even though that's trivially overcome by asking about "walt disney cryogenic" instead of "walt disney frozen", but they did that because Disney knew that Google sucks and would somehow be unable to stop pages about the film from outranking pages about the conspiracy theory.

That's a bold theory. Let's test it. Google results for "disney cryogenic":

    Was Walt Disney frozen after death?
    Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen : r/MandelaEffect
    Walt Disney's Cryogenic Chamber - Myth and Folklore Wiki
    How a strange rumor of Walt Disney's death became legend
    The truth behind Walt Disney's frozen head
    Was Walt Disney cryogenically frozen?
    Fact or Fiction: Was Walt Disney Frozen?
    What is the story behind the conspiracy theory that Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen?

8/8 are about the conspiracy theory, 0/8 are about the film.

my theory is, that in hindsight it could look like a straight line from naming a film "frozen," and that in turn, at the height of frozen's popularity and due to googles policies, a search for "disney cryogenic" could return results for the movie frozen, which could lead to the suspicion that it was done on purpose. i am very surprised to find that my search results for "disney cryogenic" almost match yours perfectly.

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