The Lilo And Stitch Problem

[@acemarvel1564]

I'm more worried how ugly they're gonna make stitch in the remake

[@caguay]

Or every single non-human character 😥 sheesh.......

[@liamphibia]

Ooooh yeeeaaaah.😬

[@nailinthefashion]

We're about to be thuper freaked out by a cyclops

[@tacomaster2179]

Im more so worried for the uncannineess of Jumba and Pleakly

[@acemarvel1564]

@@tacomaster2179 ewwww

[@ornitorrinco_en_la_caverna]

I think Disney decided to do this on purpose so people wouldn't talk about the fact that THEY ARE MAKING A LILO AND STITCH LIVE ACTION which is a terrible idea no matter how dark or light the colour of the actors and actresses' skin is.

[@peanutbuttersquid6124]

This.

[@tatarchan5212]

Aliens gonna look so nightmarish in live action I told you.

[@Flipitmixit]

You smart

[@ornitorrinco_en_la_caverna]

@@Flipitmixit disney is smart cause it worked.

[@ornitorrinco_en_la_caverna]

@@tatarchan5212 I know, right?

[@narutomaster500]

Let's be honest, this live action lilo and stitch didn't need to happen in the first place, same thing for Peter pan

[@nenep1872]

Exactly they have enough Pans out there and Lilo is fine by itself

[@narutomaster500]

@@nenep1872 especially 2003 Peter pan which was very good.

[@TJZ243]

“We’re the lost boys” “But you’re girls” “So?” Wendy: *Visible confusion* Me: *Visible frustration*

[@cheru_fishmonster]

I mean, I don't think any of the live action remakes have been necessary, or even good, for that matter.

[@TM-il8rb]

@@cheru_fishmonster maleficent wasn’t bad

[@amacookies89]

I'm not Hawaiian but as a Latina I can relate because lots of people assume that all latinos are brown. It's infuriating to see people whine that some Latino actors are not dark enough when some of them are my skin tone.

[@rhythmicmusicswap4173]

I have Bulgarian origins (probably I have a Bulgarian turks heritage) ,and people always mistake me for a Brazilian(??), Spanish (???), Maroccan or turks person because they think Bulgarian people are similar to north Slavic ones 😅😂

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

Agreed. Not everyone is the same color!

[@amacookies89]

@@rhythmicmusicswap4173 it just shows how little people know about other cultures.

[@spoiledsalad1851]

I’m Latino and I’m white lmao it’s dumb when people complain about not being dark enough

[@steffanocavero5872]

I can only imagine what they think of Argentinians

[@gracehinkle3623]

1. I understand your fears of showing your face online, and I just wanted to say I'm sorry it happened so soon, but also thank you for showing it for validities sake. 2. This was an amazing review with refreshing takes on how casting should work. It was very easy to understand and organized well 3. I loved learning about all this Hawaiian history (I am not Hawaiian), it was super interesting and gave me a deeper appreciation for this movie. Thank you for a great review and I'm excited to see the next video : )

[@mysticalteration498]

I watched the original one SO MANY times as a kid, I refuse to watch this remake, I hope the actors get paid well though.

[@alieneko_nyo]

Same lol, I'm scared of how they will make Stitch

[@rainpuppies]

I wish people understood these are marketing tactics. It’s called “farming controversy” it happened in making the little mermaid black, making tinkerbell and the blue fairy black (disney knows this farms insane amounts of controversy and gets everyone talking) it also happened with Velma. Because the things that are controversial are paid attention to and then green-lit. No such no thing as bad publicity. And when everyone fights about this they’re fighting a manufactured boogey-man. We should simply ignore this souless live actions and reboots and demand new projects with new characters or look for them elsewhere. Edit: Representation is not bad. Having black/POC/gay characters is not bad. The thing is taking an existing character and changing their features that creates bad faith. Nowadays studios are creatively bankrupt and only like to work with pre-existing media which is why we have all these reboots

[@nenep1872]

I don't understand why people are upset about fictional characters though... Mermaids stem from African culture but no one talks about that fairies from Ireland ... Unfortunately Disney doesn't have any new ideas, but I just don't see the problem with making Ariel black except for Hallie not being a redhead if they wanted to make her black they should of found an actual black redhead girl, but people will always have a problem with something but if they believed Hallie was the best fit black or white 🤷🏾‍♀️ I just don't like how they use these people and then the world well America shows their true colors ...

[@Austin-kt7ky]

@@nenep1872 The issue isn't that a fictional character is a certain race, it's that their original race had to be changed to pander to a specific demographic. Same rules would apply with changing a character's sex. If somebody wanted to tell a story, they should tell their own story instead of leeching off of somebody else's so they can soapbox for attention.

[@-mothman-]

How I've been able to accurately summarize my stance: the problem isn't the race swapping itself, it's more about why were they swapped in the first place. Was it done simply as another take on the character, to take the original concept and translate it with these new ideas? Or, in Disney's case.. Likely nothing about the script or characterization will change- they're simply swapped for the sake of being swapped, and as other people have pointed out, is most likely a publicity stunt.

[@scrittle]

Disney has made and assisted in making movies in the past few years and I'm tired of people thinking they've not. The real problem is why they can't re-release these films in cinemas rather than riding on a classic for nostalgia reasons. In contrast to this, animated movies like 'Raya and the Last Dragon' and 'Onward' were both advertised as representing something (South-east Asians and homosexuals respectively) but each weren't respected in the slightest and were only used for marketing purposes. Now to call the mermaid film remake's marketing revolving around ragebait is overblown. When it came out, I saw the trailers and thought "I'm tired of Disney's shameless remakes, why is it so dark and drab like the Lion King?". I didn't dislike the black actress, in fact I think Disney let her down by taking the wrong creative direction. If the effects were more lively, brighter, colourful and cheerier, then I would've definitely seen it, but after watching the Lion King adaption I knew I'd fall asleep halfway through, just like I did for that film.

[@rainpuppies]

@@scrittle I understand what you mean, and I think these two points can co-exist. 1. These movies are soulless remakes to ride a wave of nostalgia instead of making their own new scripts. The reason they don’t re-release the originals in theaters is simply because they believe they won’t make as much money, live-action is the new hot thing. 2. It is absolutely farming controversy. If you looked at the state of youtube, twitter , facebook when the trailer came out you would see how everyone flipped their shit and the new black mermaid. It was trending everywhere. Disney knows this creates controversy more than gay characters, more than anything, and thus keeps repeating this pattern. Which sucks since an actor of a different race shouldn’t create this type of stir but this is sadly the world we live in and big corporations know it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@RmationYT]

Man if we were all skeletons half the problems we have would be gone

[@joel9104]

Based

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

No, they would still find problems with it!

[@Redjanuary17]

Then people would be prejudiced against thick or thin bones or some with missing bones or whose bone is more whiter than yellow

[@TheReZisTLust]

If a skeleton pokes you are you Fingered or Boned?

[@tau-5794]

Neither, you're rattled.

[@Mad_Ancient_Computer_700AD]

Man, this whole thing is such bullshit. However, I'm proud of the community to standing up against this nonsense. Great video as always!

