Black Representation and WHY We Care
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2021
- Black representation in Animation always had a shaky and just plain gross history. But in our current age of animation we started having a great emergence of black characters as well as black creatives. Many Black Youths found new and old characters to connect with. #BlackRepresentation #BlackCartoons #animation
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As a Black man, I find it very important to be able to see people of my skin tone to beon the big and small screen. To be the hero or the villain, to be the quirky friend or the friend you can have a heart to heart with. To be the mother, the father, the brother, sister, the aunt, the uncle and so on. This allows for many to feel like they are just as valid as everybody else. What does representation mean for all of you?
Late but, diversity helps breathe orginality, helps people feel like theyre seen. But I never felt seen. Im a black nigerian, but monoracial albino (slightly bad eyes, not really snow white but fair skinned). I lost my identity due to only watching white cartoon character who didnt look exactly the same as me, and I lost the appreciate for my nigerian culture because I felt undeserving of it. I think now after watching some of your vids, im ready to embrace myself and my blackness. my small broad nose, my annoying 4c hair, and even my fair complexion because black comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Im persuing art and animation and want to have characters who I can relate to and hopefully others can too.
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
@@alexslusher16I see what you’re trying to say HOWEVER as a black person and a brown skinned person in general, seeing characters that on screen that look like us really makes a difference . Growing up, the only representation I had were white/Caucasian and fair skinned characters with straight hair. That’s not to say that I couldn’t relate to them or their stories. However, as a brown skinned person, Eurocentric beauty standards can really affect your self esteem. A simple “look in the mirror” can’t just fix that, because sometimes when looking in the mirror , we are reminded of what society does not like about us whether that be our skin color, hair texture or facial features . That’s why POSITIVE representation matters, and not creating (harmful) stereotypes and caricatures in media of any race really.
@@hoshilam1485 Wonderfully put. Representation is also especially important for young kids to have access to!!!
@@hoshilam1485 😒
It's really nice to hear other black creatives to share their relationship with black characters in cartoons.
wyatt will forever hold a special place in my heart.
Awesome choice
I'm in tears, I love how we all can find a bit of ourselves in these characters💖
Thank you so much for letting me be apart of this Mann
The story you had about get suspended for princess pea happened to me but for Sasha from the bratz she was the first character I seen that looked like me and I would literally fight all my friends if they said they were Sasha 😩
@@jakira1111 Thanks but that was Nannerl’s story. I talked about Jessica
@@ArteiceTB ouu I’m sorry I don’t know how I got y’all’s icons mixed 😭
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
Me and DeAngelo understand the magic of Static. My all time favorite BLACK character. However, Miles is a close second.
He was amazing
I'm glad to come across a video like this and it's topic in representation. I've been rewatching Toonarific Tariq's video on the same topic a thousand times. Now I can move on this one over a a million times 🙂
Seeing myself represented in media is just inspiring. Even though these are "just cartoons", they make me feel like I have a broader space in which to navigate the world instead of being stereotypically boxed in or not represented at all.
Adorned by chi has a black magical girl with a black girl creators behind it ♥️
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
I may not be black, but I can see where black people are coming from with wanting more good representation in media. Like when I saw some Filipino representation in a episode of Craig of the Creek I went “wow, that felt great!”.
So yeah, hoping for more good representation for black people and other races like that in the future.
Also, nicely done video.
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
@@alexslusher16 Because some people need more than just a mirror. Not sure why your acting like what little we have at the moment is enough for most people. Sometimes the more or the bigger, the better.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 "what little we have at the moment is enough for most people."
LOL. Um, ok. So I take it you've been living under a rock and missed out on about the last 100+ years of Media & Content that has had LOADS of Representation since the beginning of media.
Since when is Representation a new and recent thing that we have "little" of?
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 "because some people need more than just a mirror."
The only people who need that are selfish and self-etitled narcissists who think they're the center of the universe. The universe centers around no one.
@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 and here's just an example of what "little" represemtation we have.
