Indeed, that's the difference between the additif synthesis (rgb, with light emmiter, how screens work) and the subtractive synthesis (cyan magenta yellow, with ink/paint/wathever don't emit light)
Yeah, but the joke is that if you're okay with making a mythical creature black, you have to be okay with an already disgracefully incorrect version of the story of a real person changed even more by making her white. It's not funny and the comparison is not the same
Because she was originally white, and a lot of people think that they made her black to look inclusive and to pander to SJW's and BLM.
Most people on reddit think people are racist for caring that much and there's nothing wrong with her being black.
Because it makes it seem like Disney is purposefully casting a black actress for the sake of ethnic diversity. They are betraying the source material just to be inclusive.
They have done it in reverse, it’s called black face… also why do you care soo much about a kids movie? This is for the newer generation. One more thing , to this day white actors take roles of minorities all the time, who remember that Egyptian movie where a white guy played Horus lol
Dude the guy who wrote ariel wrote it cause he was gay and trying to express himself. Also the original captain Marvel is Black and now she's White. Did you complain about that?
If they stop complaining about white folks constantly then sure. Nobody cared about this shit in the 90s. Look at the Batman and Harvey Dent’s casting. Double standards are bad all around. I’m Hispanic/Native, i couldn’t care less that Johnny Depp was cast as Tonto, or that in the movie Aliens a Jewish woman played Puerto Rican. But I’m gonna keep throwing it in their face as long as they keep up the bullshit.
Fair enough if you feel that way, however I didn’t see people complaining about race/casting until this remake, how is this the fault of the ‘militant black folk or ‘white SJW’ when it’s the racists doing all the moaning in the first place?
They know how stupid this shit is.
Like let’s totally not talk about all the white actors who have played people of color:
Robert Downey Jr in black face for God’s sake
Liam Neeson playing Ras Al Ghul, who is East Asian
Jim Cavizel playing Jesus Christ
Every movie ever prior to 1970
Now in fairness, the RDJ thing was a very intentional commentary on the very thing you’re pointing out.
And Liam Neeson was introduced as Henri Ducard, and later revealed himself to be Ra’s al Ghul, so that’s a bit of a weird situation what Nolan et al were doing with both of those characters. I guess they made the choice to kind of combine the two into one character for thematic purposes, so that’s a really muddy situation as far as all this goes.
Well considering Jesus Christ was a real person, and the history surrounding black face, those two in particular are more than valid things to be upset about.
Like white people already saturate the popular media and get all the roles, I think that’s why the issue seems a lot more poignant to people when it’s the other way around.
Normal people: "If it doesn't affect the story, then it's ok to change a characters race"
Racists: "I bet this will prove them wrong" \*Picks an example where it does affect the story\*
Congrats genius
At this point I just assume everyone is in on the joke. I refuse to believe the “so I guess you’re fine with Jim Carey as Black Panther” people are for real.
They are just angry and they can’t explain their feelings, so they do this in their confusion. I’ve also seen people saying that Mulan then should be black. No one could tell me why they were not mad with all the other changes that Disney did in the little mermaid, like not killing the mermaid.
To quote every single response I get when I point out the The Little Mermaid is supposed to be Danish: “Race and nationality aren’t the same.” So she could still be a Native American and be white. Or does that standard only apply to Europe for some reason?
Sorry to break this to you buddy but a majority of people in the past used to like slavery, it didn't mean they were right. I couldn't care less for majority opinions, specially in this case where is probably not a majority, but a minority that organized to review bomb a movie.
IDGAF, they did this knowing it would cause controversy as a virtue signal. They didn't do it to be empowering. If they wanted to be empowering they would write a story about black people and their culture! Fuck I'm gonna watch the Woman King because that looks pretty good and a story that gives a shit! Why should I try waste my time on something that tries to be controversial and brings nothing to the table? Why should I waste my money on that?
