You Are SUPPOSED To Hate This Show | Asmongold Reacts 

She identified with herself as a child is what she meant.

I love how this show is blatantly anti-white, yet the thing people are most upset about is that the show isn't 'staying true to the lore' of a 70s cartoon.

@@uberneanderthal trust me dude no one missed that

@@Beowulf0510 No one missed it, but a lot of people refuse to actually talk about it.

@@bluecannibaleyes bro what? Like every video I see on this show is saying it's blatant antiwhite rhetoric.

That show was so addictive and mature, I feel like rewatching it now

even where are you? Scooby Doo is better, i've watched more of that iteration of Scooby doo than MI,but i can assure both MI and Where are you? Scooby Doo are WAY leagues ahead of that garbage of mystery gang ripoff that they made

Mystery Inc is so good

@@zeallust8542 indeed,i watched the 2 first seasons,but i was able to finish it,but yeah they are leagues better than that ripoff of mystery gang they did with the velma show

I was obsessed with that show but I think they removed it from Netflix or something because I can’t find it anymore.

I was confused cus the Harley Quinn show was actually pretty good. Muuuuch better than what I’ve seen of Velma.

@@garrettvenn9022 I’ve only seen like half of it and loved it. Don’t have HBO but I totally agree. Also glad I don’t have hbo cus of voldemor-I mean velma

@@garrettvenn9022 lol simp show

It still didn't deserve to be 1st in a 1 horse race.

They removed fucking full metal alchemist. I never got to finish brotherhood and now i have to turn to crunchyroll- "Those pesky patriartical standards-" Nevermind

LOVE THIS!!!!

💯

Tolkien didn’t say this. His version was phrased differently

@@zzodysseuszz But was the sense behind any different?

Rick and Morty.

Exactly. 🤣🤣🤣

Oh absolutely, I lost my s### when I heard that.

omg that was so hilarious i laugh at that a bit, the timing is spot on.

That was amazing

read this comment just the moment this part played xDD

Considering there hasn't been a new HBO animated show since 2021, there's a good possibility that an unknown IP written by a decently famous actor from the office would have taken off. It's just that hollywood is cripplingly afraid of even the smallest risks.

Exactly. They can't create anything for themselves, they have to steal from white people & leech off their success. It's why multiculturalism is only a thing in white countries, they flood here to leech off of our success. Otherwise, why wouldn't they be successful in their own countries? Multiculturalism proves the point.

@@LiarraSniffles_X3 This wasn't a risk?

@@rosettenrudi91 "I _don't understand what the big deal_ is" Maybe youa re new to Television or politics in general... the big deal is the increasing desire to take old IPs and re-writte them as lazy and boring retells just to spite people that the author hates on Twitter. It's unnecesary, is childish, and is consuming money for nothing

@@zhenyucai8688 it was simplistic because it was for children, mr. passive-agressive "lmao" . But it was never this brain-rot and spiteful for no reason... You could be high on cocaine and still couldn't never deny how worse this show is in comparison

you had me in the first 9/10 not gonna lie

My hatred for that show is unparalleled. It would've been great, without her character in it, to be honest. IF A SHOW IS ONLY GOOD WITHOUT THE MAIN CHARACTER (you) IN IT, WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU. My mother was obsessed with the show. So, unfortunately, I've seen a lot more of it than I wanted to.

I watched a majority of what people showed in their videos regarding Season 1, this shitty rage bait is bullshit and feels like character assassination on the entire cast. I've seen people in the comments sections of other videos apologize to Scrappy Doo before they did season 2 (I never found him annoying myself, but still).

That'd take some actual effort

​@@aligmal5031 That's gonna be a solid "no" to all of those, weeb-chan

Who is they

They're already making thing people wanna watch while injecting their agenda with small messages and gestures. Creates a small problem that people will forget about the next day. Think about it.

With all the shit i have seen over the years, im sure they do.

Yeah I think people are going the conspiracy route cuz in their heads, people can’t be this dumb Sadly, people are -_-

@@SquaulDuNeant So you truly believe that they are purposefully making a bad show, a satire of modern "woke" shows?

@@LilShepherdBoy Even if by accident, they are making a satire.

