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Ooh, I finally got round to watching your stuff and you've started uploading again. I've never watched this show and probably won't (and doubly not the new adaptation), but I sure did enjoy your video. To see people minimise this issue is sad, and I don't really understand how they don't understand that it's real and it's kind of serious. As serious as any other issue of representation at least. Sometimes I think focusing on media stuff is a distraction, but it's so pervasive and has such power over so many people that we do need to talk about it.
I'm reading The New Jim Crow right now, and it reminds me that just the way everything adapts to reproduce the same power structure in the general foundations of society, you can see this reflected in the media produced by that society. People complain about lack of representation, so they adapt by offering representation on a superficial level mixed in with some plausible deniability, intentionally lightening characters to appeal to the same prejudices built into the aforesaid power structure. Very simple when you think about it.
Glad to see this channel up and running again
I only heard about it after the vaush stream
Went back through old videos
Then when the world needed her most
She disappeared
Lol
But I guess she is back
Love it
Well, it seems being white is still considered as being desirable, so as movies are made to make people dream, they cast white people in priority because darker skin is synonymous with nightmare and poverty… The opposite of glamour. As climate changes to hotter and harsher conditions, we dark skinned folks will soon be envied for our greater resistance to the sun and skin cancer. The optics will shift in 10 years. When being white will equate to burning in the heat (ask Australia, it's a big problem there) and they won't be able to walk outside for long in the summer, it will be our time to shine. Hollywood is all about what makes people daydream, what they wish to be instead of ordinary folks. Now nobody wishes to be black, but it will soon change. The darker your skin, the better your life will be in the future.
It's just a thought… I saw for the first time an advantage in being brown last summer, when it was 40°C and all my white friends were sunburnt.
Youtube sucks. Why am I just finding this channel. Great discussion.
M Night Shyamalan has ALWAYS been a pick-me. He is a prime example of how badly many Asians/ Asian-Americans will go numerous lengths for white-validation even if it's at the expense of his own people. A decades- long career as a director and hardly any brown-skinned leading roles. Just shameful
I felt the same way about casting not solely naitive people, but inuit.
Unfortunately to many this is one of those "invisible" issues that you don't notice or care for unless you yourself are brown skinned.
Out of 4 siblings, me and my brother got brown skin while my two sisters are pale.
It's crazy the difference in representation we got growing up watching cartoons. I remember my 2 sisters having heaps of characters that looked like them and I always just picked my favorite and said that ones me but not brown. As sisters we would always watch those female lead shows like Powerpuff girls, totally spies, Winx, w.i.t.c.h, sailor moon and other such shows. The glaring difference was my sisters could always feel like they could be part of the show and characters and pick which character they were, while I had none time and time again. And whenever there did happen to be that 1 brown character, that was always "close enough" so I had to be that one.
Awesome video
This was so incredibly well done, thank you so much. It's so frustrating seeing phenomenal characters of color having this shit happen to them over and over. We all deserve better. 🤬 Representation, colorism, etc, all the topics discussed here… why is it so hard for others to understand such basic human emotions of wanting to be seen and understood? Boggles the mind!
Also, we need to talk more about how Native peoples — like so many other large groups — are treated as a monolith. This group literally spans 2 continents; OF COURSE there's going to be a huge difference between Inuit peoples and other Native tribes, wtf!! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Netflix really thought people weren't going to notice just because they got indigenous and asian actors in the show. If white avatar fans noticed how whitewashed and messed up the live action avatar movie was, they are definitely going to notice how light the water tribe is compared to the cartoon show. Yes, indigenous people can have various skin shades but the average non-indigenious person is not going to look at sokka's actor and see an indigenous person. (All they are going to see is a white guy pretending to be sokka.)
Instant sub. Honestly I’m so glad you made this video. As an aspiring (black) writer/animator/manga artist/ storyteller, this reminded me of another reason why I need to do this. To tell these stories, to write characters that I, and that we, can see ourselves in.
OMG crying
I'm white and dating a very dark skinned black man. I've been doing a lot of research and owe so much to your channel and others in educating me bc I could not put that on him. I'm learning to step aside and listen, to detect and unlearn my unrecognized racism. I'll share every video (and stay the fuck in my own lane)
16:49 i like this video. However, I do have to point out that the picture of Ariana on the right is edited.
Maybe you do it later and I haven't gotten there yet, but can someone name the darker actors they would have cast for these characters?
9:13 I'd like to point out that a shadow was colour picked from. Not a midtone.
