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Allow me to admit up front I could be jumping to conclusions. There is a story in the news about a raaaaacist backlash to Disney’s The Little Mermaid. A video of a based South Korean chad is going viral being asked about a raaaaacist backlash to a movie. Perhaps he’s being asked about a raaaaacist backlash to a different movie? If that is the case, allowed me to apologize on behalf of all of us here at the Louder with Crowder Dot Com website.
Now check out my man here.
\u201cKorean explaining why Woke movies are failing so often in South Korea \ud83e\udd14\n\n\ud83d\udd0a\u201d— Wall Street Silver (@Wall Street Silver)
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That’s nonsense. So you keep asking us to watch the sh*tty movies you make, right? Why do we have to watch them? This has nothing to do with racism, alright? You make a weird movie, and if we don’t watch it because we don’t agree with your agenda, it’s like they’re trying to lecture us, asking "Why don’t you agree?’ But who are they to lecture anyone?"
Hell yeah, brother. You have now become the second most based Asian on all of the Internets. Shout out to #1:
\u201cChina is asshole\u201d— John Henry\u2019s Hammer (@John Henry\u2019s Hammer)
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The "Western media" in question could be Western journalisming content creators CNN. They posted a piece of content titled "‘The Little Mermaid’ tanks in China and South Korea amid racist backlash from some viewers." The CNN blogger who created the content points out that while having a black Ariel has been "celebrated elsewhere" (like in America, and in… America), a handful of cherry-picked Asian cinephiles disagree with the casting choice.
In the case of South Korea, CNN cites one single person who expressed disappointment on Instagram.
[The Little Mermaid] brought in just 19.5 million yuan ($2.7 million) in its first five days, compared with 142 million yuan (nearly $20 million) for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” in the first five days of that film’s opening, according to Chinese box office tracker Endata.
Similar sentiment was found on social media in South Korea. On Instagram, one user wrote that the movie had been “ruined” for them, adding “#NotMyAriel.”
Right. It could be raaaaacist backlash. Or, your movie can get just suck. The Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse movie that has made at least five times more money? The lead character has brown skin and the leading lady may or may not be trans.
There are two things at play here. The first is that Hollywood makes movies counting on the Asian market to make them their money. It’s why John Cena had to cuck himself for saying the word "Taiwan." If a movie doesn’t do well overseas, it’s a global failure.
This brings us to point number two. In the woke progressive hive mind, nothing is ever their fault when normies reject the Left pushing an agenda. It can only be the fault of an -ism or a -phobia. It started with the girl Ghostbuster movie in 2016, which looked like a bucket of sh*t from the first trailer. When moviegoers decided not to spend their money on a bucket of sh*t, filmmakers lashed out at the audience. A single YouTube comment from someone who said "the movie ruined their childhood" was used in the marketing to shame people into seeing the movie if they didn’t want to be labeled an -ist.
If you make movies that don’t look like they suck, people will spend money to go see your movie. This isn’t something that needs to be explained.
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