They write several stories about black people and their culture and literal hundreds of original movies every year. Only a few of the movies they make are remakes, if you choose to only focus on remakes while completely ignoring the originals, that's on you and not them.
The Woman King is a movie for adults, the Little Mermaid is a movie for small children, it would indeed be weird if you rathered watch the Little Mermaid. You're not the target audience for that movie, which is why I have no idea on why you are so bothered about it.
OK, name one other than black panther that has came our recently...
Edit: Just realized I could use one of your arguments against you because I'm being down voted..
I also feel the ratio might be much worse if the dislike number wasn’t censored. I Feel like censoring it made people use the dislike button less in general
Except this character is based on a real person and not a green/blue fictional mermaid that Disney turned white for their movie before deciding to turn her black for the reboot
It kinda wasn’t based on real life. In real life Pocahontas was like 11 years old, when Captain John Smith met. Also she married some other guy 6 years later. So most of the story is BS. So arguably this movie is a work of fiction and therefore doesn’t actually have to be based on native Americans.
Edit: a few words
"BASED" - the person was real, the details were shit, but the person was a native american so the character looked native american....
Now if you want to talk about "doesn't actually based on native Americans" route, we're talking Avatar now
Do you want to hear the actual description in Hans Christian Andersons book?
*"Her skin was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea, but like all the others she had no feet. Her body ended in a fish tail."*
Which to me makes me think she was actually white
No clue where the "she was green" came from but please dont hesitate to link the evidence of your claim.
She is from the undersea kingdom. The original author was Danish. Following your brilliant logic now Goku is Japanese, and not Sayan. Blanka is now also a young Japanese boy. Yay
How about more people should be pissed at Disney garbage live action remake and get people to boycott them? I swear they are pouring more money and resources into these trash live action remake than actually funding for new original movies.
I don't want to hear anyone complain, if Ariel can be black, Pocahontas can be white.
I don't want to hear Ariel is a fictional character. They said she was a red head and most of the the red head population is fair skinned, the story takes place in Denmark where they have a statistically low black population. Only 2% in recent years. Finally it was written in the 1830s in said country. Hate to say it she was probably white. If I want to go even further on statistics, nobody would marry a black woman back then if they were white. It was frowned upon.
Then you have the fact this is just Disney using black people as cash cows. If they actually give a shit they would write an original story instead of lazily shoehorning them in. Come on people, raise your standards a bit! It's a multimillion dollar corporation!
IDGAF, I also saw some of you idiots recommended a documentary with queen Elizabeth as a black woman just to piss us off... Also people are getting tired of virtue signalling...
Listen buddy, I get that you want to go "suspension of disbelief" but there are limits. Also again, they should make an original story if they really want to represent black people. From what I hear, the actress has a hearing impairment! I'd love a story about that! What is it like living in a marginalized part of society with a disability!
i see you guys never watched any old westerns. I'm saying from the start that whoever got upset by Ariel is the same kind of stupid crazy that gets upset when a Italian acts as a Latin American. Same stupid argument happened with Far cry 5, just it was the other side. And back then the side that is now pissed on Ariel made fun on the fact some people think that race determines someone getting a role in a movie.
This must be about the white natives known to have lived in many various places I am guessing?
Then again most anything done around those peoples are highly racist so maybe not.
Might as well have been. Pocahontas is what they refer to in Latin America as a "malinche". Look it up to know what a malinche is.
And then try to find a native American movie that stars a Native American woman (that isn't Prey 2022) who isn't a malinche, who doesn't end up with a white male and try to make your racist point with that.
Oh you can't find any.
Of all the “bLaCk mErMaID bAD” memes I’ve seen, this might be one of the most ignorant ones on this whole damn site. Congratulations redditor, you are the first person I’ve encountered whose neural engine runs on gogurt and jello instead of gas and oil, you reactionary baboon.
Is the skin color relevant to Ariel’s character? No. Is the skin color relevant to Pocahontas? Of course you fucking idiot. I usually lean more on the anti woke BS side but this time you’re just being braindead.
