The crazy thing is anime characters are not even white- they are most of the time - japanese! Guess "Asian representation" isn't needed

My youngest son (now 15) was about 5 when he came home from school asking what a racist was. He was called a dumb white boy, and a racist, why? Because he is white and the other kids not. Yes, the teacher knew, did she anything about my son being bullied and excluded every day? No, because "Us white people can not be discriminaded on", her jaw dropped when I said I was mixed, which making my son also mixed (not that much but still). Even his best friend (still are) stood up for him, only for him to get backlash for a "dark brother defending a stupid white kid"....🤦‍♀️ Racism is educated Thank you to all kids shows for brainwashing kids that young to turn out like that.

Can't forget the pinnacle of woke, the episode of Law and Order SVU where a lesbian woman was violently raped by a black man and she refused to press charges because that would he racist and she is more privileged than he is and she can just pay for therapy to get over what happened to her. Unbelievable

Lilo & Stitch focused on a relationship between two sisters and didn’t focus on romantic love as the main point. Frozen wasn’t the first to do this.

When dating and sexuality gets shoved in kids content, kids grow up faster. LEAVE THEM ALONE FFS 😭 these kids are doomed

I was a 2 year old girl with white blonde hair and blue eyes when the first HTTYD movie came out. Astrid wasn't from the Barbie franchise, she wasn't some sort of princess or anything.. she was just a bada$$ girl. She was able to fight, she had a brain and (unlike the "strong female characters" we have NOW) she had a heart, emotions, AND a story arc. And now, they're taking the actually strong, actually WELL WRITTEN girl I identified with in my younger years and turning her black. If they want black characters, make new black characters. Mile Morales is biracial (black/hispanic) and everyone loves him because he's a well-written, NEW character. There's a reason the country of Egypt sued Netflix for "Queen Cleopatra."

The reason why so many shows take place in high school with teenagers is because all these people failed to grow past high school.

As a straight male, a lot of my favourite and most relatable characters are women. I shouldn't have to be a biological match to somebody to feel inspired by them.

Nothing says “ITS MAAAAM 👰🏻‍♂️” as much as wide hips and “top surgery” scars.

Why would you distract a doctor from saving your life? If I was dying, a doctor could call me anything as long as he was focused on helping me. I feel like the person correcting the doctor about pronouns, whilst the doctor was trying to save their life, really goes to show the narcissism of some of these people. Like you are in danger and you just need to make everyone aware that you are a “they”.

I was having a conversation recently and a friend made the statement "in today's society you can no longer love someone without society thinking you want to sleep with them, gone are days of loving a friend, a neighbor or any type of platonic brotherly/sisterly love" and it made me sad thinking about that.

One game recently that I respect that refuses to be "tolerant" is Helldiver's 2. People demanded they add LGBT flags as capes to the game and the studio repeatedly stated "we don't want any real world politics involved in our game."

I gotta wonder how “black and brown” people feel about being lumped into a group with gays and trans.

Remember. There are adults behind this. Save yourself.

Sims wokeness is pretty crazy. Character creation is so obtuse. You can choose whether your character can get pregnant or make others pregnant and whether your sim uses the toilet standing or sitting. Normal people categorize those things as male or female, it's not that hard.

The thing that annoys me about a lot of this "character retconning" and saying that they're "unrealistic" or whatever... Blonde girls with blue eyes and natural hourglass figures, actually exist!! I am not an unrealistic body standard, and I'm sick of having my favourite characters over-written for the sake of wokeness

The transformer community sure obsesses over “educating” children. 👀

Yep, the entire entertainment industry is in the middle of committing self deletion.

