Twitter users are going off after noticing the official Little Mermaid trailer posted on the Walt Disney Studios’ YouTube channel received over 1.5 million dislikes. On Youtube, the trailer has gathered 15 million views and counting in a matter of 5 days
The video currently has 727,000 likes, but Disney recently disabled the dislikes after receiving 1.5 million thumbs-downs in just two days, according to The Daily Mail.
Everyone who dislikes the new Little Mermaid due to Halle being black, deserves a very horrible life. Call it what y’all want, but it’s deep rooted racism.
— CHINA KELLY (@chinakellyy) September 10, 2022
Some Twitter users feel folks are jealous that the Grownish star, Halle Bailey is playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid. One Twitter user slammed folks saying, “the little mermaid teaser trailer having 1m dislikes is actually f*king pathetic. and the thing is… the teaser actually looks good… yall just hate the fact that halle bailey is playing ariel”
Another person wrote, “1.5 million dislikes on The Little Mermaid trailer…..Why? because she’s black? Mermaids are fantasy creatures and aren’t supposed to be tied to any skin color. Stay mad.”
The Little Mermaid trailer having 1 million dislikes is crazy because what else other than Ariel being black are they mad at, like 😒
— naya (@repezez) September 11, 2022
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“It is BLATANTLY clear that the only reason someone would dislike the trailer is because Ariel is now played by a Black actress. So y’all are racist,” read a tweet posted on Wednesday.
#Socialites, how are we feeling about people purposely disliking the trailer?