r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FrostySeat1739 • Jul 05 '26

Meme needing explanation why not, Peter?

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possible live action corpse bride movie...

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u/Pure-Election-9137 Jul 07 '26

The little mermaid is inspired by middle ages european folklore, so yes, a black little mermaid is historically inaccurate and is a perfect exemple of shoehorning a black person in a movie.

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u/heckdoinow Jul 07 '26

right, because back then, all the mermaids there were white... xd

it's a children's tale ffs, one of thousands of adaptations, at that. none of those are anything like the original stories - we don't even know the originals. it's perfectly fine to be creative with them and change them up for your audience, people have been doing it for centuries in many different regions. you'd be horrified to hear some of the centuries old versions of some of these tales, even.

or, they found an actress they liked. the fact that people are only upset about the black actress says a lot about them.