‘Little Mermaid’ trailer breaks YouTube ‘dislike’ record due to inclusion controversy

After Disney revealed the first official trailer for ‘The little Mermaid’live action at the D23 Expo 2022, the criticisms of this new production have not stopped, in particular regarding the fact that the protagonist is a black actress who looks very different from the 1989 cartoon. And on the platform video, YouTube already exceeds one million “dislikes”.

It is important to point this out even though YouTube has disabled the “Dislike” button result.there is a chance to see this number with the help of a Google Chrome extension, and it went viral on social networks that second @ZowlOfficial film critic, the trailer for ‘The Little Mermaid’ received more than a million “dislikes”.

This number is quite far from the “likes” result that the official Disney video got, which currently stands at 496,067 at the time of this writing, indicating that the number of people who did not like the video just liked it more than twice as much as those who did.

This brief statistic reveals what has already been seen coming from 2019 when they announced that the actress and singer Halle Bailey she would be tasked with becoming Ariel: the rejection of the public who does not want to see a black actress protagonist on the big screen, despite her evident musical talent in interpreting the great classics.

The audience response to the trailer for the live action “The Little Mermaid” was almost instant, and although many show their support and emotions on social media, many posts have also gone viral in which people express their direct rejection. by actress Halle Bailey, why not be a white actress.

“The Little Mermaid” comes out in May, although it could be a flop

Although the film “The Little Mermaid” has given a lot to talk about and could end up being successful thanks to its great fame, the truth is that the negative and racist comments and reactions that have gone viral from the public have put them at risk. that the debut of this Disney live action may have the good reception that has been seen before with other films such as ‘Aladdin’ or ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

At the moment, Disney keeps the exact date a secret but it is known that the live action of “The Little Mermaid” will be released in theaters in May 2023, so we will have to keep waiting to find out more details on the role of Halle Bailey and her version of Ariel, one of the most loved cartoon princesses for young and oldwhich will finally be represented on the big screen.