*Closed captions are up!* I'm more biased than I intended to be for something that I love, but I'm still happy with this video. It's about time I have a more positive video where I mostly praise something. At 14:38, I mention Israel's recent colonization of Palestine. With all the press surrounding how Palestinians are specifically affected, I can't stay nuanced when it comes to something like colonization. If you have a problem with that, to be blunt, I don't know what to tell you. When I mentioned Bratz's 2015 rebranding emphasized their personalities more, I didn't mean it as a bad thing, but Bratz already had personalities before. The brand was just seriously watered down to make the "concerned parents" happy. I used the 19:43 clip as a joke because it's an Onion satire news report! It wasn't serious! 😭 I watched a video on Mattel's Flava dolls, which were also made in response to Bratz, and it unlocked a hidden memory because I have exactly one (1) set. I was totally unaware Mattel sold these dolls, which is fair because they were rushed and stereotypical and nobody really liked them lmao th-cam.com/video/b8_8tjiXz4s/w-d-xo.html Edit: Tara Strong is promoting NFTs despite the backlash and huge impact on the planet so, moral of the story is that the universe loves watching me suffer 😔
amazing video! I've been a new subscriber to your channel and wow! I loved how you highlighted the positives in the racial feature and the diversity, I also loved how you pointed out the orienlism, racism and pro-isreali problems of the company honesty a great video overall!!!
I'm latina and my parents bought me a ton of bratz dolls growing up. They weren't particularly open-minded. The "anti bratz" people were just really weird.
SAME, I was born in Puerto Rico and Bratz was HUUUGE. Like, even christian or strict parents were buying their daughters Bratz dolls. Bratz made us feel powerful!
She’s not a sex doll she’s actually a secretary it’s a translation error because secretaries pick up phone calls and all that and somewhere along the lines they got “call girl” and people assumed that she is a hooker because of that but she’s a secretary
@@themonarchofbaddecisionmak1405 not necessarily… her entire persona was a gold digging “buxom broad” who lived life by seducing wealthy male suitors🤣 many people referred to her as a sex doll and her purpose was quite literally just surviving off rich men.
To add to the point of the Bratz looks, they never encouraged and marketed an eating disorder to me with a line of “weight loss” dolls so 🤷🏽♀️ they did not contribute to my developing anorexia at 13, but Barbie sure did encourage that. The phrase “have a body like Barbie” has lived in my head rent free for a decade since my ED first started. Besides, the Bratz stylized look was awesome
I mean they had impossible looks with small torsos tint waists, long legs with thigh gaps, wide hips, and minuscule noses. It’s funny bc the tweevils character actually have more realistic proportions despite being based off Barbie. It’s also funny how the bratz make fun of one of the tweevils nose jobs and burdines eating habits.. I don’t think bratz was that body positive. I don’t recall any Barbie movies ever mentioning food or bodies.
@@Angel-ts8rc The reason no one really had any EDs or body dysmorphia for Bratz dolls was because unlike Barbie, their proportions were already so artistically dramatic that there is not a single person on earth that has the actual body of a Bratz doll, and it’s impossible to achieve that even with surgery. To add to that. When the Bratz made fun of Burdine and the Tweevils they always pointed out the surgery that had done because Bratz believed that people have beauty already within them that surgery is uncalled for. And yeah while you can still say that’s wrong, they were also teenagers. Teenagers that make mistakes and have strong opinions. The Bratz aren’t mean to people for no reason, and if a friend gets fired from her job unfairly (or even fairly) of course those teenagers girls are gonna disrespect the people in-charge. Also what are they supposed to do? Get bullied by a pink woman in her 30s with two mean assistants and just cry? No, stand up for yourself.
