The Worst Fixing Art Case That No One Asked For ( VELMA ) 

*_tell me something nice that happened to you this week.._*

Love the fact that the artist said, "you forgot to remove Scoby". shows that he is mature enough to not lash out and not comment further.

I saw a comment on this show that said something like: "These are literally stereotypes of a bunch of ethnicities/nationality/skin colors". Velma is the overly smart Indian Daphne is a hot asian Shaggy is a black stoner Fred is a white man with all the stereotypes that come with that No Scooby-Doo = it isn't the Scooby-Doo gang I can't unsee it...

Not only did they make them all stereotypes.. they also made Velma a Karen? Telling someone on tech support to die… Velma wouldn’t do that :(

The original artist seems like such a chill dude, I am sorry this happened to them. They had the absolute best response one could have on that hell site.

I find it funny how people wanna act like they’re being respectful and “non problematic” by making a stoner stereotype a black man…like okay bro.

its kinda weird how they made the nerdy girl indian, the posh rich girl east asian, and the stoner black….food for thought

"you forgot to remove scooby" is the best response the artist could have done. amazing.

"Zoinks, Scoob! They turned me into an NFT!" "...Scoob?"

You’d think things would be better if they made new characters that were POC but you know these art fixers would have a problem with that too.

Remember the entire controversy when soul from Disney came out and almost the entire cast was black? Exactly, you don't, because THEY WERE ORIGINAL CHARACTERS!

the worst part about the "fix" was that the "fixer" added their watermark onto it 💀💀

I thought "representation" meant creating original characters with the traits of a particular demographic and their own personality, NOT literally copying someone's work, changing the ethnicity, and turning them into a negative stereotype.

honestly, if they wanted representation, they missed the chance to make scooby a service dog 😔

Something that does concern me about all of this is that there are so many artists who like to redesign characters from established media, not in a malicious, "fixing" way, but out of pure love for for the characters and just want to do a fun interpretation of the characters in their style, or add things to them that they like or think would suit the character, and I hope that they dont' get any hate or get lumped in with these "art fixers" 😭😭

Gotta love how when they fixed Daphne, they made her eyes smaller because "she's meant to be Asian since she knows martial arts" and like her whole ass expression changed from shock to disgust

HBO said "OH You're coloured and/or queer? Well you'll love this!" And I can't get over that. It makes me feel like they think their audience is stupid. We're hurting ourselves and our communities by giving this sort of issue so much attention. I appreciate seeing someone bring up the points that artists are suffering on.

what makes this video even better is the fact that he is literally a POC reacting to/talking about the situation, and hes so disappointed in the people trying to show "representation" 💀 i hate twitter so much LMAO these art 'fixers' are one of the worst groups on there imo

"Don't forget that representation exists." As a black mixed girl... _Is that all we are to you?! Tools to make you feel better about yourselves?! Tools to stroke egos?! My GOD!!_ Have an all white cast in your shows, books, whatever if you want. There is _nothing_ wrong with that. And I'm not so much of a narcissist that I can't take it if there isn't at least one black person, because if I wanted to see one I'd look at my mother or in a damn mirror.

I don't like judging a series before it comes but that teaser was awful, not because Velma is indian in this series but because they turned her into an internet troll. Plus the fact that the crew took the "if you aren't excited for our show, then you're a bigot!" route doesn't help selling me this upcoming series(especially when the creator turned out to be a terf).

Imagine if Leonardo da Vinci made the Mona Lisa nowadays, he would post his painting and 10 minutes later someone would post "fixed your shit" and Mona lise would be a stereotypical black maid that you'd see in a 80's cartoon

This reminds me what Mike Tyson said about social media: *"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it"* Diversity and representation do exist, but this ain't it. Violating one's artwork to promote a distorted agenda only makes the ones who did it into notorious douchebags.

The problem isn't the representation, the problem is that the producers are using the representation to manipulate people into paying for watching the show

If they wanted "representation" they could have made a story that added new characters to an ongoing plot. Like, the gang now have a business in busting mysteries and you have a set cast of supporting characters. Throw in a buncha memes and you're golden!