[@dx_67]

NOOOO theyre doing ANOTHER remake?? they already ruined my other favorite (Mulan) and now this!?!?! disney is just a huge joke at this rate

[@thinkwithvideos2238]

I want to have hopes for this. but its very low

[@shanon4768]

they're doing Moana in live action too, pretty sure they are just going to use the voice actors from what I've heard so far

[@hameley12]

Hi Dharkend! Just do what some of us are doing to support small independent creators. I do know other self-made independent studio animations/live-action are doing better and creating new ideas without Disney in the mix. I've been following some artists and videographers here on YT too. And their projects on the main website. You get tickets, emails with coupons and the first viewer experience in watching the film and rating it before being sent to a few theatres. Just forget and let be, remember that you can still watch the originals online and avoid the copy/paste ones. Aldone has done a great job too! Which is why I subscribed to his channel months ago.

[@dx_67]

@@hameley12 I am well aware of all of these things I was just making a comment about how disappointing Disney has become in the past 7 years 💀

[@hameley12]

@@dx_67 Indeed, disappointing. Haven't supported them since 2003. 😕 Have a good week!

[@Nonjola]

We wouldn't even have such arguments over skin colour and colourism if Hollywood didn't start with this in 2015. Before that year, no one really made such a big deal about these topics.. This is is why you should never reboot an animated project into live-action. If you want an exact skin tone, then just paint it.

[@SouthernGothicYT]

HONESTLY!!! It's like they think tanning/make up doesn't exist

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

Now I’m wondering what the hell they said that made people believe in this bullshit.

[@Indigazure]

This has been a long conversation in the Black community, in fact since Slavery in America. The Mainstream MEDIA just didn't start talking about colorism until 2015.

[@nightwatch3889]

I know fucking dammit why do we have to have these idiotic retarded problems these days we could be using our brain power to think about so much more important things

[@KariIzumi1]

As a black woman, I can assure you we have had issues about Hollywood’s colorism well before then. I’m not Hawaiian, so can’t speak on that issue specifically but Hollywood absolutely does have an overall issue with colorism and lighter skinned actors are more desired than darker ones, regardless of their race.

[@terryrocks2j]

Fellow Hawaiian-born but Chinese descent. I see no locals here complaining about Lilo and Stitch. It's the same people that defended Ariel that is now complaining. Hypocrisy like you said.

[@aronmos5527]

You know damn well you don't look like a native hawaiian.

[@icecell]

Apparently, black-washing is totally okay, but if it's any other race? Nope.

[@cameonvassilas5715]

Ya got that right

[@buttertoast8613]

While I am against black washing. Ur argument is disingenuous, Ariel is a mermaid,non-human, and represents no culture compared to Mulan,lilo and stitch, Anastasia, jasmine,encanto. All the character I named are based on real ppl and culture so changing their wouldn’t make their story make sense. Like putting a blk person as Mulan will make the story nonsensical. My main message is the race and culture is important in lilo and stitch but not in the little mermaid. The actor who play Nani simply just doesn’t look like her, simply as that. I also can flip the script and say the casting choice takes away from darker skinned Hawaiian/Asians. We know the history of colonization and white beauty standards. So wouldn’t disneys casting also be helping the white standard.

[@dislike_button33]

​@@buttertoast8613 This argument is just as disingenuous. Disney's Ariel is a redhead. It's banking on the Nostalgia and making everything as close as possible to the 80's one, only blackwashing Ariel as they have been blackwashing most redheads. Also gonna say something about the new Snow White not being white? That is literally in the name.

[@lucymiau5700]

We wouldn't have this problem if Disney wouln't be so creativly bankrupt to remake their own Shows from better times. And there wouldn't be any problems with casting beside the talent of the actors if some weird Twitter people and Journalists not have been given so much power.

[@alexandraclavijo8149]

A big YUP. Twitter users are so loud that companies think they are the majority, thus they are the voice of people, when in reality those loud noisy users are the immense minority 🤷🏽‍♀️.

[@sagittariusa7662]

They should have contracts denying them to have any account on twitter or Social media.

[@mozax8118]

Fun fact, in south africa we have a holiday called heritage day. It's a day where we celebrate our cultural differences by coming together with wearing our traditional clothing, as well as each of us bringing food that is unique to the culture we are born to. (I think as an option) We would bust out some of our own unique cultural music and showcase our unique cultural dances. It's a nice wholesome holiday that gives us an opportunity for witnessing different perspectives, thus uniting all of us even more, emphasizing why South Africa will and forever be known as the rainbow nation. Also, during one point on a heritage day in primary school, a girl was an Egyptian and came wearing Egyptian attire. My memories are a bit rusty, but I remembered me being mind blown when my sister told me this. The girl was very light skin, with curly sleek hair.

[@xxkankala1671]

Ok?

[@masterseal0418]

It makes no sense for Bubbles to be removed. Same goes with lighter-toned actors as the characters. I just do hope Stitch was to be cute as he was in the original, but with the announcement of live action remakes of more recent movies like Lilo and Stitch as well as Moana(hasn't turned a decade old as of now), Disney is creatively bankrupt. Why not have these films be reintroduced into theaters instead of remaking them to appease corrupt modern-day beliefs? And when will they make good animated movies again? Never the case, cuz they are too big to fail. All we have left to trust instead of both Disney and Pixar going off the grid recently are DreamWorks, Sony, Netflix, and Laika. As a white female of German, Irish, and British descent, I was introduced to the Hawaiian culture recreated in Lilo and Stitch, making me vow to enter tropical paradise instead of hanging out in the bland urban setting of where my family and I lived. I never liked cultural appropriation of these remakes; only there to gain brownie points from fake activists than anything else or hell, even substance. Not because it's 'woke', but mismanaged and poorly executed; controversy will continue if more of these are made and advance this pandering, but my ideas mentioned prior in the comment section of the Live Action Remake Problem and when The Little Mermaid 2023 were discussed have actual representation than what we have so far.

[@scrittle]

Raya and the Last Dragon was advertised as the first south-east Asian Disney film, despite only using south-east assets as background elements in the movie. Disney claimed it was south-eastern, despite it showing more modern western traditions, humour and culture. Disney took elements they found cool and scrapped the rest, leaving a whitewashed trash heap with toxic morals for the paid "expert" critics to give 10/10 reviews. Asian voices called it out for cultural appropriation. I'm sat here waiting for Disney to focus on making animations with good stories that pay respects to its setting, and I'm surprised by this because they had no problem making Alladin and Mulan before the 2000s (not the live action tripe).

[@JustPeachie22]

Someone was cast as Bubbles

[@lotty-rose2393]

Bro whipped out the royalty card to prove a point and honestly that goes so hard. Excited for the vid! This whole situation reminds me of when people got mad that Pepa from Encanto was light skinned, you’d have hoped people would learn

[@nenep1872]

Exactly he knows everybody lol... I ain't mad at him though lol.... I wish I could go back that far and find royals... Wow yeah makes no sense at all....

[@starspeculation]

He can unironically say "We were kings."

[@Rainjojo]

@@starspeculation 💀

[@Nameless_mixes]

My main issue is the level of harassment the actress is being subjected to. Regardless of someone’s intentions, I view it as being equally as horrible as the harassment Halle Bailey has experienced. Both arguments are rooted from the belief that “they are unqualified for the role based on their skin tone”. Yes, I get that in this case, it’s more important that the actress is representative of the region as this movie draws more inspiration from it’s Hawaiian background than the Little Mermaid does with its background. I see the intention leading more into benevolence to try and ensure that an underrepresented group doesn’t get omitted from the narrative. But that doesn’t change how awful people are treating this poor woman. The deluge of tweets I saw after David’s actor being recast saying things like “Her next” was pretty appalling. I can’t imagine what she’s been going through because of it.