I grew up in a white family, in East Europe, I loved Bratz so much and my mum doesn't had a problem with them either way, she even liked their clothes, the style and the diversity, never compared them to anything sexual, and now as an adult collector she supports my hobby. Great video, it brought back so much memories! :")
Its amazing how my "conservative" idk what kind of Christian my family is bought us these dolls, but then again they weren't so prudish, my dad actually laughed at the dolls proportions. My dad build us a huge doll house for us, I had those bratz magazines that came with posters (in addition to those posters that came with the dolls themselves), the only things I got left of them (after giving them all away, I cri still ಥ‿ಥ) is the star brushes lol. Gosh these dolls gave me and my sisters joy and I still ended up as a nerdy lawyer "house child " not a """sl*t"" whatever that means according to some articles 😒. These dolls gave me confidence in my imagination and along the line it reflected irl aswell. Ya lots of things were negative but to little girls (me and my sisters) without knowing the controversy these dolls were everything and had a big part of our childhood. Edit I found a tiny bratz radio in the star brush container and it still had the little CD in the disk tray ahhh they don't make such detailed toys anymore.
One time I looked through my tub of toys to see what Bratz stuff I still had and I could barely find those little accessories. I think the accessories the dolls would come with were specifically really fun, just so many tiny compact mirrors and phones--I either broke or lost most of them 😭
@@toomanycrowns True, I remember the little compact makeup holders could open and I kept opening/closing it out of memorization and it broke lol. The only other bratz thing I have left is a faded duvet cover set and a beach towel. Its good reminiscing on such things ( ＾◡＾) but it hurts not having them all now 😭.
I'm a biracial (white mum, black dad) latina and my parents were indeed put off by Bratz' clothes being sorta revealing because of how woc and teen girls are constantly sexualized (to be fair, they felt the same about Barbie) and were a little thrown off by Bratz having no feet but were still more than happy to buy the dolls for me because of how much I liked them and because it wasn't that often that we saw dolls that looked like the people around us (because latin america is not white, not to mention in my country we have a large indigenous, black, asian and arab population). Also, it' sad how the Tree Change Dolls started out as an honest effort by a WOC and Karens just appropriated them while also whitewashing them (also, Sonya's husband seems like a creep tbh). I also love how you mentioned the Larians being horrible people, I am being suspicious about the queer Bratz characters being an honest effort because of how it was revealed shortly after Larian's racist rant. The Bratz film was a mess too and turned them into stereotypes (many being racist caricatures), will not forget my parents who took me to see the movie being weirded out by how said stereotypes, not to mention how they whitewashed the characters and pulled a "hire a spaniard instead of a latino cause they are the same LOL". But other than this, I will forever cherish Bratz dolls.
I actually haven't considered some POC didn't like Bratz's clothing because of the racialized context of WOC being hypersexualized. Your comment's the first time I heard it! The backlash the dolls got was so overwhelmingly surface level and misogynist that I thought that was all there was TT_TT I think there's indeed a place for dolls like Tree Change (I can't think of any dolls that *aren't* fashion/makeup-based at the top of my head), but the weird undertones people added to them is unfortunate. Sonya's husband does not help... I'm very excited for the Barbie movie just so it can blow the Bratz movie outta the water lmfao
@@toomanycrowns its quite obvious with Sasha. She frequently wears the most revealing clothing and booty shorts when the other girls wear less revealing clothing and skirts or pants. The original black voice actress stopped doing the part bc they wanted her and Sasha to lean more into black stereotypes. The character was played/voiced by a white actress
This is so important! The fact that white and black dolls are heavily demanded bc it is easier to paint barbie brown and label her African American is terrible(white supremacy-ish)?. It’s the absolute truth and thats probably why there were little to no Asian representation in dolls for me growing up(1999). Solely bc they couldn’t just paint barbie yellow and label her Asian American. Asian people have too different of facial features and obvi a threat to Eurocentric beauty standards. I mean barbies recent criticism? Not them not having an ambiguously Asian-American barbie whilst having the Tokyo olympics held in Asia?! I mean seriously.. So the fact that Jade was released at the forefront while having asian facial features along with Sasha and Yasmin having their own features. Really set mattel and mga apart. I am so Grateful for my Kool Kat! This video is great!
