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I’ve just read one of those Buzzfeed articles against The Little Mermaid (yeah, I obviously love hurting myself on purpouse LOL), where it was written that… Ariel had a crush on a statue. Like, WHAT?

That was the mermaid of the original story, she loved that random classic statue she found, that was the only thing she cared about when all her sisters were fascinated by the human world, instead (yes, it was the opposite of the Disney movie), and then she saw the Prince and she thought: “Oh, he looks like my statue!”, and that’s it.

Instead, Disney’s Ariel saw Eric and got a crush in him before Flounder gave her the statue, and it wasn’t a random statue, but it portrayed Eric, it was the only thing connecting her to Eric in a moment were she couldn’t just surface to see him again, she wasn’t free to do that.

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Today I saw a post on Instagram about the Little Mermaid and politely responded to a woman (she was Norwegian) in the comments section who said it was set in Denmark, because the author was Danish and because Copenhagen has the famous mermaid statue. In my comment I included all the real evidence to prove this is false, citing interviews with Disney animators, Andersen’s life, his travels, descriptions of the prince’s kingdom in the original story that are completely different from Denmark’s, and even citing a YouTube video called “What you didn’t know about The Little Mermaid” made by Riise, a DANISH YouTuber who analyzed various parts of the original story page by page, word by word, specifying things I’ve already written a few lines above and even things I didn’t actually know myself. Do you want to know how it ended? This woman blocked me. I can’t with these people.

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I think my page is starting to go down the “one day jokes, the next day rants” route, but “oh, sh!t, here we go again”.

I just woke up, opened Instagram, and the first thing I noticed was some replies to a comment of mine regarding the correct setting of The Little Mermaid. The person who replied, of course, was one of those people who, as a (wrong) excuse for the fact that both the 1989 movie and the original story were set in Denmark, said things like “well, but Andersen was Danish” and “well, but the statue in Copenhagen...” In this case, the excuse it used was something like “well, but the mermaid sees icebergs.” Yes, she sees icebergs during her sea explorations, which may even be in places far away from the Prince’s kingdom. She is a mermaid, she explores the sea. She doesn’t see any icebergs in the Prince’s kingdom, which has absolutely no Danish atmosphere: orange trees, a bright blue sea, a white marble castle decorated with Greek-Roman statues, the black-haired, olive-skinned Prince who also owns slaves (little Arabic references right here)... Does this strike you as Danish (or Caribbean)?

Another excuse this person used was the name Eric from Disney, claiming it was a Nordic name. It’s true, Eric is a Nordic name, but the version in which it is written, which has a C at the end, is the English version, and in fact that name was chosen just as a tribute to Eric Larsen, one of the Disney animators who had worked on Sleeping Beauty thirty years earlier. However, the Nordic or Danish version of the name has a C and a K as the final letters, or just a K, but Eric’s official Disney name is spelled only with a C at the end, so this theory doesn’t hold up. The fact is, however, that this person, while telling me this, wrote something like “well, but Eric has a Danish name, not an Italian name like...” and wrote me all the weirdest and most stereotypical Italian names I’ve ever heard. Really? REALLY?

Another thing that makes me sad is that in their Instagram description in the profile, this person was clearly a fan of the movie, because they wrote that they loved the 1989 film and that there was no need for a live-action version. You were doing so well... what a shame.

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A parallel between the 1989 movie and the original story of The Little Mermaid that just came to mind and that makes me laugh a lot is that in the 1989 movie, there is Eric who is a dreamer, a hopeless romantic and who wants to find his true soulmate, while in the original story there’s literally the prince who has a whole harem of girls as sl4ves

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Question: If I correct with actual evidence (Andersen’s life, his passion for travel, the places in Italy he visited, where annual events in his honor are still held, interviews with the animators and screenwriters of the 1989 movie, official statements from Disney and the existence of a video from a Danish person saying all this on YouTube, while analyzing parts and pages of the original story) a Danish person who persists in saying that TLM (both the original story and the 1989 movie) is set in Denmark just because Andersen was Danish (average ignorant person’s excuse), on a scale of 1 to 10, how mature is it for that person to answer me with “shush”?

Yes, it just happened to me. What a great way to start a new day.