Well then they are mentally disabled

I feel so embarrassed for self inserts. It feels like I'm them watching myself being cringe

Imagine creating something worse than Ghostbusters 2016

We reached an age in which *'white people & western culture hating losers'* are allowed to make their own shows. That shows that we are actually one, if the *'the'* most tolerant and anti-racist thing on Earth. Lets pad ourselfs on the shoulders quickly. We are the chads. 💪😎

@@gamingmoyai3950 imagine making something on par with the recent shehulk series...(look into the behind the scenes details to know just how bad it is)

not defending the show but you saying this is accomplishing what the show creator wants lmao

They remobed full metal alchenist before it released. Coincidence? I think NOT!

Given Raygun’s performance at the time Olympics and everything leading up to how she got there, this comment has aged quite well

That movie was surprisingly good

PnB2 was quite the surprise, actually. Great wholesome movie

@@weirdyoutubechannels I'm doxing you

@Imbalanxd well cartoons have always been like that. To push it further stories/cartoons always have themes and a moral value depicted in them to help further drive a resolve for their characters to push forward with their respective stories.

@@Imbalanxd I've learned some things from cartoons and anime. What's your point? Only a true fool would dismiss something that can have the potential to teach things.

Also they control their site. They can say whatever show they want is top animated show....

They're also US only

​@@alexwardlow178 No, they can't say whatever they want. For example, there are regulations in European Union that require you to provide data on which you base your statements. Don't know how it works in USA, but if HBO is saying that "Velma is a top animated show on HBO MAX" without any explanation then it's misleading consumers and for sure they're going to be sued for that.

@@sovren in America they don't have to post any statistics or evidence, they just say what they want. So HBO could just say that and not be telling the truth. Another good example is a video game. Elder scrolls online, about 2 or 3 years ago said they had 18 million players actively playing. But they showed no graphs, no server numbers. So everyone was like "that's what they say but there's no real way to tell"

I too am often the first place in all the races I make up myself.

I still dont see a problem with that person teen lesbians exist

@spyfire242 yeah except the difference is that Avatar wasn't overtly sexual about it. You can show underage characters being romantic but this show crosses the line by being EXTREMELY sexual in regards to underage characters.

@@jackmakila3776Ok, but this show is for 18 years and older. Why is an adult interested in preteen romance?

@@spyfire242yeah except avatar was aimed for kids. This show is an 18+ show.

sailor moon be like : first time? 4kids sailor moon : actually we are family yes. no joke 4kids made a gay couple. cousins. ofcourse an american company would. alexa play it SWEET HOME ALABAMA

Ah damn that was a good subvert line. Fine, take my like.

bet the actual shaggy appears on the show behind faker. a 4th wall break insult to white men will then ensue, mark my words season 2

​@@aSSGoblin1488 I'd like to say you're a prophet, but I think they've really just become too predictable. I can't find a modern show that doesn't have at least one instance of "white man bad" per episode.

Asmon will cover anything that creates content

This show HAS to be ending in a fashion akin to "The Aristocrats" joke. THAT would be subverting expectations.

@bong she said she's conservative??? I want to smoke what she does

I dont find her smart at all tho😂

Let's not forget how they ruined Shaggy in the name of diversity. It's pretty clear that they wanted to make one of the original characters black and chose Shaggy because he is a popular character. BUT they couldn't make their one black character a burnout/stoner, so they changed the character entirely, gave him a new name, and left only the color of his T-shirt. They could have easily just made Fred black with minor adjustments to the character. Then they wouldn't have had a target for all the jokes about white people though..

@@soup5220 Yeah, Mindy seems to be having a weird "mask off" moment where her pretty hardcore racist and sexist sentiments are coming through in her "jokes." She has nothing but contempt for men in general and white men in particular. And... heterosexuality too?

@@bobongo That is all EXTREME Copium. Almost No one is on TEAM that i know of, but i do see acouple on one team crying foul that this isnt them an could only be some weird reverse attack. Ok. I guess the gun loving racist won the day with there sleeper agent. Man all of this is getting old. Or maybe its just me.. . . . . . . .

I agree. the "who cares" argument when it comes to changing color of characters skin or even whole characters is such a copout. If it doesn't matter then why did they do it in the firstplace hmmmmm? Your argument (not yours literally) invalidates the other half of the argument lmfao.