Thank you!! I just looked up the recent collection with the Barbie Tokyo Olympics and they straight up had no Asian/AAPI dolls...for the Olympics held in an Asian country... 😭
I think that what most parents at the time didn't understand is that most children don't look at a doll as some sort of body goals inspiration. I think most children actually realize that what they're playing with is a doll, an object, so they don't see it as a human being that they aspire to look like. Yes, I loved the Bratz's features and thought they were really gorgeous dolls but I don't remember even once wishing to look like them. But I do remember watching music videos from pop divas from the 00s, wishing and believing I'd look just like them when I grew up.
Bratz sexualizing teenager is a weak argument because they're never once bratz teaching teenager to be sexual instead it's encourage teenager especially non white teenager they can be stylish, they can be confident, they can be kind, they can have different fashion style that's not hyperfeminine
I grew up in eastern europe and then moved to the uk when i was very young and it caused me to be very shy as i did not know the langauge and couldn’t really make friends i remember how much the doll yasmin struck with me because even though she did not look like me she acted like me and she managed to be successful, the dolls actually have personality as well as diversity unlike barbie
I love this analysis - it really opened up my eyes to how sexist and racist people were when I was a kid and how it was normalized. Thankfully my family wasn’t like those panicked parents so they didn’t limit which toys I could play with, but I distinctly remember not liking the Bratz dolls and sticking to Barbie at the time for a few specific reasons. To me, the aesthetic was unappealing (I was a tomboy who couldn’t care less about the latest trends) and the dolls really did seem like a shallow caricature of what it means to be a girl, which made my stomach queasy. While Barbie had a variety of adult interests and career goals (like me), the Bratz dolls seemed way too much like a gross stereotype of what teenage girls should like - fashion, makeup, shopping, and maybe being a celebrity pop star. It really did seem like a step back, so I understand that side of things. They were another embodiment of the stereotype pushed on girls adding to an already giant pile of unnecessary stereotyping and gendering in toys and media. I actually would have liked the tree change dolls more - by comparison they are closer to the androgynous concept of what it means to be a kid, not as much of a stereotype of what it means to be a girl. However, the way that people reacted and the actual reasoning behind why the tree change girls were made is just gross. The fact that they erased the ethnic features is shocking and enraging, and the idea that people thought those features and teens having fun with fashion is in any way sexual is just so racist and sexist. The slut-shaming and victim-blaming mentality is so glaring in people’s responses. I myself was experimenting with different fashion trends in my teens, including mini skirts at one point, and there was no “sexuality” behind that - they were clothes! I didn’t even have a concept of trying to attract any kind of attention, it was just fun dress-up and self-expression. It’s really scary how people attach meanings to things teenagers wear. In the end, fashion is an interest like any other, and it should not be viewed any differently or be labeled as dumb or shallow just because it’s a “girly” thing to like (yet another example of how girls’ interests are devalued). Just because I wasn’t into Bratz doesn’t make me any more smart or interesting than anyone who loved them, it’s just a personal preference. And there is no denying the immense value of representation that Barbie lacked. I was lucky - a white European kid who could easily relate to Barbie - but it is heartbreaking to think of all the kids who grew up not being represented. In conclusion, I would have loved to see more doll lines that didn’t painfully reinforce the same gender norms time and time again - scientists or outdoor sports dolls would have been so cool! - but that doesn’t mean Bratz don’t have their place too for all the girly fashionistas out there.
You're very right that toys in general are very gendered but "girly" things are devalued at the same time! I kinda wish I rewrote the Tree Change doll part, because I completely understand the demand for dolls that aren't so feminine. I still think that Sonia Sigh wasn't being malicious or anything when she made the dolls, but it says a lot when even her own family members will make a statement for her, one with a lot of weird implications about Bratz and other dolls like them, for the idea of fashion, etc.
