How Disney's ¡OYE PRIMOS! Pissed Off Everyone 

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the VA had the most woke white girl take a non-white girl could have. Even her voice has this "I am privileged and don't know what im talking about" tone to it. It's just so funny

She handled that in the most narcissistic way possible. Good lord.

Wow. Just wow. She basically said “You’re cultural identity doesn’t matter because it was forced onto you by conquistadors hundreds of years ago”. That has to be some of the most vile marginalization I’ve ever heard.

The fact that the voice actress literally sabotaged her own show where she is the star while also in the process destroying any possible future relationships with Disney all because she ranted over a simple grammar mistake is kind of hilarious

The fact that they managed to actually offend latinos should tell you enough about how bad this is.

That lady explaining why its ok for the spanish to be inaccurate made me unreasonably angry.

As a Mexican person myself, I feel better represented with speedy González than with any character in this show (or the show itself)

For me it's the smug, condecending way the VA responded 😬

I don't think I've ever felt so personally attacked by an adult. The condescending tone she speaks with was worse than nails on a chalk board.

The “colonizer language” argument loses all weight because I bet she doesn’t speak ancient mesoamerican languages.

" It's okay. I don't know Spanish because it was forced on us by colonial settlers" Then why the hell are you speaking English?

Something I appreciate about Owl House is how Luiz is Hispanic and it's just, accepted. There's not this huge emphasis on it, it's treated alot like it is in real life and while she has a few quirks from it being Hispanic by no means dominates her character, it's just one part of what makes her unique.

the lady explaining why spanish is spoken is quite possibly the worst thing ive ever seen

The fact that the creator offended her OWN PEOPLE and plays the victim instead of apologizing is astounding to me

As a Latina individual, it aches me to know just how little people know of our history. We are in fact a land of conquered people, but we, (or much of us) also share blood with those same conquerors. Whether or not we like it, we do. I feel that when many of our people claim full “native,” heritage, it in so many ways is a slap in the face to our brothers and sisters who are in fact full blooded indigenous. They are treated poorly and much often like side shows by tourists. She was extremely ignorant and agreeably narcissistic, (as someone pointed out earlier), in her speech. Disney really needs to hold this individual accountable. Also as a side note: I know why so many will deny their European ancestry, but it doesn’t erase the fact.

"It's kind of like an American complaining about how British people talk." In fairness, the Brits _do_ get bullied on the regular over how they talk. It just happens to be in the form of memes.

In high school I desperately wanted to be perceived as more Korean than I was (a quarter). I didn't speak the language, I'd never been to Korea, and my understanding of the culture came entirely from hearsay from what my Dad and Grandpa told me it was like. That's how this show feels to me. An American woman who doesn't truly connect to her parents' culture, but desperately wants everyone to think that she does.

To think that the brunt of this drama could have been theoretically avoided if the crew said "Yeah the grammar is incorrect on purpose to lean into a child's diaspora experience with not knowing the ins and outs of their language/culture" instead of indirectly accusing people of ignorance

You forgot to mention that one of the characters is named chacha. If you didn’t know “chacha” is a slur in Mexico that is said towards women that are house workers

offending latinos is like offending or pissing off that one super relaxed and chill friend who you NEVER see mad or annoyed at anything. Thats how much they fucked it up 😂😂

It's a bold move to make a kid's show that purposefully teaches them wrong

It’s crazy to see that for once people are mad at Disney not for being “too woke” but for being too ignorant and offensive

"Her experience in LA" Yep that says it all right there.

That is one of the worst apology videos I've ever seen. She doesn't even apologize, she just waffles on about the Conquistadors for two minutes.

The fact that instead of owning up to the mistakes and apologize they doubled down and tell the people who's culture is made fun of that they are racist and that someone who's "ancester" was mexican knows better than the actual native people is baffling to me. Literally they couldn't come up with more stereotypes because they weren't any left to put in this thing

Funny thing is this wouldn't have exploded if the creative team and VA hadn't engaged with the audience. Man, people got angrier at them than at the actual show.

I’m glad the creator of phineas and ferb isn’t involved in this. Very wholesome guy.

the "you're too dumb to get it" attitude of the crew i believe is what made people more mad. Simply saying "ah yeah but it's oye primos because that's how the girl says it since she's not good at spanish" instead of going on a rant about how correcting gramar is what opresses usa latinamerican immigrants, was a big big difference lol

They canceled the owl house just to turn around and let this show happen? Wow Disney really is godawful.

that crew member's instagram story was so passive aggressive and filled with salt that i actually shriveled up and died like a snail

The Oye Primos theme, but every "Oye Primos" is replaced with a live script-reading of "Eight Crazy Nights"

I feel like the problem is that this show seemed to be promoted as a representation of Mexicans and Mexico, as well as Latinos in general, when really the show was made to be about a Latino based Californian neighborhood. I feel like it just had bad marketing and research

As latino, I can confirm, if some women is called "Cuquita", she'll suffer bullying her entire life and would want to change her name at age of 18

Wow she literally gave one of the worst "I'm sorry you're mad" responses I've ever seen

Seeing cartoons like this being given a massive shot at becoming mainstream popularity only to epicly fail, makes me so mad that genuinely good shows like glitch techs are constantly getting cancelled.