I think another problem, if im just taking all this on face value, is that these things are product of "ghettoization" by social media algorithms and how they explode fringe views into a way it looks as if its mainstream (when it clearly isnt). And then, again taking it on face value, shit like this gets released with the idea this is what people want. When in reality, its just a very loud fringe minorty calling for it. And in addition you also have the self segregation in real life, i.e. what people in L.A. belief is vastly different from the rest in california. Ive said this in other videos of asmongold regarding this topic: The idea that people dont like women leads or black people leads, or whatever... is bulshit. What people dont like, is watching a movie or series, regardless if its an existing franchise or a new one... Where the entire script, setting, etc... serves as merely a vessel for an ideological message. Ghostbusters was precisely like this. The movie existed to serve the characters, rather then the characters serving the movie.

@@Tritriumchannelexactly. I think it's a distinct result of LA culture bleed and reading too hard into social media. The majority of people don't care about inclusion (meaning poor inclusion to pander) and outright dislike it, it's why 2023 was the worst year for Hollywood ever or in a long time, can't remember. They use the small loud minority to try and do damage control anytime there's backlash against it which results in critics being dismissed as racist misogynist etc or haters and will usually spin things no matter how big or small to make it look like those critics are bad people. It happens way too frequently. Ahmed Best and the Asian actress from the sequel trilogy of Star Wars are big examples of the narrative twisting, both commented on Hollywood being shit and how bad it's effected them on social media and news articles about both twisted it to be about fan harassment when neither had ever mentioned it and both made it clear it was about the industry and the people within it with the actress outright saying she felt that they used her to pander. It's sad, but hopefully the big money loss going on cleans up this mess

Like Imaro, he is set in Conan's Hyborian Age, but in the heart of Africa rather than rewriting Howard's world, it expands it. I would love a Imaro movie, but we will probably get black Conan instead.

I don't even think the 2016 ghostbusters was about tearing anything down. It was just made by incompetent people. Almost all of the dialog in that film was improvised bs because the director didnt have a clear vision. The editors slapped together the best takes (which were still bad) and called it a day. They wanted to reboot ghostbusters but they too lazy to actually make it a real ghostbusters film. Thank god ghostbusters the video game is the real ghostbusters 3.

I don’t get this, it’s not okay for 15 year olds to be lesbian? Why?

@@AvantTom You know you can ask someone to clarify their statement without phrasing it as a gotcha question, right?

@@Jax_Destro same shit as twitter too, someone says i like pancakes then another responds so you hate waffles?

@@AvantTom before you ask a question answer it at first in your mind

@@antinotice I think you meant to say that their sexuality doesn't matter

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@@Lelmao33Props to him, for not skipping the ad😅

@@odiedodieuk he never does, good on him

Not to mention how she bragged about sexually assaulting a dude and then told everyone they'd be fired if they talked about

Parents don't want their children to be sexualised at a young age, so what do producers do; they freaking get a children's character and make a perverted version of a beloved show. So now when a preteen or a teen searches the character guess what they will be exposed to. This was not an accident and if it wasn't a woman who streamlined this but a man everyone will be calling him a PDFfile or a gr00mer and he'd be cancelled in nanoseconds.

i dont agree with the shows existence but trying to imply that they are trying to get teens to act sexually is dumb whenever you consider its a show made for adults without scooby doo, the title character of the kids show on top of the fact its called velma and shes indian so it doesnt even look like velma dinkly from the og. a child might not even recognize her, just a dumb take imo but i guess you can make leaps out of steps when your looking for it.

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TLDR the way the characters looks matter

Not to mention the years and years of back story being shredded. No, I say we shred this instead and appreciate the orginals even more.

@@DeputyFish so how does velma being indian change her as a character other than race? just say you prefer her white and be done with it.

@@pseudosanct5253 ok i prefer velma white, now what?

I prefer Velma being white

im not pissed, most of you dont give a fuck about scooby doo anymore. the internet will "care" and be "outraged" for a week and move on to something else like a bunch of bees in a hive mind. i think its meant to be something different but also a variation so idrc for it like why be outraged??? dont like it? dont engage then but see you always do bc people cant help themselves its fun to watch

@@EGsth7 u do seem upset tho

@@gnostic-wolf not sure how you got that but eh. Believe what you want

@@EGsth7 prolly all the cussing, accusations, dehumanization, and then orders telling others what to do.