As a dark-skinned indigenous person, it was really disheartening to me that the actors for the new live action weren't their original skintones. When I was a kid, I loved Katara and Sokka because they were close to my skintone and I felt seen. Taking that away and not even casting anyone that's inuit was like 2 metaphorical stabs in the back.Like sure, anyone could metaphorically play the character, but their ethnicity played a big role too so it's eh.
is it just me or i has anyone else always thought the water nation is supposed to be Alaskan not US native?
its just disappointing not seeing the characters i love actually coming to life in live actual. They dont look like the characters….like at all
Katara is one of the only darker skinned non-black animated character out there. Some of the few others being Moana and Isabella from Encanto. It is soooo important that we get the casting right.
Save your tears… , it's just evidence that they've broken you and that's the point.
The real issue here is that we who feel erased don't produce our own projects that cater to this specific subject, we instead latch on to established material made by people who like to see themselves as much as we do or have characters who cater to the dominant society.
Stop attaching your identity to things that don't clearly portray you, it's alright to enjoy things that don't represent you, however you set yourself up to be disappointed by doing so.
There are stories about people who represent you, find them, support them.
Yes! Thank you! This is why I can't get behind some of the casting.
The fact that people are trying so hard to ignore serious colorism is concerning.
Okay but are there any Inuit actors? Cause ong seemed like a good casting choice but his acting was bad. So I think even tho the actors are lighter they’re probably good actors.
as an arab woman it's so refreshing to hear the topic of colourism being discussed, in relation to all racialized people. I've always noticed how when arabs and other middle eastern/north african people are portrayed in media, their skin tone correlated with how much they are presented as humans and to what degree you should be empathizing with them. darker skin = bad guy, barbaric, oriental horde, ugly, stupid, speaking with stereotypical arabic accent or broken arabic, and often conservative and patriarchal. lighter skin = good guy, civilized, pretty, thoughtful and approximate to western ideals of virtue, speaking perfect english with a native accent and sometimes even played buy a white actor (or a westerner of arab ethnicity). this media is made for white people, who are more likely to empathize with someone who could pass as white, and not have a problem with dehumanization of people who are visibly not white.
I remember someone saying that they don't have darker skin protagonists because people will not for care them or relate to them 😐😑😐 this makes no sense to me since dark skinned poc have no problem relating and caring for lighter skinned protagonists.
I'm whiter than white and I'm affected by the casting. I want them to look like the actual characters. Instead, it seems like the entire cast is just… generic asian. The cartoon had such great identity to each area of the world, now it seems completely homogenous.
My biggest fear is that this is going to be used as an excuse to erase the voices and experiences of Native people. It's already happened.
Small Correction concerning Bee & Puppycat:
Lazy in Space was created years before it debuted on Netflix and they had absolutely zero involvement with the production of, design, creative decisions, and animation of the show. The only thing Netflix did was house the episodes (which were previously leaked online) and this was a completely internal decision made by the people behind the show.
I would also like to add that B&P features many darker-skinned and black characters; all of whom (except for two – who are still both not black) are voiced by white people (despite black actors being present in the cast – though often reserved for anything but a starring role) with white features, incorrect hands, and generally just exist as white characters who happen to inhabit black bodies.
Watching the show growing up I knew they weren't black, but I was able to project myself onto these characters. Especially as a kid who grew up without parents and had gone through parentification very young. Especially since there were no black disney princesses, I gravitated to brown characters to see myself. I hated hearing in playtime with other kids that I couldn't be "insert character" because of my skin, so seeing brown people be not only beautiful, but having full range of humanity was so satisfying.
As a latin mixed person, I can share that I've always seen shows casting white passing latins as "inclusivity", even tho most of latin folk is mixed, or black; so I kinda feel offended when companies choose to cast only white latins and definately can ressonante with the topics you explained on this video. Thank you.
I was literally just thinking this. I don’t want them to fire the actors that they already hired, but I very much wished they had just found actors that actually looked like Sokka and Katara. And it’s not even like they’re all that tanned either
Even as a light skin black girl, Sokka and Katara – especially Katara – meant everything to me as a kid watching this show. I felt seen even though i knew she wasn’t black. I didn’t understand all the nuances until i was an adult but her being darker mattered a lot to me. To be honest i don’t often identify with a lot of light skin black characters in media bc i still feel not light enough (or not having light eyes and loose curly hair, one white parent) to relate fully. No matter the race, the range of representation is imperative to us all.