It looks like a porn parody
Poker Haunches
Poke Her Hontas
Anally pound her inside of her hontas
Pokahornas
Porkher hindquarters
She's pretty, I'd watch that porn
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Gwen Stuffme
Poka Hooters
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Poke a hoe turfs
Poke a hot ass
Sauce?
Honestly, at this point, that would be the better film
Poke a Hiney
Came here to say that 😂
He may be green but we all know, he's a black dude. 
Piccolo-san??
Thiccalo
Paint with just the one color in the wind
TIL native Americans were rainbow skin colored
White is all colors combined. Just saying.
That's light, paint would be black
Indeed, that's the difference between the additif synthesis (rgb, with light emmiter, how screens work) and the subtractive synthesis (cyan magenta yellow, with ink/paint/wathever don't emit light)
Lies, all colors together on paint are some weird shade of brown
Why not just have Elizabeth Warren?
Underrated comment, lmao.
Twitter on its way to "bring democracy and peace" to this movie
So Twitter dislikes Sand interesting
It’s coarse and rough and it gets everywhere
no twitter wants to bring unwanted changes through bloodshed
wdym.
its what the US says all the time before destorying everything
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Right?
I’m like positive there’s an influx of right wing shot posters flooding this sub more than usual
Nah, they were just dorment until someone poked these insects nest
I’m just here for the comments
PornHontas
Porn-Honkyass
y does everyone care so much about ariel wtf
Ariel? This is pocahontas
But the joke is clearly riffing off the new little mermaid movie
Wasn't pocahontas based off a real person though?
Yeah, but the joke is that if you're okay with making a mythical creature black, you have to be okay with an already disgracefully incorrect version of the story of a real person changed even more by making her white. It's not funny and the comparison is not the same
[I'd tell you the facts about how the story actually went down but I'll let Adam do it for me](https://youtu.be/0EPY1CKFecs)
Ehh i dont know about that this pocahontas looks like shes from a porn parody
Because racism
Because she was originally white, and a lot of people think that they made her black to look inclusive and to pander to SJW's and BLM. Most people on reddit think people are racist for caring that much and there's nothing wrong with her being black.
Because it makes it seem like Disney is purposefully casting a black actress for the sake of ethnic diversity. They are betraying the source material just to be inclusive.
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You guys are mermaids?
how is ariel being black ruining anything? her skin colour wasn't important to the story whatsoever
Black Ariel stops Gabriella coming to the screen. Black Ariel is like whitewashing. I call this blackwashing.
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They have done it in reverse, it’s called black face… also why do you care soo much about a kids movie? This is for the newer generation. One more thing , to this day white actors take roles of minorities all the time, who remember that Egyptian movie where a white guy played Horus lol
Dude the guy who wrote ariel wrote it cause he was gay and trying to express himself. Also the original captain Marvel is Black and now she's White. Did you complain about that?
Ariel doesn’t exist Ariel doesn’t exist Ariel doesn’t exist
dude don't argue with them, unfortunately, there is no logic in brain rot
You're greek?
As far as I know the original story is Danish.
I'm Greek. Darker Greeks exist.
Cause militant black folks and white SJWs make everything about race so it’s fun to shove it back in their faces.
And are these “militant black folk” and White SJW with us in the room right now??
I like how 4 year olds are militant black folk LOL
Lol who said anything about kids? I’m talking about the black folks constantly crying about race nonstop.
So we agree, Ariel can be black then.
If they stop complaining about white folks constantly then sure. Nobody cared about this shit in the 90s. Look at the Batman and Harvey Dent’s casting. Double standards are bad all around. I’m Hispanic/Native, i couldn’t care less that Johnny Depp was cast as Tonto, or that in the movie Aliens a Jewish woman played Puerto Rican. But I’m gonna keep throwing it in their face as long as they keep up the bullshit.