@@gnostic-wolf I cursed a grand total of once lol, bro said “all the cussing” I’m sorry the word fuck triggered u. My bad 😞, dehumanization…..bc I speak about the internet switching from one outrage to another……or bc I used bee’s as an example? Either way your kind being dramatic so, feel how you want to snowflake

Yeah, he's really out of touch and/or virtue signalling sometimes, just like when he says nobody cares if Velma is race swapped.

I was okay with it, in fact, i liked how SJ nailed Nick Fury

Nick fury wasn’t black though, that’s the problem

In 2001 they released a comic where Nick Fury was black, the look of the charachter was literally just SJ

@@darthbrooks4933 but it's not a problem? because SLJ is a good actor...

@@jurb417 good actor? Lol, no he isn’t, he plays the exact same role in every single movie. Angry black man

@@CrazyLife2112 All the main characters are self inserts of Mindy and strawmen based on the types of people she hates the most and all of them work at Hollywood.

Yeah but this isn't a cinema movie. TV ratings go down in the summer as people go out to restaurants as the sun is out. In winter when it's dark in the evenings people watch more TV.

@@danesesse This is an interesting point. I'm not sure how streaming services perform in January. However, I know that RU-vid sees a drop in January. I can't imagine that streaming services do much better. Especially as streaming services seem to be unprofitable in general.

January is the start of a new cycle of airing there are four cycles of 13 episodes per year for traditional media January (Winter season) - April (Spring season) - July (Summer season) - October (Fall Season)

Lol yes, if this was a feature film, and it was 1998.

@@saltyk9869 youtube revenue does as advertisers do not have christmas sales in mind. Views remain similar to none hoilday months.

Guess he's bout to be nicknamed nappy 😂

They don't even call him Shaggy they call him by his real name Norville. They did that because they did not get the rights to use the name Shaggy just like they could not get the rights to use Scooby-Doo as a character.

gives a new meaning to the words scooby snack.

if the leaks are true then scooby is a black woman named scoobi yeah the dog is a black woman now lol

Instead, scrappy doo shows up and kills velma. A true hero.

LMAO IM WHEEZING 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@RedLightz_TV you might want to get that checked out...

"I'm fine with this" "... nevermind"

Lol! He almost got caught in 4K! 📸

Because he watched the video before. Asmongold is 100% pre-scripted. One of the most scripted people alive.

I just happened upon this video again after this long and spent 5 minutes just rewinding those 10 seconds over and over again absolutely crying laughing on the floor. 😂😭

Most people who hated the show just watched reviews of it, where a few reviewers watch the show and tear it apart.

Network (1976) in a nutshell.

Very true

But the mental image though...still kinda chuckling.

In that case, it would have made sense to just keep the characters as they were to avoid having ti spend time on re-creating them

A popular theory was that it was a unique show that had the scooby doo label slapped on by WB because Hollywood and the writers integrated it and shat on it because they didn't want it to be Scooby doo lmao

Don't get your hopes up just yet, they've been cleared for a season 2 already.

i mean... i feel like it's kinda obvious where we're going, no? People don't like this woke content or "subverting" content as some call it because it's opposite their values, but the people who made the show have said show's values so they'll keep making stuff like this until they're forced to stop, so either people stop watching this crap all together and Hollywood as a whole capsizes or their (hollywood's) "values" start to consume more and more of American culture until they have everyone under their control. OR, third option, there's a full-on civil war. I see no other choices, unfortunate time for America lol.

us os doomed with all the woke bs

@@Evadann it's even worse outside.

She's an over 40 years old useless and spoiled rich brat who got handed jobs that don't deserve the moment she got out of college.

Thought more of boondocks

I was thinking the same thing.

They missed a huge oppertunity to use the scooby doo trademark to make a boondocks like show which deconstructs the modern zeitgeist. Not possible with a producer who is pushing 40.

There is never a valid reason for it, it’s anyways unnecessary and bad. Just make a new character instead of hijacking an established one.

Race swapping implies the race the character is swapped to isn't worth the effort of creating new characters for.