They didn't change Velma. They created an entire new character, threw her in a similar outfit, and named her Velma. I liked Velma. The only thing I know about this "Velma" is that she's not the Velma I liked as a kid. She's a straight up different character, entirely. If they put her in her own unique clothes, and gave her a unique name, I still wouldn't watch the show, but at least I wouldn't be vehemently against it. Hell, there's already black characters in the Scooby universe, like Cassidy Williams, who is also an awesome character. I would have loved to have seen a show starring her and the original Mystery Incorporated. So why not use her? The only racism I see here is that the studio obviously doesn't care enough about black people to create a new black character with their own backstory, personality, quirks, catch-phrase, objectives, motivations, and everything that goes along with it. They'd rather cut corners and change an existing character black. That's where the real racism lies, if you ask me.

Honestly, I LOVE when a network/studio/etc does this: it IMMEDIATELY shows me their true intentions, so I know right away that I'll never have any interest in it and I can move on with my life.

I swear it's like half the people on Twitter have lost their minds,and it's so annoying how the person who "fixed" the art put their watermark on the art THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM,the pure audacity and entitlement is unbelievable.

Let's be honest "fixing" art is something that only some Twitter people ask for. Most people doesn't (at least I still have some hope).

I just love the pretentiousness of “Fixed.” It makes me giggle at the absolute lack of self awareness.

the thing that makes me so mad about that ‘fixed’ tweet is that they put a watermark over someone else work .literally all they did was change colors and then claimed the piece as a whole as theirs

Honestly they should have done a concept like gen 5 MLP. Like for example, make a generation of characters who look up to the old mystery gang and want to be the next best mystery gang, and also have their on backstory and personality traits. Now that would be something I would be interested in. But then again it's Hollywood. 🙃

Okay but like I gotta say, you can’t lie, It’s always knuckles, that gets dragged in the chaos with fixing art

I’m middle eastern , and the “don’t forget that representation exists “ is such a dumb road to go down , a glass of water also exists but you’re not gonna see a glass of water everywhere cuz it exists , cuz when the “representation “ isn’t done naturally and is done with marketing and the Sake of “representation “ it really shows and feels cheap , it feels like a tool or another check box

"Scooby Doo was always diverse, at least socially." Dang that's actually such a good point though.

You know what would have been a cool idea for a first season? A Girl, who is naturally inquisitive but used to the humdrum of daily life, and her friends find themselves tangled up in a mystery. Fortunately for them, the Mystery Machine happens to be coming through town. As The Gang tackle the mystery, the Girl and her friends find themselves helping with solving this problem. It's a bit scary sometimes and the excitement is new, but there's something very appealing to it for the Girl and her friends. As they part ways after a long, harrowing adventure, the Girl feels a desire to tackle more problems like this building within her. Thus begins the adventure of a "new mystery gang". Also the girl and her friends happen to be primarily POC.

When I thought fixing art cases couldn't get any worse..

Bruh what really pisses me off about this is that the person who "fixed" this art isn't very bad at drawing, they could've made their own picture and left it at that, but no they had to use someone else's art to push their agenda, which is kinda what Velma did if ya think about it.

Bruh, she got slammed so hard her account was deleted. I dunno if Twitter deleted it or if she was just so embarrassed she did it herself, but it was so beautiful to see. Edit: I've been told that's not true and she just changed her Twitter handle.

The company and those “fixers” really know how to ruin other’s childhood…

I'm more mad about what they did to Shaggy. At least Velma still looks recognizable. Shaggy though looks like a completely new person. Aside from the clothes. Nothing about him is remotely close to the Shaggy we all grew up with.

I don't care if they decided to race swap a character, I just want the characters' keeping their personality traits that they've always had for the past several years to the point that they're still recognizable.

Art Twitter: *has the same five controversies over and over* Mohammed: It’s free real estate

Every time,every time I think there's hope for humanity,Twitter happens,Twitter happens and I just give up.

The official art for the characters is so wild like why are they all different?? Fred is from Disney, Daphne is from Family Guy and poor Shaggy looks like a total drama contestant. Something I’ve always found especially shitty about “art fixers” is that mostly target Japanese artists. Almost all their work is shared on pixiv which has an option to automatically share to Twitter, trying to help with accessibility for its those in its user base who don’t speak English. Along come the woke Wendy’s, changing art of mostly Japanese anime character, made by Japanese people, making their art “progressive” in ways that make it look more like caricatures, and patting themselves on the back with the knowledge that the artists they’re targeting may not even know what’s happened, let alone how to defend themselves. It is, dare I say, kinda RACIST.

