Griffy is the only person I trust to call out Disney's laziness and hypocrisy in the most comedic and open minded way lmao

I feel the worst part is that any criticism will be deflected by Disney simply saying “Look, we did an ethnic! Huh, huh?”

"Kids don't give a shit about diversity, they just dress up as princesses or superheroes" exactly!!!! Edit: 400+ likes holy shiet thank you y'all

I went trick or treating with my friends and their daughters. The one girl-super pale and blonde due to her Polish ancestry-dressed as Jasmine from Aladdin. At one point we passed a kid of Arab descent… dressed as Elsa. Just let kid be kids and like who they like, stop getting bent out of shape over useless stuff like skin color.

Disney has big hits and big misses. Encanto was original and people loved it. Is making an original movie loosely based on any African mythology that hard? Just swapping races is not what I would call representation. Griffy nailed it, they just exploiting us and disguising it as inclusivity.

I agree wholeheartedly with you griffy. Exploiting us for "diversity" is fucking ridiculous. Is it that hard to make an original black character instead of changing established characters?

Most people "upset" don't actually care about Disney making black or brown princesses. Everybody loved princess and the frog. Everybody loved Moana. What people don't like is when you go back to an ALREADY existing character and suddenly change it, especially if it's just to obviously virtue signal.

Moral of the story: If you want more representation, MAKE NEW AND FRESH CHARACTERS!

Crazy how you can't predict griffy's reaction to anything

I love how he hit the nail on the head for both parts. People mad BECAUSE she is black. The smart people are mad because disney doesn't give a shit about you and just wants your money.

It's terrifying... being afraid to say what you think because you might be falsely branded as a "racist", "homophobe", etc. and lose your friends and job. Society is so fucked up.

Agreed 100%. Also, that's why I love disney's The Princess and the Frog - it's roughly based on european tale, but with a clever twist, and changing her skin color was actually understandable and perfectly fitted. It's a completley new character.

“Little black kids aren’t worried about diversity.” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Regardless of the comedy. He explained it very well.

I like how he roasted both sides- Disney for exploiting diversity and the people mad because they're racist, not because of Disney being underhanded

Here's the thing about the casting: if Ariel was ORIGINALLY black in the animated movie, then that wouldn't be a problem, even if it is a danish tale (cause she's just a mermaid). But here's the thing: she wasn't depicted as black. She was white, and she was modelled after a white person. Her appearance has been displayed on merchandise, tv series, video games, and amusement parks. Everyone knows who she is and what she looks like, and Halle Bailey does not look like her. It's just inconsistent. If Ariel had originally been modelled after a black girl, then we wouldn't be asking for a white woman to portray her in a live action movie.

“The water don’t even look like water” I died 😂 Why are there so many bots???

The irony is that there was indeed a mermaid in Little Mermaid of other ethnicity they could use, but in the animated series; her name was Gabriella, she was deaf and mute, with an octopus companion that acted as her translator / interpreter. She’s also Latina. She and Ariel became friends rather quickly too. Ofc, we can't expect Disney to remember that, do we? I ended up having to edit my comment to include these corrections after checking the wiki as well. 😓

Ariel being black = dumb and pandering Princess and the Frog = original story/character about a black girl that was amazing and well-received

I agree with you wholeheartedly. How much is it an impact on our community? I dressed as many Disney Princesses when I was younger. I can still role my eyes, wanting new original content for us while at the same time recognize how great Halle's voice is

“The Chinese don’t even let women go to war!” Lmaooo 💀

Griffy definitely had a vendetta in this one

I appreciate the contrast between "I don't like it cus she's black" and "I don't like why they made her black." I'm definitely the second one, this "representation" thing is getting so dumb.

As a black guy, I’m with young rippa on this. Just stop race bending and gender bending. Stick to the source material

Honestly, my only gripe with making Ariel black is what Griffy said. They're only doing it to appear inclusive. Plus, poc shouldn't get hand-me-down fairytales. Let's just create our own black mermaids and Cinderellas.

