HBO Max YouTube Channel Turns off Comments on Official Velma Teaser Trailer

HBO Max seems to be aware of the fact that their Scooby-Re-Doo fix is in Velma, The cartoon is loosely based upon the Scooby IP but bears almost no resemblance with the original cartoon. The streaming titan’s YouTube channel took action and shut off the comments for the animated series’ teaser trailer.

Velma in HBO Max’s Velma Series Season 1 – Episode 3

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They did this shortly before the show’s premiere as it was already being harangued and roasted by fans upset over the content and the sundry race swaps made, not the least of which are Velma herself who became a dark-complected Indo-Sri Lankan girl like the star Mindy Kaling. Shaggy is now known as Norville and is black.

Ryan Kinel (RK-Outpost’s news reporter and creator) noticed the YouTube channel’s intervening. Kinel sees it a sign. He concludes that HBO & Warner Bros. are aware of a woke disaster that only appeals to a tiny fraction of their audience. “It’s pretty clear,” Kinel says, “they know this thing is dead in the water.”

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He added that they are. “doing everything they can to protect it,” not wanting to see the series or any clips get roasted as they’ve been. The trailer that was the first to be released was “ratioed to Hell,” The makers were roasted with 300,000 to 36,000 dislikes. One person found irony in Scooby-Doo’s non-participation in such an unpopular adaptation.

“Over and over again they got destroyed,” Kinel said: “and so now they preemptively turn the comments off on this thing that is supposed to advertise something that comes out tomorrow on HBO Max.” Velma’s first episodes premiered the day following Kinel’s coverage – not that there was much of an audience waiting for it.

Velma in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Season 1 Episode 11 “The Secret Serum” Warner Bros. (2010), Warner Bros. Animation

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The few critics that dared to review the show give it an aggregate of 57 percent which is bad but it’s nothing compared to the staggeringly low six percent audience score. That’s worse than Batwoman It is currently 23 percent The Rings of Power It has a score of 38 percent. Masters of the Universe: Revelation Which earned the same number Rings.

Kinel was struck with a copyright dispute for reviewing clips. Velma The way Warner Bros., Kaling and others insulted the fans while trying to promote it will eventually prove disastrous. At WB’s Upfront convention, she made it clear she doesn’t care what fans think about Velma’s new ethnicity, and the first trailer insults fandom by writing it off as unreasonable and toxic.

Velma’s glasses melt in Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo! (2022), Warner Bros. Animation

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