The "shoes on a power line means gangs/drugs" thing is an urban myth, but that doesn't really clear up their use in fiction where that's probably the reason they're being used. It's actually a classist rumor, since shoe toasing tends to happen in lower income neighborhoods. I've lived in areas with little to zero gang activity and seen it all over the place, usually near trailer parks and/or cheaper apartments.

I love how the VA said that it’s not a big deal if someone speaks Spanish incorrectly because it’s a colonizer language. She said this while speaking English…a colonizer language. As a Hispanic-American myself, so much trouble could have been avoided if she just kept quiet.

Calling Spanish a conquistador language (that it is) while speaking English (another conquistador language) is crazy.

Dude when he talked about the foot locker being on the power line i literally cracked up. I can totally see a adult cartoon joke where a Latino cousin who is from the ghetto (and is probably in a gang) gifts a character some shoes and when asked where he got them from it flashes back to either him stealing them or him trying to get off a power line with a broomstick.

My parents are both from Mexico too... And I look white... And I play for both sides and lose. I've never felt anything as deeply as this. So true man.

Let's be honest, what made everything way worse was the response of the crew to the backlash. If they didnt respond with pissed nonsense it would have calmed down in a day *Edit* : keyword here is NONSENSE. If you are going to come at people with your higher morals always right attitude AT LEAST make it make sense and say something logic, not pure bullshit. Im not justifying the hate or death threats.

If Disney wanted a show latinos liked, they could've let the Owl House have the full 4 seasons it needed.

As a Brazilin, I guess I win the whole “colonizer language” conversation. Portuguese is a colonizer language, but there are grammatical and structural differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese (one is stress-timed, the other is syllable-timed) and they usually have to be dubbed separate because of how distinct they are. And there are influences from native tongues that ended up giving many fora and fauna their names in Brazilian portuguese.

The theme song to Disney's Primos is 59 seconds of hell.

The smug on that woman's face as she explains her desire to take a dump on a language hundreds of millions of people speak around the world. Congratulations lady, you're a public relations genius.

It’s pretty hard to offend Latinos. Like, they are EASILY the most laid back about being able to take a joke at a racial level. They love that most portrayals of Spanish characters has them be over the top. So the fact Disney pissed them off THIS hard is impressive.

The VA’s response is giving 2015 Buzzfeed activism.

That Clip Of Beavis & Butthead Was Way Better Than Whatever The Hell This Show Is.

What really pisses me off about that one lady's condescending rant is "Latinos=Native Americans" isn't even correct. On the whole the Latino identity is a complex mix of European, African, and Native American heritage, though the details tend to differ from place to place. But that's why latino is a blanket term that casts a wide net like white or black. So "our ancestors were colonized and forced to use someone else's language" is a shit take because a sizable chunk of her ancestry also includes said colonizers.

I had a co-worker who’s family called her “Gordita.” She was on the heavier side and such a lovely woman; explaining to me that nickname, it was such an odd mix of body shame, but familial pride/love. It was a very sweet sort of uncomfy.

Ok, but outside of the "How do you do, fellow Latinos?" shenanigans, the show's art style is absolutely hideous.

“Get mad at me all you want, we’re making a show for kids are different, for kids who… Don’t have access to Casagrandes on Nickelodeon

The crew behind this cartoon has handled the criticsm SO HORRIBLY, it's embarassing

Just a heads up - “Nacho” is a nickname to people called “Ignacio” in most of Mexico and LATAM. It is rarely thought of the food when spoken, and it’s actually pretty common to use

“Be mad at me all you want” Audience: *is mad* “Surprised pikachu face”

The should just rerun Mucha Lucha and Maya and Miguel. Those shows were fun.

That video from the VA is so patronizing. Yes, we know Spanish was enforced on us, WE AREN’T DUMB! No disrespect to chicanos, but so many of them have this EXTREMELY patronizing/infantilizing view of actual Latinos living in Latin America. They assume we’re too stupid or our countries too ass backwards to actually have any meaningful opinions about our culture, oppression and inclusion. It happened before with the whole “Latinx” discourse, it’s happening again here. Plenty of Latin American countries beat Spain in terms of people who speak the language and its cultural impact. Yes, it was brought over by colonialism, but it’s ours now. If these people seriously care about colonialism so much then they would actually make a show in Guaraní or Náhuatl, but oh no, that would mean dealing with Native Americans, who are much more active about correcting the misuse of their history and culture by outsiders.

