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This makes me so angry. I remember seeing all the love & effort @MatthewACherry put into crowd-sourcing support for #HairLove. All the work @KarenRToliver & others did to bring it to fruition. It took time, persistence & ingenuity. This looks like shameless plagiarism by @nickjr. https://twitter.com/shadowandact/status/1301231701612474372
Not only is it lazy and an insult to everything @MatthewACherry achieved, copying the style and characters of #HairLove means they’re missing an opportunity to create a new, exciting story about a DIFFERENT black girl and her experiences.
Also, as someone lucky enough to be creative for her living, I know what parallel thinking looks like. Sometimes different brains coincidentally end up on the same idea! It’s why it can be hard to write new jokes! It’s why you’ll see a similar idea across all late night shows!
And I really tried hard to give @nickjr the benefit of the doubt on this one. Because again, creative coincidences happen. But this doesn’t look like that.
I MEAN. EVEN THE CAT IS EXACTLY THE SAME.
I MEAN. EVEN THE CAT IS EXACTLY THE SAME.
Anyway I love cartoons and kids and stories about girls and their dads and cats and anything where it’s like “oh! No one has made a cartoon about THIS! This is exciting and new!” So yeah I’m mad.
