How Moon Girl Destroys Gentrification 

Moon Girl brought an very important subject when it comes to Gentrification. Do you think it handled the topic well?

One part I particularly enjoyed is how they tackled people in power being complicit - in this case, the Mayor felt hesitant to back out of the deal because he didn't want to admit he had indirectly done all of this damage to his own community by allowing the Mufflers to gentrify it. It's only when Moon Girl rallied up the community that the Mayor gained the courage to join them.

All the ends sequences are golden but the Muzzlers *literally* stealing the voices of the community and forcing them into that monotone void, only for the community to push back and be heard in any way possible until they couldn’t be ignored, Now that’s what we call ✨🌕 Moon Girl Magic 🌕✨

There’s one thing I really can’t forgive the episode for… Devil didn’t get any protest swag!!! They covered him in glitter before he could’ve got some paint splashes to match Moon Girl 😩

white moon girl in the thumbnail is fucking cursed lmaooo

Yeah, that's something a lot of superhero shows forget, the people that live there. The townspeople are usually absent or just dumbed down like Townsville in Powerpuff Girls.

What I really love so much about animation aiming at children is how its pushing further into these kind of topics that people thought its only something for adults to discuss and debate about. We see more shows present LGBTQIA+ representation, trauma, racism, etc., because the fact that kids are smarter than they look and knows what is wrong in this world and want to make things better. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur go further with that episode about gentrification, along with another one about Black Girls hair, and maybe more to come and they did it in the best way they can.

As someone previously unfamiliar with the term "gentrification" it's so interesting to me how what u describe it as and what it's described as in a wikipedia article r 2 completely different processes. Wikipedia describes it as "new people moving into backwater neighbourhoods of the city, renovating it, restoring it, making it attractive to tourists and increasing quality of life there", which r all good things. And I guess this would be good, had the newcomers respected the traditions of those who already live in there. And I like how the show basically explains that. But what u r describing (and what ended up happening in the show) feels less like "new people move in and make the economy more stable" and more like "a corporation suddenly takes interest in a real estate in the neighbourhood and ruins everyone's life to get it". And despite the fact that I'm unfamiliar with the term, I'm very familiar with such situations. I live in Kyiv and on a square near my home there used to be a line-up of small stands with various bussinesses. Coffee shops, hand-made, barber shops etc. I never used them but I always saw people hanging out there shopping. I always thought they could use some decorations, but I could see the usefullness they brought to others. Actually no, our family did buy fish from a stand there. It was a fine fish for a price like nowhere else. But then 1 day when I went to catch a tram to school I saw that all those stands were demolished. Only a bunch of plastic and glass was left behind. But the worst part was that the shop owners weren't even allowed to save their goods before it happened, so among the ruins there lied strings, needles, toys, pieces of equipment etc. A truly depressing picture. Now there's a bussiness center and a small green zone with a fountain on that square. I used to enjoy that fountain and the bussiness center looks pretty cool, but I can't stop thinking abt all the people who owned those shops or worked there. What happened to them?

I'm glad they aimed the same accurately at this: they put the blame in the corporations that cause the problems. So many people and media fall into trap of just blaming the "hipsters" who choose to live there.

It's episodes like this that really remind me how much this is gonna resonate with and empower black kids especially, and that makes me smile.

Reviews like this have me wish Moom Girl wasn't a Disney+ exclusive- it seems like a wonderful show that covers serious topics, without letting that bring down the energy of the show. I believe the show's by the Rise of the TMNT crew, and I love seeing the comiclike looks carry on. Plus, symbolism of sound- I love that.

thank you for this.

Something I also noticed was Beyonder introducing Marcy and Marty from the get-go, which typically happens after the villain gets screentime. Even the Beyonder makes it clear that they’re the bad guys from the moment they arrive.

I'm really happy and proud of the crew for this show not sugarcoating these subjects. This episode, the hair one. It's an incredibly strong start. It's really filling the static shock shaped hole in my heart

Makes sense this episode tackled gentrification that way. At least two creatives lived in NYC during times of gentrification.

