the casting for bratz is trash and here's why.

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timestamps!
0:00 intro
2:35 lets drag the bratz movie
3:50 monster high casting problem is similar to the bratz casting problem
6:13 bratz’s diversity
8:00 sasha
13:28 jade
16:04 commercial break
17:16 yasmin
21:04 dylan
22:30 closing thoughts
27:37 “its made for kids it doesn’t matter”

[@TheLeah2344]

I’m still mad that they casted a light skin mixed woman to play a dark skin black doll. I’m so tired of them erasing dark skin women. We deserve to be represented too. I did enjoy the soundtrack though.

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

Exactly thank you 😊

[@whatagirthypooyouvetaken5825]

It’s never going to stop. At this point It seems darker skinned women are only being used when a show or movie wants to be “woke”. Then people still have the nerve to call that diversity. it’s really tiring 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@123anythin]

Logan isn’t mixed-race, both are parents are black/African-American but I understand where you’re coming from

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

@@123anythin actually she’s adopted

[@lunarialoonatic]

Ngl the last song really hits

[@bbi2.052]

AVATAR THE LAST BENDER, WINX, BRATZ, MONSTER HIGH- why can't we have a good live-action and NON-WHITEWASHED 😔

[@Lill2895]

@@awsomedude23456 not true. All of the listed shows with the exception of Monster High, are clearly all human. That's like saying it's hard to find non- White people when that's not at all true. You're telling us that for Avatar it would've been difficult to find a fully Asian and Inuit cast??? Even though the internet and production done by POC have no problem finding these actors and actresses? NOPE. It's absurd. It's just whitewashing and erasure. They either get someone mixed or a White person.

[@xboxdoll2005]

in the new atla live action, the entire cast is east asian/native american!!

[@bbi2.052]

@@xboxdoll2005 I’ve heard!! (Except for Sokka’s actor, apparently his race is debated) but overall I hope we have a good cast this time around👍👍

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

ANSD NOW LILO AND STITCH.

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

@@bbi2.052 He deadass lied about his race to get the role. 💀

[@ash-dl8ff]

I’m a brown Latina and Yasmin’s casting has always upset me. Media likes to only portray white Latinas while completely ignoring all brown, black, indigenous, and even Asian Latinas. Most Latinas are people of color. Me, my mom, and my sister are all brown-skinned with dark hair and dark eyes. I loved Yasmin dolls as a kid because she was brown just like me. I want more of THAT representation for little Hispanic girls.

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

I was so mad about this myself.

[@michellemarie1197]

OK but at the same time as a kid looking at the Sasha, Yasmin and jade dolls they would still sometimes make them with highlighted hair and most Yasmin dolls I had had light eyes, the darker skin yes is an issue, but the lighter hair and eyes isn't an issue cause especially the Sasha dolls they make her have blue or green eyes

[@sofiahutchings5247]

I remember watching the movie a couple months ago and the crazy thing is she wasn't even Latina she's Spanish, but they were like yeah that's the same thing.

[@nicoleflores2054]

@@sofiahutchings5247 heck, there's latina actresses out there, yet they decided to go for a Spain actress because since they both talk spanish, that means that it still counts. it doesn't.

[@lunarialoonatic]

I’m Latina but I also hated that Yasmine’s family was basically portrayed as the type of Mexicans who always have Spanish music blaring and loud music. Her house was a fiesta everyday lol. It just seemed so stereotypical

[@coreynmarie]

i rewatch this movie an unhealthy amount of times, it’s such a comfort movie. but that aside the colorism with yasmin and sasha’s casting is so disappointing. and they completely whitewashed dylan who i’ve always seen as afro latino. i’m open to the idea of new live action but i’m afraid they’ll mess up the casting again so is it worth it

[@lunarialoonatic]

Was Dylan deaf in the bratz show? Cause if not it’s like the directors said no to accurate representation but yeah trying to be woke

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

@@lunarialoonatic no Dylan wasn’t deaf on the show.

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

I had to realize that Dylan was whitewashed.