I 100% agree, As a black girl I just wish they didn’t race swap and instead made a next gen of investigators kinda like with mystery incorporated, I don’t care about the whole lgbt stuff but with Race swapping I think it’s better to create new characters

I like how Fred is drawn into like a tumblr style design and the rest were like rejected characters from Total Drama Island lmao

People on twitter really just have main character syndrome where they think every drawing has to match the new series or latest series or somehow personally be meant to offend and upset them. give it a little while and people will forget. They honestly only care for as long as it will live on twitter just like with lesbian velma Also, Craig (the original creator of Fosters and PPG) mentioned in a tweet/screenshot that I saw wehre he pitched 16 original ideas to netflix and they didn't accept any of them but welcomed him back to do an existing IP. That really should be a look into the state of animation... Shareholders are only interested in milking an existing fanchise dry and inciting people to either argue back and forth to either hate watch or anti-hate watch.

As much as there are art fixers forcing representation on Twitter, for instagram I have noticed it is almost the complete opposite. I follow an account that recolored the equestria girls to reimagine them in natural human skin shades. They made Pinkie Pie POC and the entire comments were going on about "why do you have to give them a race, just leave the characters alone" but when they made Fluttershy white, not a single complaint. And on Twitter it is almost entirely the opposite.

I'm not even surprised for the fixing, but I'm pissed at the audacity of placing a watermark and sign in a drawing that they didn't even do from scratch.

They put their fucking watermark on someone else’s art they “fixed” LMAO

Gotta love how Fred is just Fred because they couldn't think of a better stereotype to give him

Honestly, if we have someday a black Snow White, I expect two things: 1) We get something like what was done with The Princess and the Frog (a well adapted premise) 2) She being mexicana (mexican); we, in México, have a multiuse detergent called Blanca Nieves (Snow White) and its packaging picture is a cute black girl dresses like an angel washing clothes.

13:46 if they made a Mexican Cinderella she better leave a glass chancla behind or else I’ll be greatly offended.

As an artist, I'm now scared of this happening to me despite already having a gigantic range of diverse characters.

8:00 ok like I know that Knuckles is like tribal in origin, but does that automatically make him black? I mean he's an anthropomorphic animal, half the point of using animals is that skin color doesnt matter.

I really appreciate that you go after both sides of this. They're both wrong, they both need to be called.

I think a better way to do it would've been to make a Scooby Doo spin off that's got the Hex Girls as the main protagonists, maybe the plot is that the actual mystery gang has been captured, so now for whatever reason a handful of their friends/associates have to step up to figure out what happened, and the Hex Girls just so happen to be the main characters because they're the most recognizable. But also A) goth girls are great B) Luna is already a POC C) it'd be super easy to have one of them be a lesbian, maybe even more than one. Especially if it's the Mystery Incorporated iterations of the girl group, since that's my personal favorite. Edit: going with the idea that it's just "friends of the Scooby gang" in general, I also think it'd be neat if the Hex Girls acquired a fourth compadre for solving the mystery, specifically: John Cena, because he's canonically friends with the gang.

9:08 THAT WAS LITERALLY ALMOST MY EXACT THOUGHT LMAO These companies aren't anyone's friend and they don't actually care about any of the groups they're "appealing" towards, the only thing they _want_ is people's money.

the "fixer" forgot to remove scooby

I'm not even mad about the color change. I'm more angry that it looks like they barely tried on the character designs. People who regularly do raceswaps put in more effort than they did. Of course it doesn't help that the showrunners are intentionally stirring the pot of internet discourse

The “fixer” even put their own signature on it 😭😭

As an artist, I saw it and immediately report that person for "fIXiNg" the Mystery gang and they're account got Suspended/locked. Sometimes Twitter's report system does work! If it ain't broken, and then you "fIx" it. just remember to make a new account and become a better person. Also about the companies part, yeah, when you make a character a different race, AT LEAST MAKE THEM LOOK GOOD.