This whole controversy is going to go down in public relations history as a prime example of how NOT to react to online criticism.

They really want that Loud House money

I feel like naming the city "Earthquake Heights" has got to be the most tone deaf insensitive thing I have ever seen.

Disney is being slammed by their international audience, never thought I'd see the day.

Anyone else think that the premise, a large Spanish speaking familiar coming north of the border and causing chaos, can become fodder for racists unless they handle it extremely carefully? I'm reminded of the whole "anchor baby" thing from a few years ago.

I noticed a kid in the show looks similar to Frida Kahlo, a Mexican painter. But it doesn’t look good since I don’t think that her likeness translate well into a kid appearance in the way they did it.

Man this all felt so easy to walk back, then that lady came out and said "actually spanish was forced on us and i dont care if we get it wrong" and then shit became unsalvagable

The mispronunciation of *"Hey cousins"* could've been made funny if they poked fun at it like they did in Spiderverse. Where Miles says "I like Chai Tea" and the other Spiderman was like, "Did you say CHAI TEA?! CHAI means TEA. you just said 'TEA TEA'! " EDIT: *AYO!?* How did this blow up from 200 likes and 6 comments to 2.5k and 32 comments in just a day?!

The ironic thing about her calling Spanish a colonizer language is that if you asked your average American, they think of Spanish as being the language of Mexico rather than Spain. Same with Portugese, no one thinks of Portugal. They think of Brazil. The "Colonizer Language" doesn't even belong to the colonizers anymore.

Her condescending tone is so infuriating it's almost like she wants everyone to despise her

Absolutely crazy that Disney not only released a show with a title that doesn't make sense but then let the creator come out and make a patronising video about how it's actually *good* that she can't speak Spanish well because colonialism is bad and kids are morons.

Im sorry Disney but we ALREADY have perfect representation of Hispanic Fellas E L T I G R E 💪🐯

She didn't even mispronounced or mispelled Spanish, she straight up f'ed up the grammar, like saying "I are" which in no dialect is correct.

Wow, she sure was aggressive

I get that the creator may not be fluent in Spanish herself but getting the grammar wrong for the title of an entire television production on a mainstream network is embarrassing lmao

As a Mexican that lives near the border, the problem I have with things like this and The Casagrandes is that they feel really pandering with its cultural elements, they don’t do it organically.

Damn she was on a most hated show speedrun with those responses, glad to see Disney only hires the most talented and compassionate people.

I can relate. Growing up in the deep forests and mountains, and learning only broken cryptidtongue, it's hard

That woman (2:40) could not have sounded any more insufferable if she wanted to.

I'm latino myself, but from one of the few countries that don't speak spanish (I'm from Brazil). And we had our own show based on the creator's childhood, Jorel's Brother. But people here actually liked it because it was a pretty funny and accurate portrayal of how brazilian childhood was like in the 80's and 90's; I feel the problem people had with 'Oye Primos' was that even if it's based on the creator's childhood, the responses given by her and other people in the production were pretty tone-deaf. Instead of explaining things like "yeah she says Oye Primos wrong because she don't know how to speak spanish very properly" they doubled down on calling others out; I must say: if you want to do a show based on your childhood, at least listen to people saying some stuff you chose sound a bit offensive. Doubling down and basically shitting on others is pretty sucky. Also "This is why we feel ashamed to represent our Latinidad" and saying someone is being offensive to the 'Latino diaspora' while attacking someone who's from and still lives in a Latino country? I'm sorry to say, but that's the most gringo stuff I ever saw. If you don't want to be called out, don't act like one, and attack someone who's also a latino just because they do'nt live in US.

Did this even come out? I heard about the controversy when it happened and literally nothing else, it'd be hilarious if it never actually aired

If you're Mexican you're most likely a mix of Spaniard and Native American. Both ethnicities mixed a lot during centuries, as Spaniards were allowed to wed Native Americans as long as they converted to Christianity. Do as you please with that information

7:55 The nickname "Nacho" is actually just a simplified version of "Ignacio". Similar to how someone named "Eduardo" would be called "Lalo", or how "Dolores" would be "Lola". Just wanted to point out that it's not a nickname given to someone just because they're Mexican.

I just feel sorry for the teams of animators who have to animate 13+ characters in scenes.

"for kids who feel left out" "For kids that are racist"

She says its for kids that "feel left out" and kids that are "different" You know I remember this one show that did that really well, it had a fantasy vibe while maintaining a relatable main character. It also had LGBTQ relationships and a Latin American main character. But Disney ended up cancelling it and only brought it back when people got upset. Can you tell I'm talking about The Owl house yet?