[@wateva4270]

Yeah Dylan was mixed i think they just couldn't get his color right and I always thought Dylan went with jade in my opinion

[@lauracerqueiramachado8979]

Does anyone else remember the Bratzillaz dolls? They were the wicked cousins of the Bratz, they were good witches each one with her own magical power and magical pet/familiar made in the early 2010s as an attempt to compete with Monster High but it didn’t really work so they were kind of forgotten, which is a shame because they were amazing.

[@berryjunmill9029]

omg yes I remember wanting one so badly

[@sophiebear2248]

I remember there was a mini series or shorts I watched

[@lauracerqueiramachado8979]

@@sophiebear2248 yes! It’s available here in KZbin

[@syria0110]

I remember them. I had Cloella, Sashabella, Megana, and Jade.

[@svgarcvbes7560]

Their eyes were SO PRETTY

[@naseemah4665]

as a lightskin biracial I had so many yasmine dolls. I remember being so upset and confused when I saw that yasmine was a white girl from house of Anubis. I was like why does "sasha" look more like the yasmine doll.

[@jadacampbell9331]

OMG i thought the same thing!

[@amariahxo450]

same

[@faerie.g0blin]

Call it Mama Mia because here we go again.

[@jules-sm8uf]

It's almost funny how the casting looked at a Hispanic character and a strawberry blonde and went: "It's the same picture"

[@Lill2895]

💀

[@material-cheshirekhatter2413]

They gave Sasha a white stunt double 💀 Sasha was everything, she literally became friends with the Bratz equivalent of Beyonce. Why do they do this? Stray cats could cast better than this...

[@harriyanna]

o this is GHETTO ghetto

[@yorkierussell9255]

@@harriyanna I’m not the only one who noticed that in the movie! When she’s auditioning for the cheer squad, you can clearly see the transition between the original actress and the white stunt double. 👎🏽

[@Quinn91202]

Not stray cats 💀

[@diamonddeliliah123]

The diversity was one of the reasons so many girls including myself loved the show it was nice to see some representation of other ethnicities than white Barbie the movie completely missed that. Plus the writing made no sense

[@nicoleflores2054]

okay but seriously, what's with live actions doing this? no excuses can't change my mind, is casting a person of color actor/actress for a person of color character that hard?? it feels uncomfortable seeing a character's race being changed, it's like they're a different person but with the same name.

[@littlemisstfc]

Yasmin was one of the very first characters that looks like me while I was growing up. To see her whitewashed in this movie is just…eww.

[@nicoleflores2054]

@@littlemisstfc exactly, it just feels wrong to see characters being treated like that

[@nicoleflores2054]

@@awsomedude23456 that's different though from where i check, the actress isn't latina, which Yasmin *is* latina.

[@nicoleflores2054]

@@awsomedude23456 true but now that there's latino fans that are disappointed by the casting choice of Yasmin, then they really fucked up everyone except Cloe

[@Magicalgirl20]

*COUGH fate the Winx saga COUGH*

[@Alicewatertribe]

It's really sad chloe's mom single parenting & sasha's parents are in a process of getting divorced that's really sad

[@ljh8264]

Why? It shows kids you can have functional working and happy lives without having traditional nuclear families. Makes them feel less alone.

[@Alicewatertribe]

@@ljh8264 thank you that's what my point is I tell people that they get upset about it

[@jxstjada]

Tbh, the way I couldn't tell who was who the way how the cast was so whitewashed (and we won't even talk about Sasha's white stunt double- 👁️👄👁️, and the stereotypes? 🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️🚶🏿‍♀️)

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

Had to find about this until I saw the clip.

[@Jenny-td3bl]

As Latina When I was younger I thought yasmine was good Representation for latinas but as i got older I realized they whitewashed her character and felt they had to stereotype her family by having mariachi all time in their household just to remind us she’s latina. I also was disappointed that not only her but her family casting weren’t latinx actors most of them were just white Hispanics actors.