I also love this episode for how Moon Girl relies on and uses the community. The idea of her using noise to defeat the villain speaks a lot since it is noise politics that is used by protesters especially those of black and brown communities to disrupt the business of those in power like politicians or capitalist. The use of noise speaks to a deeper idea within the series which is that music has deep cultural resonance for black and latinx communities because of it's historical ties to expression even as that expression is criminalized at different points. Finally, I like that it also speaks to the racial dynamics at play here. It's making a subtle statement about how minority communities get coded as loud whereas white communities are quiet and peaceful; Although when you see it through the eyes of the people being affected it is unjust because their expression is being policed.

The episode really did it right and it was really good.

Considering how pale Marcy and Marty look, I'm worried conservatives will miss the point of the episode and think "The media is trying to tell us all white people are inherently racist 😡"

Very interesting how they're shown pretty explicitly as tech bros. The way I've seen a lot of cities go is to make themselves prime real estate for tech companies, at the cost of not just existing industries, but mostly at the expense of local citizens. Look at how big the bidding war was for american cities to try and draw the new amazon HQ to their city was, massive tax breaks and land grants for amazon with little to no revenue actually going to the city, and without much actually going towards the citizens. It's even worse with cities trying to be "innovation centers" like silicon valley. Most startups are probably going to crash and burn, and even the ones that work well have no real product, no real impact on the local community. Sure, it's a consequence of our highly financialized economy, especially here in new york, but the idea that these startups will be our salvation is becoming more and more prevalent among the powerful. This sort of situation doesn't only happen here, it's gonna be more and more prevalent as long as our economy stays this way.

I really need to get on this show. I’ve been seeing nothing but praise for it, and I love the vibes I’ve seen from the clips of it

It's one thing to fix up a fence it's another thing to kick out the person that owns the fence

I fucking LOVE this episode. Been listening to The Wave on repeat for a week.

This show is phenomenal, really. Takes complex social problems, and makes them easy to digest and fun.

I loved how they did the scene where the Muzzlers literally take away the voices of the community, it was literally disturbing and upsetting! I was in a room alone with headphones in, so when it went quiet it went QUIET. Then when the community fights back and the music returns it felt amazing! Moon Girl Magic

I first heard of the word from Tuca and Bertie when The Moss was a landlord etc, I was very confused by what the character called a ‘gentrificaters’ meant. She had matcha cupcakes and I love matcha so I thought I was one since I didn’t know what the word meant.

We literally talked about Gentrification a little bit in one of my college classes today, March 24th, 2023.

Oh that episode! Your analysis and remembering what happened in that episodes makes more sense. I think they handled it well

Man, it seems like I've only missed 2 episodes of this: Goodnight, Moon Girl & Like Mother, Like Moon Girl.

when you said one of your favourite things about the show was the sense of community... felt my man, very much felt. i adore the community in this show & its really nice to see in a world where lots of people don't really have that sense of community

Best thing I saw about gentrification is a tumblr post of someones neighbor doing the opposite. Said neighbor keeps the rent and land prices down by regularly firing their gun into the sky at night.

this video ACTUALLY HELPS me DISCOVER and LEARN about GENTRIFICATION and its impact and that ACUALLY MAKES IT EASY TO ENJOY WHILE I'M WATCHING IT TOO

This actually happening in LES right now, i grew up in Houston street we have an amazing community but now its slowly dying hotels new apartments and bars expensive food chains are taking over

It really a surprise? Marty's voiced by Chip Whistler.

Omg this episode was the absolute best! I love it when people fight for their rights! And the music, Omg, so good!

They did it better than the proud family remake

For a second I thought the Mullers were going to be revealed to be Skrulls or some other alien invaders. 👽

There’s some weird lack of self awareness going on here, glad they did this

Great video as usual dude.

This shows artstyle is gorgeous. This video really convinced me to check it out

Huh, how very interesting, it’s good to know that this Show is doing well, i wonder what kind of Episodes we can expect next? What would you like to see next? Also, what is Gentrification exactly? I don’t know if i’ve heard of it or not.