At my old job there were these two guys that worked the dairy stuff together. One was Mexican and the other was Filipino so the nickname they came up for themselves was Beans and Rice.

I love the fact that not only does she make a video trying to justify her Lazyness in learning spanish, it also seems she couldn't even bother getting out of bed to make it.

An anime about someone living in Tsunami city could be metal af. I'd watch that. As for the topic, I'm not Mexican or Mexican-American, not educated in their issues, I'm just observing from the side. A lot of the controversy sounds like nitpicks to me, but when someone who knows more than a layman does tries to dissect flaws in something they specialize in, it can have this kind of effect on an outsider. I won't be opposed to watching the show, it's interesting how it might turn out, and I can imagine it must be painful to try to tell a story about your own childhood and be met with "that's a stereotype, sis, you are being racist against yourself, and also, you are speaking your language wrong". Then again, if a Russian-American tried to make a cartoon about a Russian family and got everything wrong, from the language to the culture, wouldn't I find it weird and cringe a bit at the result? Anyway, let's wait for the finished product and judge that. Don't jump on the hate train until you've seen the thing.

Velma: Finally a worthy opponent, Our battle will be legendary !

Between this show ticking off all hispanics and that Netflix Cleopatra being so inaccurate Egypt is suing it, i think American media companies are starting to realize that they can't just portray stereotypes of foreign countries and calling anyone who criticize them ignorant or racist

As a Colombian, I think that just because the spanish language wasn’t invented by us doesn’t mean we get to disrespect it, and that lady is absolutely in the wrong and I find how narcissistic she’s being along with how she’s victimizing herself really damn annoying. Edit: I can barely speak spanish so I can’t understand the replies I feel like such a gringo lol 😂

If she is against Spanish being spoken correctly because it is a colonizer language, why didn't she advocate for the show to be in Mayan or one of the many indigenous languages spoken in Mexico? Also she says that Spanish is, "...a language the Spanish conquistadors forced upon Latin American people"....Does she even hear herself?

The irony of that lady talking about how she doesn't care if she speaks Spanish incorrectly, because it's the language of an imperial power. While she's speaking in perfect English

Amazing how she had the gall to call Spanish a ''colonizer language''... While speaking english

Honestly if the VA didnt say the spanish shit and the crew just clarified this was a show about Chicanos I feel like the drama would have died down almost instantly as everyone p much goes "Oh is abt chicanos that makes it make more sense".

Shoutout to the passing White-Hispanics-Latinos whom are dejected by all! 👍🏻

She forgot the part that people in Latin America chose to speak Spanish for like past 200 years

Calling a town in Mexico “Terremoto Heights“ is like naming a town in Japan “Tsunami Hills”

I'm a mexican born raised and living in Mexico so I think I can say why people from Latin America are mad. It's very true that Spanish is different across countries and territories but across every LATAM country Oye is still wrongly used in the way the show puts it. I get why it would reflect a Mexican American experience not knowing Spanish, but to many it felt like it was badly translated due to lack of reaserch, since we don't really have the insight about those experiences. That leads to the second point, I think. Latin American people are tired of being represented not as ourselves but as our "American" counterpart. It reminds me of when there was a Latino event on Twitch and Latin American audiences were happy to have Latin American, Spanish speaking content creators featured in the spotlight, only to find out it would be focused on 2nd or 3rd generation American Latinos who speak English. These shows may be made in the US, but they still get distributed, dubbed and showed in Latin America. A lot of us just don't resonate with American "latinidad". Some of us dislike being portrayed as something that to us, feels like a caricature. Chicano and Mexican experiences are just too vastly different now I'm afraid. Things that may be a source of pride to American Latinos may just feel like stereotypes to us, like being the loud fun ones, or being told we live in crammed spaces, we're called things like Nacho (which is true btw! it just feels like a name American people wouldn't know isn't related to the food), being associated with dancing and only one type of music, and even being called Latinos. We all feel Mexican or Peruvian or Chilean, etc., before feeling "Latino". We do have a sense of comaradery but we aren't a monolith. Many of us dislike how one note American Latino stuff feels to us in this regard, and it's all we have. It feels like people over there don't know there are Latinos in. You know, actual Latin America. That being said, I think the hatred is WAY overblown. People over here also love drama and dog piling on the internet as much as in the US, and honestly, even if the people of the show took a "more righteous than you" approach by telling us to shut up cause we speak a colonist language, I think it must be deeply hurtful and scary to have such a vitriolic response to something you based on your own life, especially since I hear a lot that feeling you don't belong is something many immigrant kids deal with from both sides.

The show reminds me of “Celebrate Our Differences”

“We’re trying to make a show for kids who don’t have a full grasp on any language” yeah I can tell