I was obsessed with Bratz when I was younger, and still kinda am now. I played with Sasha dolls the most and my Sister played with Yasmin dolls the most because those were the dolls that looked like us the most. Course we got the other girls, and would mix and match all of their clothes and outfits. My mother was also in love with the dolls as well for those same reasons and would dress them up when we weren't looking. But I also remember the My-Scene dolls and how they were a strange hybrid between Bratz & Barbie
Ironically so in an era when misspelling words by replacing 's' with a 'z' and abbreviations were the most common thing in texting and online chatting.
For me too but it was my dad. My dad didn't like them because they "showed to much skin". I was born in the late 80s so I only had Barbies but they were boring but when Bratz aired on television, I loved them especially Sasha and Yasmin. I sadly only had 2 Yasmin dolls lol😂.
"Face it, Mommy. Bratz are just cooler." B R U H STRAIGHT UP ICONIC AF😩! We stan savage daughter✨💅 In all seriousness though, I'm glad my parents never denied me Bratz it's just they were more familiar with Barbie so they hardly bought Bratz but I'm glad they managed to get me the Wild West Yasmin. You wouldn't believe how my eyes lit up when I saw a doll that looked like a latina like me in Christmas. After that I become in love with Bratz and dreamed of getting their dolls. Sadly they could only afford a lot budget Barbie so I missed out on Bratz. Now that I'm a working adult I can buy literally all the OMG, Bratz, etc that I can and even though I played with Bratz, I literally struggle with body issues due to *society's* beauty standards lmao not because of Bratz lol. It's gotten better and I'm far more comfortable with showing my body arguably because I collected these dolls. It's honestly heartbreaking to hear such harmful comments but whatever that's their problem. Imma just sit here while playing with my dolls and transformers because I'm✨unhinged✨ lol
This video is so brilliantly done!! That "grow up"/"bla bla bla" song was my JAM as a kid, I remember one of the video games let you choose its background music from the Bratz album and I'd have that one on loop, lol. Then and now as an adult, I prefer presenting androgynously without make-up, but I still loved the Bratz because they loved fashion/their other hobbies for themselves, not as a front to impress other people or whatever. Like in the Rock Angelz movie Cloe tried changing herself to make a boy like her, and it was shown how much that hurt her and her friends! As you say, the franchise/creators definitely made mistakes, but there was genuinely some good stuff too.
Oh I remember my mom being one of the firm anti-Bratz moms back when the line was around (I was born in 1994) in stark contrast to me wanting to branch out of having Barbie dolls because the fashion that Bratz had was not unlike what my older sister wore in middle and high school. In fact, when I did have at least a few Bratz dolls, I felt ashamed of holding them because of how judgmental my mom was. Thankfully, though, she was able to relax her stance a lot more when Monster High came out since by then I was actually in high school and in dire need of a boost in self-confidence.
As an artist, Bratz dolls tend to be my biggest source of inspiration. I had bratz everything when I was kid. Movies, birthday cakes, video games, that one rock angelz CD and of course the dolls. Even as a child, I was made aware of how inappropriate adults thought the dolls were. I was about 6 when an adult told me how they "liked the doll but not the clothes they wear" (I was holding a cheerleader Sasha doll)
Honestly same! I had a Bratz Fashion Pixies arts and crafts set that came with stickers of the Bratz in it. I used to put them in my notebook and draw all sorts of characters and comics based off them! Boy did they leave an impact.
This is the best deep dive I’ve watched abt Bratz! I still can’t believe how much backlash the dolls got…like I know they were “controversial” but they were also extremely successful. It’s crazy how much we’ve changed in 20 years because now, dolls that are similar to the Bratz, aren’t getting even close to the amount of negative attention. so I guess that just shows that attention, good or bad, Is a good thing lol.
im so thankful that my parents were t the overly judgy type. My mother in particular loved the dolls she bought me and often commented on how "cool" they looked. Them and monster high!!!