[@james656-k8e]

might get hate for this but i can't really say i have alot of sympathy for hailey bailey. 1 she knew what she was signing up for 2 she pulled the typical if you hate this your racist thing 3 she trashed the original film 4 wasn't she the one who insulted animation at the oscars

[@rhythmicmusicswap4173]

Honestly I am quite buffed about the ex David's actor treatment too He received death threats,and people on twitter deliberately stalked him and found his Spotify tracks, just because they didn't like his skin's color and wanted him fired Those people are celebrating their bullying attitude, while they are condemn the same thing for halle 😅

[@VirgilOvid]

She shouldn't be harassed but she needs to be replaced. White washing people of color is not okay. I get the argument of people of different backgrounds being Hawaiian but by the same token people of different races and ethnicities are still American and you wouldn't cast a white American to play a role meant for an Asian American. Race and appearance play a big role, you can't just sweep it away and pretend white people have the same experience as people with strong ethnic characteristics. They don't. My experience as a very dark skinned black man is not the same as someone like the rapper Logic who has to say he's black for anyone to notice. Casting someone like him to play MLK would be really, really weird. That's what's happening here.

[@ImaTroper]

​@@VirgilOvid Your sense of entitlement over people for color, as if you own the term and get to decide who is and isn't one is disgusting. Being Hawaiian, an actual ethnicity with blood lineage, is nothing like being American, a political citizenship. It's NOT whitewashing. She IS Hawaiian. You have no ground to to say she isn't just because she doesn't fit your racist mental image of what a Hawaiian is.

[@VirgilOvid]

@@ImaTroper I don't have a racist image of Hawaiians, I have eyes. If she were being cast to play a generic Hawaiian then it wouldn't be an issue but she's being cast to play an existing character. I'm black, dark skinned flat nosed black. If you cast a white passing light skinned African American to play me just because we're both black that would be incredibly racist. We're not the same just because we're both black. Your "I don't see color, all PoC are the same" shtick is Rlreally, really racist. Maybe you should take a look at your own racism mate.

[@missmadyreads]

Thanks for bringing up that Nani wasn't being threatened by taking Lilo away because CPS has an agenda to colonize dark skinned families. I had to rewatch Lilo and Stitch recently because of the discourse surrounding that argument because I thought I'd missed something. But I still didn't get that take at all. CPS was fixing to take Lilo because of the family's situation. Because they could see that Nani was struggling to hold a job, that she was barely keeping the house clean, and that's why CPS was stepping in. These people using this point of colonization are just grasping at straws to validate their dislike of a lighter skinned hawaiian playing Nani.

[@Brenilla]

As a American mutt, (and I mean I’ve got relatives from alll over). The infatuation with color is absolutely ludicrous, people can look in many ways, and when taking skin tone into account the amount of sun can do alot. (At least in this day and age with how specific people are with color). I love doing family history and hearing about others brings me joy. Thanks for sharing about all thease people.

[@book-hoarder5664]

So many people have become hyper focused on race, saying that they’re advocating for those that need representation. But as you’ve pointed out, it’s almost doing more harm than good. Many of those from Hawaiian descent aren’t just one skin tone and to say that these people aren’t “dark enough” to truly represent their culture is pretty disgusting. It’s flipped the barrier of, “You’re too dark to play this role.” To, “You’re not dark enough.” Same sentiment just rearranged. And I’ve seen it happening in more than just movies

[@xxkankala1671]

Dude just say you don’t know what colorism is this comment needs more details

[@Saltedroastedcaramel]

​@@xxkankala1671Hot take of the day: Colorism goes both ways. If you can't comprehend that, then you don't what colorism is.

[@dragonskunkstudio7582]

Oh another live remake I will not see. I'm sure I'm completely alone in this consensus.

[@thinkwithvideos2238]

I like Lilo and Stitch. I will only watch this if Stitch isn't a horrifying demon

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

You’re not alone in this, Dragon Skunk Studio.

[@aku2136]

nah you arent alone

[@spoiledsalad1851]

I love lilo and stitch and I feel like they’re gonna drop the ball like they’ve done on all the remakes. The only good “remake” is the Maleficent series

[@Jymboslicx]

@@spoiledsalad1851 and jungle book 2016

[@TMNTfever]

People also forget that exposure to sunlight makes a huge difference in complexion. I am 100% Filipino, and when I up north and spent most of my time inside, I was light. After moving closer to the equator, and biking to work, going to the beach, and just spending more time outside in general, I am wayyy darker. Actors and actresses generally don't work outdoors, so they will be naturally lighter than the common folk.

[@MysRyuza]

I can confirm. I have Filipino grandparents that used to be much lighter skinned than they looked in recent decades, based in the portraits I have seen of them. Some of my relatives are dark while others are light skinned. That’s one the things I like about the people in Asia and Southeast Asia in general. There’s not one singular way an Asian can look like. They appear in different shades.

[@Zeagods-CyberShadow]

I love hearing others talk about their heritage and ethical history. Im Faroese and can somewhat relate to the issues Hawaiians and other islanders face with Others not understanding culture and speak for other ethnic groups that they aren’t themselves from. The People of Faroe Islands and the history has always been of Mixed blood where the we from Norse and Celtic origin. Now we have more people of other ethnicities like Latin, African, Middle eastern and Asian but are all accepted as Faroese here

[@as73142]

I think the reality is that we're blaming each other for our reactions to this, but I believe what actually is happening is Disney is intentionally creating it's own buzz by encouraging people to get angry about castings for movies that aren't going to be released for years. I've visited Hawaii and what I learned about the Hawaiian people is that they have so much hope and love, but as a black person the natives weren't shy to tell me about how they felt about their colonial history. Some recognizing that Hawaii was illegally colonized by the US. So, I get that the vast majority of Hawaiians are mixed. Still, what I think we should consider is that Disney just announced two Polynesia related movies, and from what we've seen from them we know they create buzz for themselves by engaging in racial politics. Which is why they insist black people are underrepresented, so white characters can be swapped out by them, creating hypervigilant superfans that are looking for them to include as much dark skinned representation as possible, but not understanding that even though Polynesia at large was originally a dark skinned land and people, it isn't that way today, and it is more about the people and the culture than the skin, so that same type of overly aggressive racial media warfare doesn't apply to say the least. Same thing with that Cleopatra movie, although most historians and the most evidence points to Cleopatra being Greek and therefore white by today's standards, hollywood has also consistently whitewashed Egyptian history being that the vast majority of anthropological evidence points to the first dynasties of Egypt (far earlier than Cleopatra) being negroid or black. Which the media is overcorrecting with this revisionist theory. It's the media, they're creating this madness, in this case, for Lilo and Stitch.

[@DecemberDaydreams]

i hate the media

[@BelBelle468]

I had heard Sydney was half white and half Phillipino. So I wasn’t super happy with the casting either. Skin color shouldn’t really matter (I disagreed with the criticisms levied at Moon Knight for that exact reason). But if she really is Hawaiian or of Polyponesian descent, then it shouldn’t really mean she can’t play Nani. And it’s unfortunate that ppl are spreading that rumor around to discredit her. You don’t really see ppl angry about Indians or Pakistanis representing each other in movies interchangeably, it’s kinda funny how this issue only props up for certain cultures. It’s also funny cuz Marvel replaced a PoC character w/ a white woman and I never saw anyone get super miffed about that either (or maybe I missed it cus I avoid twitter).