[@andiflores4638]

Fellow (brown) Latina here. I completely feel the frustration honey, I wish they casted brown Hispanics/Latinos in the movie especially for yasmin😢 yasmin was always favorite bratz bc since we’re both from the same heritage, I always saw myself in her. Made me so sad to see that she was whitewashed

[@mdragon12]

That Bratz movie was the most offensive out the gate omg the mariachi band in the kitchen I literally thought that THAT scene was a nightmare I had but it’s real!

[@nueshb4797]

Yasmin's casting had me questioning my own knowledge of the Bratz characters for a short period.

[@sarahthomas8670]

SAME

[@puthycat8336]

I clicked so *FAST* 😭💕 This casting was probably one of the most ridiculous ones ever, Sasha who’s definitely a darkskin doll being played by a lightskin, mixed woman…Jade was played by a white passing mixed woman…So ghetto.

[@lunarialoonatic]

Jade is supposed to be Asian right?

[@puthycat8336]

@@lunarialoonatic Absolutely, so they should’ve of gotten an asian woman not a biracial white looking woman but hey 😭

[@harriyanna]

thank you for understanding why jade's casting is a problem as well. since they wanted to go with the "jade being biracial" storyline, they could have picked a girl who favored more of her asian side than her white side. literally all the bratz in this movie are white adjacent. they knew what they were doing when they casted her.

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

So agree on this one

[@puthycat8336]

@@yasminehanna1760 Everyone has an opinion, don’t agree? Cool, keep scrolling. Don’t come under my comment starting a debate or argument 💕 ty

[@cleodenilestanstillebsh4608]

He really said to the public with his whole chest "Oh yeah we wanted racially ambiguous leads".

[@maxride445]

Ngl, when I had the dolls while growing up, I thought Jade was either Asian or a white latina (like me) and I thought Yasmine (Jasmine?) was an ambiguous brown girl 💀 Like middle Eastern or a light skinned Indian girl, but when she popped up as latina in the live action, I was a bit shook

[@1hcc994]

Her original design was a latino girl her name before yazmin was lupe. That’s straight from the creator. Jade is Asian also from the creator.

[@brib6046]

Yasmine also seemed like an ambiguous brown girl but I always figured she was a Latina. It’s interesting hearing your thoughts about Jade though. It’s crazy how people really thought the “half-assed” attempt of diversity, because we shouldn’t have to guess like that

[@kyarahpete9511]

I understand what you were saying! Yasmin always seemed like she was Arabic, her ambiguity as a brown woman was real strong

[@dannyrivera2733]

@@kyarahpete9511 I saw her as both interestingly, I know Yasmin is a common name among the Latino community and I have a cousin named that so I always thought she looked Latina to me, but I also thought she could’ve been Arab as well

[@syria0110]

@@kyarahpete9511 I believe the creator of MGA (Bratz manufacturer) is Iranian and named Yasmin after his daughter.

[@marcusgarza8526]

The way we were all rooting for this to not suck too 😭

[@lunarialoonatic]

I remember being so excited for this movie 😭

[@sarahthomas8670]

IKR

[@syria0110]

I was just remembering playing the Forever Diamondz game a few months back and I was trying to figure out why Sasha looked a little like Yasmin. When it came to artwork based on Bratz, they always did Sasha dirty.

[@hiroramos2819]

I appreciate you mentioning that latine is not a race, which is why I always introduce myself as a brown latine. Great video as always, keep calling out hollywood's icky stuff!

[@tonof.c.1397]

Latino or latina*

[@hiroramos2819]

@@tonof.c.1397 Hey, non binary latine here living in a latin american country. People who use gender neutral language here use latine and the E instead of A or O because it represents us better even though the spanish language doesn't have an actual gender neutral word. I don't appreciate you coming for me when I literally say I am latine. If you are not latin american then this is not your place at all.

