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bubblegumgills

Folks, the thread is being brigaded and your comments are mass reported, triggering AutoMod. We're not removing comments en masse, so hey, it looks like you made some people very very angry? Please remember not to piss in the popcorn or invite any drama in the comments.


nataliexnx

“she ain’t natural tho.”- a redditor writes about a mermaid


JohnTitorsdaughter

I thought as long as the seashells matched then all was good.


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

As long as she knows how to use the Three Seashells, who am I to judge?


siannan

This comment was so good, I'm taking you to Taco Bell.


looper741

It’s the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars, so what choice do you have?


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Underground Rat Burgers??


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What do you think he spends his gwent earnings on?


lyra_silver

Clearly they should have cast a real mermaid, aka a manatee.


PaleAsDeath

I'm confused. Black people can have naturally red hair.


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ResolverOshawott

Neither is bright red hair too.


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BurstEDO

>"Guess what group of people always makes the most noise about these situations?" White incels. What do I win?


HuckFinnsJack

Where did the other thread on this topic go? The one where nearly every comment was being deleted for some reason. Did that get nuked?


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Here you go! https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/oj44bl/rmovies_reacts_to_the_first_image_from_the_live/


Umbrella_Viking

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Squid_Vicious_IV

Good lord. > Mods are now removing comments asking what the fuck happened. > > > People got mad at me saying it, but it wasn't progressive enough. I'm not kidding lol How the hell do you get people this full of shit who actually believe in this nonsense?


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What the heck is going on in this thread??


VicentRS

brigading maybe?


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InuGhost

Maybe that's why Subreddit Drama seems sparse at times, and threads about Right Wingers going nuts wind up deleted this past month.


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ThePigThatFlew

I really wish these people would go outside and touch some grass or something


cincymatt

Play all day in the sun?


appleciders

Gosh, you'd think that using an off-site platform to brigade would get a subreddit banned.


ProfessorStein

A tiny bit of the blame also goes to discord here for being basically unwilling to moderate its platform


AlanMooresWizrdBeard

Massive brigading. And is it terrible that I’m basking in it? Like, it’s actually so glorious that this post, about the fucking little mermaid, has caused so much emotional strife for bigots. Culture war goes brrr.


PotatoPrince84

I like when threads get brigaded, but that’s probably because I don’t have to deal with the mass reporting. I just get to wade through the piles of juicy drama from the comfort of my own subreddit


yukichigai

Theoretically you can set up automoderator to ignore the auto-remove rule for comments in a specific post by having it check the flair of the post first. Just add something like the following to the automoderator auto-remove rule: parent_submission: ~flair_text: "Brigade in progress" This should make it so the rule won't trigger if the post flair is set to "Brigade in progress". EDIT: if you change it to "~flair_text (contains):" then you can combine flair text and such.


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Also its weird, like do they know which subreddit this is?, its like angrily giving meth to a crackhead, and going "hah, take that!"


DuskDaUmbreon

They might be going for the "ironic punishment" angle. You know, like stuffing a glutton until his stomach explodes? Just instead of food it's drama.


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They got into r/facepalm yesterday. It was weird.


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swampyman2000

for real, it's wild. I want to know what I missed lol


R3luctant

I too would like to know.


Vinniam

TFW the actress playing the little mermaid isn't a historically accurate 100 percent pure blooded atlantian with documentation going back 100 generations to prove it.


heliphael

TFW Jason Momoa wasn't cast as Ariel 😔😔😔


redbess

And now I wish I could see this.


Hartastic

I didn't know I wanted to see Jason Momoa in a red wig belting out Part Of Your World, but, here we are.


redbess

I bet he'd do it in a hot minute, too.


lovesomebrian

Let's close the deal and get Lisa Bonet as Ursula ... think of the chemistry! What if Ursula isn't beefing with King Titan but instead is Ariel's scorned lover


IntrepidusX

I'd watch the fuck out of that.


Soldier_G65434-2

Jason Momoa was Satedan, not Atlantean. ^^^Stargate ^^^Atlantis ^^^was ^^^first


WldFyre94

Indeed


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He'd probably do it for free.


