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[@harriyanna]

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[@calyyygrazie8]

Wait I thought this was just posted

[@nortmellypill]

@@calyyygrazie8was most likely on privated, then uploaded

[@EM-cp8er]

As a kid Brit reminded me of Naomi Campbell so I always thought she was a black british girl 🤷🏾‍♀

[@harriyanna]

same!!!

[@josheydubs]

That had to have been a reference to her

[@enchantingmirage]

If I remember correctly, her voice actress is British.

[@Dimitri1237]

I always saw Brit as an Indian girl from Britian. Since the British colonized India way back when. As for her character, I perceived her as a fashionable, “mean girl”. While, I do agree that it’s suspect that the creators of the show made the darkest character of the show a villian, I feel like the situation is a bit more nuanced. Inclusion opens up the door for POC characters to be casted as any type of person. Good or bad.

[@Artsy913]

Although it’s true that darkskin people are allowed be villains in fiction, it’s really weird how disney and nickelodeon tend to showcase black/non white female villains as mostly irredeemable compared to their blonde white female villains who almost always get more positive portrayals. It’s fine to have POC in an antagonist role but when it’s ONLY them who get constantly antagonized in a story, things tend to get iffy imo

[@angeliquebacker8522]

Honestly I always thought that she was Egyptian, because she looked just like this dark skinned Egyptian girl I went to school with years ago. Ironically she was very kind and not a mean girl.

[@annabelconstantine1241]

U just denying colorism. Do not be here

[@thelolochannel1817]

I believe Brit's voice actor was a white woman, but I agree with her being Indian, I immediately thought she was Indian the moment I saw her.

[@sapphic.flower]

I saw Brit as black and Tiff as East Asian. Also yeah, as much I love those two, Brit is the only dark skinned character, at least within the main cast, so it’s understandably frustrating when the only character you can see yourself in is an antagonist. I also noticed as an Asian that a lot of Asian female characters in cartoons were the mean girls?? Gotta unpack that lol.

[@millsgurl8358]

I think the reason for the Asian girls being mean girl is to go against the nice and quiet Asian girl stereotypes.

[@AJplays515]

This to me is basically like that American girl movie called Isabella you can dance. (I think that what it's called). Where the mean girl was a dark skin girl named Anaya. And while she wasn't the only black girl in the movie. She was like the darkest girl in that dance studio. And honestly. Rewatching that American girl movie as a 20 year old Anaya was not totally in the wrong in that movie. She just wanted that lead role as much as Isabella wanted it.

[@Zarsla]

Wait do you mean this american girl moive: An American Girl: Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight => kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXatl6OqYpV2aNk

[@Leviachan-]

That's the same situation as high school musical. As a person in musical theater, I get why Sharpay would be so frustrated that a newbie, with no experience in acting and can just sing well, got the LEAD role despite not even actually auditioning. I love hsm but knowing the inner working of these things it always gets on my nerves now.

[@SagelBagels]

The creator has confirmed that Tiff is biracial (half black/white). She speaks in AAVE and I headcannon that Brit moved from England at some point in her life.

[@tweettweetyweety]

OHH that makes sense

[@sanbanapoy]

Mlaatr aged like absolute milk for me lmaoooo. I legit can't stand how mean-spirited the story was most of the time. It would have been nice if there was actually consistent character development- cause Jenny and The Crust cousins could have had a way more interesting dynamic than just them tormenting her most of the time. Brit and Tiff legit got no substance without the other- there was even an episode where it was just Brit and girl barely said anything and did next to nothing 😭

[@harriyanna]

they were poorly written LMAOOOOOOO the cousins deserved better writing for sure

[@sagesixparties7217]

I couldn’t agree more

[@tobsonasanya4765]

Eh not really

[@lewa3910]

​@@tobsonasanya4765actually really.

[@toasturhztoastbunz896]

Agree. I honestly wouldn't be too afraid to call this show "overhyped" if I was in a really cruel mood.

[@devontamosley4487]

Off-topic, but I'm really loving Nick November intro. I was jamming like Arnold. Lol. On-topic, I do agree. We do need better representation of black people and non-black people of color with darker skin.

[@k.b.gravedigger9527]

Sorry, but I can't help but to notice the Asiatic features on the mean girl, I myself have Asiatic features.....(shout out to Cree Summers)

[@josheydubs]

I’ve always seen the Crust Cousins as a missed opportunity. Even in the episode where they had a fashion war with Jenny showed they love fashion and are stubborn. It also showed they play dirty. Sadly, they never explained why. They also never expanded on them. Why are they the way they are? Is there more to them that we don’t see? Maybe I’m reading too much into it

[@TECH097]

I see Brit Crust, and I click.

[@jojohanna8795]

On the cousin thing someone once told me that I had to be Japanese because my cousin was Japanese and I Girl what do you think a Cousin is?