The BBC and some others have started race swapping HISTORICAL FIGUREs. How the fuck haven't they gotten the message 🫠

The thing about Harley Quinn is it might be a bit hyperbolae in some of the things the character do but its not completely unbelievable and actually does it in a funny way. Velma is just completely different characters with absolutely nothing in common with the original.

If you want to see a female character who is ridiculously and unbelievably written, watch Yellowstone. The character of 'Beth' is utterly ridiculous...

Bane made that show, without him trying to get a fucking chair it would be shit, absolutely the Bane show.

Did you just say “woke” and “great” in the same sentence!? I have yet to see anything “woke” that is even remotely watchable let alone great

@@gagebyers1057 okay hun, Facebook is that way

I kinda think a lot of people would feel sorry for her if we knew more but not for the reasons she'd think

@@mandowarrior123 other stuff has been on the cusp of being released and then canceled.

My hope is that this show ends in the same fashion as "The Aristocrats" joke. This is the only way I would comprehend why this cesspool was ever vomited into being.

I imagine it's just because a critic's job is different from an audience's desires. An audience just considers "did I like it," and if they liked it then they'll give it five stars, and if they didn't then they give it none, with a few scattered people voting in between. A critic actively considers matters like animation speed/quality, music choice, specific joke timings, etc, and consequently puts a lesser value on the broad-strokes things that impact the audience score the most, ie the writing/changed characterization. In other words, the critics are not being paid to guess how much folk will like it, they're being paid to quantify how "Objectively Good" they think it is.

@@fishworshipper Well they objectively settled on 55 percent which with all the obvious leftist bias at RT is pretty bad.

@@fishworshipper You described how a critic should do their job, unfortunately we've seen plenty of times that's not actually how they rate stuff, specially if you actually read the reviews they write. Majority of the critics don't even have a background or education on the matter. Just look at the Animation category in the Oscars, they openly admit to not care about animation, that it's something only for kids, why do you think movies like Toy Story 4 and Encanto won when you had nominees with objectively better animation, direction and script?

i haven’t heard anyone talk about this show in about a year.

Indeed they did but the difference is the show is fucking good! Isaac has the best character development of the lot as far as I'm concerned. Noone would have cared for the race swaps etc in Velma if it was good most likely. Though I could be wrong cause not as ma y ppl know who Isaac I'd from castlevania as ppl know who scooby and the gang are. So there likely would have been some backlash over race swapping but less so than with velma

I don't support racism, sorry.

I don't think enough people remember Curse of Darkness to even realize Isaac was race swapped. He was definitely one of the best characters in the show, up there with Trevor imo.

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Build a fire for someone and you only keep them warm for the night, but if you light that person on fire, you keep them warm for the rest of their life.

Exactly. It was never about money

"but it's satire, hur dee durr...you just don't get the humor"

look at my banner hector

This feels like a bot comment.

No, it's what they WANT 15 year olds to be which is even more disturbing

Best faith interpretation: it doesn't matter as long as the end result is still good, if not even improved due to the change (if only because the race-swapped actor is the perfect fit, like Nick Fury for example). It matters because on the face of it it's an arbitrary change that alienates the adaptation from its source material, but it can be an improvement, or at least it can be neutral. But usually it's neither of them, and that's the case when there are nefarious reasons behind the changes, like active disrespect for the source material (this one for example, or Netflix The Witcher), or ideological possession that disregards anything else. You can be a "progressive", and weave your themes and ideas into a story, and it's usually okay with people as long as the end result is coherent, well-made and interesting.

@Yumidori Iro Sam Jackson's Nick Fury isn't a race swap. Nick Fury has been black in the comic books since the year 2000

Thats disgusting af. 🤮

She pretty much age regressed herself 😂 WHY COULDN’T THEY JUST HAVE EVERYONE ADULTS 💀

okay but literally who cares? how is that relevant?

@@mandowarrior123 Depends on who you ask. Some say never better, others say it is about to collapse - if only we were so lucky

*top. Not too

Have you ever watched a movie? Stereotypes and archetypes are literally the bread and butter. He is a stereotype in the show because that stereotype exists in real life and the stereotype exists in real life, because you can observe people engaging in the stereotypical behaviour in real life. They showed a million times that Fred is human, he just isn't a strong one, because he's been kept a baby that only acts manly/grown up out of fear for his dad. The show being blatantly obvious and bombarding in its critique is literally why it is largely unfunny and has poor pacing.

