Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Trailer Gets Over a Million Dislikes in One Week, Left Blames ‘Mag Racists’

The first full trailer for Disney’s live-action version The little Mermaid proved to be massively unpopular, racking up more than a million dislikes on YouTube less than a week after its Sunday unveiling at the Oscars.

Left-wing activists, including Disney star Josh Gad, blame ‘racist MAGA’ for the overwhelmingly negative backlash while neglecting to mention that similar rampages have hit other remakes, including the live-action movie. last year Pinnochio and centered on women of 2016 ghost huntersboth of which had predominantly white casts.

The little Mermaid The trailer racked up 1.1 million “dislikes” on YouTube as of Friday afternoon, while the number of “likes” stands at just 196,000, according to a Google Chrome extension that unlocks the “dislikes” counter.

The trailer, which was released six months ago, received 3.5 million dislikes, compared to 1.2 million likes.

Slated to debut in cinemas on May 26, the live-action The little Mermaid features an ethnically diverse cast, with actress Halle Bailey, who is black, in the title role and Melissa McCarthy, who is white, as Ursula, the Sea Witch. Both actresses appeared on stage at the Oscars on Sunday to present the trailer in what looked like a glorified Disney junket.

The left is trying to blame Trump supporters for the trailer’s negative reception, claiming without evidence that “MAGA racists” launched a “hate” campaign against the film.

BREAKING: The Little Mermaid YouTube trailer is currently being ‘hated’ en masse on Youtube by MAGA racists.

The trailer got over 3 million dislikes and the new trailer has over 600,000.

The important thing in the controversy around Halle… https://t.co/9Ys6NZeUPx pic.twitter.com/3FFSuggkt2

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) March 16, 2023

Actor Josh Gad, who starred in another live-action Disney remake The beauty and the Beasthelped distribute the smear to his more than 660,000 Twitter followers.

Imagine being so broken and pathetic in life that your main concern is the skin color of… an imaginary singing mermaid. https://t.co/7F6F8LT2b9

—Josh Gad (@joshgad) March 16, 2023

As Breitbart News reported, Disney’s teaser for the recent live-action remake of Pinnochio received a similar online beating from the public, with likes exceeding likes by more than ten times.

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