Anyone else laughing their ass off at the fact that it's always specifically red haired characters that end up getting turned black? It even happened to Starfire and she was literally an orange skinned alien lmao. Whoever runs Hollywood after must have really had their heart stomped on by a red headed chick.

0:58 tA tEa cUpS! 🤣🙏🏽

I think the idea of a black mermaid lead character is cool. The only part that’s weird is they took an already established character and changed her. Why not make a new story and new character?

As an Indian, I would feel weird if they hired actors of other ethnicities to play some Indian mythology or historical figures. Most of the legendary Disney princesses have been taken from European stories where they have been described as being white. I strongly believe in representation but not by taking away someone else's representation. It would be nice if Disney gets new princesses from other cultures. I believe that is true inclusiveness.

I’m black myself and i 100% agree with griffy on this. Most medias like Disney exploit diversity heavily and don’t even do it right 😐. That Ariel race swap was just as bad as sokka and katara in the live action avatar movie Edit: Regardless of the controversy of this topic, the actor Halle Bailey doesn’t deserve the hate. She’s beautiful with an amazing voice and i hope her talents can be recognised and represented in different and better roles in the future

It's just weird growing up knowing a character looked like this and then having it portrayed as something a little different. Ya know? Not saying it's bad, but sometimes it's better to keep things the same.

I am Chinese and I would like to say that there really were female warriors in ancient China. Mulan is based on real history

I completely agree with Griffy on this one. May I also add how it is going to be very annoying when the movie obviously turns out to be a lazy cheap imitation of the original and everyone who says that will be called racist for not liking the movie

They literally could've made The Princess and The Frog into a live action instead of race swapping. At least in TP&TF they can have representation for the communities it was based on and actually showcase old culture to younger generations.

Yeah, they could easily make stories with African folklore look at kirikou (nobody knows about this movie but it's actually good) but instead they choose to change the color of an existing character to make money and call you a racist if you don't agree with this decision. They already did stories with character that aren't white (Moana, Encanto, Mulan, Aladin) and nobody complain about it

I thought it was just gonna be about Ariel's race but I've seen so many complaints about it not looking like it was underwater I'm surprised that you acknowledged that lmao

“Does it make me sick to my fucking stomach? Indubitably.” Bro said indubitably 😂😂😂

I can binge Griffy all day long and not get tired of his skits.

Using black actor for the sake of diversity is actually racism if you think about it.

The problem isn't that she's gonna be black, the problem is that it's not benefiting black people just because they're retelling an old story with no changes except that the character is a different skin color. If we're gonna have diversity in Hollywood then make new characters to see ourselves in instead of retelling stories that have white people attached to them.

The point isn’t “why would ‘a mermaid’ be black” the point is “why would you change this characters race and then call everyone racist when they don’t like it?” It happened in Avatar when they casted white people to play Sokka and Katara, but now, because it’s the other way around, people wanna act like you can only not like the decision because you’re racist. What if they made Harry Potter Indonesian in the next movie?

I thought it was so fake when the parents put a camera in their daughters face making them react hysterically to Ariel. When princess and the frog came out , I didn’t have that reaction , I just wanted to see the movie just like all the other Disney movies.

Griffy calling out both sides for their bullshit at once will never get old! Absolutely nailed it, it’s unbelievable how accurate this is 🎯🎯🎯

That part when Ariel says, "The one piece... The one piece is real!" was fantastic. I almost cried when I heard that during the movie.

This is exactly how I feel about people making a big deal of something I'm never going to watch

“IT’S DISNEY!” is actually the perfect response.

