No reasonable person would have a problem with a black girl playing a fictional fairy in a Disney film, but it wouldn’t be a day on the internet without some people voicing their displeasure at the move. Not Klansmen either, but actual movie-goers!

Here’s the ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ trailer that dropped earlier – includes some ridiculously dark colour-grading that a lot of films use today for some reason:

And some of the reaction to Yara Shahidi showing up as Tinker Bell:

Disney couldn’t care less about making new stories with Poc characters, they just put poc ppl to play white characters, and that shows 1) how lazy Disney is 2) how racist this is, it’s like they don’t think poc ppl deserve their own stories (beside like 3 animated movies?)

— Alex (he/they) (@tinyscribbles_) February 28, 2023

but tinker bells iconic look is literally the blonde hair n blue eyes. nothing wrong with the loose representation but why keep changing shit that already has a staple look

— ༺lin༻ (@melaniesteady) February 28, 2023

okay not to sound like a swiftie but really not everything needs to be a minority 😭

— bbl era (@whomstfarted_) February 28, 2023

The reason studios make beloved characters black in the live action adaptations is so they don’t have to go to the trouble of actually giving special, brand new unique characters made from scratch to black people.

— C$D Lunch77 (@Lunch77Beatz) February 28, 2023

By 2030 every Disney character will be black, even when they shouldn’t

— SpeakNowTaylor’Version (03/03) (@VicSNJensen) February 28, 2023

So it sounds like some people are mad that Disney would rather race-swap than create new POC characters, which I guess I can understand. Other people though just want Tinker Bell to look like the original movies from their childhoods. Here’s an idea – why not go watch the original?

In any case, congrats to Yara Shahidi on her massive, star-making gig. What else does Peter Pan & Wendy have in store for us? Non-binary Lost Boys? Genuinely think that could be a possibility.

For the woman who can’t get a passport after making ‘Tinkerbell the Real Goddess’ her middle name, click HERE.