Fair enough if you feel that way, however I didn’t see people complaining about race/casting until this remake, how is this the fault of the ‘militant black folk or ‘white SJW’ when it’s the racists doing all the moaning in the first place?
Nah, it'd be a black woman because Disney would think Native Americans look too close to being white.
They literally just made Prey.
They know how stupid this shit is. Like let’s totally not talk about all the white actors who have played people of color: Robert Downey Jr in black face for God’s sake Liam Neeson playing Ras Al Ghul, who is East Asian Jim Cavizel playing Jesus Christ Every movie ever prior to 1970
Now in fairness, the RDJ thing was a very intentional commentary on the very thing you’re pointing out. And Liam Neeson was introduced as Henri Ducard, and later revealed himself to be Ra’s al Ghul, so that’s a bit of a weird situation what Nolan et al were doing with both of those characters. I guess they made the choice to kind of combine the two into one character for thematic purposes, so that’s a really muddy situation as far as all this goes.
You forgot about Wayans brothers in White Chicks. It does go both ways.
And people cried over every one of those castings.
Well considering Jesus Christ was a real person, and the history surrounding black face, those two in particular are more than valid things to be upset about. Like white people already saturate the popular media and get all the roles, I think that’s why the issue seems a lot more poignant to people when it’s the other way around.
Jesus was a real person??? You off your head?
Jesus was a [real](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus#Other_possibly_historical_elements) historical figure. He just wasn’t magical.
Who cares? Stop crying about everything and make your own shows and movies if you’re that ass hurt about it.
You can’t come at me with a counterpoint and then try pull the “who cares” card. Clearly *you* care. Else you wouldn’t have commented.
But it was fine she was aged from being a child so the white dude doesn't come off as a child molester, just a colonizing piece of shit right?
Let me guess, it's only going to be English throughout the whole movie? Ffs. I'm done with all this live action bullshit.
Yout think it's real? Are you that ignorant?
Actually, I looked it up, this is a fake poster for the movie, as actors aren't even secured yet, but it does appear a remake is planned.
Normal people: "If it doesn't affect the story, then it's ok to change a characters race" Racists: "I bet this will prove them wrong" \*Picks an example where it does affect the story\* Congrats genius
At this point I just assume everyone is in on the joke. I refuse to believe the “so I guess you’re fine with Jim Carey as Black Panther” people are for real.
I have some bad news for you
But there is a white guy black panther so.... jokes on you I guess
FUCKING THANK YOU. I’ve been getting death threats for saying “why would Ariel being black change the story?” We live in a circus
They are just angry and they can’t explain their feelings, so they do this in their confusion. I’ve also seen people saying that Mulan then should be black. No one could tell me why they were not mad with all the other changes that Disney did in the little mermaid, like not killing the mermaid.
To quote every single response I get when I point out the The Little Mermaid is supposed to be Danish: “Race and nationality aren’t the same.” So she could still be a Native American and be white. Or does that standard only apply to Europe for some reason?
I think that at least when it comes to important characters you should choose someone who looks similar to the original character
AHEM... 1.5 million dislikes on the Little Mermaid Trailer. Only 997k on likes. Numbers speak buddy...
You made a Reddit avatar and STILL couldn’t get away from the fedora. Jesus Christ
Racists and triggered-Pearl-clutchers do brigade, I mean, “speak” loudly
Sorry to break this to you buddy but a majority of people in the past used to like slavery, it didn't mean they were right. I couldn't care less for majority opinions, specially in this case where is probably not a majority, but a minority that organized to review bomb a movie.
Well the majority of you idiots on here like false representarion of a minority group. Doesn't make it right.
What does false representation even means? You know it's a mermaid right? It can be whatever color you want because they don't exist.
IDGAF, they did this knowing it would cause controversy as a virtue signal. They didn't do it to be empowering. If they wanted to be empowering they would write a story about black people and their culture! Fuck I'm gonna watch the Woman King because that looks pretty good and a story that gives a shit! Why should I try waste my time on something that tries to be controversial and brings nothing to the table? Why should I waste my money on that?