[@anonymousalien7322]

Bro the indians and pakistani argument is so irrelevant I am indian and indians and pakistanis were from the Same countries until the partition

[@OklahomaBoomer]

They actually did, just not the extent as say Gods of Egypt did (no, I’m not defending Gods of Egypt)

[@nenep1872]

Yeah before all of this white people were playing all the races, they even asked Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ it's sad, now they wanna do this different and supposedly accepting trend...We all know browner skin people are in many races but as long as she's Hawaiian and was the best pick I don't see much of a problem 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@japhetaguirre4880]

I think Sydney doesn't have any native Hawaiian blood. Agudong is a Filipino last name.

[@Digger-Nick]

Nick Fury?

[@ThatJyJade]

I like how you did a face reveal to prove your point, EPIC video.

[@--Paws--]

This reminds me of what Rita Moreno experienced throughout her work as a Latina actress. Even though she is already tan yet she must still wear a dark shade to make her more "foreign" or "exotic".

[@finland4ever55]

The problem leads to the question: will they darken Sydney ?

[@liamphibia]

I'm not Hawaiian in anyway, but I do however have a Filipino mother just like you, though my father is Caucasian American. It's actually nice to see you talk about Hawaiian history and your people as a whole while also critiquing the upcoming Lilo & Stitch remake flawlessly. Plus, seeing your face for the first time and talking about how vital and important the skin color regardless of lighter and darker tone? Noice!

[@hmmmm.3899]

Hawaiians come in many shades, especially if they’re mixed. I’m kanaka (not mixed, so rare) and have lighter skin than others so it would never occur to me to represent a very dark character. This doesn’t mean I’m not hawaiian, and I don’t feel less than just because I don’t look like other dark skin hawaiians. I personally think that if they couldn’t find a dark skin hawaiian to play the part, they should have cast a dark skin polynesian. There are still a lot of dark skin polynesian and the girl they chose for Nani isn’t polynesian. Also, haole does not mean white. It means foreigner or not hawaiian. And you look mixed to me so I’m not sure why people don’t think you are 🤔 Disney sucks, they only do this so we can give them free attention and exposure for their lack of good storytelling. If we all ignored them then it would stop, but it looks like that will never happen. Edit: Oh, and many hawaiians had a problem with the actor of Dougie Kamealoha not being ethnically hawaiian or even from Hawaii. Not all hawaiians voice their displeasure online. They’ve just gotten used to filmmakers taking liberties when choosing kanaka representation.

[@cherryrue89]

Finally someone said what I was thinking, I’m not Hawaiian but I was thinking the same thing. People dismiss representation of others and how they feel. Nothing in the story say they are mixed or lighter skinned so why cast someone who clearly is. It’s insensitive and it happens in my community every time. Hollywood is colorist.

[@battybuddy]

Honestly, being told I look mexican/Asian is something I have an issue with too. My main piss angry moment was when someone said that she wasn’t Hawaiian, she was “half Filipino”, and I had to mention this when you mentioned your ancestry. Honestly, I think the Lilo and stitch movie is going to be horrible not because of the casting choices, but because I think Disney keeps on doing this “correcting” thing with their remakes given that they don’t know what mad said movies good in the first place. One thing I’ve been complaining about is that they gave another social worker in there, and so far I see no sign of Captain Gantu being a thing. So I’m worried they’re going to make the second social worker, now played by Nani’s original voice actress, the main antagonist to avoid all the extra work it would take to animate our favorite big stupid-head alien bad cop.

[@battybuddy]

And I LOVE Gantu for the fact that his redemption arc encompasses the entire IP.

[@Mabra51]

"Blackwash" a character and the medias call everyone that don't like it racist. "Whitewash" a character and suddenly the medias say it's not okay. Hooray for double standards.

[@septanine5936]

it's really something how we've put up such a fight against racism and yet many still keep colorism, racism's cousin, going

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

I don't know why this is even a discussion. casting is also about the look, if you don't care about this fact you don't really care about the final quality of your movie too. this is Disney with their remakes a perfect cast make for a perfect movie

[@fierygamer582]

I am not Hawaiian, I am a white woman, but I LOVE Lilo and Stitch. It helped me grow in confidence with the talking Stitch toy that came out upon the movie's release and has been my favorite movie ever. Stitch is my favorite Disney character. I saw a video comparing this to the live-action Little Mermaid and I was baffled. My first thought was, A, This is NOT a race-swap. They are still Hawaiian and they don't have to look like the original character. While many of the live-action remakes have tried to make the characters look like their animated counterparts, with this issue, I felt this, if they can hire native Hawaiians then I would be fine with that. The Hawaiian language has been known to be spoken in the movie and while I can't tell how accurate it is, from seeing how you love this movie, I'm guessing most Hawaiians feel the same. B, NOT ALL HAWAIIANS LOOK THE SAME!!! It's like saying all Latinos look the same or all Asians look the same, no no, and NO. That is wrong to assume. I have never been to Hawaii myself, and I dream of going, but even I'm not dumb enough to know that not all Hawaiians look the same. While I don't believe the remake will be good, I will defend the casting of Sydney. Representation is not bad, I want to see it. (I would love to see an African Folk Lore/Myth or Latino Folk Lore/Myth be told.) What I don't want, is a lazy retelling of a story that will be forgotten by the masses in the next few years

[@KiaRoane]

The main issue is this: Whenever a dark skinned character(regardless of race or ethnicity) is portrayed in live-action 90% of the time they are made lighter. It almost NEVER goes the other way. This is not coincidental. This is due to colorism. The global investment in placing lighter/fair skin above dark skinned individuals. Research it. If you cannot understand why that in itself is the issue here, it may be due to your skin tone being lighter and therefore you cannot understand why this would be an issue. It has nothing to do with her “Hawaiian-ness” being called into question. It’s about the fact that Lani is a darker skin with a curvy body type. And the actress they selected to play her does not look like that.

[@tanishamuntslag6369]

I thought the audiance would be happy that the actress was hawaian

[@thinkwithvideos2238]

media is horrible now

[@tanishamuntslag6369]

@@thinkwithvideos2238 it truely is...

[@BelBelle468]

The actress is Hawaiian? I heard she wasn’t.

[@angelinacamacho8575]

They suffer from Karen syndrome "If you are Hawaiian why are you white?"

[@ryleek4213]

@@BelBelle468 She isn’t, she’s Filipino and white.

[@globesurfer122]

When Disney prioritizes arbitrary skin darkness over actual, respectful cultural representation.

[@rainpuppies]

They do it purposefully to create controversy and get a bunch of marketing

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

How about we focus our anger rightfully on this remake not needing creation?

[@VirgilOvid]

Skin color isn't arbitrary when you're trying to portray an existing character. You can't just hire a white guy to play an African American in a story about an African American family. That's just weird. Ethnicity doesn't matter too much but they should have cast someone who looked like the character they were portraying. Chadwick Boseman isn't African but he looks the part so it still works. They could have cast an Asian Pacific islander who looked the part instead of putting a white passing actress in a dark skinned character's role.

[@Spider-Rat77]

@Thomasmemoryscentral Why people are still making Disney millions on these remakes, I will never understand. People are getting into arguments over these stories while forgetting that they won't live up to the original anyways, will do everything the animated films did but worse, and ultimately no one will visit them again because they can just watch the old ones. Everybody needs to just stop watching these movies. They are garbage.