[@tonof.c.1397]

@@hiroramos2819 Aprovecho que eres de LatAm pa escribirte en español: lo que dices es falso. Casi nadie fuera de internet usa el término latine, porque 1) es incorrecto 2) su función la cumple la O. Tú usa la E todo lo que quieras, que está mal. Te lo dice un *español no binario*. Así que baja la pasivo-agresividad, que sólo te estoy corrigiendo 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@ochukoasiafor5834]

I thought the movie was lit as a kid. Rewatching it, it’s not it. 🙃

[@willowfive8330]

That's how I feel with a lot of bargin bin movies I grew up with 😔👊

[@tyrawallace8908]

No fr

[@skyyexplainsitall]

Chile, that casting was a mess. Why you have a white passing girl playing Jade. Why you have a light skin, biracial girl playing Sasha that is clearly a dark skinned black girl? Why you cast a white girl to play Yasmine, who clearly looks mestiza???? The math was never mathing

[@harriyanna]

its not adding up at all

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

I agree the casting was not good

[@ljh8264]

I’m sorry but Bratz without Janel Parrish wouldn’t have been what it was

[@imxel2193]

@@ljh8264 nah trash

[@facefucker7923]

I fucking hate Hollywood They always do this

[@jakeyboy203]

I always wanted Keke Palmer for Sasha she was born for that role Keke literally is Sasha haha they have similar style and they kinda talk the same too and Keke always wearing those green contacts she love so much haha

[@wompwomp4961]

what gets me most is that if the characters that are dolls are human or have human skin tones there's no reason to get the skin tone wrong when you have a doll right there to compare to like if you hold up the doll next to someone's arm and the person is significantly lighter than the doll you're doing something wrong ( also on the thing with sasha always having light eyes doll companies still do that like off the top of my head the only rainbow high character who is both a poc and has dark eyes are kia and karma and the dark skin dolls like krystal's eyes are really blue and like you could pass off the indigo hair as hair dye but there's no reason for almost all of their black dolls to have light colored eyes like that )

[@JulesM434]

I was also confused on jasmine’s casting too when the movie initially came out, but also on jade’s. It was hard not to notice.

[@symphonysonic8643]

The answer is whitewashing 🤭

[@mayavines8875]

Lol I still don't understand why the Bratz character design for the dolls and animated characters were inconsistent for Sasha AND Dylan (and even sometimes Yasmin). They were also a little incosistent on which boys were paired up with the girls (i.e. sometimes we'd see Dylan paired up with Sasha and other times he'd be paired with Jade, and other times Eitan was with Sasha but then paired with Yasmin). So the consistency was never truly there from the beginning

[@Anna24529w]

Cameron and Cloe were the only consistent couple.

[@toxicsugarart2103]

Yeah I recently bought a few Yasmins and some of them are like tan and dark blonde, one has clearly brown skin with almost-black hair, like hello what does this girl actually look like?? But I feel like the various pairings were just meant to plant different scenarios in kids heads to play around with lol.

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

ok so they're poly why hate 🤪

[@mayavines8875]

@@imthebossmermaid3648 haaaaaaaa 😂😂😂😂😂😂 NOT THEY’RE POLY OMGGG

[@awtumn]

Never realized this, but in the Bratz commercials animated Sasha was always lighter than her doll. I wonder why they did that.

[@ImaniVersus]

I ALWAYS hated this casting, but I like Logan Browning. You can’t even tell who Yasmine is for real. It took me a minute in the movie girl was supposed to be Yasmine. I can’t even remember what Jade looked like.

[@orahilike5383]

Nah let’s talk about this because I watching it for the first time asking “where’s Sasha?” The casting was appalling

[@kevonhankerson2124]

Hollywood is always so lazy when it comes to casting like there were plenty of dark skin black girls that could had been perfect for the sasha role for example kyla pratt or sicily sewell and has for jade and yasmine brenda song would had been a good fit for jade and christina milian would had been a perfect fit for yasmine they really dropped the ball when it came to the bratz movie 🙄

[@friedfishh]

I'm glad you're planning on taking a break and taking care of yourself :) You should always put your wellbeing first before anything else

[@terrier-9544]

Omg, it looked like the doll turned her head to look up at you to say, "It's okay girl, go off" at 10:43 Lol!