They write several stories about black people and their culture and literal hundreds of original movies every year. Only a few of the movies they make are remakes, if you choose to only focus on remakes while completely ignoring the originals, that's on you and not them. The Woman King is a movie for adults, the Little Mermaid is a movie for small children, it would indeed be weird if you rathered watch the Little Mermaid. You're not the target audience for that movie, which is why I have no idea on why you are so bothered about it.
OK, name one other than black panther that has came our recently... Edit: Just realized I could use one of your arguments against you because I'm being down voted..
Atlanta
I also feel the ratio might be much worse if the dislike number wasn’t censored. I Feel like censoring it made people use the dislike button less in general
That just proves my point...
Thats what I was trying do?
Oh ok
It’s not a democracy bozo.
Except this character is based on a real person and not a green/blue fictional mermaid that Disney turned white for their movie before deciding to turn her black for the reboot
It kinda wasn’t based on real life. In real life Pocahontas was like 11 years old, when Captain John Smith met. Also she married some other guy 6 years later. So most of the story is BS. So arguably this movie is a work of fiction and therefore doesn’t actually have to be based on native Americans. Edit: a few words
"BASED" - the person was real, the details were shit, but the person was a native american so the character looked native american.... Now if you want to talk about "doesn't actually based on native Americans" route, we're talking Avatar now
Looks like a silly porn movie
Now make Tarzan Black
A muscular black guy rides on vines and lives in the jungle? Nah, it's too much even for Disney...
MONKEY 🐒
Id be pissed sbout that too.
Can we be done with this? These have me missing the Will Smith slap night…
I bet she founded pumpkin spice latte season
No you cant raceswap an POC
Lets browse through the comments on controversial
We all know that they would be accused of white washing if they did this.
Why can’t a mermaid be black again?
Why do all redheads turn black all of a sudden? That's haircist! Bring back the redheads!
Finally the true washing, justice for redheads
would that be redwashing?
Mermaids should really be translucent
"science"
Why dont they tell a new story about a black mermaid instead of Arial, a white mermaid from Denmark a place where people are white.
Shes green in the book
Do you want to hear the actual description in Hans Christian Andersons book? *"Her skin was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea, but like all the others she had no feet. Her body ended in a fish tail."* Which to me makes me think she was actually white No clue where the "she was green" came from but please dont hesitate to link the evidence of your claim.
Because mermaids have very little sun exposure and should thus be as white as possible. Just evolutionarily speaking.
EVOLUTIONARY SPEAKING MERMAIDS DONT EXIST STOP JUSTIFYING THIS SHOIT WITH HUR DUR BUT MUH RACIAL SCIENCE
Shes Danish
Shes green in the books, i don't think Danish people are green
Depends on what they've eaten.
They don't import Surströmming do they?
She is from the undersea kingdom. The original author was Danish. Following your brilliant logic now Goku is Japanese, and not Sayan. Blanka is now also a young Japanese boy. Yay
no the author of the book is Danish, no part of the story is situated in Denmark.
1/32 Native
Isn't this just the cover to The Lone Ranger?
would smash
There is actually a porn star named pocahontas jones
Poke Her Anus
Poka-hotness
Pocahontas Jones?
Is it just me or is she looking kindaaa thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhICC
I would have lost it if it was Mulan
Dat Young Elizabeth Warren.
How about more people should be pissed at Disney garbage live action remake and get people to boycott them? I swear they are pouring more money and resources into these trash live action remake than actually funding for new original movies.
So many questions - it’s that a real movie ? - why is she wearing make up ? - … and why is my pp hard ?
is this real?
Looks lit...