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I didn't wanna be a copy cat and pic someone they touched on?? But to... help get my own pick? I Google black cartoon characters, and was reminded of number 5 from KND! She was with a group of mostly white kids? But vibed with EVERYONE and never like... dropped her blackness... she was always just... her. She's loyal, bad ass, "cool" but still down to earth, lowkey has a temper and goofy? But real as hell. And like, I'm a 25 year old GUY but... I vibe with all that cause, the energy matches... I started this comment around the time the AMV outro started and the clip of her and her sister played... that 3 second little bit capped it for me and... I'm super glad I was reminded of her now, and that I picked her to go off about... makes my heart happy. Thanks for picking this topic and lowkey leading me to this... that might be sappy, but I'm stoned and it's my truth. Stay up bro!!
My favorite black character as a kid was probably Numbuh 5. She was smart as hell, knew how to fight, she was probably the only one Numbuh 1 completely trusted to run things in his absence, had a interesting sibling rivalry with Cree, had her sweet moments. She never reminded me of a shitty black stereotype.
Peter Parker will always be my favorite spiderman, but I really enjoyed Miles in Into the Spiderverse. He's a creative, someone who doesn't go with the normal flow of things. I would say my favorite thing about him is his ability to learn and grow. By the end of the movie, he is Spiderman. In the beginning, he never wanted to be. He struggles along the way, but he gets there. His dad really was right about the spark he has. I'm really interested to see what they do with him in the sequels (Gwen and Pete as well).
Excellent video, Mann!
My favorite black character is Tiana from Princess and the Frog. I reallly admire Tiana for her passions and kind personality. At my age, I wanted to be a chef. So, seeing a black woman visualizing her dreams to own a restaurant left an impression on my 10 year old self. Nothing can replace that as I saw a black woman who has dreams to accomplish. She means a lot to me.
Thats so lovely. As a person who is considered as white, (Although I never considered myself to be white but idk Im Middle Eastern.), I first watched that film when I was like 3 and watched over and over again for years. Tiana was a huge inspiration for me. She was determined, diligent and I loved her relationship with her family. I had a black teacher in primary school and I always associated her with Tiana. Tiana kinda created the image of black women in my mind, since I didnt known any black people other than my teacher. I remember being shocked when I learnt how slavery and racism actually works, when I was like 9. We definetely need more black represantation like her.
Yo, this was great! I've been working on a bio piece on Dwayne McDuffie (creator of Static and the other Milestone characters) for the channel I work with (Watchtower Database) and one quote that I keep coming back to of his is “My biggest issue - generally in writing main-stream comics is if you write a black character, he represents ‘blackness,’ and that’s ridiculous! If you write a white character, he’s ‘that guy.’ Ya know, you could be Superman. You could be Lex Luthor. But if you’re black, you’re all black people. Good guy, bad guy, and anything in between.” It warms my heart seeing how much the tables have been turned since then!
Thank you so much for inviting me to be apart of this! Representation is so important and Princess Pea will always be at the top of my favorite animated characters list lol
Omg I used to love super why and princess pea was my favourite too 😁
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
@@alexslusher16 Of course a white person says this lmao.
@@PersonstuckinMichigan Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
when Jonhnny 2x4 came up I fucking died XD
Whenever there are no Black characters we always claim one lol
Great video. I hope to get more and even better black representation. My favorite black character in animation would be between Craig, Bow, Huey, Black Dynamite, Gerald, and Rock Lock. Also shout out Nannerl for that Super Why inclusion. Show was heat
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
i wanna know who gave you the right to make me almost cry at the end!!
Hello! I am an animation student from Spain and im doing a paper about representation in animation and this video has been extremely helpful for me! I have used your video as source material (with the proper credits, of course!) because I also wanted the insight from a black person (because I'm not black myself, I'm berber) So I just wanted to let you know that your video helped me a lot with my paper. Thanks!!
My favorite black character is Jo from kid cosmic
Same! Such an underrated show tho
She is great and has amazing powers.
I personally say this video was very well said with how the points were brought up. I really hope my Black character is interesting enough for it to stand on it's own and give inspiration towards many others.
If you're interested in my character, I'll be glad to explain! He's part of my original Yu-Gi-Oh! Story, for the record.
as a native i can count the cartoon characters like me on one hand and most are offensive. That being said i dont care if a character is similar to me in skin tone or culture because the character itself is what matters.