[@symphonysonic8643]

Yasmin was my favorite- I was so confused when I saw this cover and there were 2 Chloe’s...

[@sissysovereign1294]

I remember being VERY disappointed in the live action Bratz film when I was younger. The actors didn't seem believable enough to be the characters and it didn't feel like I was looking at the girls with a passion for fashion. The whole Bratz clique was white washed to hell in that film. Also, it really cracked me up seeing you bring in your dolls whenever you got annoyed xD That really reminded me of myself since I'm so quick to talk shit with my Monster High dolls xD

[@-Desire]

Love your hair Harri, I can see your Natalie influence! Once I saw light skin Sasha and Yasmin, I knew what I was getting into.

[@drgharris]

Idk if you ever watched monster high but...did you see the live action cast they just release. They whitewashed clawdeen 😔

[@harriyanna]

link to that video is in the description box!

[@Moriartart]

I love ur pfp omg

[@juliusweaver3198]

Wooooooow Fr

[@drgharris]

@@Moriartart thank you! I made it myself♡

[@imxel2193]

I remember Sasha being whitewashed in the cartoons. Straight up making her look like Yasmin. Also i remember how they rarely advertised Sasha in Bratz commercials.

[@breezemansker3366]

I watched this guys tiktok who is the "biggest bratz fan" can't remember his name but he said the movie was supposed to be a different movie already in production then the bratz blew up and they just changed a few things and claimed it was a bratz movie :/ they really dont care

[@jenn4593]

lol

[@imthebossmermaid3648]

Where is the proof of that tho lol?

[@gigiloveyeah]

The girl who plays yasmine is more looking like meygan from bratz

[@lunarialoonatic]

I love this background so much. It looks so aesthetic. And the title is a freaking yes. I thought it was iconic as a kid but now it’s such a mess and as a Latina, I can’t even watch the portrayal of Yasmine’s family-

[@friedfishh]

oml the marinette dupain cheng situation again! as a fully asian, i am disappointed :(

[@Moriartart]

As a brown Latina I feel ur pain-on the other side of the pond. They never really want us women of color AS colored-we can’t just be Asian/Latin/black/etc we HAVE to either be half white or just look like it to even be acceptable :/ I hate it

[@sarahthomas8670]

yess

[@toxicsugarart2103]

Ooo I’d love to see a reboot with actual proper casting... with the dolls making a comeback I wouldn’t be surprised if they did it at some point. Anybody have any fancasts? 👀

[@angieg.1901]

I had always looked for more brown Latina girls to look up to as a kid. Yasmin was my favorite, since she looked like me (minus the brown hair and light eyes, bc white washing) and I loved her in the animated series/movies. I had forgotten about the Live Action until a few years ago, but the micro aggressions with the mariachi in her house and her singing a Spanish song as a WHITE PERSON felt like a slap in the face.

[@Anna24529w]

The black girl who was Chloe’s teammate on the soccer team would’ve been representation of Sasha’s skin color.

[@kayleigh1991]

I always forget about your channel and then find you again every few months and binge watch your videos for hours on end.

[@Bunny-wm6gz]

Unrelated, i had that same bratz baby'z Sasha doll, i had a lot of the Sasha dolls, plus two Felicia dolls, loved them. And this moving casting was so bad my grandma almost cried with me over what they did to Sasha.

[@pinkpanther4431]

So proud of you. Do what you need to do to take care of yourself. We love you girl. Your so awesome. Keep pushing through. 💜💕

[@jadacampbell9331]

I'm so glad this convo is being had. Always felt like everybody overlooked it

[@willowfive8330]

I know this movie is a giant mess and a train wreck, but it's one of my guilty pleasures. Though I can say that the miscast is evident with the main 4 girls. No hate at all to Logan Browning and Nathalia Ramos, they clearly had a lot of fun working on this, but they should've cast a more darker skinned black woman and latina, 'cause last time I checked Yasmin and Sasha didn't look that light.