This sums up my whole attitude toward changing characters' sex, race, and so on in reboots anyway. You want a character of that identity, go ahead, but changing a pre-existing character just seems like a waste of energy you could have used to make something better.

If they wanted POC representation of the Scooby-Doo characters, they should’ve made their OWN fanart, not trace over another person’s artwork and claim that it’s “fixed”

7:02 holy crap I was not expecting my tweet to be there 😮 I’m glad you’re getting this out there because this is absolutely not ok, no matter what your opinions are on the show taking someone’s work and rebranding it as “adding representation” is a shit excuse to steal something that the artist out a lot of love into, mad respect to the artist for not getting mad (which is deserved cuz that’s awful)

told my friend about the sonic fan art that was “fixed” and they said it was a good thing. i genuinely haven’t looked at them the same way ever since then but i still love them

Near the end, you mentioned Mexican Cinderella. Well guess what! In 1997, Disney made a Cinderella movie featuring a black Cinderella, an Asian Prince, and a black Fairy Godmother. The music is beautiful, and you can clearly tell that these actors were chosen for their skills, not their race. The whole movie is absolutely enchanting, and actually feels like a fantasy movie (ignoring the terrible CGI). I will forever reccommend it to everyone I possibly can.

Craig on the Creek is a great example of introducing diverse cast with new stories. Obviously it is not for everyone and is aimed for a younger audience but i adore the show. Making original characters is always going to have the best impact because it allows us to tell more unique stories. Likely the show will not explore anything further with these characters beyond changing their outward appearance. I don't mind if they do it or not but it can't be a cop out for companies and prevent them from exploring new ideas

Disney already beat you to it. They already plan on making a snow white live action into a race swap too. It's sad because they have the money, resources, and fan base to create new characters that can be successful without the "reimagining" of old characters and old stories.

Sad thing is that most the designs weren’t bad, they just made all the characters unlikeable assholes that were completely unrecognizable personality wise.

Just realized the entire Velma show is just one big “I fixed it” on a much bigger scale :(

2:53 they forgot to remove scooby 💀

Fun fact; this show isn't even the first time they've hinted at or confirmed Velma as being in the LGBTQIA+ community. Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated I believe was the first time it was confirmed outright. Unfortunately it was towards the end of the show but still, it was there even if briefly.

3:37 this statement is the most unironically truthful thing I've heard come out of the modern age artist community. Thank you for saying it

I just… I really question the choice to make the stoner character a black man with dreadlocks… like there’s some kinda microagression there I’m sure… I just don’t quite know what it is.

Something worse than twitter exists *impossible*

Honestly, the race swapping was the least of this show’s problems…

I really like how in the Velma trailer, the creators make fun of the audience in the first few seconds. Truly shows how much the company cares.

You know, someone else said it, but I see it. Shaggy straight up looking like an NFT.

The scoob gang were already sort of diverse in race, Velma was from germany, Daph from scotland if you looked into their history all around and shag and fred are from the US. Not only did they change their race in Velma, they completely destroyed their personalties that made them unique and will put together, I know Daphne was still a mix since she is a difficult character to keep in check but jesus man, and there is no scooby, it ain't scooby doo without the talking dog who is basically the gang's emotional support friend! BESIDES! You didn't have to change the MAIN people, just add other different races who are just as important or not, like mystery inc.

this kinda drama makes me scared if I ever get successful with my books in writing, but also makes me glad they are all dragons so no one can complain about skin colour, because it's a dragon

Im..kinda wanna see how they handle black snow white because..well..she was called that when the magic mirror said the prettiest girl had "skin white as snow"..kinda wanna see how they substitute that line..and how they tackle that..probably not good, but another more thing for us to clown on

Shoutout to The Owl House for doing diversity well. The main character is Dominican-American, but her race is never fully acknowledged in the show. We do see elements of her heritage through her speaking Spanish, or through the characters’ interactions with her mother, but her skin color is never called out or made a point of contention (though given the main show’s setting, it’s not like that would be an actual issue).

Representation shouldn't be removing people with one race and replacing them with another. It should be adding more diverse characters to the story/ not replacing pre existing characters for clout.