[@hmmmm.3899]

@@VirgilOvid true, skin color matters in some stories like this one. If they couldn’t find an ethnic hawaiian, why not try another polynesian who looks like the character? Also, the actor isn’t hawaiian, she’s filipino and white so not polynesian at all. Filmmakers are always casting asians in roles that say “hawaiian”. Asians aren’t hawaiian, they’re asian. Unless they’re mixed which is a different story.

[@dissonanceparadiddle]

I'm just mad this is getting remade to begin with. All this effort in money in all these remakes could have funded several animated movies.

[@jaimeerindy4573]

This is such an interesting discussion, I absolutely love hearing your perspective as a native Hawaiian, and you bring up so many great points. I think this is an ongoing discussion that Hollywood needs to take seriously & make sure they are listening to a variety of perspectives.

[@wisdomabdulaziz3694]

I think you’re misunderstanding the argument here. Most people are saying it’s a colorism thing. It’s because there is very little representation that brown people get. Most of the movies and shows are showing white people and colorism is a world wide problem. For a lot of people, seeing lilo and Nani was great because they’re visibly brown with ethnic features and realistic bodies. Not here to argue, just want to point that out. It’s about there being countless representation for lighter skinned people and not enough for others and a lot of darker skinned people don’t get as many chances in the spotlight.

[@nenep1872]

Thank you, spot on someone who gets it

[@Arielthelilmermaid]

This is exactly what it is . Simple

[@realsanmer]

I know this isn't Disney-related, but since you are Hawaiian, how do you feel about Pokémon Sun and Moon? Is it good representation?

[@cy2027]

Hapa shouldn't portray any of the characters in Lilo and Stitch. And very disgusting and disrespectful of you to call the adaptation of Resident Evil terrible and use an image of a recently passed Black actor as a scapegoat. And you have yet to see The Little Mermaid so pause with your criticisms about its quality. You sound like you don't realize you're a POC.

[@tristantries9211]

This whole do you look enough like how the rest of the world perceives the people of a place should look is really weird and funny. My friend is white and indigenous descent Mexican mixed and people always thought he looked Polynesian because of his hair. People thought it so hard they told other people he was Polynesian. He was the last to find out he was Polynesian lol and when he said no I'm white and Mexican they were like ...no people from Mexico don't look like you 😂

[@ToaKoran]

The "No" is especially egregious because people immediately portray the arrogance of denying what someone says about themselves and insisting they know better because of their flawed perception of the world. "No, you're not [blank], you're [blank]", how the heck would you know? I'd say that person and their family knows a heck of a lot more about their heritage than you do with your self-given internet degree in assertive idiocy.

[@sooploopz]

havent watched yet but oh boy, knowing you're hawaiian, i know this is gonna be good EDIT: KING KAMEHAMEHA??? AND KEALI'I??? bro you might as well have been apart of the remake one way or another YOOOO

[@MrDj232]

Mexican/Asian is a pretty good description of most Pacific Island people.

[@saintfighteraqua]

How dare you not meet Twitter's expectations! /s I used to think that people making these complaints were mostly well meaning, but no. Most of them are narcissists who want to appear like they're good people. Thank you for the history lesson and for your videos!

[@aronmos5527]

Why are you saying "nobody's complaining about "black-washing" when all there is on social media is people complaining about it? you even did a segment about it in your video.

[@liamcollinson5695]

I'm white but my heritage is kind of complicated on my mum's side they was Irish Travelers my great grandma was a fortune teller. And on my dad's side my grandma was from Scotland but her parents moved from France and my grandad parents was from Italy but he grew up in Scotland I hate how people act like ethnicity is simple when it can be complex. Some of my family are white skinned and some are more olive

[@boredfangerrude]

That's what we call a mutt.

[@cameonvassilas5715]

A few decades ago it was ‘you’re not white enough’, now it is ‘you’re not dark enough’!!!!!

[@eggy7346]

I guarantee you that the people whining about this are the same ones championing The Little Mermaid's race swap

[@tizonthegamer6299]

Stitch is my favorite Disney character hands down, I discovered the franchise on my own when I was 12, and after that I watched all the movies, TV show, Anime, "Chinese" Anime. I always wanted a new installment of the series in the 3D style animation like they did with Zootopia at the time. Ever since these Live-Action remakes came out, I started seeing rumors about Lilo and Stitch getting a Live-Action Remake, at the time I was like "If they gonna remake the first movie, it better be Pixar style..." But now, with modern Disney and Pixar movies having all the weird messaging and propaganda put into them I was then like "Please don't bring Lilo and Stitch back..." But seeing how not only their making a Live-Action Remake, and that Disney is Cappin' with the quality of their Moviesm imma' tell you somethin', If they mess up Stitches design, and/or the vibes and themes of the original Movie are just gone and is just becomes mediocre, I will lose the %1 amount of trust I had in Disney completely and somebody needs to BOYCOTT the company ASAP, I waited YEARS for some type of sequel, and if THIS IS WHAT WE GET, AND IT'S BAD...oh boy...gonna start a RIOT!!!

[@vstarlight__]

I dont remember a single good Disney movie after Moana. They just keep making these boring pointless live actions just for cash grabs to good movies

[@tanishambrowne1137]

Yeah most of their movies gone downhill now its squeals and live action remakes.

[@reneespinoza1328]

We need more KZbinrs like these

[@nintendofan1750]

This video needs to be seen

[@LCCWPresents]

And the little mermaids race doesn’t matter in the narrative, but the representation in a major blockbuster that everyone will watch does matter. The professional mermaid community has a lack of black mermaid representation right now that having a black Ariel on the big screen will help. Most the professional mermaids who get gigs are looking like Madison in splash or Ariel from the little mermaid. Representation in the little mermaid remake does make a difference in the professional mermaid community.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

They shouldn't have palette swapped the Danish fairytale original and the remake isnt need anyway

[@clovellyliddle477]

@@Thomasmemoryscentral the original movie had nothing to do with Denmark. Doesn't look like the new one is set there either, so your point is invalid.

[@nenep1872]

Thank you, and the thing is mermaids come from African folklore no one talks about that... It's just sad how black people aren't supposed to be mythical characters🤦🏾‍♀️

[@howboutno412]

@@nenep1872 this!

[@hmmmm.3899]

@@nenep1872 many cultures have a type of “fishwoman” so the concept of mermaids didn’t come from just one place. Even so, the tale of the Little Mermaid is not african, it’s european. I would love to see more stories from Africa, including their mermaid stories. Such an untapped trove of stories and mythological tales.

[@ElliesCousin]

My last name is Momoa, and my cousin, Jason, also has a similar ethnic background as me. I'm half Hawaiian & Polish/Ukrainian, and I always seem to have to *prove* it to others due to my Slavic features and olive complexion. 😅😅 I love Lilo & Stitch, too. : )

[@ThePSWarrior]

The one issue that kinda bugs me is how live action Lilo will have darker skin than Nani (wouldn't it be the other way around ?). Do real Hawaiian siblings have a big difference in skin tone ?

[@1kaz1]

As with anyone: depends on the parents/family, there's no reason siblings will take the exact same genes from their family every time in order to look the same

[@BelBelle468]

Depends on their parents. If the parents have a big difference in skin color, it’s possible of the children to have big differences in skin color.