The Owl House is general is pretty woke. There’s a non-binary character and gay couples or whatever. They don’t really push anything except for the ‘coming out’ scene but that’s it. Really the fandom is the worse part where they headcanon 16 year olds being trans and drawing fanart of them with surgery scars. It’s gross

That Genshin Impact one is very similar to my problem with the Undertale fandom. Most of them will get mad at you for not agreeing with their most random headcanons which is one of many reasons why I avoid the Undertale fandom (they’re also just very messed up… ;-;)

why do people expect these fictional princesses and fairies to be realistic to teach children about a realistic body when thats what a parent should be doing??😭😭 like why are you relying on a show to teach your kids this when its a parents job..

The Umbrella Academy Vanya's "becoming a man" was the following up of the actress, Ellen Paige, declaring she is now a "man" called Eliott. Actors used to go through changes to play a charachter with more fidelity, now it is the charachters who have to change to adapt to the actors, it's entitlement level 1000.

Genshin impact fandom is allergic to straight ships... Just two men sitting next to each other is enough for them to get them lovers 😐

I love historical fiction but when I see black nobility in Bridgerton, I just can't take it seriously.

It's very apparent in the furry community that people want to be "trans" more than they actually want to be the opposite sex. Hence romanticizing cutting off the chest and displaying the scars wherever they can on the characters, even making **adoptables**. It's insane to me that people consider that makes any female less of one just for butchering what is secondary se* characteristics.

How those actors didn't die of laughter and cringe from that scenw talking about the patients pronouns is beyond me..... Also, totally realistic. Having a medical issue and we take time to sit and talk about the patients preferred pronouns.... Pure narcissist right there. Thats all the nonbinary people are.

Movies and tv shows are no longer seen as "art" or entertainment" but instead are merely vehicles for modern day propaganda, and even sometimes to spite the audience. Best thing to do is watch the classics or just flip the tv off and enjoy the outdoors.

i met tinkerbell in disney at 5 years old, i can garantee you the LAST thing i was thinking abt was her BODY i was just excited to meet THE tinkerbell 😭

Ethnically, I’m mixed race, Japanese, white, and black. The Assassin’s Creed one annoys me because the developer, Jonathan Dumont said in an interview “we couldn’t identify with a Japanese character, so we replaced him with a non-Japanese one.” That’s what’s truly racist, not the backlash against it. I think Yasuke should have a game. I don’t think that he should replace a Japanese character in a game set in JAPAN.

"I guess Pennywise is now trans" LMAOOOOOOOOO That guy described his own character well when he said "demon-like".

I'll never understand the obsession with "top surgery scars". Is this some kind of fetish? Why can't you just make the avatar in game your desired sex, since it's fantasy and you can be whatever you want anyways? These people are incomprehensible....

Black and Brown? That's racist to assume that Black and Brown people are a sexuality and not humans.

Doctor Who is one of the most history rich television shows and the fact it's being treated the way it is today is absolutely disrespectful to not only the legacy of the show, but to the British culture.

10:48 How ironic I actually searched "Grey's Anatomy woke" on KZfaq LAST NIGHT to see if anyone had talked about it. It feels so forced and makes me cringe

I hate it when people try to say "so you support genocide and murder?" Like of course not but i dont need to publicly state my opinions on politics nor do i need to talk about it.

Ellen Page in Umbrella Academy is a great example that very often these days actors don’t conform to their roles anymore, the characters bend to whoever is playing them. Ellen Page is trans, so now Vanya is trans even though the comic book character isn’t. When what they should have done is cast a new actress who fulfills the criteria for the role

I’m an almost 45 year old woman, sometimes I look at the world around me and wonder exactly when it went mad. I’ve been watching your channel for months now and you (and my kids, cause I raised them right!) give me hope that all is not lost yet. Bless you for sharing your sensible eloquent , educated and thoughtful comments with the world.

the steven universe scene where the character explaines that social media isn't just about appearances but about identity, is pretty scary to me. Why is social media promoted like that and what for? Social media can be a tool for businesses, but other than that it's simply another addiction. Online identity is superficial and identity is so much more than following trends. I really hope that one day we will wake up from this strange reality we all got sucked into and I wish for a future where children at least have a childhood without it.