Im a trans man, but man I loved the Bratz so much. My mom and even my piano teacher got me Bratz dolls as a kid (which I understand my piano teacher would, she was chill..but my ma was a white conservative lady I still am surprised she allowed my sister and I to play with them.)
I love how that one person explained monster high dolls as ‘lolly pop body’, there monsters, duh ofc there gonna have rlly skinny bodies, majority of monsters are dead 🙄
Loll I'm 10 and don't see anything wrong with bratz. They did everything barbie didn't and it worked in their favor. Barbie stuck with girly girl, Bratz tried EVERYTHING. And I just think they're so cool. The clothes, the style, heck, the movie! But something the soccer moms get mixed up is liking them doesn't mean we want to look like them. I don't want the bobblehead lol
@@VenusManTrap-777Bro they just have good grammar? I mean me being 12 and having decent grammar is just so shocking to people💀 You do realize they teach proper grammar at this age in school right? Some people actually use it. I have met some teenagers and older people that don’t use good grammar commonly I guess. Nit trying to judge but proper grammar can be used commonly.
I was born in 2002 so I only grew with the line as it developped but in 2010 I had a very few but I loved them. I got many dolls since 2012 but I'm so happy to have the 4 bratz in my collection finally. I use my dolls for drawing fashion designs and such,they're my mini models 💙 I love my girlz Bratz's faces are amazing and ofc the FASHION I like Barbie's og movies era. I need to get into the bratz's show and films more The 2000's style is my fave thing about them Some 2010's are cute,I just don't love the 2015 girls,I usually love cute but I feel they were a mix of cute and greatly fashionable before I love the bratz's proportions,I draw exaggerated,it's cutsey Not perfect as you say,at all, but mh,bratz and Barbie are all my faves
Since it's never been made clear and why tf not, I always headcanoned Meygan - the fifth Brat - as Native American. Heck I think even Chloe could be spun into representation by centering her into a specific European culture. Maybe one that's underrepresented and stereotyped, like a Slavic culture. Chloe is a Greek name, so it'd make sense for her to be from the South.
I remember when I was little always wanting a Bratz doll but sadly both my parents were those that claimed they were to sexual to buy. They only way I could play with them was by going to a friends house. I remember specifically my mom making comments about how big their lips were when I ask why I couldn’t have one. Honestly it’s still one of the things I’m upset about today especially because my parents bought us a crap ton of MH dolls when they came out and legit my Dad use to watch Austin Powers with us all the time, like that shit is a nostalgic childhood movie to me. But ya know BRATZ we’re too sexual.
Honestly I didn't grow up with Bratz dolls and my mom probably liked it that way. I did the same shit with my Barbies that other kids did with Bratz. I got into sewing cause I either hated my dolls clothes or they where broken. Kids will always make their dolls more adult cause children are obsessed with the adult world and dolls are an appearance for that.
My experience being a preteen/teenager at the time of these dolls, was we put them down for being "trashy" and "ghetto" and looking like they had lip injections and Botox eyes. But then now I'm re-examining as an adult, why racism and sexism shaped me saying those things and thinking those things about these dolls. Culture had taught me to see certain things as "trashy" and ghetto" to reinforce a certain status quo. You are entitled to your opinions, but now I try to learn from and understand ways my opinions have been misinformed by bigotry of different types.
I'm 14 and I have a sister 5 years older then me so we had a lot of bratz stuff when, I was 5 I use to play the old website games they had, look at their movies and play with two bratz bags they made that hold the dolls so we had a lot of them. Plus I like that there was poc dolls I could relate to.
I was never overly into dolls, I usually preferred playing outside. But I still remember seeing Bratz dolls for the first time. I thought they were so cool but my mum made fun of me when I showed them to her, there’s no way my conservative christian, white parents would’ve let me have them. But I played with my friends’ dolls sometimes and I still think they’re really cool!
