I waste a lot of my time on TikTok and I have seen more people on there than ever before the past two years talking about requesting
DAS for bathroom issues. Many went viral and were followed by tons of comments saying, oh cool I'll just say this too! Not that TikTok is all to blame but knowledge does spread fast on there.
Interestingly enough, I was at a meeting today at the university I work at about student disabilities and the accommodations office showed us statistics of how the number of students applying for accommodations has been increasing significantly each semester. It actually doubled since COVID and this is a large university. They attribute a lot of it to the knowledge/awareness on disabilities that was available during covid so more people know how to ask what they need and also how the stigma continues to decrease on identifying your own needs. I'm sure that also applies too with the increase in guests requesting accommodations at theme parks. Sure, I bet there's a chunk out there lying to try and use it as a TikTok hack but my bet is the majority of increases is due to the awareness/lessening stigma. There's just more info now for people to know what they need and how they should ask for it.
All that to say, I think the knee jerk reaction to seeing increases in accommodations requests is to assume falsehoods (I see this happen at my work with some colleagues, sadly) and perhaps theme parks are having a similar reaction. Or maybe those viral videos on bathroom needs=theme park accommodations ended up on Universals radar. Such a specific thing to focus on...