3:06 Divorce Lawyer: So, Mrs. Mouse. If I am to understand you, you want to divorce your husband because he's... extremely silly? Minnie: No! I said he's *fucking* *Goofy* !

Some the biggest victims of DEI and the culture war... redheads. You can see a whole host of older characters who are redheads and have been raced swapped; MJ Parker (Spider-Man), Ariel (Little Mermaid), Kid Flash (The Flash), Jimmy Olsen (Superman), April O'Neal (Ninja Turtles), Starfire (Teen Titans)... I could go on... JUSTICE FOR GINGERS!

FYI, apart from Bluey, no-one watches kids TV shows made by ABC in Australia.

What year was the "blacks cant marry whites" cartoon? I remember being in Catholic grade school in like 1991 and a kid talking about the previous episode of the TV show "Roc" where a white guy married a black guy. We normalized ALL this stuff in the 90s. Ellen coming out, Roseanne's lesbian kiss, interracial marriage, etc. 10 years after that we elected the mixed race (de facto black) president. Why do these people insist on living in 1965? Conservatives are always accused of being obsessed with wanting to return to that period of time but it seems like it's the other side that is determined to remain stuck there.

I'm sick of all this woke crap.

"Put a woman in it, and make her gay". South Park. As usual, South Park is one of the rare instances of artists pointing out basic reality.

I really liked the show Sex Education, it was about British teenagers navigating the drama of school and relationships. Obviously, as the name suggests, it was about 'sex education' and centers Otis giving advice to fellow classmates since his mom is a licensed sex therapist. I liked the first season a lot but the last season it went COMPLETELY off the rails. I mean... take any scene from the last season of Sex Ed and it felt like "how many queer identities can we have on screen at once". The main character, Otis, is a 'white straight male' and the whole plot of the last season really was to make him out to be the villain. New characters literally tell his best friend (who is gay) to second guess why they are friends just because they have different sexual identities. Incredibly disappointed.

This is why I switched to anime/mostly watch older media. You don't have to put up with so much wokeness in your entertainment that way. It also annoys me as a Tolkien fan when others ask me why I haven't seen Rings of Power. I heard the acting/ lore accuracy sucked too so its not just the wokeness.

Really random but I’m excited about the black samurai BECAUSE my boyfriend is black and Japanese, and loves studying/participating in many martial arts. It’s a very small minority of people but it DID happen and sounds cool and I know he’ll be so excited to see that

Brooklyn 99 was one of my absolute favorite shows. Then in season 4 the writing really started to change to support the "current times" one character just randomly becomes a lesbian and all the cops in NYC now want to defund themselves and "do the right thing for the community". The episode that lost me was when they had their LT. (Terry Crews) Get stop n frisked in his own neighborhood, by officers from his precinct, because he was black. Like "sorry boss didn't know that was you haha". Netflix recently picked up the show and I found it very funny they only got the first 4 seasons because the last 4 really went off the rails with social justice lol

This is why I've been collecting DVDs/blu ray of my favorite nonwoke shows from before 2015

Hold up, Alex Hersh wanted to put LGBTQ+ stuff in Gravity Falls? Yeah, now I'm very glad Gravity Falls was made in 2012 and not 2024! Honestly, I never really thought the two cops were gay, they were just two very incompetent theater kids is all.

There was no 'black samurai'. He waca slave, purchased from the Portuguese, kept ad a mascot or porter- And eventually sold back to the Portuguese. How inspiring.

16:39 I love Sebastian, the crab and I am not a crab. I love that you brought that up.

The Umbrella Academy one is an example on how your real life choices, like Ellen Page transitioning to Elliot Page, can affect your job, and the people around you. "But, ooh, it's just a self-expression" It is not.

The new monster high just kills me It’s nothing like the original It’s just so sad

why would beidou and zhongli be black…? they are chinese

if they dare touch over the garden wall...

