You are not alone. Halle Berry tweeted in support (including a great illustration of Bailey as Ariel), indicating that many people were congratulating her on landing the role by mistake.

I see a lot of folks on here arguing that mermaids aren’t real but are you SURE these idjits know that? I seem to recall they had to put a disclaimer at the end of that fake mermaid “documentary” because so many window lickers took it for true,probably the same 7% that believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

This is just another in a long line of casting decisions that trigger such outrage for no other reason than they don’t look like what they’re “supposed” to look like. We’ve seen this before.

Glorious! This needs to be a thing

They don’t realize that mermaid legends from different countries around the world exist.

A lot of those twitter accounts are fake or hacked. Look into them. Look how long their accounts have been around and what they post.  I think this is a fake trend, started by an even tinier group than it appears.

In the fine tradition of Danish Calypso songcraft, obviously.

I mean, I’m not trying to be a conspiracy theorist here, but the sheer number of numbers behind her name make me wonder if she’s a real person. Like I highly doubt there are 55150462 other Paola Fls on twitter, or that 55150463 is an especially meaningful number to her. 

The ocean TOUCHES Denmark goddammit! Seriously, what the fuck is this? Ariel is from Denmark? Sebastian is clearly a rastafarian.... and Flounder, I don’t know... but somewhere in the burbs forsure. 

I just responded to that bitch with a Tweet.

And Andersen’s story had the sea witch literally cutting out the little mermaid’s (who didn’t even have a name), tongue as well as offering to restore her voice and her life as before if she could slaughter the prince and his new bride so their blood would wash over her feet and make her fins come back. So honey…

He’s 100% right. It happens time and again, people get fooled so easily by these dumb bots/trolls/irrelevant people and give attention to an opinion which doesn’t even deserve it. This article is a perfect example - if you *have* to cover the story, at least try to use some outrage from non-random meaningless Twitter…

I sincerely love whypipo. Because they make it able for me to use this picture at least three times a week.

Time out. They know this is a made up story about a girl that’s half woman, half FUCKING FISH right? “It’s not real enough to me”. Well dumbass, that’s because it’s a story about a fucking fish girl.

so glad to see this article today. I clicked on all the hashtags yesterday regarding this and didnt see ONE negative about the situation, usually i at least see what started it all; instead all I saw was everyone saying how these people were being racist and applauding the choice. I guess thats the point of doing it,…

I’m just mad that this will be yet another version of TLM where she’s not in constant, horrible pain whenever she’s got feet.