This video is very well done and I agree with your opinion on pretty much everything in it. As a college student who never had any Bratz dolls as a kid, but not because my parents didn't like them, I just couldn't find them in my area. I found a couple on a flea market last year and my Muslim mom likes their clothes a lot (she's very into fashion, meanwhile I'm more into collecting dolls). I hope Bratz will come back permanently and that they'll release the reproduction dolls (with better quality, I hope) in my country. As I mentioned, living in a small European country is tricky for doll collecting. The only dolls I can find in a 50km radius from my home are knock off Barbies, Steffi Love dolls and Sparkle Girlz... Does anyone here in a similar situation have any tips? I really can't spend over 30 bucks for shipping on Ebay or Amazon.
The person in that clip as a point 😭 my lips are so big and juicy I can’t think or even exercise without having them get in the way /jk Anyways my dad got me treasures cloe when they came out and ever since bratz made me feel better about having beauty marks and bigger lips and thought me not to take myself so serious and experiment with fashion and my hair embrace differences both mine and others Loved the video🖤🖤🖤
Your not a melinial your a gen Z as Gen Z is usually decided by being born into the technological era. Aslo this video was amazing and I'm glad you mentioned the doll community as the doll community itself aslo helped with the bratz comeback!
Such incredible writing and so well put together! You put in some really interesting points I think a lot of people generally forget about 🙌 So well researched and spoken, loved this documentary! ❤️
Bratz is the reason why I am the woman I am today. I wear edgy clothing; leather jackets, lace mini skirts and I feel the need to express myself (fashionably and personally) Without Bratz, I don't know where I'd be.
I’ll be honest this isn’t to slander the artist I’m sure she’s a nice and great person but idk to me the tree change dolls just feel uncanny, the bratz dolls are designed to look like older teens and having them be repainted to look like little girls just feel off, the proportions don’t match , there are already doll lines who are a much better example of dolls made to look like little girls like American doll
My mom always called the Bratz line slutty, but she still bought them for me anyway cuz I liked them and she knew that at the end of the day it was just a toy. She was also probably just glad they didn't have a ton of little annoying pieces like my polly pockets did, as I would lose those all the time lol.
I've never been a doll person. didn't like Bratz, didn't like Barbie. My best friend, and a few other white friends all had both dolls. Nobody to my knowledge was banned from playing with them... but I never liked them. I think it was the fishnet stockings that put me off - I can see how that can and will be considered too sexual for dolls aimed at young girls (the feather boa tho? really?). But in a far more personal way (and not really the fault of the dolls), the thing that put me off them entirely was that they were popular with my friends who were all around 12. They were changing rapidly in ideals, personality and interests. Barbie was no longer an interest to them, but smoking and stealing alcohol to drink in the park was. They always put me down for my interests - animation, drawing and "old" music - but there they were having no hobbies other than drinking on the playground swing set. I always knew the dolls were aimed at older girls of this exact demographic, and in my mind, I had married the dolls themselves - and what they represented - to my rapidly deteriorating friendships. I never wanted to join in with them, and I sorely missed the friendships we once had. I remember once getting angry with my best friend for it all, and her idea of an apology was to break into somebody's shed, steal their collection of old money, and try and sell it to me. I was so angry with her - with them both (the other was somebody who wasn't my friend to begin with) - and I told her to give it back. No idea if they did. Full context for that is I was no angel myself, my friend and I loved to mess around and trespass in private property, just to kid around and play harmless pranks (like turning all the lawn decorations to face another direction, writing messages using pebbles etc). Stealing was something else, though All these years I knew I had a bias against the dolls. I'm glad I clicked on your video - it was very informative and has given me a new perspective on something I've not thought about for a very long time. (full disclosure though, I might have had dolls as a kid if Monster High was around. I've always been into witches and other paranormal creatures so I think this line might have stood a chance for my little tomboyish self)
I had a lot of Bratz dolls and I grew up in a pretty conservative household. Even from a young age, I’ve always thought that Bratz were prettier and cooler than Barbie dolls.