I will never forget Princess Pea! To this day, I still go "A princess is always prepared!" (Although I really don't remember if that was something she said often or just, like, once.)
kids just can be so amazed seeing a protagonist with the same thing to them like hair, glasses, heck just anything not too common in looks or mannerisms
so for communnities like yours, being treated so so horribly in past and even present
I can really not know, but understand how much it means to see more characters being people like you
hopefully each day tons of poc creators are allowed to create their characters in big media for the kids to see themselves in and be happy
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
Sucks that Dark skin unambiguous non stereotypical black girls are scarce in animation and in real life shows and movies. Support black women producer's/comic/manga/books who put black women at the forefront! Adorned by chi black magical girl and love! Love! Fighting with a main curvy black girl and the love interest is a Asian men
Yes! I love adorned by chi!!
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
That montage from 25:21-26:55 was beautiful. Really touching. Nice video.
Weirdly enough, watching this made me realize that I still don't have an all time favorite black character. I enjoy seeing black characters, (there have been a lot of cool designs and I've saved many of them lol.) But with that said, I still haven't had one that has given me the feeling of being completely seen. The closest, being Miles, from into the spider verse. But even though i love his character. Its not completely the same thing as feeling seen.
I think that's why now, I'm trying to create my own story, with that character at the for front. But for now that character doesn't exist yet. Because I'm the one trying to make him real. In the current moment he only exists to me.
Popped up here to catch up on the vid I missed after that Charlie Brown joint by the homie like I said! Let's mooooob
I would prefer they make actual characters instead of representation. Static Shock was a big part of my childhood. Didn't care about his race, just thought Virgil had cool powers and was a great character.
25:20 Amv at the end is SSS Tier.
As a black man who grew up in the West Side of Chicago, representation is very important to me. I want to see more of the ordinary protagonists who grew up in less than desirable environments becoming the heroes who achieve great things and inspire those around them to be great as well. It would show that it doesn't matter where you come from, but the choices we make and the actions we take shape us into who we are. We can become great as long as we believe in ourselves and be the best versions of ourselves. That's why I want to make my webcomics into epic stories worth reading.
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
This had to have been one of your best videos, Mann. So informative and uplifting.
You sound a lot like Frylock from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, great video🤘
Hopefully somebody can explain it to me in a way that I can understand it better because I'm still a little bit confused as to why this is so God damn important to the black community. At least when it comes to fictional media and not history. I mean he did say representation across the board so I'd imagine this would include history. But I feel like when it comes to representation history should be the number one priority. Why is seeing a fictional cartoon who looks like you the top priority? Especially since that mind you is a main focus of this video and usually that discussion of representation in general when it comes to media. Not just cartoons but fictional characters in general.
At first I thought it was because y'all wanted a representation of the black experience but from some of these examples I've heard that's not always the case. I mean it was for some of them. Such as The boondocks which is an absolutely great show and Huey was one of my favorite characters going up. I'm not even black and I was able to relate to him just fine. of course I can never relate to him completely because I didn't exactly have the black experience. But in so many ways I could relate to him.
For me skin color never mattered and even when it came down to skin color, well you can't even represent my people with skin color because we literally come in our skin hues. I mixed. I'm half Mexican and half Puerto rican. But regardless with both Latinos they come in all skin hues.
And if anybody has seen in canto then you will already know that there are plenty of families out there that look just like that. Everybody's related via biology or marriage and it's all mixed color. My family is literally exactly like that. I literally saw exactly my family in the encanto family because we're not one color. Not even those we are biologically related to.
My aunt, uncle's, and mother come from a caramel Mexican and a black Puerto Rican woman. Who created one caramel daughter, one white daughter, and one dark-skinned son. A son who went on to create one light skin baby and two caramel babies. My auntie ended up with a caramel Mexican similar to her father and made a white baby with an afro. And right after that a black baby with straight curly hair. My mother who is already half Mexican and half Puerto Rican like my aunt and uncle got with another half Mexican and half Puerto Rican and literally had six children of each individual freaking skin shade.