[@skinni_the_P00hBear]

GIRL! You just reminded me of something: Hannah Montana. Amber and Ashley are the antagonists-who happen to be people of color. I dont remember many other POC characters besides Corbin Bleu, and Roxie (who's primary role was to protect the white female lead; no shade to my girl Miley 🤣). Idk the thoughts just came to me and I'm seeing eveything differently 💀💀

[@ronzellcool]

I love the new freaking intro it eats!!

[@katiaazizi]

I agree with you. Happy birthday Harrianna!

[@KikoElGatito]

While I do like the character designs and animation, the writing definitely could have been waaaaay better, which is a shame as the voice acting is charming! Like sure it wasn't bad or messy like Star VS., but it was very one note. I also feel that Jenny was unsympathetic at times, and it was admittedly annoying how the show would treat her as usually in the right, such as her treatment of the Crust cousins or that one robot girl from season 3. Speaking of Jenny, it's odd how she never had any female friends aside from Vega from that one special....a robot girl. Like I feel like only male characters were treated okay or were usually getting a pass (I fuckin hated Sheldon, he came off as more unlikable than the Crust Cousins thanks to how creepy he was to Jenny) yet all the other female characters were antagonistic. Just shows how Nick had a problem with how they tended to treat female characters then.

[@voicedubgaming2286]

Speaking of Teenage Robot with this I never thought much about it before but how is it they had the more visibly "of color" characters be essentially villainized meanwhile Jenny herself who could be seen as Asian bc of her VA had to be a blue-and-white robot when she could've easily just been a more humanoid robot Like Huh

[@audreyharris7643]

What's wrong with her being blue and white?

[@voicedubgaming2286]

@audreyharris7643 It's not her being like that in and of itself, it's the fact that especially since we do see a robot character in the show that looks human (Melody), it kinda makes me think they could've made Jenny humanoid and then given her Asian features like how Brit and Tiff, being humans themselves, are designed to visibly be people of color Then again, looking at how they made Sheldon yellow for some reason, maybe we dodged a bullet.

[@audreyharris7643]

@@voicedubgaming2286 alright then

[@lewa3910]

When a Transformers cartoon has better dark brown skin rep than a nicktoon (specifically Transformers Animated 2007) that nicktoon is a flop for me. Tho Sari Sumdac is technically dark skin indian rep compared to Brit who is just dark brown skin rep with no canon ethnicity as you said so not perfect comparison, but also there is an apt comparison between transformers animation 2007 and MLAATR's main characters, but its kinda spoilers for the transformers toon

[@thegeckojo5803]

Also happy bday!!!

[@rachellindsay2401]

Happy Birthday by the way

[@aireyb5785]

Ok it's not quite the same but Miranda & Courtney? Maybe a little of Mipsey

[@kenrickbautista6141]

Off-topic, but how did your channel *NOT* get a million subscribers?!

[@harriyanna]

hehehee i try my best 💙

[@ecstasycalculus]

Idea for a Nickvember topic: Good Burger. In the All That sketches and the original movie, I found Kel's character to be very offensive, like JJ Evans from Good Times. I haven't seen Good Burger 2 yet but I hope they do better with that character.

[@Lilothestitch]

I loved My Life as a Teenage Robot as a kid. I hate how they villainized characters of color and black characters.

[@tyjordanflophour]

Who's your favorite poc character, cap? Really though, it was a grating show to watch sometimes for me because I liked the fashion, but why were these girls written like that???

[@harriyanna]

howleen wolf!!!

[@itsjustvin7630]

probably cuz they were the classic bullies like in many shows of that era. like Porsha from Mighty B except funny enough she had some layers compared to Brit and Tiff.

[@S.i.p.03]

Hope u had a gr8 thanksgiving and have a gr8 bday❤️

[@kootunesscrewy]

As much as I enjoyed this cartoon, I will admit... The Mighty B was way better. Even if it doesn't have much action.

[@tcwentertainment]

You are entitled to your opinion,with that being said caaaaaaaap. Mighty b was average, MLAATR was that gas

[@ThePRL831]

Thank you so much for talking more about this issue in the show. You definitely confirmed a suspicion I had about this cartoon. When I tried looking online for critiques like you gave here in the past, I didn't find any at the time. Speaking as a fan, I wish they at least had some character development early on instead of remaining stereotypical mean girls. Also, it was disappointing how Jenny ended up being enemies with Misty and Melody, while her friend Vega only appeared once and her sisters only appeared in a handful of episodes. For a show whose protagonist was a female superhero, it would have been nice if it had more focus on more female friendships. Side note, anyone remember the episode where the Crust Cousins got superpowers? In my opinion, if they had been written as much nicer from the beginning, that could have been their superhero origin story.

[@jacobneale5844]

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