a few years back i got so close to collecting Barbies- i bought like one that i always wanted when i was a kid 2 years later ive got 6 Bratz dolls and 1 Barbie LOL They were the dolls i had as a kid that i really admired... i had 2- Fun n Glow Sasha and Funk Out Dana
I dunno how doll collectors do it because it must be expensive but I wish I could collect dolls here and there too 😭 My favorite Bratz line was the Rock Angelz one; I wish I could get all the accessories because it's all so cute and well-made!
I collect Bratz too. However I’m intrigued about skin diversity like what Mattel released Generation Girls with different skin color. And they say fashion forwad like how about Barbie Fashion Fever they do have same y2k outfits. The only difference is they’re physical appearance.😊💖and if MGA create Burdine as a mockery of Barbie then okay. However if MGA used the right face of Barbie😂in all Bratz animations then Burdine would be still pretty in the end of the day.😊💖
Unfortunate that they sexualized other cultures and demonized femininity. Always thought it was weird and petty to base the villains off a stereotype one noted Barbie.
are you one that is sexist to men and wants women to be supperior? or the ones that believe in equality. i hope its the second as everyone deserves to be equal
I'm white and my parents (especially my dad) wouldn't let me watch the Bratz movies or get any of the dolls because they didn't want me to end up like a "brat". I never understood why they did this and just accepted it for a while. Nowadays I really appreciate what they stand for and don't truly understand why my parents thought I would be influenced by it negatively. I'm not the biggest fan of Bratz, but maybe if I grew up with them along side Barbie I would have nostalgic feelings and appreciation for them like I do with Barbie.
@@rabidspiders01 Well since you're being deliberately obtuse and misinterpreting what the overall video's about, I'll just thank you for giving me a view
@@toomanycrowns uhhh.. thanks? no need to be judgemental, I didnt get smart with you. this is exactly why im not one. if someone does not agree with like one thing from your ideology you antagonize them. I just dont see the correlation with Bratz and feminism. thats why i made the comment.
14:54 mind your words, especially when you make an essay video, and especially when it's a political essay. Israel has a right to defend itself, but doesn't have the right to occupy and continue to expand settlements on illegal land. You know that both can be true right? lol. We were at WAR. I had rockets flying over my goddamn house. Do you know how frustrating it is to just casually watch a Bratz essay and randomly see a war your country participated in literally displayed as one sided?
excuse you? defense is when you're at a disadvantage, a victim, in the right side if isreal occupies lands and actively kills, steals, and break human rights, do you expect the people of the land to just ask nicely? mind yourself
i thought your video was great until you started talking about Israel. PLEASE NEXT TIME YOU TALK ABOUT SOMETHING SO LONG AND SO HARSHLY MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT. I ENVITE YOU TO ISRAEL AND TO LEARN A BIT BEFORE YOU TALK
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I'm more biased than I intended to be for something that I love, but I'm still happy with this video. It's about time I have a more positive video where I mostly praise something.
At 14:38, I mention Israel's recent colonization of Palestine. With all the press surrounding how Palestinians are specifically affected, I can't stay nuanced when it comes to something like colonization. If you have a problem with that, to be blunt, I don't know what to tell you.
When I mentioned Bratz's 2015 rebranding emphasized their personalities more, I didn't mean it as a bad thing, but Bratz already had personalities before. The brand was just seriously watered down to make the "concerned parents" happy.
I used the 19:43 clip as a joke because it's an Onion satire news report! It wasn't serious! 😭
I watched a video on Mattel's Flava dolls, which were also made in response to Bratz, and it unlocked a hidden memory because I have exactly one (1) set. I was totally unaware Mattel sold these dolls, which is fair because they were rushed and stereotypical and nobody really liked them lmao
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Edit: Tara Strong is promoting NFTs despite the backlash and huge impact on the planet so, moral of the story is that the universe loves watching me suffer 😔
amazing video! I've been a new subscriber to your channel and wow! I loved how you highlighted the positives in the racial feature and the diversity, I also loved how you pointed out the orienlism, racism and pro-isreali problems of the company
honesty a great video overall!!!