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

Sasha’s stunt double from the movie was white, did y’all noticed?

[@amirite3989]

I always thought Yasmin was brown… Honest to god it is only now that I’m grown and watch videos like this that I find out characters like Yasmin and Flora from the Winx Club were supposed to be the latina of their respective friend groups. Where are my brown girls at then?!?!?

[@freakytostadacartoon]

Some Latinas are Brown skinned.

[@whatagirthypooyouvetaken5825]

@@freakytostadacartoon they know

[@thelittleunicorn6196]

Your hair is so cute and I hope you’re feeling better 💓

[@cassandraflannigan7489]

Can we just talk about how in the live action bratz movie they made Dylan deaf i mean he was never deaf in the first place

[@arisboba]

Also, I always hated how the Jade dolls & Jade's design in the animated movies always looked white, she had green eyes at times (even blue) & they never animated her facial features to look asian. She always looked like cloe with dark hair, tbh.

[@edithnorthparklover]

When I was a little kid and I watched the Bratz movie I kept on getting confused on who was who, because they all looked white except Sasha. As a Latina Yasmin was my favorite and was disappointed and confused, she just did not look like her at all.

[@sakura-rosegamer5847]

The winx club live action had the same problem with casting to they had a half asain no Latino and they got rid of tecna for some reason

[@wateva4270]

I have been waiting for people to talk about this thank you

[@abbeysnails]

I was definitely a Bratz doll over Barbie, but I think I was 11 when this movie came out but I watched it later due to the fact of getting more into anime/manga and I remember hating it haha I never even went back to watch it ever again. Initially I thought these were different characters so I was okay with it until I found out they were the OG characters. Very disappointed with the casting and they just didn't feel like the Bratz if that makes sense. Also, I never noticed that the Sasha doll had different eye colors. That's an interesting fact.

[@leahdavis9434]

Fun fact I didn't have a Chloe doll growing up because my mom didn't want to buy the white one. Only once I was a teenager could I get one

[@offbeatkiki]

The runway disco theme still gets stuck in my head.

[@banafanafofana6914]

Kurtis Connor used a bit from this video (with credits) idk I'm excited for you!❤

[@misscaution704]

The casting for Yasmín always rubbed me the wrong way, and this is coming from someone who never really grew up with Bratz or has seen the movie. But I remember watching Julia Cudney’s Bratz Video and being genuinely confused when I saw Yasmín, I didn’t even realize it was her at first.

[@miesha.b8740]

Logan should’ve played Yasmin not Sasha…

[@catazoe7535]

you know what's funny, as a kid i never knew there was such a thing as a bratz movie, i only learned of its existence when it started appearing in commentary youtube a few years ago. and I remember the first time I saw the whole cast together i spent like 10 minutes trying to figure out who was supposed to be who.

[@TheYoungGeninSasuke]

I didn't even like how Chloe was portrayed in the movie despite the right casting. She was just the dumb blonde character. I don't remember her being like that in the movies or tv show. I didn't feel like none of these girls would even be friends at all.

[@zombelladonna]

Thank you for making this video! When I was a kid I was super disappointed in the casting for the movie. I’m middle eastern and I had a Yasmin doll, she was my favorite toy as a kid because the rest of the dolls that I had didn’t look like me. And I remember being super excited about the movie and then being really sad when it came out because none of the characters looked how they were supposed to.

[@brittanyguyton3987]

I would love for them to do a better movie for Bratz. Better casting, acting, singing, and music. They should take pointers from the first two cheetah girls movies when it comes to music. Bratz are iconic and must receive the live action movie that they deserved. Oh and better wardrobe styling as well !

[@oh.kaylahh]

It’s amazing how these movies that adapt from dolls or a lot of other things make the characters progressively lighter and lighter until it’s unclear what the character was even supposed to look like/represent. Even with The Hate You Give it’s like you can expect a minimum 2-shades of lightening for the movie adaptation in Hollywood ALWAYS. This is why we don’t have that many dark skin young black WOMEN actors. The jobs that are supposed to be made for them are TAKEN from them.