Sure so many of us typically come in the caramel color. But you literally cannot represent us Latino with one God damn skin color. It's impossible. And I find it funny you mentioned so much of the colorism but yet when it comes to these characters your focusing so much on the color of their skin. Representing the culture and the actual experience I could understand. But for some of them nothing about them was special that you mentioned other than your skin color. Their personalities probably could have been added to somebody who was white, Latino or even Asian. Cuz beyond what our culture, traditions, and Nations more to us into we are still individuals from our same skin color and cultural brothers and sisters.
I can relate to anybody of any ethnic background or skin color. I could also not relate to them of any background or skin color just based on personality and loan. Sure are there some things I can relate to somebody more than anything because of cultural reasons or skin color reasons? Yes, I won't deny that. But because there's so much more to people than what's on the surface level, I get so annoying when that's all people focus on.
I probably only seen a significant few characters in my life time where they were one of my people. You know what's funny, I could never tell because they were so God damn caramel that I never thought twice. There are so many ethnicities that come in caramel. From latinos, to asians, to africans, to Middle easterners. Every single individual race has that ethnicity that comes in caramel. And many of those cultural regions will even have their people come in lighter and darker skin complexions as well.
So without speaking our language, representing our culture, showing our food, literally showing anything that shows which type of racer ethnicity that character is, I'm not going to know what the hell they are.
I s*** you not there used to be so many shows that I used to watch that have Latino characters that I didn't even know where Latino until they finally had that one episode they spoke spanish. And I look at them like what the hell? Why are they speak in spanish? Are they one of mine?
It's hard to tell who's one of mine just by looking at them cuz one of mine looks like everybody else is. Literally, my people look like so many other ethnicities just for the main fact that we are mixed with so many other ethnicities. Look at the history of Mexico and Puerto rico. we exist because we're a mixed breed of so many ethnicities. If somebody wants to say they were pure Mexican and Puerto rican, you have my permission to look at them like an idiot because no such thing exists. We literally exist because we're a mixed breed of people. And I ain't got damn proud of it because we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that.
Hell, if you look back at most of human history there really is no such thing as ethnicity whatsoever. Well, that tangent aside, I guess what I'm trying to get at is I really just look at everybody that's normal people because without the cultural differences, to me there's nothing special about your skin color. You literally could be any race or ethnicity. Okay so you're black. That means you can literally be anything to me. You could be any of the African ethnicities. Maybe I don't see your face. Maybe you're a decoration person. Maybe you're a black middle eastern. Maybe you're a Latino who's a darker skin.
And I'm not joking when I say we sometimes look like everybody else. I literally cannot tell you how many times I'll confuse another Puerto Rican for literally everything else other than Puerto rican. Even I have been confused for other ethnicities and I don't get offended about it because I literally do it to my own people. And that's because we literally look like everybody else.
I'm a half Mexican half Puerto Rican male that constantly gets confused for being Middle Eastern! 😂 And I love it when it happens cuz it always starts an interesting conversation. Especially when I tell them what I actually am. And that's the primary thing I usually get confused for. I've even been confused for being Eastern european. Specifically you go slavic. I think somebody has one said Bosnian. Are you even know what Bosnian people look like but apparently I look Bosnian. 🤷😂.......
2. Literally without culture and language and even flags and borders I cannot tell the difference between people because to me people are people. No matter their color. Even in the other nations, the other ethnicities are typically mixed color most of them out there. Especially the ones closer to the equator.
No that's not to say that other nations probably don't still have their issues with ethnic division or even colorism. Central and South American nations do it, Middle Eastern Nations do it, the age Nations do it, pretty much apparently every side of the world has had their issue with colorism once upon a Time or still do.
Whether they're doing it to another group of people or doing it to their OWN! And for me, I think that's the part that irritates me the most. It's one thing when you divide yourself from the people you literally can I identify who have a different culture, religion, instead of beliefs. That makes sense whether you hate them or not. But how are you going to look at your own people and say you're not one of mine or I am Superior because this book from The invisible Man in the sky and his speaker in his house said so because of my lighter complexion. Or Puerto Ricans who hate black people and act like they don't have African in their blood. Again, we literally wouldn't freaking exist if it wasn't for the fact that we are mixed up other groups of people. The primary ones that we are mixed up of are the original native ancestors, the Spanish, and the African slaves brought over. We both have some of the goddamn same ancestors that came from one the danm same continent.