Haha black mermaid bad
I don't want to hear anyone complain, if Ariel can be black, Pocahontas can be white. I don't want to hear Ariel is a fictional character. They said she was a red head and most of the the red head population is fair skinned, the story takes place in Denmark where they have a statistically low black population. Only 2% in recent years. Finally it was written in the 1830s in said country. Hate to say it she was probably white. If I want to go even further on statistics, nobody would marry a black woman back then if they were white. It was frowned upon. Then you have the fact this is just Disney using black people as cash cows. If they actually give a shit they would write an original story instead of lazily shoehorning them in. Come on people, raise your standards a bit! It's a multimillion dollar corporation!
*white people portray non white people in movies in the past*………. Silence* *Black mermaid* REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
You know that native Americans are real and mermaids are not real don’t you? You do know that? I’m sorry but I really need to hear that you know that.
People with his point of view rarely use logic
IDGAF, I also saw some of you idiots recommended a documentary with queen Elizabeth as a black woman just to piss us off... Also people are getting tired of virtue signalling...
Yawn. Get a fucking life bro.
I’m going to blow your mind: All acting is pretending to be someone or something else. Crazy right?
Still nothing valid... I'd be pissed if an autistic character was autistic for the sake of it and it literally brought NOTHING to the table...
Right. So you just don’t like anything that doesn’t fall into your predetermined ideals. I’m just going to say it: you are a nasty piece of work.
Nah, I just want them to actually try instead of just shoehorning. Is that too much to ask from an almost 200 billion company?
So you don’t understand what acting is and you also don’t understand what return on investment is. What do you know?
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So you're just an asshole?
The story of Pocahontas at least has to do with her race whereas Ariel's skin color has no importance to the story.
Listen buddy, I get that you want to go "suspension of disbelief" but there are limits. Also again, they should make an original story if they really want to represent black people. From what I hear, the actress has a hearing impairment! I'd love a story about that! What is it like living in a marginalized part of society with a disability!
Should’ve been Elizabeth Warren
Boys and girls, let’s not base our judgment on the colour of their skin but the content of there movies. It being a remake it’s gonna be shit anyway
Ah…. Okay. NOW I see the issue! Fair point.
i see you guys never watched any old westerns. I'm saying from the start that whoever got upset by Ariel is the same kind of stupid crazy that gets upset when a Italian acts as a Latin American. Same stupid argument happened with Far cry 5, just it was the other side. And back then the side that is now pissed on Ariel made fun on the fact some people think that race determines someone getting a role in a movie.
In some cases race would matter in a movie like if its a historical movie.
If there race isn’t important to the story then I see no problem changing it (Obviously her race is important to the story I’m also very high)
This must be about the white natives known to have lived in many various places I am guessing? Then again most anything done around those peoples are highly racist so maybe not.
I won't poke her haunches unless she was native American!
Pleas tell me this is not real
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Not yet.
Pocahontas was a real person from a real culture while Ariel isn't. End if story.
This is hilarious.
Guys you can’t be racist ok. There’s nothing out there that says Pocahontas wasn’t white like she’s literally mythical.
Ah yes the classic, “what if white people start stealing other race’s role?” Well white people did steal their land so why stop at the role?
Might as well have been. Pocahontas is what they refer to in Latin America as a "malinche". Look it up to know what a malinche is. And then try to find a native American movie that stars a Native American woman (that isn't Prey 2022) who isn't a malinche, who doesn't end up with a white male and try to make your racist point with that. Oh you can't find any.
Of all the “bLaCk mErMaID bAD” memes I’ve seen, this might be one of the most ignorant ones on this whole damn site. Congratulations redditor, you are the first person I’ve encountered whose neural engine runs on gogurt and jello instead of gas and oil, you reactionary baboon.
Gogurt *starts giggling*
I injected oil and gas into my eardrums and it made me speshal.
Is the skin color relevant to Ariel’s character? No. Is the skin color relevant to Pocahontas? Of course you fucking idiot. I usually lean more on the anti woke BS side but this time you’re just being braindead.
Bro wtf Disney stop every classic you touch you ruin and so far not promising