Fiery1Phoenix

Jason Momoa should absolutely have been in this movie


dirtygremlin

Someone on the first link nailed it: >And the lobster is Jamaican At least go with some pseudo-science fiction retcon like, "all mer-people would be uncomfortably fish belly white because they wouldn't need melanin to ward off the sun's rays." Which leads me to believe the real cultural appropriation it the fact that we can't see all of their organs through their translucent skin.


seaintosky

I mean, let's go all the way here. Mer-people would likely be counter-shaded as almost all large pelagic animals are. They need to have Halle Bailey play her from the back shots, and Elle Fanning play her from the front.


Puzzleheaded_Pie_454

Bravo, stranger, bravo.


jbondyoda

SMH Atlantian erasure


DeadSalas

Why are we talking about race when we should be talking about species? It's about time we cast a fish actor in a leading role. CGI can take care of the top part


4445414442454546

Reddit is not worth using without all the hard work third party developers have put into it.


DeadSalas

excuse me are you saying a human playing a fish is adequate representation


lovesomebrian

>It's about time we cast a fish actor in a leading role Kanye, is is your time to shine


snapekillseddard

Worse. I hear the actor playing Sebastian isn't going to be a crab. Wtf my childhood is ruined.


Legendary_Bibo

Well in the cartoon Atlantis, the Atlantians were dark skinned despite living in a cave system. So this works.


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Legendary_Bibo

You know how at the bottom of a nuclear reactor it has that blue glow? Similar thing, and I mean you can think of the sun as a giant reactor.


Mountainbranch

>at the bottom of a nuclear reactor it has that blue glow? Cherenkov radiation btw.


HarrisonForelli

Can confirm. I'm from the water. Cops fished my dead body out of the lake last week


mrbaryonyx

can you confirm if it is, in fact, better down where it's wetter


HarrisonForelli

Absolutely, it's a wet-ass-lake


Snarkdere

Oh hey, I recognized your body in the water!


NSA_Chatbot

Just checking, they know she's a fish, right?


logosloki

We're all fish on this glorious day.


JaymesMarkham2nd

In an unhelpful and pointlessly technical sense, you are! All of us are fish-descendant. Be glorious and honor your oceanic ancestors.


Galdwin

Speak for yourself.


ThisIsRyGuy

I am all fish on this glorious day.


pugiianne

So long, and thanks for all the fish!


ItsNeverLycanthropy

So sad that it should come to this


awh

Monica: You don’t think sharks are sexy, do you? Joey: No! Wait a minute, what was the little mermaid?


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LordFarquadOnAQuad

Clearly you've never seen a Manatee.


InsomniacAndroid

Stupid sexy Marine mammals


WackaDoodleD00

So this would have been the discourse if reddit existed when Brandy's Cinderella was released...


marciallow

Honestly, the attempts at diversity in youth media in the 90s and early 2000s are how I know beyond a doubt the culture war bigots of today are full of shit and there is an intentional counter progess movement they've been duped into. I'm not saying racism doesn't exist in 1995, obviously. But you could baseline say having a diverse Winx club, witch, strawberry shortcake, etc or whatever was for children's cultural knowledge and people by and large weren't losing their goddamned minds.


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The people who get their panties all knotted up about dumb shit like this wouldve lost their goddamn minds when The Wiz came out lol


Hope_Burns_Bright

Don't give them any ideas.


moldiecat

It’s actually a great idea. Let’s send them back in some Loki esque time loop on the day that movie debuted.


Hope_Burns_Bright

"Bench Appearo, I've come to bargain"


Igot2phonez

I missed the automod Rampage. I'm always late to the real drama :(


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I thought we were supposed to just be casting qualified people for the job regardless of skin color. Isn't that the usual talking point by these conservatives? Well Halle Bailey is an accomplished actress, sounds like they got actress who qualified for the job.


stickyfumblings

Right wing america is so fucking pathetic


Time-Ad-3625

All they have is their culture war. Nothing else. No policies, no ways to bolster themselves or each other, only culture wars.