I may be 100% latino, believe it or not the people brought over on those boats are as much my ancestors as they are yours my guy. And any other black person reading this. As far as I'm concerned, you're all my very very very very very very very very very distant cousins. So what's up primo? How you been? Why are you so obsessed with skin color? Is it really just only the horrible crap that happened in history? I have no doubt that's a contributor to it. But there are kind of people out there that been through some messed up crap and don't always identify to the People by skin color alone.
Especially when again even you guys come in various different shades. Who cares which color or shade of color you come in. Our people should be our people. And if we really want our stories to be told that damn bad in media then it's best we do it ourselves because nobody's going to tell their stories better than us.
Besides those who are just genuinely interested in our history and our culture outside of it, nobody's going to be as invested in what our ancestors struggle through to get us to where we are today than us.
To be fair though, it does seem like the black community does have a lot of catching up to do. Because when it comes to Latino community, we already been making our own s*** for quite a while. I've just never really been to interested because of two reasons. The first reason being I'm a Latino who can't speak Spanish for s*** and of course most of my people are going to make it in the primary language they speak. So I'm literally just s*** out of luck of watching the content my old people make with us for us. 🥲
The other reason being because I just didn't realize how disconnected from my own people and culture i was. Because lately I have been more interested to see what my own people have to offer. At least when I'm able to get it with some subtitles. But primarily I'm trying to look into anything that has to do with my people's culture on both sides. I know very minimal about my Mexican side and almost practically nothing other than what happened during the colonization of my Puerto Rican side. Well that and the fact that that apparently some rogue army soldiers try to commit a genocide against my people in the 1960s and thankfully it flopped so hard that apparently barely any Puerto Ricans knew about it. Even though it was a serious massacre. People did die. People try to exterminate my people. And a lot of people never knew about this at the time or even now. I remember asking my grandparents about this and they said what the hell was I talking about? Nobody in my family knew we ever had a genocide attempted on us in the 1960s
Which is why I feel like the real representation be at the forefront should be history more than anything. What's your favorite cartoon character looks like should be at the bottom. Experiencing your culture in the real world should be a real priority. Not experiencing it through fiction
Also, I'm not trying to have the impression Olympics with you with mentioning the attempted genocide against Puerto ricans. I'm just using it as an example of something important to our history that's how many of us didn't know about even when it happened. And that blows my freaking mind. And I do know about many of the messed up stuff that they still did around that time to like black wall street. but for some reason why people always saw native Americans or anything like needed for Americans including Latinos somehow still a little bit lesser than black people. Cuz for you guys you were still at least good as property. Not that everybody makes it any better, but somehow we or less than dirt. Weren't even worth property. And I don't think that makes it any better or worse. It's just f***** up all around in general.
For future generations we should all come together to tell them about the truth of our connected history. Cuz in many ways it's connected more than you think. Make sure that's the first thing they hear about. The truth about our people and our history and their struggles they went through. And then when we're worried about them seeing themselves on tv, that's when we come in and we give it to them ourselves. Cuz nobody's going to tell our stories better than us. Nobody knows the truth better than us.
Very good video. Was recomend the video by a friend. Will have to check out more. I do love how you included one of the bits of Static Shock at the end from one of my favorite episodes. Thank you.
I appreciate you making these videos bro!! SUBSCRIBED!!!!!
Man I don't why everyone keeps trashing Trixie. I loved her character. She was the most normal one to me as a kid on that show. Gave me great life advice. I feel like if they didn't make her talk and act like the way she did, she would have been forgotten in a show with humans turning into dragons. You kinda need to have a gimmick to stand out in a show, especially for young kids.
3:07 This part is so funny "Aint this a bitch"!? btw my fav black character growing up was sasha from Bratz
Representation to me is showcasing the actual true colors of this world and life we live in. That the world isn't just only about White people being seen as the main default for humanity or media. That black little kids don't have to always see themselves in slavery movies or as racist overdone stereotypes & tokens props, showing that diversity is real life, or that having more black characters as protagonists also just being regular people shouldn't make "certain people" freak out or scared that minorities are trying to take away from the already overly-populated white characters there are in entertainment media already.