[@haleyd7448]

I'VE BEEN WAITING TO HEAR YOUR TAKE ON THIS AND I KNEW I WOULD LOVE IT & LEARN SOMETHING. yasmin's casting was always the biggest thing that stood out to me. and when i found out about her being european, i could not BELIEVE the silence and lack of outrage?! even the actress that plays her mom is white! but i'm embarrassed to say i never picked up on jade and sasha's casting, and now that you point it out, it's officially safe to say these casting decisions were very explicitly, unapologetically racist. it's like they were trying to figure out how to cast these characters with as much proximity to whiteness as they could get away with. i sometimes wonder if the screenwriter had better intentions than the director and producers that ended up executing this story, because i always thought it was a pretty bold choice (for early 00s standards) to make yasmin the lead and not chloe, the "blonde one." it's such a shame that they fucking made the lead actress white anyway.

[@kaym1558]

I went to see this movie on premier day in Theaters and… during almost the whole movie I’m like “where’s Sasha?” . I kept hearing her name but I’m like, “I don’t see a dark skin girl who looks like me, where is she?”. Then I finally realized Logan was Sasha and I thought she was Yasmin! I was so hurt and confused. Haven’t watched that movie since. But personally I thought they did fine with Jade (look wise). To me, she didn’t look white. She looked Asian-American but you can definitely see that she’s Asian. And Yasmin overall just confuses me now looking at it. The person who played her was so off to the left that I totally forgot about her.

[@jasmineroy9982]

I agree. I thought Logan was Yasmin too. I liked Janel as Jade (I felt she looked like Jade) but can see why people had an issue with her casting.

[@SailorLavender]

My thoughts on Yasmine and her family when I first saw them: "Why does this Italian family have an entire Mariachi band in their kitchen at 6am in the morning?"

[@KissyAdair]

I never thought of Sasha's (the doll) skin being dark skinned. I always thought she was on the light side. I've always wondered why they didn't do different skin tones of races. There's more than one shade of skin color in different races, even white. Some are more pale than others, some of us have more of an olive complexion.

[@bbsdollsandtvarchive]

The Bratz movie was so confusing to me. When I first saw the commercial? I was so shocked and said why they whitewashed Yasmin. Harryianna, we are twinning with that Bratz Yasmin head.

[@cassielcruzchavolla809]

It was pretty upsetting for me to find out that the girl who played Yasmin wasn't even latina. First time I watch it I thought she was white latina sooo

[@JustTRodriguez]

This movie could of been bigger if they air it on Nickelodeon as TV movie at time musicals were big like hsm and icarly

[@littlemisstfc]

The Bratz movie is a homophobic crime. 😔

[@terecitastephens7019]

When I first saw the Bratz movie.I got so confused 🤔 I couldn’t tell who is who in the start so I tried to tell based off of their room’s.I thought they change the characters!(also I never knew Dylan was black 😭 I was so happy and so sad when I heard that he was black because he’s my one of my favorite character’s but he was always changing skin tones)

[@moonieland]

Honestly Bratz made me so uncomfortable as a kid. The movie almost felt like a mockery of the original series and tha dolls. Not only that but I loved the diversity of the girls and all we had was... Sasha. I'm glad we at least had Sasha but it still wasn't enough for my high 7 year old standards. Bratz (the dolls and cartoon series) is probably the reason why I'm so picky about American shows.

[@ambriaashley3383]

Hope you're doing well and getting rest, Harriyana! ❤ First heard about casting in this movie when I saw Kennie J.D.'s video I think called "I Watched The Bratz Movie to Escape Racism and That Didn't Work" 😅 😄 😂 Yall both made great points 👏🏿

[@wendydarling8979]

i just rewatched the orinal 2D bratz animated movie and DYLAN'S ETHNICITY WAS SO CONFUSING FROM THAT MOVIE TO THE SERIES TO THE MOVIE AND THE NEW DESIGNS

[@terrier-9544]

Love the beads and braids!

