Scooby-Doo is now WOKE

When a Warner Bros. representative announced last week that “Scooby-Doo” character Velma Dinkley would be reprised as East Asian.

Original Velma in the orange turtle neck.

Seems, unnecessary and politically charged to me.

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MistyCee

And the hoopla over "the unnecessary political charge" is free advertising.

Will it backfire? That discussion is free advertising as well.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@MistyCee Pissing off a 50 year old fan base is good advertising?

Is that what they teach in Marketing classes these days?

MistyCee

@Budwick It seems to be the game these days for corporations to politicize their advertising and take political stands.

I don't have any real affinity for Velma, and it looks goofy to me, but so did New Coke, and that worked out.

I guess you could call this "woke liberals owning the conservetards" in a way if you believe that the media has an overriding political agenda that goes further than profits, but I'm thinking management wants to make money for shareholders more.

And it does kind of make sense to make money off of the browning of America. They can always apologize if they calculated wrong.

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