Its not that shes a black disney princess, its that shes a black girl playing a white disney princess there i said it 🤷‍♂️ thats why Tiana is so good, because shes undoubtedly black and she doesnt feel whitewashed

That end note about black people dressing up as whatever is a point I've said for awhile. I really don't understand the idea of "seeing TV characters that look like me" Maybe because I've always been into animation and I've never felt like spongebob or bugs bunny needed to look like me, but all the same: I've never felt a strong connection to a character because they were Hispanic. I've felt a connection because I found their actions or personality relatable. Sheen from Jimmy neutron being Mexican was only Maybe 5% why I liked him. And for 6teen, I related much more to Wyatt than jonsey

I can attest. As a kid I grew up watching power rangers and I can assure you I was not worried about the color of the actors. Most of the time i didn't even know the names of the power rangers all I knew was that my favorite color is blue and I love blue power ranger.

Y’all just racist 😂 admit it! But to the point of representation, everything Disney does is for money, that’s not important. What’s important is showing younger generations that they can be actors and actresses in big movies and have dark skin, that they can star in a film that has nothing to do with the black culture. Having a mixed colored cast and still be just as valued as the fully whitewashed ones.

“Chinese didn’t let women go to war” yea bro that was the plot of the movie my guy, also Milan was based on a real thing

"Bro just say you're racist" Had me weak 😂

I don't care that she IS black, I just don't WANT her to be black!" -perfectly sums up. Also yes thank you for speaking about the exploitation! Also as a black person, Lol yes I am racist

What makes me upset about this whole thing is this: I used to watch The Little Mermaid TV show and there was an ORIGINAL "POC" character (who was also deaf) named Gabriella. I loved that character. I am "white". I never forgot about her. Why couldn't they make a film with her? I wasn't pissed because a mermaid was "black". I was pissed because Ariel (an already existing character) was made "black". What if we made an already existing "black" character "white"? Wouldn't be too cool, would it? I have no problem making mermaids whatever color you want; they're not even real. Just don't change an already existing character to push representation. Make a new character who is interesting, like they did back in that The Little Mermaid TV show.

Idk why but when he said, "Indubitably," I died laughing

I want to know who is complaining about "realism"? Everyone I see complaining about the skin color is complaining about forced diversity, which has been happening for the past half a decade because Hollywood refuses to learn its lesson from Ghostbuster 2016. From what I've seen, the realism argument is always brought up by people defending the movie, as if using it as a strawman specifically so they can debunk it.

You so right Griffy. I aint mad about realism, mad that they're arbitrarily changing the race of characters for no reason other than "muh diversity". Make original characters, don't change the ones that already exist.

Tbf the whole point of Mulan is that she was not allowed to go to war, she pretended to be a man.

"HOLD ON HOLD ON HOLD ON NIGGA!" The way he said it... I rewinded those few seconds like 15ntimes now hahaha

"The Chinese don't let Women go to wars!" Huns: Allow us to introduce ourselves. (But in all seriousness, they actually acknowledge that in the movie. Females are in fact frowned upon as soldiers back then. But the only time they let em into wars is by nursery reasons. And Females are damn good at bringing soldiers back to health, even with the equipment they got. And the Huns actually don't mind Females as warriors, hence Shan yu, being a Hun, not scoffing that Mulan is a Female. He only saw the Soldier from the mountains, the same one who killed his entire clan. That's all he ever saw Mulan as. A Soldier. Nothing more.)

I mean it is pretty stupid, race swapping characters for no other reason than to just race swap em is unnecessary.

Disney seems to have forgotten that most of the little girls who want to dress up as princesses immediately go to elsa, and she's fricken nordic. Whenever they say, "Kids need to be able to relate to characters" I'm 100% certain they talking about 30 year old disney kids from the 90's who never grew up and never matured

Why don’t they just make another black princess movie????? As a black woman I would be overjoyed to see more black representation if it’s *not* obviously forced + just a profit for them to make money off of us. Making more ORIGINAL black characters, in general, would go way further than this.

I’ve always said that 90% of the time (there are a few little exceptions) I don’t care how a person who plays a role looks. The only thing I care about is them being the best pick for the movie/show. One thing I dislike, however, is forced diversity. Diversity to me is like a “selfless” deed. Both are often done so a company can seem morally superior when, in reality, they are quite the opposite.