@@yannickokpara4861 Except that stereotypes in real life are actual people who've lived a life prior to that and have legitimate reasons to exist other than being pathetic. They have actual reasons to be humans. They don't do that with Fred - He's just pathetic and they keep him there by making his 'humane scenes' an absolute joke, without taking into consideration how messed up it is. I mean this Fred has been constantly belittled by the entire community for his small peepee - I don't care if the show was actually building it as the flaw of the town and not a flaw of his, if that was the point then do it like South Park where they don't antagonize the victim of the one who's being wronged by the community and they actually show the humane part of that character. And yet they instead portray him as the antagonist constantly and keep making him the punching bag for most of the jokes. Not even one single thought of critical thinking is done within the background of the show, and ultimately whatever message they were applying there becomes pointless.

​@@Пинагод It's the flawed characters antagonizing him not some divine overlord of pure heart. I honestly don't see where it is justified that they treat him that way. The show literally makes a joke out of Velma being a narrowminded person who is littered with confirmation bias. In terms of Fred, yeah... he is pathetic because he hasn't been nurtured properly. They never make it his fault, they just created characters so narrowminded that they refuse to recognise that the 'evil' characters have reasons/backstory that explain how they're not inherently 'evil' whilst simultaneously ignoring how the 'good' characters use their own backstories to justify bad behaviour. Tbf South Park does a lot of gliding over and simplifying, which makes it easier to watch as an audience. While it depicts things from real life, it's a lot more cartoonier and grotesque, so it ends up carrying a lot less impact. In South Park we laugh about the uncomfortable truths. With Velma there is nothing to hide behind. It's just uncomfortable. Something to keep in mind is that 'real' dialogue is actually fake dialogue. If you do a test screening with 1:1 dialogue from the real life, it will fail with it being cited as ''not believable''. Velma takes it a step further and does a lot of dialogue based on subconcious thought and biases, which makes it even less believable perhaps due to it breaking the experience of escapism too hard. In South Park we don't go on and talk about the social issues in the story. We simply aren't incentivized to. With humour it glides over and trivialises a lot of things that happens by allowing us to simply shrug off the absurdities of the world by laughing at them. In that way it is a lot like actual real life, so it doesn't jar our sense of reality. I'm not saying it is well done or anything, but that is what I believe they have done.

@@yannickokpara4861 The show has justified it the moment they made it the most casual and running joke the entire two episodes and never address it again as a genuine issue that people do - And later on just made Fred obsessed over Velma out of randomness. In fact they made all three other characters have some sort of attraction towards Velma. Yes, it's the first few episodes, however that doesn't negate just how badly they execute whatever writing they have left. Oh, so you think South Park is just all for fun and laughs while Velma was speaking the uncomfortable truth? Then let's compare Velma with Moral Orel, a show that's blatantly uncomfortable - And...Velma falls behind, by a mile. Even an animated show _aimed for kids_ such as Puss in Boots: The Last Wish depicted the serious themes (that being panic attacks) of Velma much better and more accurately.