You can tell they push a message too the children when the cartoons look like shit compared too what we grew up with. Poor quality cartoons now days are pushing their sic agenda

I've had to stop playing trackmania. There is simply no option for the car to have legs like me. Loads of wheels, but no legs. I can't identify with my car anymore.

2:08 i never watched euphoria because the whole premise of the show is creepy. mind you, i was like 21 when it came out and i still thought it was creepy. having HS kids doing drugs and getting pregnant seems like a disgusting thing to make a show about when its done for salacious views not awareness smh

As a Gravity Falls fan, I find it SUPER annoying how people keep saying that Dipper is "trans" while being a male in SECOND GRADE or Mabel is "bisexual" while she's boy crazy. Like, can't yall just leave these 12-13 yo alone?? I also like The Umbrella Academy, and just to confirm, Vanya is a cis-female in the comics. Last thing I wanna say is about this show called "The Owl House", I personally used to like it at first until the Luz and Amity love relationship thing. It's supposed to be a Disney kids show, with CHILDREN from the age of 7 watching, and then there's just 2 girls kissing each other every like, episode.

This is why shows like “The Boys” and “The Bear” are amazing shows that I’m sooo excited for their new seasons this summer. “The Boys” pokes fun at the corporate DEI bs when it comes to their gay characters (Maeve is an awesome character- and when she comes out as bi, people exploit her personal life and try to force her to be an “icon”). And then “The Bear” has a super diverse cast, but without making it the main focus of the show. I hope their new seasons remain consistent with their stories & true character development and that there’s no pandering.

Thank you Misha for tackling this of the media in general like Shows,Video games,social media,and such Love ya work ❤

Any time someone changes the race of a character they are announcing that they are racist.

Not even "Superwoman", just "Supergirl"

There is a whole continent called Africa with MILLENIA of mythology off of which black IPs could be based.

The character I relate to the most in all the fiction I’ve ever consumed (which is a LOT, mind you) is an 800 year old gay Chinese man. I am a 29 year old straight white woman. It has nothing to do with his sexuality, appearance, or ANYTHING that superficial. It’s who he is as a PERSON. I think character matters more than anything in storytelling, and what they’re doing is completely removing CHARACTER and replacing it with superficial stereotype. No one can relate to that because no real human actually lives as a stereotype.

Not my favorite game Genshin being this w- nah. The community is FILLED with the wifi password people and it’s insane just how much they’ll fight over race and sexuality of, for example, Scaramouche who’s a PUPPET and not a human. It’s insane.

Also Hogwarts Legacy game. A central place, 3 broomsticks tavern is run by transgender. If you listen carefully the dialogue between main character and this personage, you'll find out, that she was a boy and became a girl. Later in game you will find letters from students that thank her for inspiration. Why we should know this in main plot line...

This is exactly why I love Anime so much. Pretty much all of instances where anime goes woke is when the western localizers add politics into the dub, but you can just watch the sub instead.

The Ring of Power makers probably saw and read Token instead of Tolkien and said, "Let's do that!!!" And we saw what happened, with season 1... to know a season 2 is coming... SMH.

Playing Genshin while i watch this. And there is a reason i don`t engage with any "fans" anymore, when i was young there really wasn't any issues hanging out in like forums but modern day fans of anything is just toxic cesspools. Now i just enjoy what i want without engaging with anyone, but a lot of things get ruined by the wokies that don`t really care about the franchise they just want power and push their ideology wherever they can.

“Fixing” those Genshin impact character is saying it’s wrong to be White and Asian… insane

its literally just easier to animate smaller body types and LITERALLY EVERY disney princess has the same body type so why just tinkerbell??

Also there’s a lot of cartoons on Disney now (Like The Owl House) that shove that stuff in constantly. Even my 6 year old son brought home a school library book that had a huge trans character and story line. I called the school and asked them not to allow my kids to check out that book but that’s about as much as I can do.

2009. Bayonetta came out and Hideki wrote something, that's in the end, a story where love between 2 sisters triumphs over chaos.

