Toni Kulusich handed a costumed Disneyland Peter Pan a tiny crocheted duck. The five-minute TikTok that followed cleared 20 million views, 1.5 million likes, and the kind of pile-on the internet reserves for women it decides to call a stalker. Then, on August 17, the man who actually played Peter Pan from 2014 to 2021 posted a defense video, said she never crossed a line, and pointed to a different guest who really did stalk him. The discourse cracked in half.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Toni Kulusich (@babytoni99) cleared 20M+ views on a single five-minute TikTok about giving Disneyland's Peter Pan a crocheted duck.
- Her account has roughly 130K TikTok followers. One video did about 150x her follower count in reach.
- The reception split in half: parasocial catnip for millions, a "stalker" pile-on for millions of others, complete with a workplace doxx.
- Dylan Gadeke, who played Peter Pan at Disneyland from 2014 to 2021, publicly defended her on August 17 and described a real stalker (a different guest, in the cast parking lot for a month) to draw the contrast.
- Kulusich, 27, told USA Today the past three weeks have been "a little rough." Her husband, a Marine, is "really supportive" of the hobby.
- The gap this exposes is where creators actually live in 2026: fan intensity keeps outrunning the infrastructure meant to hold it.
What actually happened?
Since roughly 2015, Kulusich (@babytoni99) has visited Disneyland weekly and documented her Peter Pan encounters. On July 31, 2026, she uploaded "Another adventure with the green bean," a nearly five-minute video where she gives the character a handmade crocheted duck in a little green cap. Per-clip views jumped from her usual ~10,000 to over a million within days, then past 20M+, per Yahoo Entertainment. A separate Peter Pan clip on her account has been watched 13.1M times, per Inside The Magic.
Reposters then stitched the moments where she kisses Peter Pan on the cheek or drops to one knee to propose, and the "stalker" frame stuck. On August 13, her workplace address was shared publicly by online critics; her manager rearranged her hours for safety. On August 17, former Disneyland Peter Pan performer Dylan Gadeke (who played the role from 2014 to 2021) posted a TikTok saying her behavior made him "a little awkward and uncomfortable" but never crossed a line, per Dexerto. In the same video he described a different guest who waited in the cast-member parking lot after every shift for roughly a month, framing it as what real stalking of a park performer looks like.
Why does this matter for creators?
A creator with roughly 130K TikTok followers pulled 20 million views on a single video of herself and a costumed employee. The math is roughly 150x her follower count, in one clip, on one platform, in one week. That is what parasocial energy looks like when it actually hits, and no growth chart tells you where the ceiling is. It also shows how fast that energy inverts into a harassment cycle when the internet decides the fandom is the wrong shape.
The person on the receiving end of the fandom (the Peter Pan actor) captured zero economic upside. TikTok captured the ad revenue on 20 million views. Kulusich captured a doxx and a schedule change. The gap between where fan intensity accumulates and where a creator or a performer can actually route it is, in 2026, the whole game.
"A little awkward and uncomfortable, but at no point did it cross any boundaries."
Dylan Gadeke, former Disneyland Peter Pan performer (2014 to 2021), Dexerto
What is the bigger picture?
This is a stress test for how the internet handles parasocial fandom in year eleven of TikTok. Disneyland's character actors cannot break character to walk away, which puts every interaction inside a scripted frame the guest controls. Kulusich told USA Today that she always asks the performer "Can I hug you?" and lets them lead. Gadeke, in the same TikTok defending her, described a genuinely dangerous stalker case involving a different woman who knew his dog by name from a private account, per BuzzFeed.
That contrast is what the pile-on refused to draw. Real stalking leaves a private-info trail. Kulusich's decade of footage is entirely public, tagged, and shot in Fantasyland. The discourse could not tell the difference, and the person paying for that failure is a 27-year-old married Marine spouse whose manager now has to think about her physical safety at work.
The Rolling Stone report on August 18 landed in the middle of that split, and Kulusich, notably, declined to be interviewed. Watch two things next: whether Disneyland issues any kind of guest-guidance statement (they have not), and whether Kulusich's follower count keeps compounding on the very content that got her doxxed. Both would confirm the same thing. Attention still pays, even when the person receiving it is bleeding.
The Peter Pan actor told her, on her August 19 return trip, never to stop visiting Neverland. She probably will not. The internet gets to decide what that means next.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is @babytoni99?
Toni Kulusich, 27, is a self-described Disney adult from the Los Angeles area and a former Disney employee. She bought a Disneyland annual pass around 2015 and has been visiting weekly ever since, documenting encounters with the park's rotating cast of Peter Pan performers for more than a decade. She works as a manager at a big-box retailer and has been married to a U.S. Marine for four years.
Her TikTok account sits at roughly
Was she actually banned from Disneyland?
No. Kulusich denied it directly in her USA Today interview, and the AirTag-in-a-gift image that fueled the rumor was reportedly AI-generated, per The Tab. She returned to the park on August 19, where the actor playing Peter Pan told her never to stop visiting Neverland.
Who is Dylan Gadeke and why does his defense matter?
Gadeke played Peter Pan at Disneyland from 2014 until 2021 and appears in some of the older resurfaced clips of Kulusich. That makes him one of the very few people qualified to speak to what her interactions actually felt like from inside the costume.
On August 17, 2026 he posted a TikTok saying her behavior made him "a little awkward and uncomfortable" but never crossed any boundaries, and reminded viewers that Disneyland's Peter Pans are, in his words, "men in tights." In the same video he detailed a genuinely alarming stalker case involving a different guest, specifically to show the difference between an intense fan and an actual threat.
Why did this go viral now after ten years of posts?
The July 31 "green bean" video hit numbers nothing else she had ever posted did. Per-clip views jumped from her usual ~10,000 to over one million within days, then past 20 million. A follow-up "2016 to 2026" montage did another 5.5 million, per Dexerto. The combination of a handmade gift, a decade-long timeline, and a costumed character who cannot break frame turned out to be the exact shape the algorithm and the discourse both wanted at the same moment.