[@Crappy9922]

Siblings in general don't always have the same skin tone

[@ryanmuniz6238]

I'm way darker than the rest of my siblings. Now I have a different biological father but the dad who raised me was Nicaraguanese and my father was Mexican. Both have darker skin but I'm the only one who came out darker whereas my siblings all have the lighter Hispanic skin

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

Two of my siblings are white, while my other two siblings are a little darker. Me? I’m kinda in the middle, in my opinion.

[@superstitch5618]

Ya this whole backlash about the casting because of their skin colors really is terrible. As a huge fan of this franchise, I'm honestly nervous about this live-action remake, because this thing shouldn't even exist (along with the other remakes as their originals are better). You know, instead of a live-action remake, it would be better to have new animated content from the franchise, like seeing the classic experiments again while giving them further characterization, introduce more experiments that we haven't seen yet, seeing how Stitch, Lilo and the gang have grown in the years past Leroy & Stitch, see more of the Galactic Federation, or maybe even having new experiments created by other alien evil scientists. There's still so much they can do with what's already there, but they want to do ANOTHER POINTLESS LIVE-ACTION REMAKE! Who else agrees with me?

[@ToaKoran]

The skin color situation is one that makes sense *to an extent*. I saw Nani's actress in the image they had shown and immediately my reaction was "That doesn't look like the character", and that's a fair response by itself. If you're adapting something then it's within your best interest to make the characters recognizable from their most popular rendition, Lilo and Stitch only having one that was iconic from the moment it came out. Lilo looks perfect and precious, but Nani and David just don't have that right look. Now if that was all, that would be fair, but it's the insane lunatics on places like Twitter that are so unhinged and disconnected from their humanity and morality for the sake of being "right" and being in control that the next logical step for something not going how they want is violence and threats. THAT is unacceptable no matter who or what you are or believe, and it is ALWAYS crossing a line to do that.

[@TheScar3cro]

Can't we just not have a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch at all?

[@dippyfresh7676]

Thank you for sharing your history and perspective

[@MrSecretSentai]

Cool you talked about thi. It's crazy how many people want to be an ally but don't do any research on the things that they think they're defending

[@VirgilOvid]

We do know what we're talking about. As a black guy I would be equally opposed to casting someone like Colin Kaepernick to play the role of Malcolm X. Just because you're also a PoC doesn't mean we're all the same. We're not, and our experiences aren't either. We have a huge problem of white passing people getting roles over darker skinned PoC and this is just proving that. I agree with most of the points made in this video but trying to say "we're all Hawaiian" is kinda ridiculous. As a black guy I'd say we're all equally American but that doesn't mean you can swap an Asian guy for a black role. That's basically what his point boils down to.

[@jamie8703]

Why are we so obsessed with skin tone people of every race have a range of shades everyone just needs to chill the hell out

[@DaniDacey]

Halle Bailey and The Little Mermaid had nothing to do with this conversation. Idk why people love dragging Black people into their shit. And "blackwashing"? Lol okay.

[@kylelee5966]

he was making a comparison...since there was a similar controversy

[@drereviews8868]

It was really interesting to hear your perspective on all of this especially since you have a much more personal connection to it all from a cultural and ethnical pov. There was a lot of overlap for myself since colorism always seem to be a big topic of discussion in the black community. My siblings and I all range from different tones some of us inheriting stronger traits from our grandparents, so I really like how you explained your family history and background and how darker skinned ethnic groups tend to vary in skin complexion due to the range of people found within a family tree. I do disagree with you a bit on the point you made in regards to Halle Bailey being recasted to play Ariel in the new little mermaid. Though I’m sure there are people complaining about the lilo and stitch colorism but don’t have a problem with a black actress being recasted as a character who was originally white (and to your point they are hypocrites) the points made against casting Ariel as black are a bit disingenuous. For one the red hair given to both versions of Ariel in the animated film and the live action remake isn’t a (for the most part I’m sure there are anomalies out there) a natural hair color. When we use the term “redhead” in the world it refers to someone who is a ginger and that color is more similar to the color orange than the red shown in both versions of the character, and its also the same color as both Mufasa and Simba’s manes in the lion king. Attributing this color of red to one race or ethnicity wouldn’t be entirely accurate since to get that color presented in the original would require dyeing it. Two, Ariel is the one character where a race change does not impact the plot since mermaids are fantasy creatures who are not confined to one race in particular and Disney themselves reimagined and straight up replaced most of the Danish culture of the original book it was based off in the first place. Also not to mention the same people who have a problem with a black little mermaid didn’t seem to have a problem with Tiana being black considering the fact that the princess and the frog is based off of a fairy tale written by two German brothers. All in all discourse around these things can get out of control and there is no way to satisfy everyone but I think we can all agree, we don’t need anymore live action remakes.

[@DaenerysGOT18]

No one had a problem with The Princess and the Frog because Tiana was a new character. Yes the story is based of a German fairytale but it doesn’t take place in Germany and Tiana wasn’t the original princess in the book. She wasn’t originally a white girl who they recast. That’s what people have a problem with Ariel. The original Disney Ariel is a white redhead. Changing her race isn’t okay because that isn’t the same original character. Just like people are getting made about Nani being to light because she doesn’t match the look of the original charter is the same thing people have a problem with the new Little Mermaid. It seems it’s totally okay to change a white character to another race because “white peoples have no culture, and it isn’t integral to who they are” but if it’s done the other way around it’s racist. I just wish people could see that if you have a problem with one then you should have a problem with both. It’s just super hypocritical for people to find it okay only when it’s a white character being race swapped.

[@drereviews8868]

@@DaenerysGOT18 my point is that this live action remake is a reimagining of the story the same way the princess and the frog was also a reimagining but instead of going straight from book to movie it went from book to movie to movie. The whole “white people have no culture” is a loud small minority you’re choosing to highlight and honestly I’m not sure why you brought it up here when I explicitly mentioned how a majority of the danish culture(Northern European) present in the book is erased in the 1989 animated film and replaced with various other cultural aspects including Ariel having a Hebrew name, triton being native to Greek mythology, and a crab with a Jamaican accent. Changing the race of someone like Snow White would make no sense considering the fact her name literally describes a physical characteristic she has and you won’t see too many people defending the recast of Snow White as black or any non white woman. Or trying to recast Mulan as anyone other than Asian since it’s based off of a traditional legendary figure in Chinese history. There is context and a majority of people who are being sensible will acknowledge that context without making everything a 1:1 so “if you have a problem with one you should have a problem with the other,” is very disingenuous and lacks any nuance to the entire topic. Also to your point about the princess and the frog not taking place in Germany, once again the 1989 little mermaid takes place in a fictional city called Atlantica and according to the Disney wiki (could be wrong) is heavily implied to be based off the Greek legend of Atlantis and located beneath the Mediterranean Sea as opposed to the North Sea (closest sea to Denmark). I agree that Disney and most of these companies race swapping are just being lazy to make up for the lack of representation throughout the years and I’d much rather like to see original stories. Last point, white characters getting swapped definitely happens don’t get me wrong, but for such a long time being white in any tv series or film was just the default for most characters and if they weren’t white, they for the most part were relegated to smaller roles. It has changed quite a bit in the last decade or so but still a majority of characters are white regardless of where you turn to in any form of media(at least in the states.) In a 2017 reimagining of the Archie comics called riverdale, 3 of the four leads were recast as white adjacent with their comic book counterparts, but one was recasted as a Hispanic woman being Veronica and no one cared because a majority of the main cast of characters are and were still white. When the majority is also the default I’m going to find a bit difficult to say trying to level the play field is wrong.