I never liked the idea of changing a character's race from a show into a different race because it feels cheap like it's not genuine representation. Some people are fine with it and I get so happy seeing children saying "Oh my god they are my race" when I was a child it was I never really got that feeling or that enjoyment. However I still would rather see an original POC character than a white character turn into a POC character because that feels like the people behind put more thought into it.

Bro these art "fixers" are making you money. I subbed just how you always seem to find these people on different social media sites. 😆 Keep them coming.

I'm dissapointed cuz I actually think the new Velma design is cute. It isn't what I would've gone for, but it's also not like her being white is an integral part of her character. If anything I'm surprised more people aren't mad over Daphne and Shaggy considering Daphne's Scottish and closely enough related to be pals with her cousins and Shaggy's uncle was a Confederate general. You could argue them being white is actually important. (Note: I'm not saying I agree since nothing's stopping them from being adopted or mixed, I'm saying I'm surprised I haven't seen this argument pop up more). And gay Velma goes back to at least the live action movies where the director has said he wanted her to be gay but the studio said no. People have been getting ~vibes~ for decades. There were jokes about Velma being gay back when my mom was a kid. It's not a hot take. Tbh the issue with the show is that Velma's unlikeable. She's an internet troll taking digs at viewers. They're mocking the people who already weren't going to watch it, and by making her a jerk they're alienating the people who were interested. If they really wanted to shake it up, make Scooby goth. The gang is missing the goth teen stereotype and the idea of a dog wearing a spiked collar and reading Edgar Allen Poe is ridiculous enough to fit

“Critical thinking is not a strong point for all these people” Well said 😂

I don’t hate the race bending, I hate the tone of the trailer, it makes fun of the audience.

Would be interesting for you to cover the Cookie Run community's probelm with artists whitewashing certain cookie's dough colour. There's an ongoing debate on whether it matters or not since the skin is, well, dough, and is totally different from skin.

Black snow white goes directly against her mother's wish and her name lol. "Skin as white as snow" was part of the monolog when her mother was wishing how Snow white would look

OMG the one in the thumbnail predicted Velma's character design

Howl’s moving castle music in the background gives me life :) Also the discussion was great and I loved your video, it gave me some more insight to the whole Scooby-Doo fiasco!

One thing that really bothers me is that they evidently decided to call him "Norville". Which, yes, is his given name in the original show, but... Isn't the whole reason he goes by "Shaggy" that he does not like his given name, that he prefers the nickname? So that coupled with the appearance just makes it feel like this new "Shaggy" isn't *Shaggy,* just a completely different character. In which case why not just make a new character? Also, I remember seeing one of those Knuckles examples shown in this video. Man that was a mess... Especially since the artist had just picked the skin color from official materials, where Knuckles's muzzle is colored a peachy skin tone. While I personally don't think it's skin and prefer to think of each Sonic character's muzzle as being fur covered (with the obvious exceptions of characters that are animals without any fur, like Espio or Jet), it is fairly common for fan artists making humanizations to use the muzzle tone as the basis for the human version's skin color.

"So if you see a black snow white or mexican cinderella-" Technically! That was a thing already- There was this old show, called Happily ever after: fairytales for every child, that retold fairytales and usually swapped whichever country they were all from. Like native american snow white, mexican cinderella, african pinocchio, jamaican goldilock and the three bears, etc. (I rewatched a bunch of eps recently cause I remember the songs being bops, they were ♥) Now idk if it's the nostalgia talking, but that show felt like it came from a better place than the Velma show. Probably cause of the large gap in time, and the fact I could at least learn a little bit about the fashion/music styles and customs of other countries from HEA. Also the accusations of bigotry on velma's side don't help all that much-

A young She-ra fan on Twitter drew the OG She-ra cast and their looks. She got sooooo much hate. I wish I kept her username on my Twitter.

How to fix art (Twitter edition) 1: Take someone else's artwork 2: Turn almost every character black 3: ... 4: Profit

0:15 alright look ima be honest… that’s a way better interpretation of a black shaggy than the one the show went for.

people need to know you don’t need to gender change or race swap anyone to make them relatable

I hate the fact that most people seem to forget that representation comes in more forms than just skin colour☹️