Some one somewhere once told me equality is the oppression for the privileged. They should just go watch How to Pretend Systemic Racism doesn't exist.
@E.L.M Tree McGee Absolutely so true. 👍🏾
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
Wow! Great video, and i didn't expect harriyanna hook to be here, i also got to hear about other black content creators, which is great.
I think it's as simple as "lets stop waiting for them to do it for us and for us to do it our selves. That applies to all aspects of life.
My favorite black characters in animation are for the time being Moon Girl,Enid ,and Wolf . I'm hoping I find black character I relate to someday ❤
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
@@alexslusher16 okay I just want representation ok?
@@AngryDemonCat Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
Inspiring video bro. We've come far, but still have a ways to go.
i love craig of the creek.
Anyone remember that black guy from Randy cunningham 9th grade school ninja
I’m happy for you guys. I guess this really meant a lot to y’all
This truly is a wonderful video
I'm a year late, but from one 90s black man to another, WTF were you watching?
Growing up a saw a plethora of black characters in animation.
Kwami from Captain Planet, Static Shock, WarMachine in the 90s Iron Man cartoon, Green Lantern John Stewart, The Proud Family, The Boondocks, Da Boom Crew, WayneHead, and Spawn(even though I didn't see that until a few years ago) to name a few.
My point is black representation in animation was a constant for me growing up, even though I didn't need nor ask for it. So how on Earth, wait... You didn't have cable or satellite did you?
Chillixion's points on Kaldur were spot-on. Both the writers and the VA did a great job with his character. Without hindsight, if you told me the show was going to have a black and gay character who was also the "amazing team leader", I would've expect some kind of woke garbage. Instead they took the character seriously and even gave him a pretty awesome mid-series arc.
Also, despite being a white kid, John Stewart was the only Green Lantern I actually liked. The serious personality made more sense than the "hot-shot maverick" attitude of the others.
Great job on the video.
things like this have inspired me to further strive for my passion of animation!!! for myself for my beautiful heavenly people that i love so much. REMEMBER THE NAME ''KEE"'
Commenting for the algorithm because this video is underrated
Representation is important to me as an adult. It gives me hope that the world will see me and other people like me as a whole person instead of a stereotype
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation
@@alexslusher16 While I'd like to agree with that the default has historically been white for all characters. In books, movies and TV the default character has been white. Representation in all forms of media has allowed people who aren't what society deems as normal a chance to feel connected. One can do both though have strong written characters who are also not white or straight or male even. The rise in different creators making characters that reflect their experiences is amazing
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@@Mathue360 😒
I think you made a banger my dude
25:21 ❤
I felt personally called out by the chicken comment
Excellent video 10/10
Any plans for 10k 👀
Aqua Lad is the Atlantan Sisqó
Dude, Fat Albert was classic.
@phantomxero1x447 idk, none of the Cosby kids were bringing girls back to the junkyard for spiked beverages that we know of. It was what it was before Bill got creepy.
What are all the cartoons in this video because i need it
12:02 what are those called?
The problem with most black stories, that limits other races from taking interest in them, is 98% focus on race and hood environments.
There are tons of non black stories where the protagonists are in environments unrelated to the characters races or culture the creator grew up in because they wanted to tell a variety of stories.
All we ever get black struggle this black struggle that. Plus having most black characters be ghetto doesn't help. Where are the black nerds?
26:10 What show is this?
Wait are you giving me this information telepathically
The DCEU should make a young justice movie
... ok, so I'm googling black stones after this. Like... the fuck?! Bro, there's a universe where it got green lit and... Idono how ta feel.
Update... did my homework... didn't know Barny and Fred meet tge thing from fantastic 4?! Bro the network was tweakin in the like 60s and 70s... (and up to the 90s?! Black stones... in the 90s?! Nahhhhh)
How about manny from el tigre
He's Hispanic
Best👏🏿video👏🏿ever👏🏿👏🏿 also, let's get more afrofuturism in films, shows, and video games.
I'm black but I always felt more connected to the white characters. The only two black characters I like are Static Shock and Miles Morales. Sorry.