[@ashenbloom]

I appreciate your review about this controversy. I just wish that Disnet live action remakes didn't exist at this point; it's drives us crazy and pulling fans apart for no fucking reason. Death threats should not even happening because of this. I'm exhausted from this.

[@oldfashionedboots2774]

His… his Spotify playlist had a racial slur in it. His Spotify.. playlist… They must have been searching for a reason to fire him if they dug that far huh

[@lesliethomas9532]

The actress is British Irish and Filipino she only has hawaiian ancestry but that's it and it doesn't even specify who in the family tree has it so it just males disney look like the colorists by hiding her actual race by saying she's hawaiian decent.

[@Ahalaya]

Okay, one more rambling: BS like this “controversy” is part of why animation works better for some stories. You can make everything look exactly as you envision it to be. Note that no one ever complained about any of Lilo’s fellow students’ skin tones, even the very white Myrtle, in the past, and still only care about the main cast. The background characters are just as representative of the island’s native population.

[@nenep1872]

No one has ever complained about whitewashing because they have always had the upper hand in everything....

[@Ahalaya]

@@nenep1872 That has nothing to do with what I said… Myrtle wasn’t a “whitewashing.” She was a proper representation of demographics being not entirely native…. I can only assume that was what you were talking about. Also, if you actually look at history, “white people” have not “always had the upper hand in everything.” I believe many from apartheid South Africa would beg to differ with you. That is a heavily Western-centric perspective/narrative, which is arguably, in itself, quite racist.

[@eyden1562]

Honestly, I just wish they actually cast 2 girls who LOOK LIKE SISTERS. lol

[@riftshredder5438]

Awe Disney is ruining your childhood now? Join the club, we got t shirts

[@eduardofuentesdoria1453]

Man, this need to be out there. I will sell amazingly. How about "Don't like remakes? Don't Watch them, the Originals are free"

[@riftshredder5438]

@Eduardo Fuentes Doria I was thinking of maybe something that says "you can't beat the originals" and it would show all the Disney princesses in their original animated forms

[@FamilyTimeInJune]

Exactly! It’s not about skin tones, beauty, or anything physically, it’s about character and how you treat people!!!

[@amyfalls]

listen, i’m a white arab and ppl have a hard time believing that bc they think arabs need to be olive skinned or dark. this is a society problem BUT that doesnt mean this kind of casting is okay. we dont have enough poc on tv and its the fact they removed the chance from a woman who wouldve looked like the og character that pisses me off.

[@Iotuseater]

17:48 thank you!! As someone who has experience with CPS that makes no sense CPS was going to place Lilo because Nani didn't have a job and she was acting out not because of some weird colonial thing

[@ZoraXire]

I think most of the hate is just coming from people being overall upset/frustrated/tired of all these remakes. Especially since many of the original cartoons still hold up and are just fine.

[@williamstark9568]

I admit I have no intent of seeing this because it's a live action remake and I proudly haven't watched those since basically 102 Dalmations.

[@serpentmaster1323]

As someone who once was so debilitatingly colorblind I thought my mother was white (she’s black) because she wasn’t nearly as dark as my dad, I couldn’t tell you just how dark nani and lilo are supposed to be. Back when I first watched it the only person I considered non-white in the movie was bubbles because back then to me what people called race was a simple as skin color and there was only black or white. Just because I know better now, however doesn’t mean Im still heavy influenced by my first impressions of race. The way I see it now I still couldn’t tell you that nani is supposed to look as if she’s a darker or lighter shade of olive because all of the movie’s pallet tones look a little muted to me. The brightest skin color seen is the ice cream guy, and to me he’s so bright he looks out of place in the movie. (For that guy specifically I know that’s part of the point, but the other white tourists I don’t remember being nearly as bright. I guess they had tans? This is such a dumb social construct guys) I guess what Im saying My opinion is not at all the most reliable, but at the least I don’t think we can really definitively say that what nani’s skin color is ‘supposed to be’ is 1:1 with the exact color in the animation. And after that, what matters most is that she A:looks related to lilo and B, she’s hawaiian. If most people cant tell she’s hawaiin(and a vocal minority explicitly think she isn’t) than this is an educational moment, not a mob rule moment. Also death threats are never ok.

[@nurarihion]

I can only speak from my experience as a latin guy, maybe the anger towards Nani being cast as a light skin brown person stems from the perceived privilege light skinned people historically had even within brown communities. I know for a fact that in latin America privilege and favoritism towards light skinned mestizos stems back all the way to the time of the spaniard conquest, there was a whole thing called Pintura de Castas which portrayed how interracial marriages resulted in various mixtures based on skin color, and it served as a way of hoping to whiten as much as possible the recently conquered mexicas. Families would strategically marry and bear children in the hope of being whiter and whiter with each passing generation. Even among siblings, if one was just a little more fair skinned than the other, there would be a perceived favoritism. Here in mexico we still us the term "Güero" which can be roughly translated to "blondie" as a way to compliment another person, specially if you're offering some kind of payed service (though the term is gradually falling out thank god), it doesn't matter if both persons in the conversation are brown, the slightest perceived difference in skin tone instantly brought a sense of superiority, as portrayed in the Pinturas de Castas. If you watch mexican television you'll see that the vast majority of actors and celebrities are latin, but fair skinned. Tenoch Huerta (Namor in Black Panther 2) has spoken at length about how he being dark skinned has strongly limited his working opportunities in Mexico, due to this colorism within the latin american context. Another example is Yalitza Aparicio who after working in the movie ROMA and attending the Oscars received a backlash of hate and racism by her own country. I understand your point that being Hawaiian today involves such complex and varied factors that have resulted in hawaiians of varios skin tones and ethnic backgrounds, just as there are so many ethnic nuances within the latin context. But we should not forget the fact that fair skin has been imposed as a desire within brown communities, leading to self loathing and internalized racism within this very communities, poisoning and even breaking any possibility for us to unite and have a sense of identity. Maybe asking for dark skinned actors to represent our communities is a way to heal some of this trauma.

[@Deluxe2004]

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[@AmusementVision]

In the end, Disney still gets the money 💀

[@chadgaming8288]

I’m honestly curious at how the live-action remake and Lilo and Stitch is going to turn out.

[@dr.kineilwicks7002]

Honestly, I was done as soon as they announced a live-action Lilo and Stitch--leave my childhood alone, disney. My family and I went to Kauai in the mid-2000s because after watching Lilo and Stitch, I wanted to go. I cannot for the life of me tell you the skin tone of anyone there because prior to...what, 2016? 2008? It's hard to tell when the attitude of "skin color first" started permeating modern society but back then it was just "they're American, I'm American, all our states are awesome." Honestly what baffled my family was the abundance of Asian restaurants, so hearing that there's a lot of that ancestry makes sense, just like California having a lot of Asian ancestry and the East Coast having a lot of European ancestry--those are the closest countries when you cross the oceans. I just miss good films, and I miss a month ago when people saying "live-action Lilo and Stitch" was met with "Don't say that--don't give them ideas." EDIT: Also isn't Keanu Reeves Hawaiian? No one's out there saying he should be darker. Honestly, "there should be a live-action Lilo and Stitch movie" is the worst Lilo and Stitch take I've heard since that one Tumblr user said Lilo, the six-year-old, was too immature.