[@jxwlxnx]

Can we also talk about the family. Like Jade had a white dad & Asian mom but Sasha had both black parents despite the actress being biracial. So why did they make them different. & for Yasmin her aunt or mom or grandma (idk who she is) but the actress isn’t even Latina in anyway so idk why she got to play the role for a Latina guardian. Like all the family/parents are mixed up except Chloe.

[@tinaismamama]

I remember watching the movie and thinking there was no relation to the dolls. I thought they just used the Bratz name.

[@harmonyh.1605]

Those face piercings really bring your face out! I love how you’re feeling yourself in the beginning of the vid because you def should! 👏🏾

[@yensidsfunkos4951]

Girl they basically tried to cast the cheetah girls MINUS Raven with a lighter shade NON LATINA Adrian, and the addition of a lighter skinned Brenda Song. Tell me I’m wrong!

[@wandeesthoughts]

That Era when Sasha and Dylan were lightened was so weird I'm so glad things are better now

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

Congrats on getting mentioned in Kurtis Corners newest video 👏👏👏 You deserve to be mentioned on every video 🤝

[@matildahamilton1472]

when i watched the movie i thought there was a mistake and they had two cloe's but it was just yasmin. And i was devestated after finding out she was yasmin as i resemble her the most except im paler and she just looked like a regular blonde girl

[@humanbean852]

I'm white, and as a kid had no concept of racial issues and I STILL was way confused with the casting

[@IlikepurpleXP]

That casting pissed me off and is why i never watched the movie. As a "light skinned" Afro-latina I aesthetically always related more to Yasmin dolls growing up (I even had the Yasmin Styling head lol), so seeing her be a white girl in the film really rubbed me the wrong way. Hell, the girl who plays Sasha looks more like Yasmin.

[@Man-wolf-]

Tbh im not shocked they casted a spaniard girl to play yasmian bcus i see alot of white gringos claimin spaniards arent white/are latinos when their white hispanics

[@thema1998]

I've never seen the Bratz live-action movie but I did watch a video about it once. I forgot how problematic the casting was! 😅

[@Lill2895]

I still have my Sasha doll and her pet dog set (I'm 26). It was the last doll I ever got and I really loved their franchise. She is chocolate with a curly coily natural puff on her head. She was literally SO popular and my sister had three Yasmin one with the hair glitter crimping set. We loved them because they looked like us and our friends and the other people around us. I rarely came across people that had the Chloe doll tbh. I always wanted a Jade doll but she was usually either sold out or harder to come by. Probably because Asian dolls were so ridiculously rare at the time so the demand was there but the merchandise wasn't smh

[@mk-aka-morgan8386]

Hearing your speech/section of the video about how great it is to see younger people call celebrities out when they do something shitty feels so relevant right now especially 🙏 seeing so many famous people siding with genocide or just brushing it off is so off-putting 😬

[@Alix27516]

While mestizo people can either look mixed or totally brown/white, my mother looks white while my father looks brown but they both descend of the indegenous community, Yasmin always looked more brown and she seemed half latin/half arab to me. Also, I like Natalia Ramos (I loved her on HoA) but she is Spanish and they could have casted someone else. Jade was always asian but the doll always seemed white passing to me, still Janel Parrish was the best actress of the cast. And Sasha was always dark skinned, she was the first black doll I had after Christie. Ps: I never had to look for a doll that resembled me (dolls were either too white or too brown), the same of looking for representation in media, because I understood early in my life that people of global north will never give my people the representation we want and deserve.

[@pachirisugirl7204]

The fact that I wouldn’t have asked for a Yasmín as a little girl if she hadn’t looked like a brown skinned Latina…… When I was a little kid, and I saw Yasmín, it was like love at first sight because her medium-tone skin resembled mine, and she looked like the older Latina teenaged girls in my life I looked up to. I felt betrayed when I saw that the girl who they casted as Yasmín looked like any other white girl

[@jakhiraj28]

The Nina movie was literally disgusting a modern minstrel movie 🤢