4:42 Genshin Impact player here. Here’s the thing about Beidou and Zhongli-the region they’re from is based off of China. Each of the regions of the game is based off a different real-life area of the world. One is based on medieval Germany (Mondstadt), one is based on China (Liyue), one is based on feudal Japan (Inazuma), one is based on medieval India and Egypt (Sumeru), one is based on steampunk France (Fontaine), one is based off Russia (Snezhnaya) and according to leaks, one is based off of Aztec and South American culture (Natlan). Each region is extremely reminiscent of its inspiration in its geography, its lore, the architecture it has, the characters from that region, and the developers pay so much attention to every little detail. There are also characters who are darker skinned, even if they aren’t black. Xinyan has brown skin, Cyno and Candace are both tanned, Iansan has dark skin. But the characters’ skin tones match with the cultural inspiration. They don’t just make characters black for the heck of it.

I like books, it's been hard to find high fantasy books that aren't pushing the agenda. If a main character isn't openly gay, then we need a "they/them" to balance things out. At a minimum we apparently need to make commentary such as: "I saw Edwin out with someone, they looked more than friends." "How nice for him." "His friend was also a man." "What's wrong with that?" 🙄 Beating a dead horse.

Sorry Misha. I have to disagree. Most anime characters aren't white. They are almost always asian.

As someone who grew up in the early 2000s when things for little girls we're just really starting to be hypersexualized, it did cause some issues, but i was always a little over weight and it never made me compare myself to a character? I always understood that they're not real

I was one of the people who commented about How To Train Your Dragon on your community post, and I can't get over how stupid it all is. Those movies/shows/books are one of the biggest parts of my life and it's sad to see them stoop down to Disney levels of low. Astrid was race swapped, I'm certain Fishlegs was as well, and Ruffnut is being played by an overweight girl who looks NOTHING like the guy playing Tuffnut... Y'know, her *twin* brother. The saddest part is that there's a clip of Dean DeBlois a couple years ago citing live action movies as lazy and the like, but now he's doing the same? I used to look up to him. Hell, I did a presentation on him in 8th grade saying he was my inspiration to become an animator, but then he resorted to this.

I think it's funny that they made Stevonni nonbinary. That character is literally a fusion of Steven and Connie that they only do for a few minutes to become stronger. After that, they defuse. They're also love interests so like them being together is non binary?

Most anime characters are japanese. We just perceive them as white because we're white and they don't have features that make them appear asian. But Japanese people will perceive cartoon characters as Japanese unless thet have features that make them appear white.

You guys should SEE the splatoon community, it’s ridiculous. I had to turn off posts in game because people can draw things and post them and over of the posts I saw said something along the lines of either “free Palestine” or “I’m *insert random meaningless identity *”

4:12 that's why playing genshin impact and enjoying it is the worst thing that can happen to anyone normal, because of the 99.99% of the community being extremely weird by being EDP followers or extremely woke, one person once joined my world to tell me how bigoted i was for having in my bio a christian cross 💀

I grew up with All in the Family, the Jeffersons, later with Andrew Dice Clay, Sam Kinnison, Eddie Murphy , etc. Shit that is going on now never existed then. Its such a mess now.

I remember the Steven Universe “Don’t be racist” commercial from a few years ago The thing I find funny about it now is that some of the black people they’re not doubt trying to pander to *_don’t think black and white people should get married either!_*

As a genshin impact fan, I swear the fandom is crazy and annoying 😶‍🌫️

The How to train your dragon franchise is an absolute masterpiece for all ages. It's already one best franchises out there in terms of being "accepting" and "inclusionary" in the more traditional and healthy sense (not pronouns or stupid stuff like it) , but they do it in an actually nice way, where you don't really think about it, and it's never shoved in anyone's face. The main focus is on amazing storytelling. It's so sad that they're redoing such an incredible series. It could never be as good in live action to begin with, and definitely not when they're focusing in on the DEI stuff.