As someone that read the Ultimate Spider-Man comic and the ensuing fiasco of Marvel panicking over having a black lead. It amazes me how much of a 180 Spider-verse did for his character.
Comics Miles and movie Miles are the dichotomy of "black representation" in media.
Static better tho
Like The Gaming Community I asked them can we get more black main characters in video games then they be like it shouldn't worry about what they look like it's the gameplay bulshit they have black people in gaming but they always put them as the side characters that you sacrifice for the main characters all the time don't even get me started on anime the movies don't get me started on that either have you noticed and they make black characters in movies they always turn into into animals like 90% of the movie
Not black, but what is find interesting about Gus Porter and Willow Park is how they show that common human skin colors is to be found in every humanoid species.
Well I'm a weird then not caring for representation or maybe cuz of grew up in Jamaica that's why I dont care idk
Marceline is black?
i think so. her mom is.
@@niklstaples89 is her dad black aswell? I'm not claiming mixed girls
@@cloudyheart5148 i don’t think they ever showed her father as anything other than his demon form
Marshall Lee is voice by Donald Glover.
@@niklstaples89 moms black. Fathers...a weird blue demon
First!
Blue shell for you
I've never once cared about feeling represented and never will. Hell, I watch almost entirely anime and play Japanese games never once thought "Man, I wish there were more black folk."
The whole idea of "I need to see someone with similar features to me being featured in stuff to feel validated" is incredibly stupid to me, especially when people act like they're owed representation in everything regardless of any type of context.
whatever weeb
@@TheStorytellerAJ Oh wow. What a clever and original comeback that totally shuts down everything I just said.
@@s3studios597 you're calling people stupid for wanting to feel represented in a medium that institutionally discriminates against them, and you're justifying it with your own love of anime and Japanese video games.
I honestly don't know what response you were expecting.
Look how you chose to waste your time.
@@TheStorytellerAJ
American and European media has been tripping over themselves and bending over backwards to shoehorn in every type of representation possible since early 2010s. And yes, I think it's stupid to go around using cartoons and movies as some kind of measure of worth. Especially when people go around demanding everyone to do it. I bring up anime because I don't need to "see myself" in everything to feel good about myself and like I have worth.
Don't forget about the hundreds of black people online who have torn Stev Universe apart for its bad portrayal of black people. Not to mention SU's artbook that had pimp amethyst and concrete. (read "All These Black Characters and 0 Done Right")
Not to mention SU had a HUMAN ZOO, which were actual things that existed when white people didn't think black and native people were human. Which the creators said they use the Centaur scene from Fantasia as inspiration, you know that scene with Sunflower.
Who's this we you speak of? Some Black ppl are able to enjoy a cartoon without looking for representation.
Thank you for not disproving my point by using the word some.
Before you read this comment I must note I do not have a problem with black characters in media, I think having dark skin characters is fine, the point of my comment is to understand a view point other then my own. Also I'm 7:54 into the video.
Throughout most of my life I watched anime exclusively, if you're unfimiliar with anime, it's extremely rare for an anime character to not be asian, as such it's very rare to find a white person in anime and even if you find one they're portrayed as rather extreme stereotypes.
I as a white person never felt the need to demand better white representation in anime because I often found that the asian characters were perfectly relatable.
So while I don't have any problem with having black characters in media I am confused as to why you need a character to be the same race as you for you to feel like you can relate to them.
Btw here's what a white stereotype in anime looks like:
m.ua-cam.com/video/_0dTG1_x-K8/v-deo.html
As white, you see that color as default. Which on itself it's not bad, but when you take it to the level of a whole medium, you leave pretty much everyone else out.
@@freddogrosso9835 so what you're saying is, it's not about representation in the sense of relating to characters but rather it's about being under the impression that you're being left out of the fun of media you like?
@@hoaujudaiyubel Nope. Not saying that. It's ok if you don't get it. We can't relate to every experience.
As a black nonbinary person who grew up in bot America and Africa seeing black in fiction mad it more important for me, plus once again love the music choices RIP MF DOOM
Why do you NEED to see yourself on the screen? Just look in a mirror at that point.
We could care less about the Race, Gender, Sexuality, etc. of a character. Just Write Well Written Characters that are likable.
Story/Representation