This is one of the episodes that I had this slightly skimmed through because the villains get on my nerves everything else was fantastic I love the rest of the episode maybe it's because I've actually met villains like those. Or watch the news too much I mean they are slightly more human than Mark Zuckerberg who I swear is that Android! Built by an alien race that has no concept of emotional displacement. But yeah this screams exactly what corporate CEO's are like which is not understanding how money works, purposely putting out products that are terrible, and finally the real reason why I say gentrification is just a new word for the word corporate ghost town because they were doing everything they can to make sure that nothing stays! I mean they wanna get rid of the roller ring and cut out all the music that towns like somebody who has not even understand the concept of living in a neighborhood I live out in the boonies and I know what it sounds like with music and pop sounds! And half of these gentrification people always want to make tourist towns without understanding in the big budget that comes from tourists is hotels which you don't have in your gentrification design 95% of the time, with the atmosphere of a restaurant where people can sit and talk with the locals and get to know the culture you know the thing that people go to vacations to enjoy not to see mark zuckerberg's attempt to understand human interaction. Again listening to the news kind of helps but yeah I love the episode.

in Australia Melbourne became more of a tourist hot spot thanks to insane amounts of graffiti, our countrys relies on alot of tourism money so :D

As someone whose experienced living in neighborhood that has been gentrified and has looked over the economic aspect of it, it is certainly a mixed bag. On one hand, neighborhoods/districts targeted for gentrification are provided better funding, initiatives designed to make streets cleaner and safer, and overall helps businesses within the district by making the place more appealing to visit. However, the biggest issue comes with housing, and the supply/demand shift that potentially affects the community within these areas. Then it's further exasperated by increased local taxes from the initial funding, causing property values to increase, thus increasing rent and home prices. This eventually displaces the local community, including businesses that can't keep up with these new costs. I have seen some methods of mitigating this issue, especially in New York (though they're obviously not good at it), where they will subsidize new housing units (condos, apartments and townhouses) with the promise that they set aside a portion of them for low income buyers/renters. As I mentioned, it's not perfect, and unfortunately we've found ourselves in a trend that can't be stopped for the most part. Cities years back were far more populated with your average working class family, with wealthier folks living in the edges (the suburbs) or further out. It's just recently that we seem to have a larger uptick of young professional, most upper-middle/low-upper class, moving into these cities. All in all, as much as it's easier to point at larger corporate entities driving out small communities, it's more accurate to say that it's multiple economic forces driving these changes. Simply put, everybody wants to live in the city (either by changes in generational desires or convenience), big companies understand that so they move their assets to these cities, the cities get a boost of money and begin improving local neighborhoods, and then things consequentially get more expensive.

11:15 that's ACTUALLY MEANINGFUL to see and also enjoyable too by chance too

Great video

I still haven't seen that episode, but I was intrigued about this gentrification thing. Tbh gentrification usually gets me mad, since a lot of people from other countries dare to como to my country (I'm from Mexico) and force everyone to adapt to them instead of doing it the other way. The worst? Whitexicans (people from Mexico that have more money than the average) support these people and make less the majority of the people, saying things like "well if you don't agree with it, work for it! Stop complaining, you lazy dude, and work for it!" Oh yeah, of course I wanna work more than what it's supposed, not getting paid extra hours, making enough for survival while my area is slowly rising prices to adapt to the new outsiders :D

Hmm I never heard of that word before but Moon Girl and Devil Dinosuar is a very cool show

Bro I have no idea how I haven’t seen this show before but I’m gonna go watch it now 🤔

I used to live in a suburb outside of Chicago near the woods. after moving I came back to visit and saw how they basically modernized the neighborhood I felt like it was gentrification but in the sense it was becoming mini chicago.

it's a really Great series

Boyz in The Hood talks about this too

I did not even knewed what was gentrification before this

My Generation had Static Shock, and I'm glad this generation gets to grow up with this

mexican here this is also happening at border towns where people from USA gets even Full blocks because the houses and costs is lower or to turn them in airbnb just to rent while the people from mexico are getting more harder to get a house to with the dificulties of being living in the country

So.... I hate to play a game of Devil's Advocate but how much do you guys wanna bet that we're going to be seeing MG&DD getting cancelled after it's second season since they're starting to talk about these kinda topics and it's starting to get popular? This isn't the first time we've seen this happen and with this being Disney... Look if I can be honest I LOVE Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur I think the show is one of Disney's best and they clearly know what they're doing...but at the same time with Disney being the way they are with animation right now... I wouldn't be surprised if MG&DD fell under the same curse as other Disney animated cult favorites as it gets axed off too soon... I'd love to be proven wrong but I dunno what do you guys think?

