But the people doing the straight white people projects dont have the built in excuse of “you hate this cuz racism and sexism!” they can bust out at a moments notice.

The changes are just so bizarre.  Still wanna know who this was for, they even made a MeToo joke lol.  Something like velma goes “I speak truth like comedians before MeToo”.

It seems like the whole Velma thing is revealing a bit of a double-edge to the sword of increased media representation, or perhaps more accurately the use of increased media representation as a marketing tool and potential indicator of quality: in keeping with Sturgeon’s Law, a good percentage of these projects are…

Fred wasn’t even the rich one in the rest of the series, Daphne was. Fred worked a bunch of different jobs to make ends meet, Daphne had a butler named Jenkins.

That’s really cool how you, a white man, gains so much authority on this topic thanks to your brothers wife. What other powers does your brothers Pakistani wife give you?  Racist moron.  

“These Scooby snacks are making me thirsty!”

This is what some groups of people accuse critics of doing...And then you go and do it: Using race as a shield from criticism.

It’s not really virtue signaling so much as Kaling really wanting attention but not being very talented. 

The backlash is because the show is pure shit. It has nothing to do with race and EVERYTHING to do with it being a poorly written unfunny catastrophe.

But can we have the opinion that its a mean-spirited awful show anyway? Is that allowed, oh guardian of internet criticism?

To be clear: This is hardly the first time Velma has been essayed by an actor of color (see Gina Rodriguez in 2020’s Scoob!, and Hayley Kiyoko in two Scooby Doo! movies in 2009 and 2010).

As a fellow white Italian, someday we’ll show up in TV shows as educated, law-abiding helpful citizens. Probably about the time my uncle gets out of jail.

Plus nuance is a thing.  I can say that race swapping literally everyone except Fred is silly and kinda racist(keeping the rich spoiled asshole as the only white member of the scoobies now), but even if there were no race swaps the show would be bad.

She sexually assaulted someone on set, but she’ll get away with it without any real attempt at cancellation.

I think trying to handwave away Velma’s issues as it being the target of another vocal minority hategroup is disingenuous. Just because a certain subset of people online attack the show based on misguided surface level observations doesn’t magically make the show good or worth investing in. This rounding of the wagons…

I’m sorry I don’t like Velma. Please don’t think less of me. I really tried to get through that first episode but it’s not for me. 

Saloni, it’s a talking dog show that thinks its too cool to have a talking dog.

Seems like a lot of the hate this show is getting was brought on by the choice to make an animated show w/ an adult audience as its target that hates its expected audience. Its also not helped by character assassinating choices like making Fred an incel.

I love Mindy Kaling, but not enough to watch a Scooby Doo related project. But everything I’m hearing, even on “woke” sites is that it is just bad, unfunny, and a little mean. That’s fine, Mindy has hit a lot of home runs, she was due for a strikeout.

a retooled version of the Scooby Doo gang would have plenty of people up in arms