Tumblr Artists Diversify Disney Because Disney Won't Do It Themselves
LatestAnnoyed that Disney has chosen to portray yet another white, blonde princess in their newest animated feature Frozen (an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen), fans have taken diversifying Disney’s latest heroine into their own hands with This Could Have Been Frozen, a Tumblr featuring Anna — the film’s protagonist — and the other characters re-imagined as Inuit, Indian or any other non-white culture that you could possibly think of. Unsurprisingly, this crowdsourced artwork makes Anna (who — before fan intervention — looked almost exactly like this other white blonde Disney princess) a whole lot more interesting than she was originally.
Some of the Tumblr’s critics are claiming that Frozen — being based Hans Christian Andersen story and set in Scandinavia — should feature a white princess if only for historical accuracy, but as the blog accurately points out, not all Europeans (even the most northern ones) are white. Realistically, they could have easily portrayed the characters of Frozen as people of color.