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The Little Mermaid and Patagonia Making Change On The Viral List

Written and Edited by the YPulse Editorial Team

Sep 16 2022
North America, Western Europe

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Little Black girls are seeing themselves represented in the new Little Mermaid, and their reactions might make you cry
Patagonia’s founder just gave away the company for the benefit of the environment
TikTok is obsessed with ios16, proving Apple is still cool to Gen Z
A British TikToker said what everyone was thinking when he reacted to an ASMR video

Little Black girls reacting to the new Little Mermaid trailer is the sweetest thing on the internet Earlier this week, Disney released the trailer to the new live action The Little Mermaid, starring singer Halle Bailey, who is Black, as Ariel. It was a thrilling release for plenty of children, but for young Black girls, having an iconic Disney princess look like them has made for some of the most heartwarming reaction videos the internet has seen in years. One video (with 343K likes), tagged #BlackGirlRepresentation, shows a young girl seeing the trailer and turning to the camera with a huge smile, saying “She’s Black! She looks so pretty!” Another, with 1.6M likes, shows how important it is to even the youngest of children to see a princess who looks like them, as a three-year-old girl says with a smile “I think she’s Brown…Brown Ariel is cute!” More of these videos have gone viral on their own, and ended up in even more viral compilations (this one with...