I hope about an episode where lunella fights Ultron and they discuss the topic of the beauty of diversity against the oppressing harmony brought by being the same in every aspect. Like something like this. Lunella" you think you can convert all people into machines to bring unity? That's not unity, it is forcing everyone into following what you think it's right! The world needs diversity, it is beautiful and makes us who we are!" Ultron " you speak of the same diversity that causes conflicts and wars, the two of us are fighting because we are different. Mankind doesn't know how to handle diversity, you are ready to tear each other apart simply because one says right and the other left and then you hipocritically complain about the chaos!, You want order and freedom but you cannot balance the two. Why do you think crime exists? Some of you are so obsessed with their own freedom that they claim even the one that belongs to the others." Lunella"I never said that diversity was easy and neither is unity for that matter, but one doesn't have to compromise the other so much, we can be different and still have harmony accept each other as individuals and grow by confronting ourselves with other people. you are a smart artificial intelligence I am a smart human being, can't you see what we could do by working together while appreciating and learning from our differences instead of fighting?. Lunella extends a hand. Ultron think for a moment but then point a his laser hand at her. "I'll never choose your chaos over order"

Just watched this ep

gentrification is what's happening to Redmond, Oregon.

I honestly thought the villains were laid on a bit thick, but I understand that the word trying to portray the idea that this is too good to be true, and that these gentrification forces seem too perfect at first. I can also tell that there is some anime influence with how the characters act, and how self indulgent they are. I guess using this exaggerated image gets the point across about gentrification without needing to be completely realistic. They still cover the points that they are trying to cover. And for a long time, my main perception about gentrification was that it makes the cost of living on affordable for those who already lived there, and the only people who can afford it now are the richer people that move in. But this episode made it clear That this is a cultural thing as well. Yes, if you couldn’t tell from that last statement, I don’t have a lot of firsthand experience with gentrification. Interestingly, I do work for a natural food company that tries to be the better example. We want to improve how things are done, but we don’t want to ruin what is already there. In fact, we try to support local vendors wherever we go, but of course we aren’t going to support something unhealthy. We try to be an asset to every community that we enter.

Maybe there might be hope for the future

Nice.

I absolutely love the Beyonder.

Damn.. that's dark

I think it can be summed up as _"You want things to improve, but at the same, don't want anything to change"_ Things can't improve unless changes are made, but most people against gentrification are against the very concept, and thus those neighborhoods tend to stay downtrodden, crime ridden, and destitute. Alot of people say that the culture in those areas are worth preserving, but as anyone who has studied the progression of culture can tell you, not all cultural norms are beneficial or worth preservation, for instance the Ancient Chinese attitude that they were the center of the universe and the best at everything lead them to isolating themselves and eventually got them conquered by Western Powers While other nations, such as Japan, Scotland & Ireland studied what successful cultures were doing and made massive changes to accommodate, which at times did in fact include gentrification. Even modern day Paris is the result of a massive city wide Gentrification Project by Emperor Nepoleon III, which majorly improved both the architecture, sanitation and the quality of life in Paris But the people living in the LES don't seem to want do anything to improve their neighborhood, but rather just complain about the problems it faces, for instance, in the Pilot, everybody complains about the blackouts, but nobody seems to try and do anything about it, not even just buying some back-up generators so that they can run their events or keep their businesses running, instead they just sit around whining while insisting that noone wants to help them

I'm not a big fan of songs but this show made me fan of a song god how is that even possible i don't even know and the animation is good no one will not agree with that i want to be animator the show is making me wanna do it now

Marcy Muzzler is very gorgeous.

Guess Zaslav is gentrifying WBD

Vietnam and it’s people r also raised with a strong sense of community and we’ve dealt with outside forces that try to snuff us out too and our legends and history testify to that: Lac Long Quan and Au Co defending the people from monsters and teaching them to farm, fish, build, etc, Thanh Giong, the Trung sisters, Le Loi and Lady Trieu rallying armies and resistance against invaders, even resistance and adaptation to colonialism

I was wondering what that word ment

I felt weird lunellas mom never moon girl rather assuming she agreed and enforcing it since the muzzles and the mayor only wanted to use lunella as mascot rather give her any authority something lunellas mom and the people miss understood.

Anyone else think those 2 came from strex corp?

what is gentrification?

Well what black or white, tan or brown everyone lovey to help to speak up

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur from Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 got their own show?! lol

Gentrification is a natural process in the housing market when housing becomes too expensive for people. If you want to stop gentrification then protest for changes for the housing market to be fixed and not the very concept of gentrification. Merely protesting gentrification isn’t going to help and isn’t actually fixing the problem and it’ll just move the problem somewhere else.