I'm tried of them making remakes. Animation is the perfect medium for the movies they made. Redoing them in live action has been taking away all of the exaggerated facial expressions and bright colors that made it great.

Oh. You want a black mermaid? Then make an original movie with black mermaids in it. Why does Hollywood think it's ok to give black people white people's sloppy seconds? They deserve to have their own stories.

the crab and fish are somehow worse than the blatant pandering

“We need diversity for the kids to look up to someone that’s like them” Literally my roll models/characters i relate to growing up and now off the top of my head Mulan (original obviously) Kim Possible Power puff girls Tiana Legoshi Ahsoka Miles Morales Cyborg Toph XJ-9 Iroh The son from Fantastic Mr. Fox Shoto from A Silent Voice Just adding this cause I didn’t put a real person: Chadwick Boseman

Wake me up when we have an original black character and not an old character just being colored black 😴

Disney: we are gonna reboot all princesses into black characters Tiana: am i a joke to u?

Wrong Mulan actually happened and they respect her in china for it. Some still regard her as hero. TThough disney took it as something magical instead of realistic.

I think people are mainly upset because they changed an already established character. Nobody hated black Spiderman (Miles Morales) because he was his own unique character. Nobody hated Black Panther, because he was his own unique character. But the moment you change a character everyone likes is when people start getting triggered. There was a black mermaid in the little mermaid TV show. If they made a movie where she was the main character I doubt anyone would've cared. Just imagine how angry we would be if they decided to make Black Panther white. Can you really call that racism?

Bro imagine passing by his car, seeing him jumping back and forth between seats screaming "ITS DISNEYYYYYY"

I'm just waiting for someone to start pointing out the hypocrisy of calling out people upset that this fictional character has been race swapped while using the examples of other characters being race swapped after years of bitching and moaning about race swapping the characters they're using as examples of "well y'all did it first"... Like.. either it's acceptable or it's not. Don't say it's not acceptable when it's one way but then it's acceptable and you're racist when it's another. And let's not pretend we don't know how this movie is gonna turn out. Disney's gonna do something to fuck up the movie and lose what made the original work so well (Lion King's animated animals that can convey emotion, Pinnoccio learning about behaving like a jackass, Mulan losing her cleverness and resourcefulness, etc., etc.) and they're going to hide from the all but inevitable bad reviews that will come - because Disney can't make a good live action remake for the life of them - and dismiss any people bitching about it as racist. It's possible it'll be good. But I'm not going to hold my breath.

We all knew what we were thinking when we saw the trailer but no one said nothing. Griffy has us covered.

I love he stays true to his believes over more than 3 years

That dashboard got a shower.

I can't be the only one mad because a live action little mermaid looks creepy AF, I mean seeing a human woman with a fin underwater in that dark and cold place just scares the shit out of me.

If I wanted to see a original black Disney character, I would just watch princess and the Frog. Good characters, good music, original enough said.

I’m not emotionally invested in this upcoming movie like how everyone would expect me to. The Little Mermaid remake is going to be another soulless cashgrab that will have instant low ratings by critics for being a live action remake. Seriously, this whole remaking animated movies into live action phase of Disney’s is silly and they need to stop. I don’t know why everyone’s losing their shit at receiving something that doesn’t really benefit us. I’ve even heard people crying over this movie on reaction channels. I wish Disney had the balls to make movies based on the many African myths, and make them “child friendly” as usual. I only want to see this movie for how uncanny the visuals will look. Setting your movie underwater is whole ‘nother level of uncanny. Like imagine a hyper-realistic crab singing Under the Sea. I’m DYING, I can’t wait to see that shitshow LMAO.

low-key ruined it by making her black idc what people say it's just the truth

I agree. Look at the Book of Eli. One of my favorite movies, main character is original and black. His skin color isn’t even brought up, it’s not apart of the story because the color of his skin DOESN’T MATTER. A black Ariel was clearly made because of the fact that she’s black, not if she’s a good actress or not. I agree. It’s exploiting diversity and little kids and calling it “representation”. If I was an employer, I’d hire based on skills and experience or education. Skin color doesn’t matter, cultural background doesn’t matter. Now we have pilots being hired because of their skin, not if they can fly a plane good.