I don't care if people are gay, but if someone mentions anything about pronouns, it immediately makes me not want to deal with them.

I wrote a book coming out next month. It's diverse, but not woke and features men who are close friends and not gay. Hopefully it gains the right audience 😅

"I was Vanya but now I'm Victim, sorry, Victor."

In the 90’s nobody talked about race. We listened to Nirvana. What y’all doing?

Ellen Page decided she wanted to play pretend so they made her character trans in the show

Arcane (the animated show based on League of Legends on Netflix) is actually a really good example of how to include all of these topics that would typically be considered “woke” without actually being woke. The show includes a large diverse cast that all have their own unique personalities, motives, and arcs without feeling like they were just thrown in there to check a box and appease the internet mobs. Really complex show, and highly recommend watching it, if for no other reason than to experience the kind of content the diversity crowd COULD be giving us

Five seconds in "mentions Genshin Impact" Me: Oh shit, I'm scared.

Honestly, as a character designer, some genshin designs just bother me in the sense that if a region in game is inspired by a country, I kinda expect the characters to look like they come from said country, which is something genshin doesn't always do, but making zhongli black when he's fucking chinese ? wtf calm down also, Tolkien would have hated that amazon show

Witcher should be 100% Slavic mythology. Look what has become of it. HALO series and the Master Chief are more Slavic with mentioning of Ras Kocka, Visegrad, Veles's Net (Slavic deity)

"I guess Pennywise is now trans..." Fantastic gag, love it! And the Doctor Who discussion ends there. Mic drop moment. ❤️

Great video Misha! Advance warning: there's a whole lot of vitriol coming up here. There's a whole lot of willfully ignorant people who are given all the power in the world because they fit checkboxes and/or say the right things. There's no real intelligence behind their work. There's no real talent behind their work. There's not the slightest bit of thought behind their work. The modern business practice for so many industries that are supposed to be for fun and relaxation involves putting people in charge who know nothing about the products they are making, encouraging if not outright requiring them to learn nothing about the Intellectual Properties they're working with, and then telling them, "The fans of these IPs are morons, the IP is stupid stuff for morons, and it is beneath any of us to learn anything about this IP. Just make whatever you want, we'll shoehorn it into this IP, because these morons will shovel money at us for any product that has their favorite logo on it, no matter what it is." This is the only thing that explains choices made with legendary entertainment franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, and others, as well as legendary game franchises like Tomb Raider, Dungeons and Dragons, and Warhammer 40k among others. It is absolute crap with willful ignorance making the most ignorant decisions and hiring the most incompetent people and hemorrhaging money going broke and effectively robbing their investors. And they are too certain that they are right in spite of masses of evidence proving otherwise to realistically examine the situation and determine what the REAL problem is, and instead they blame the 'morons' who they expect to shovel money at them just because they put a loved on an awful . So they make it worse by insulting, demeaning, chastising, and berating the fans, expecting that to make them change their behavior. Look, *expletives deleted*, we're not your spouse who has been so horribly abused that we'll do whatever you say just so you won't hit us again (though that is absolutely how you are treating us, all the while calling US toxic? Please. Your gaslighting gets you nowhere anymore). Instead we are people who choose for ourselves what to spend our money on, and if you're not giving us the fun and relaxation we're asking for, we're not giving you our time or money. And yes, I am old and very much still of the punk mindset I developed as a teen in the 1980s. It has done me good service throughout my life, and it can always help me identify self-serving bullcrap almost immediately. These holier than thou "progressive" morons are putting on morality plays focused on what they consider moral and trying to prevent anyone with a differing opinion from being able to speak, just like it was the effing dark ages again. Screw you. I didn't fight against the "Moral Majority" in the 80s to surrender to you useless twatwaffle jackwagons and your unholy crusade now. Y'all can burn in your own fat.

Most anime characters are actually Asian. You should see how they draw Europeans.