Explain to me why season 2 was not released 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 episode moon girl it passed on June 19 what you promised Wikipedia Not said

Does this mean that there is racism in moon girl?

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Twatters: We want black representation. Moon Girl: Hi! Nice to Me- Twatters: Oh wow Little Mermaid remake! 🤯 So 😌 Brave 😎 And 🥰 Stunning 💅

I’m black and this show annoys the hell out of me. Cartoons don’t do it for me anymore.

MANN SPEAKS NOT THINKING😮

A Disney cartoon talks about gentrification, O.m.g.". Bitch please, the pleasure island scene can be read as holocaust, journey to Hell, and more!

I still think South Park did it better

oddly a very classical conservative message coming form Disney (what I mean is to keep things the same, let established traditions and cultures thrive rather than let a "leviathan" control everything for the sake of their view of perfection)

Sure you could say "white man bad" but like... Scott Adams would hate this episode. Makes you wonder...

Gentrification is mid

Gentrification is, objectively, a positive. So...

Gentrification? What a new word for an old concept of "Tradition vs Progress" there's always a fine line between Do we preserve an old historic building? Or do we put in a new modern one? That conflict has been around in many shows. Fidler on the Roof, Hey Arnold, Recess, Doug, Waltons, Little House, Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Tiny Toons, etc. With out progress we would still be on the telegraph and the tolly. But over do it and your town looses the nice little touches. We see it modernly too. The push by Green Energy to tear down old buildings and put up ones that waist less energy. Social Distancing killed a TON of small businesses. So too will the Electric car. But some things we need to change, to let go of. We need Wi-Fi we need computers we need handicap ramps. We need High ways, Magnetic ramps, EZ Pass. In my Town we have lost farms , we lost small business, we lost movie theaters , all sorts of things. On Line Shopping, Covid, Social Distancing, Shopping from home, Streaming its all killing us. New Malls killed the old Mall. On Line shopping killed the new mall. Toys R us is gone, sears is gone. Movie theaters are closed. There is some thing to be said for cleaning up your dirty junky Neiborhood. If you love your community, take care of it. When people see a clean building they respect it. When people see a broken window they break more windows. When people see graffiti they make more graffiti. when people see litter they add more litter. But No one wants to be the 1st to litter. and respect your history. Sto destroying and burning your works of art out of ignorance. an other thing about business is if you have a BIG place open everyone drives there. They drive past the smaller places and try to get to the end as fast as possible. if your on the road side between two tourist attractions no one wants to slow down and stop. They want to keep going. You also have to keep the effort to keep your lots clean and full of weeds and stuff an other thing that slows down community building is fear of teenagers. A lot of people assassinate teenagers with destructive behavior and they don't want to build some thing just to get it trashed. We need to teach respect. Respect for bathrooms, walls, other peoples property, art, nature. Too many idiots breaking things trying to get selfies. if we put the community to work and made them responsible for maintenance we would have better communities. Make it legal for average joes to repair public property if you can't be bothered. I saw after a hurricane hit the community fixed every thing up not the city. It was nice. and also we need to stop giving money to other countries and put America 1st Walk among our own people, see issues 1st hand. Not the sanitized show they put own for tours see the real world Make changes and make them last don't put on a front for the cameras. Let places that are not America solve there own problems and make the mayors and governess and senators and vice presidents walk on foot threw South Filly and NY and Chicago and stop voting against the other party and rejecting them because there not you. Start doing what's right. and learn that Infostructure means bridges and roads NOT woke ideas. Fixing things is about practicality and doing what's right no about doing the opposite. and having good things in your community, it also means raising taxes or having some other way to raise funds giving your self more money won't help. Give other people money. You want better education, health care, roads etc some one has to pay for it. Or some one has to do the job for less. Stop protesting and start doing. You know what's NOT happening when you picket? Getting jobs done.

I hate how this show is "animated". The voices are annoying, but I like the style it has. This show needs a lot more improvements before being worth the money wasted on it. Also, "gentrification" is not a bad thing. It literally helps bring life blood into a food desert. Moongirl took the wrong action to handle it.

I watched many Moon girl reviews. After finishing Ducktales, I shall watch this show cuz I almost emptied the disney series box-