(CNN) — Ever since Disney released the first look for its 2023 live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid," the internet has been sodden with wave after wave of racist critics complaining that Ariel, the completely fictional underwater fish woman, shouldn't be Black. Hashtags like #notmyariel are bouncing around social media, and YouTube hid the dislike counter on the official video after it was bombarded with racist comments and more than 1.5 million "dislikes." One group of critics went as far as to share a digitally altered version of the teaser that featured a White woman in place of the movie's star Halle Bailey, who they called a "woke actress.

The Yomiuri ShimbunMermaid Swim The Yomiuri Shimbun< 14:38 JST, September 18, 2022 People enjoy swimming in a pool while dressed like mermaids in Minami Ward, Nagoya City. This new kind of 'Mermaid Swimming,' while wearing colorful swimsuits and mermaid-like fins, is gaining popularity. Mermaid Academy Japan offers practice sessions for mermaid swimming. At a session held on Sept. 4, 16 people from around the city swam in the 5-meter-deep pool, skillfully using large fins attached to their feet while wriggling their entire bodies.

The internet has been buzzing with excitement since the trailer of The Little Mermaid dropped. Adorable videos of young Black girls in awe as they see Black Ariel have taken the internet by storm.Sadly, there have also been stories of those who disapprove of the casting choice, some going as far as to use A.I. to make Ariel white.Now, a new video has surfaced, this one featuring The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh disputing the casting of the fictional fairy tale character because of...science.In the video, Walsh stated:"Also, by the way, with The Little Mermaid – can we also just mention that, from a scientific perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean.

First Prev Next Last Nina London with her friend Inna Podgaits (Photograph by Dana Leroux)On Saturday evening the last full moon of summer rose out of the reluctant sea, ascending through the embrace of clouds that sought in vain to hold back one of the last calm nights of summer.The moon's shimmer poured its quicksilver path across the gentle swells straight into the hearts of fifteen silent women moving gracefully beneath the fading purple dusk on the pure white sands of Bermuda's south shore.Behind us a bonfire threw shadows on the battered limestone cliffs, and the wind's gentle whisper was lost in the crackle of burning driftwood.

image by Nseh BenajahRepresentation matters, and so I'm paying close attention to Halle Bailey's turn as Ariel, aka, the little mermaid, in the upcoming remake of the classic Disney film. Since they released a teaser last week, my attention has been particularly celebratory, besotted, motherly: the TikTok videos of young brown girls beaming with astonished, unfiltered joy as…

During a recent segment on his Daily Wire show, host Matt Walsh responded to a viewer who said that Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid featuring Halle Bailey, who is Black, as the lead character was an example of ‘white erasure' — a sentiment that Walsh agreed with. '…what I cannot abide by is the double-standard thing where we say the race in casting matters only for certain races and not for others,' Walsh said, adding that 'from a scientific perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean.

Who knew that only white folks lived in FantasyLand? At least that's the way it appears with all the unbelievable backlash from the new Disney movie, The Little Mermaid. The live-action adaptation of the popular Disney princess film starring Grown-ish actress Halle Bailey, 22, as the iconic Ariel has garnered over 1.5 million dislikes on YouTube. It's so bad that the video sharing platform disabled the dislike counter so people can't see how many dislikes the trailer has garnered. The highly anticipated trailer captured the hearts of many devoted Disney fans when it premiered, but almost immediately the hype surrounding the trailer was overshadowed by trolls who took to social media for online racial attacks.

The first trailer for the brand new The Little Mermaid movie has arrived and it's got fans really excited for the upcoming film. It's due to be released in May 2023 and is a live-action adaptation of the 1989 animation of the same name with a star-studded cast. Halle Bailey takes the lead role of Ariel, with Jonah Hauer-King playing Prince Eric and Melissa McCarthy starring as the evil sea witch Ursula. Lots of fans are applauding Walt Disney Pictures and director Rob Marshall for casting a black woman as Ariel, but some are upset that she doesn't look like the original character.

Credit: Disney The discussion over the upcoming live-action movie The Little Mermaid is getting heated. Credit: D23 During this year's D23 Expo, The Walt Disney Company unveiled the first official trailer for The Little Mermaid (2023), and Disney fans' first official glimpse at Halle Bailey's Ariel. This new film will be a reimagining of the 1989 Disney Renaissance classic, The Little Mermaid starring Jodi Benson as the youngest red-haired daughter of the Sea King, King Triton (Kenneth Mars), who journeys onto land to find her love, Prince Eric (Christopher Daniel Barnes) after bargaining away her voice to Ursula, the Sea Witch (Pat Carroll).

Little Mermaid star Halle Bailey has said she is 'in awe' of the reaction to the film's trailer, which was released to the public on 10 September during Disney's D23 fan expo.Bailey, who plays Ariel in a live action remake of Disney's successful 1989 animation, was responding to a Brazilian tweet captioned: 'Compilation of the reaction of black children seeing Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little Mermaid'. Bailey posted a message in response saying: 'People have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and i'm in truly in awe … this means the world to me.

The Daily Show's Trevor Noah was sounding off on 'Earth's biggest dick' Ron DeSantis for sending two planeloads of migrants to Martha's Vineyard on Thursday night when he made a hard pivot to a different type of troll.'While American lawmakers are arguing about what's happening at land borders, Americans on the internet are at war about what's happening under the sea,' the host said before presenting a summary of the racist backlash to Disney's decision to cast a Black actress as Ariel in the upcoming live-action film version of The Little Mermaid.

One of my favorite television shows, when I was about thirteen, was 'H2O: Just Add Water.' For those of you who aren't acquainted with this absolute classic, the show follows three high school girls — Cleo, Emma, and Rikki — on their adventures after they become mermaids one night in a suspiciously well-lit cave in the middle of a deserted island. (And to find out how they happened to be in said cave on said deserted island, I leave it to the reader to do their own investigating.) Now, the crucial thing to understand here is that Cleo, Emma, and Rikki are not in their mermaid forms all the time.

Mermaids' mad ideas about gender cannot withstand even the slightest scrutiny. SNP MP John Nicolson was bristling as he stared across the courtroom at barrister Karon Monaghan KC, counsel for the LGB Alliance. ‘I know what a lesbian is', he told the court on Tuesday. Monaghan, herself a lesbian, somewhat drily replied: ‘I take nothing for granted.' This is because Nicolson, deputy chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights, believes that straight men ought to be accepted as gay women if that is how they identify.

Its over for wokecels, the users caption read.

A man has today expressed his outrage that a mermaid could have black skin. As a new trailer for the live-action Disney classic, Litte Mermaid, was released, grown men had decided to get cross about it because all mermaids have white skin and red hair. Simon Williams, 45, is suitably distressed by the casting choices in a children's film. He told us, 'These films need to have at least a foot based in reality, and how is a black mermaid in any way realistic? Everyone knows mermaids are curvy and white with red hair, or smoking hot blondes like in Splash.

'Little Mermaid' reactions hit social media as users share emotional videos of Black girls reacting to Halle Bailey playing a Black Ariel.