You all hate the little mermaid remake because Ariel is black… I hate the little mermaid remake because it’s another attempt of Disney trying to be greedy. We are not the same.

1:37 the way he says *indubitably*

It always makes me sad when people use the “little black children can see themselves in the movie now” line like Disney invented black characters. We’re really using a multi-billion dollar company to tell kids that they matter 😂

1:03 Correction: People isn't upset cuz it's not real.. People is upset cuz they change existing character race.. It's like black panther Starring "Tom Cruise" as Black panther.

Im mad at the race swapping. The racism in this movie. Im mad at the cgi and the lazy animation. Mad that they completey gutted the songs and even changed the ending and iconic scenes. Its lazy racist, and just all around a whole nope. As a black woman im not feeling this at all. Lats keep the energy up instead of double standards. Lets also just leave established characters alone and make New Characters! It's so simple!

Im glad we have people in our community like Griffy who are actually brave enough to speak out and have a different opinion. I swear Its hard being black sometimes when you don't follow the masses and form your opinion because you get moments like this where you are speaking from an actual non racist standpoint but everyone treats you like you're plotting the downfall of black people even if you are black yourself

Right they could’ve easily either did a Princess in the Frog live action and had Halle as Tiana, or made another OG black Disney Princess and had Halle voice her 2:08 Griffy: it’s showing little black girls can do anything- THAT’S EXACTLY WHY TIANA EXISTS!

If her father the king neptune is not terry crews i'm gonna be even more upset

bruh imagine walking next to a car and seeing a grown ass man arguing with himself while yelling nigga💀💀

It’s not that “mermaids can’t look like that.” Of course they can. It’s that Ariel doesn’t look like that. It’s based off of Disney’s Ariel. Why not make a unique black character and whole movie for her. Why slap on a color change on an existing character. That’s all.

People really bringing up the science of how mermaids should look like this is based off of a true story 😭

I’m waiting for the day when Disney remakes Snow White’s character as a Black actor. It’ll be the ultimate burn.

Griffy should be mad for Disney taking his idea of Little Mermaid

Mulan wasn't allowed to go to war. She hid that fact and was about to get executed for it. And I agree almost 100% with griffys opinion on this. I also agree the water looks like crap and that's is just the fact of having to have a real person breathing. Their movies don't need live actions. Lol

1000% gonna be blamed on racism after it flops in the theatres though. Just like the past couple dog shit movies Disney has released

oh my god finally griffy said it 😭😭😭 how much more are we gonna let these big ass companies exploit poc like forcing a square peg into a round hole? not part of the black community (but is a poc) but i think they deserve better, so so much better than this. they deserve their own original stories, they deserve their own roles made and fit for them! it is not noble to do diversity, it should be a bare minimum and should be normalized and not capitalized.

If they had made Ariel have blue skin for example, they could’ve avoided the whole issue. For instance, does Ariel HAVE to be white? No, not necessarily. But specifically going out of their way to make her black in order to exploit “diversity”and “representation” is stupid. They just wanna get money out of folks who are vapid enough to only see skin deep. They don’t care about doing right by you, they think you’re stupid and they wanna hypnotize you with empty marketing so you’ll pay them your money. They do this with every demographic. And whenever they fail, they call you some sort of bigot. They want to weaponize your conscience against you and spout lies about you so that you either give into the hypnosis, or play along out of fear. Make no mistake, you and I are nothing but meal tickets to these people. Do right by yourselves and stay safe people

Damn we need more real talks like this from Griffy