They race swapped three main characters.
Alienating original scooby doo fans (forced diversity)
Velma is now a lesbian (identity politics for no reason)
Even in the trailer, snide remarks are made about the audience the show was supposed to cater towards
And no… everything isn’t woke. Wokeness is what mediated a 1.9/10 rating on imdb
Even critics are finally waking it up, and this show has been bombed by critics and audiences alike for being edgy for the sake of being edgy, woke for the sake of ham fisted agendas that have no place in a scooby doo origin story.
It’s almost like a bunch of writers managed to get ahold of the licensing rights to scooby doo. Followed by which they sat down in a room and thought “how can we alienate our audience, try really hard to be edgy and push identity politics?”
Numerous companies like warner brothers have caught on to how wokeness isn’t getting butts in seats. The company is now conducting damage control
Shows like velma imo are a dying breed now, and we can clearly see there’s huge backlash from audiences… people don’t want to watch this
Who are these shows for? No one is buying a ticket…
I’m going to go off on a tangent now.
It’s not racist to be irritated with the race swapping either. A common arguement used to shut down disdain or irritation aimed at making previously white characters suddenly asian, indian or black is “what are you? Racist? Why does it matter if we swap the races”
First of all… why can’t a character that has always been white for some fifty years or so stay white? The character NEEDS to now be reminiscent of a minority… that almost seems like racism to me.
That and, it’s not the race people are upset about. Those who pull the race card to ineffectively stifle dissent towards race swapping fail to fundamentally grasp… these are cartoons that many have watched from childhood. There is a degree of nostalgia mediated from seeing familiar faces once again. Particuarly if you had fond memories of watching something like scooby doo
Now we see all of a sudden the characters race has been swapped… for no reason, with no explanation… just retconning history at that point as it’s an origin story.
Not only that, but in the trailer the writers had the audacity to poke fun at the audience the show was supposed to be aimed at. As if they knew it would cause controversy but went ahead “if you don’t like it… well fuck you then”.
Great way to ensure your audience puts down the remote.
Like who are these shows aimed towards
- its not appropriate for kids (rated TVMA…) and kids who are watching it don’t seem to be liking it
- adolescents don’t like it
- adults don’t like it
- original scooby doo fans don’t like it
Feels like it was just a circle jerk between the writers and the actors.