​@@Пинагод The whole jist of the show is calling out hypocrisy. Why would they need to address it when they already make it known that the 'holy' characters are extremely flawed. That's not justifing it, that is letting the narrative play out and asking the audience to power on their brain cells and question preconceived notions regardless of political affiliation. Btw they do explain Fred's obsession with Velma with him reading a book about the mystique aka different aspects of being a woman. Of course, the transformation he goes through is completely absurd, but firstly he is a very malleable character and secondly it is simply playing on the scenario where people were willing to instantly see him in a different light if he presented himself differently(as a baby), only now he is the one having a sudden 'enlightenment'. How I see it is that it is both a nod to that and a ridicule of the boy-meets-girl genre where either party is willing to transform their entire worldview as soon as the other shows one redeeming quality in a sea of darkness. I think you'll notice that not only do they also make fun of Norville being a simp, but they also recognise that Velma even as an SJW can't deny the traditional biological attraction of Fred. Just to clear things up, I never said South Park is JUST for fun. I said it uses humor, amongst other things, to glide over things/call out the absurd. My point is that the issues Velma brings up are more exposed in the way they are presented. The show doesn't do as much to guide you. We don't have Stan and Kyle as our(most of the time) moral guardians. It's more like: this is it, go figure. There's less handholding, less pats on the back and less 'let me kiss you where it hurts'. I can tell you this isn't the first time people have looked at Mindy Kailing's work and assumed wrongly about the intention of her writing and her political standpoint. The same thing happened in 2013 where someone took a character's joke the wrong way and assumed she was republican. At the same time she seems to support J.K. Rowling on the transgender issue, so it really just appears to be the case that people struggle to accept the possibility that Mindy Kailing isn't fighting their fight - that she might have equal reservations about conservatives and woke leftists. Am I going to pretend that they execute their narrative well? Absolutely not. Am I going to pretend that they haven't bitten off more than they can chew? Certainly won't. Just watched the 'Puss in Boots' panic attack. That is umm... well yeah, it's a panic attack. It's one way of having a panic attack. Having a panic attack is so wildly different person to person and situation to situation from freezing up to absolute dread to out-of-body experiences to sensory overload to simply getting overwhelmed by running thoughts that may resolve by allowing yourself to think of something else. I think the best part about the 'Puss in Boots' panic attack is how the type of attack relates to what resolves it. Puss is effectively in a different world, which is resolved by grounding, creating a clearly felt barrier between what is real and what is in his head. As a depiction of a panic attack, yeah, I'd give Velma an F. As a depiction of how ignorant people might approach you about your anxiety, I don't think it's terrible. Thinking about it a bit more, for me, personally it hits home with the annoyance I feel about people who throw around real mental health issues willy nilly in actually trivial settings and assume they know what it's like. For example it is not uncommon for people in my country to say they feel 'noia', 'depri' or portray their slight hang for order in an isolated incident for something as crippling as OCD. Just as you say, Velma has a massive problem executing its narrative. It doesn't understand its audience, so there are alot of things it might be trying to communicate that comes off differently. I do think, though, that it is a valid point to make, that people are very used to handholding and not used to ambiguity. Especially for an American audience, I can see how a lack of political polarity would be confusing. Those are obviously just my thoughts. Maybe I'm giving the showrunners too much credit. I do think if you rewatch it, though, you will notice many of these moments where they point out hypocrisy. In fact it is the theme they open with in the girls' shower.

That actually sounds accurate. Did i miss something?

Euphoria

I think it has more to do with the writers and directors veing activists first and writers/directors second. They could have just made this to piss off people whose political views, gender or race they dislike because they get kicks from seeing the outrage.

I don't give a shit about the race of any person, most of us are blended with different origins and if you look backwards enough through your ancestors you'll find for sure a lot of race mixes. But, I don't get why people are still saying that Pedro Pascal is not white, when he is. He is from Chile where almost 90% of people are white, his father's family comes from the Basque Country in Spain, a country in Europe where almost all the people are white, his mother's family comes from France. And more important, Pascal himself has said several times that he is white. He is as Caucasian as white Americans. Really, I don't understand this confusion. Another thing would be if his physique is similar enough with the video game character, but it's not because there is a race difference.

@Gerclun Pedro isn't Caucasian he is of hispanic ethnicity. You can look at someone's skin and say they're white all day but that doesn't mean it's their true ethnicity. I look white in most places but I'm 94% Cherokee. I am not white even if I appear so. Just like someone who is Jamaican might not just identify as solely "black." Lots of people in spain look white but they're not. Either way it doesn't matter. As I said if someone looks and acts enough like a character then they can pull it off no problem regardless of their ethnic background.. but when you take a character white as snow and cast a dark skinned actor for the role, most people aren't going to identify the new version with the character they're familiar with.

​​​@@USDS_TikTok_MikeAn ethnicity is not a race "An ethnicity or ethnic group is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include a common nation of origin, or common sets of ancestry, traditions, language, history, society, religion, or social treatment." The term "hispanic", refers to cultures, people or countries related to Spain, a great amount of hispanics are caucasian. And no, Spain does not have "people who look white but are not", Spanish people *are* white.

And smell like.

Lmao WHAT

That was an edit.