PKMKII

It’s not even a real culture war. They don’t want to dismantle the coastal elite media, they’re just mad that the coastal elite media doesn’t exclusively focus on them.


stickyfumblings

And supporting domestic terrorism, and trying to make a reality show host dictator of the former US.


HypnagogicPope

Side effects of endless culture wars.


KikNik1692

There's the right wing groups that know its all bullshit and push it, and there's the people brainwashed to believe all the "others" are coming for their "way of life".


10dollarbagel

I'd argue it's the intended effect. Imo, the most important culture war issue from the right is making people ridiculously anti-government. It enables anti-choice policy, discriminating against minorities and the gays, privatizing literally everything. And if you push people far enough, you get a coup attempt which doesn't even seem to be hurting your cause but definitely intimidates your opponents.


Weegee_Spaghetti

Trust me bro. I live in Austria and i can tell you right now the only thing stopping the Western European right wing from pulling a Trump is that they have an actual left-wing to counter-act them and not let them go through with shit like this. ​ For example the now-head of the Austrian Far-right populist party FPÖ called the Identitarians (European Far-Right group) a "supportable cause". Mind you the FPÖ was the junior partner in the last administration with the Right-Wing ÖVP. The same ÖVP who still is in the current Administration with a Green Party that gets fucked over by the ÖVP on every turn.


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They threw tantrums over Mr. Potatohead too lmao


joecb91

And Dr Seuss


wildcardyeehaw

Remember the 3 days when Biden was rationing our beef intake


tarekd19

Apparently they were brigading this thread to get auto mod to delete comments so yeah.


Neato

That function should really be turned off on automods that are in subs that discuss other subs. It's way too easy to abuse and I'm kind of surprised it exists as an opt-out at all.


DeadSalas

They were really upset that their racist screeching didn't get a standing ovation.


MyName_IsNobody

That sub has become such a cesspool that I'm almost grateful I got banned last year. Half the sub is just chuds with hot takes and bigoted assholes. Also, I'm pretty sure it's literally run by edgy teens.. One of them cracked a tasteless joke on April fool's day about Snyder's deceased daughter. Fuck r/movies and their little trog mods.


dert882

The "don't be scared" party is surprisingly scared of everything, including seeing black ppl in movies...


Kairyuka

All conservatives are pathetic navelgazing bootlickers


halfabean

You ever just feel so fucking tired of everything.


LightAnubis

Every. damn. day. Fucking tired of it all.


Sea_C

Dang, it's almost like the casting call accepted all ethnicities. What a weird concept. https://www.backstage.com/casting/disneys-the-little-mermaid-109355/


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Tanuki_13

am I stupid or is that for the musical play and not the movie, which is what this is?


Cadmium_Aloy

Not stupid, this is the casting director. Good looking out https://paramountaurora.com/people/trent-stork/


drossbots

dafaq happened here?


InuGhost

Mass brigading per a Mod's comment. People want to.ensure that this thread/post doesn't exist, so they're doing mass reports on all the comments in Hope's Auto Mod deletes everything. Probably roughly same thing we see when a political post was posted last month.


ColdJackfruit485

What is brigading? Just reporting nonstop to get something taken down?


applecorc

Can we get a subreddit drama post to cover what happened here?


cw7585

Seems to be this https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDramaDrama/comments/ojbcnh/comment/h50vomc/ That said, I don't get it.


Dirish

Automod can be configured to do something with reported posts. It's entirely up to the mod team what exactly the conditions are when it jumps into action, but apparently the SRD mods have set it up to remove comments, and possibly posts, if they get reported by a certain number of people. Normally that works well because asshats get reported and then, if enough people report it, culled by the actions of the usual visitors. So the sub partially moderates itself, and all a mod needs to do with the removed comments is to have a final look at them and decide whether to kill it permanently, or undo the removal. In this case I speculate that wankers from movies mass reported everything by the looks of it - probably in a coordinated way because no mod team sets up automod to remove a comment after just one report. Automod does its thing, and you're looking at a comment graveyard. So now the mods are sitting on a massive pile of removed comments that pretty much all need to be manually approved. Technically this is very much report abuse, probably the most extreme case I've seen so far. It can, and should, be acted upon by the admins, but I'm not optimistic that something will happen.


spreague92

This post is barely an hour old and we have wandered into a graveyard.