[@justafan5179]

Dude, you freaking hit this video out of the park! Outstanding job! Also, that's an insane history lesson, well done!

[@NelsonStJames]

Glad to see this being discussed by an actual Hawaiian, who really are the only people that should have any say of consequence in this particular issue; however, it should be made clear, "colorism" has nothing to do with where you were born, or what culture you are, it's all about how you look and are treated by the greater society, and Hollywood has practiced colorrism for a very long time when it comes to non-white casting.

[@theflowerhead]

This was really interesting, thanks for sharing. I went to Hawaii and I've dreamed of going back. The beauty and wonderful people. It was cool hearing you speak Hawaiian. And also, you're very good looking, great reveal.

[@kaimanat8553]

Thank you. I'm also Hawaiian and the controversy over Nani is ridiculous. My mother is Hawaiian and also named Nani. My entire life, especially when I was a kid, we had to deal with ignorant people either thinking I was adopted or worse simply because my mother was very light skinned because she was anemic More often than not she would be listed as caucasian. Every summer I'd get much darker. At its worst we were detained at the Mexican border because they didn't believe she was my mother. When I first saw who was going to play Nani I was thrilled. We all hope to see ourselves in characters that portray our nationality. Then the controversy started. I've defended the actress choice and will continue to

[@ThePegasiPony]

Thank you for this video. I am not Hawaiian, but I am biracial with a white mom and a biracial black/white dad. Sometimes I start to think about my race and I struggle to categorize myself. My parents divorced when I was young and although I still see my dad, I was mostly raised by my white mom. If you looked at me, I just look white. You wouldn't know I was biracial unless I told you. So I often struggle with the question of whether I'm considered a person of color. I don't really identify with the black community, I just feel white. I feel disconnected from the non-white side of me. It caught my attention when you mentioned that you had darker skin when you were younger, I was the same. I played outside a lot so I was tan. Now since I don't go outside much my skin is much lighter. This video helped me think about some things about my race, so thank you.

[@gaspingseal542]

I’m more scared what Stitch will look like and how they’ll make it work for a blue alien to disguise himself as a dog…

[@shadowleon659]

SyFy Channel and Asylum films have better production values than most of these Disney Live Action Remakes.

[@JShwah]

i went in to hear a hot take on lilo and stitch and left with bro casually explaining he’s descended from Hawaiian royalty lol

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

What’s funny is that even though I’m not Hawaiian, I have a Hawaiian name (Kiana means “divine” or “calming waters”, whichever meaning you prefer). In any case, though, I still love this movie to this day and would much rather not watch the live action for fear of what they’ll do to Stitch and the aliens (I shudder to think of it). I still hate it for what they did to Cobra Bubbles, though. Also, about the “light skin” thing with Nani and David, even when I went to Hawaii for a choir trip (it was in Honolulu), not everyone was dark skinned.

[@acemarvel1564]

Nice name by the way

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

@@acemarvel1564 Aww, thank you!

[@acemarvel1564]

@@SweetOrangeGirl Mine is after the old norse king Erikr meaning "eternal ruler"

[@SweetOrangeGirl]

@@acemarvel1564 Oooh, that’s cool! :D

[@cherryrue89]

Well idk who’s complaining but I do know that Hollywood plays the colorism game. Also a lot of y’all been mixed with white so I image a real native with no mixture is actually darker skinned so if darker skinned native are upset about the actress it’s understandable for the sake of representation.

[@BooRawrGrr]

I understand your comments, and the sentiments of most people in these comments. There are even Latinas like myself agreeing with you. But I will have to say I disagree in that for as long as I can remember, white skin is the only kind of beauty that Hollywood and western media promote. Not even Disney animations will give a black character an entire movie without turning them into something not human. As for Latin culture, they don’t like to admit it, but they (and again im Latina) are very racist. They worship white skin, because as you mentioned we were colonized by Europeans. Colonized to the point where white Latins look down on Indigenous/Afro Latins. Our media is sadly almost exactly the same as western media, with main characters always being white skinned and the servants and maids always being dark skinned. Latin people have been brainwashed into being ashamed of our indigenous roots. I’ve seen a KZbin interview with a white Mexican who moved to Korea showing them images of the most beautiful models in Mexico. And of course all of them are white. The one brown, indigenous looking woman that she shows she said “Wasn’t pretty, but was more traditional looking.” U.S. Latin people are the same in that we are usually darker as children, but of course we pick up on that lighter skinned people get treated better so we start consciously staying out of the sun. I don’t think it’s fair to compare the Little Mermaid remake with this, as you said, the little mermaid in its entirety is not real. Yet, Lilo and Stitch portrayed a dynamic that so many dark skinned people go through. The u.s government is responsible for tearing many brown skinned families apart. For most of media history, it was illegal for brown/black people to even be on screen. I can’t even watch anime without the characters talking shit about people with dark skin. It’s like the whole world will defend light skinned people, but will always find a way to demean representation of dark skinned people. Katniss from the Hunger Games and her district were supposed to be dark skinned, but got changed to white. Avatar the last air bender white washed, so many movies white wash. Hollywood even wore black face, yellow face, anything to prevent dark skinned people from actually appearing in media. But we really actually have a problem with a black woman portraying a fake mermaid in a fake story, because screw little brown/black girls everywhere?

[@DarthZ01]

disnsy: lets make ariel, a dutch mermaid from a dutch fairy tale, an african american everyone: this sucks, we want characters to look the way theyre supposed to! disney: we get it, you all hate black people, so we decided to make nani, a dark skinned character, white everyone: this sucks, we want characters to look the way theyre supposed to! disney: why are you people so inconsistent!

[@oceandreams9916]

Ariel in the Disney Animation is from the Atlantic Ocean, not the country of Denmark sooooo. But your right ppl are inconsistent lmao

[@macherooni]

1st comment on this channel, surprised that you actually have Filipino genes, didn't expect that (Filipino here). Anyway, love your content, specially the borderline almost angry rants, hehe. Cheers!

[@GiantPurpleCat]

I had a Hawaiian coworker but I would have never known that unless she told me. She looks Caucasian but she speaks fluent Hawaiian and has native family living in Hawaii, whom she visits every now and then.

[@nathenewendzel7806]

What I care about whether they're going to keep it a beautiful heartfelt story about the two sisters dealing with the struggles of their new family dimamic and responsibilities after great tragedy and their struggles to be able to continue to live together and not get separated while at the same time working on the trials of the little alien they adopted so Lilo would have a friend to help her cope. Will it have the same basic heartfelt message?

[@Arielthelilmermaid]

I understand where u coming from however…, Hollywood has an on going theme of choosing lighter complexions when it comes to race. It would be nice if they choose darker skin for once especially since the original Nani is dark .

[@laurenevans8600]

The Little Mermaid animated movie takes place in the Mediterranean Sea though which borders Africa. She’s not supposed to be Danish or really any confirmed ethnicity at all.

[@battybuddy]

By the way, I’ve had ALL the same problems with this shit, given that I consider myself African American, because that’s the side that raised me, while I never knew my father or his side of my lineage, but issues of race have been much harder to talk about to the point where I stopped talking about my race unless people ask.

[@megapistol64]

Hawaii didn't need this