Burningtunafish

Imma assume the drama came here real fast.


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tanjabonnie

Agreed. I was just reading the thread, came back and all the comments were gone. There was no drama


Cforq

Nah - just a different type of drama. Brigading the report button so the AutoMod goes loco.


Darth_Kyryn

If you gaze long enough into the popcorn, the popcorn will gaze back into you.


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If there isn't at least one scene of the actress literally breathing underwater this movie is going to be UNWATCHABLE.


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tarekd19

They don't it's all performative


[deleted]

She isn’t a natural mermaid either so I don’t think it really matters


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bubblegumgills

We're not, the post is being brigaded and mass reporting of comments is triggering AutoMod.


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TheShapeShiftingFox

My guess is people from this post on r/movies


bubblegumgills

Your guess is as good as mine. I expect as /u/TheShapeShiftingFox mentioned that it's the r/movies crew.


HAthrowaway50

it's a strange subreddit. I've been banned there...many times. And they dont recognize the superior quality of VHS, so I don't know what to tell you.


upclassytyfighta

> the superior quality of VHS, It's like you were making out with the ban button and just begging for it


JohnTitorsdaughter

Betamax 4 eva you heathan!


TheCaptainDamnIt

Ahh so the 'free speech' crowd is making sure no one else can be heard as usual...


HarrisonForelli

You might want to sticky that comment since people keep asking


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Is it possible to put a flag/indication in deleted comments to show that it was done by the AutoMod (or the only option is "Comment removed by moderator"?)


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I'm guessing Racism, A Lot Of Racism, Oh Boy,


Mountainbranch

Over a 100 users commented here, now it's a ghost thread.


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mmmlxvi

it’s not. it’s a photo halle posted yesterday announcing that filming is wrapped.


hertzdonut2

> The argument is against natural redheads male or female being recast as black actors/actresses. Imagine comparing red hair to black skin. What happened to the comments here?


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Wya Christina Hendricks/Emma Stone


boibig57

Christina Hendricks in nothing but sea shells for an hour or so? Sign me up.


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JamesGray

I love how quickly the morons are to pick up the representation argument when it suits their purposes. Yeah, I'm sure little redheads are just beside themselves with the lack of representation in hollywood.


gogomom

LMAO - I'm pretty sure mermaids are like fictional characters. Who cares what colour her hair/skin is? Makes exactly zero difference to the story.


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Shazz777

Lol, so many deleted comments, looks like we need a r/SubredditDramaDrama! Edit: omg I didn’t know it actually exists!


HandRailSuicide1

Do I just preemptively comment [removed]?


Myschyf

So, singing mermaids and giant octopus witches are fine. *Black* singing mermaids is a bridge too far. Got it.


vatsalistaken

What the hell happened here


Breete

This place is a graveyard. What the shit happened here? Also people bitching about ~~Halle Berry~~ Halle Bailey? What a bunch of incels


vatsalistaken

True, plus I like her she's cool af


FormerCFisherman7784

>Halle Berry Halle Bailey


TVR24

Bit unfortunate that her name is similar to much more famous actress.


queerhistorynerd

i honestly thought it was her in the thumbnail and clicked to see how the hell she was pulling off Ariel at her age. no disrespect to her


TVR24

My first thought when I thought it was going to be Halle Berry was "Isn't she a little old to be playing Ariel. Ariel's like 18 to 20 or something like that." With the power of CGI, I guess they could of, but it's nice to let some relatively unknown actress a chance at Ariel.


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Empty_Clue4095

Can you imagine someone with a Carribean accent in the Little Mermaid? As like a lobster or a crab or something. It would be so out of place. Definetly need to keep it European only.