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You're Gen-Z
You cant be a millennial and younger than Google. At that point just accept the youth.
@@dbzcupcake I was just confused is all 😌
I'm latina and my parents bought me a ton of bratz dolls growing up. They weren't particularly open-minded. The "anti bratz" people were just really weird.
SAME, I was born in Puerto Rico and Bratz was HUUUGE. Like, even christian or strict parents were buying their daughters Bratz dolls. Bratz made us feel powerful!
The irony is that Barbie was literally based on a German novelty sex doll called Bild Lili.
She’s not a sex doll she’s actually a secretary it’s a translation error because secretaries pick up phone calls and all that and somewhere along the lines they got “call girl” and people assumed that she is a hooker because of that but she’s a secretary
I'm sorry but that was false info. it was an adult comic,but there wasn't anything really sexual in it.
@@themonarchofbaddecisionmak1405 not necessarily… her entire persona was a gold digging “buxom broad” who lived life by seducing wealthy male suitors🤣 many people referred to her as a sex doll and her purpose was quite literally just surviving off rich men.
@@themonarchofbaddecisionmak1405 it was shown in parties
How is it ironic? Everything has a source of inspiration. And I mean Bratz dolls were clearly based of hyper sexualized black aesthetics
To add to the point of the Bratz looks, they never encouraged and marketed an eating disorder to me with a line of “weight loss” dolls so 🤷🏽♀️ they did not contribute to my developing anorexia at 13, but Barbie sure did encourage that. The phrase “have a body like Barbie” has lived in my head rent free for a decade since my ED first started. Besides, the Bratz stylized look was awesome
I mean they had impossible looks with small torsos tint waists, long legs with thigh gaps, wide hips, and minuscule noses. It’s funny bc the tweevils character actually have more realistic proportions despite being based off Barbie. It’s also funny how the bratz make fun of one of the tweevils nose jobs and burdines eating habits.. I don’t think bratz was that body positive. I don’t recall any Barbie movies ever mentioning food or bodies.
@@Angel-ts8rc The reason no one really had any EDs or body dysmorphia for Bratz dolls was because unlike Barbie, their proportions were already so artistically dramatic that there is not a single person on earth that has the actual body of a Bratz doll, and it’s impossible to achieve that even with surgery.
To add to that. When the Bratz made fun of Burdine and the Tweevils they always pointed out the surgery that had done because Bratz believed that people have beauty already within them that surgery is uncalled for. And yeah while you can still say that’s wrong, they were also teenagers. Teenagers that make mistakes and have strong opinions.
The Bratz aren’t mean to people for no reason, and if a friend gets fired from her job unfairly (or even fairly) of course those teenagers girls are gonna disrespect the people in-charge.
Also what are they supposed to do? Get bullied by a pink woman in her 30s with two mean assistants and just cry? No, stand up for yourself.
I grew up in a white family, in East Europe, I loved Bratz so much and my mum doesn't had a problem with them either way, she even liked their clothes, the style and the diversity, never compared them to anything sexual, and now as an adult collector she supports my hobby.
Great video, it brought back so much memories! :")
See some whites can be nicr
Its amazing how my "conservative" idk what kind of Christian my family is bought us these dolls, but then again they weren't so prudish, my dad actually laughed at the dolls proportions. My dad build us a huge doll house for us, I had those bratz magazines that came with posters (in addition to those posters that came with the dolls themselves), the only things I got left of them (after giving them all away, I cri still ಥ‿ಥ) is the star brushes lol. Gosh these dolls gave me and my sisters joy and I still ended up as a nerdy lawyer "house child " not a """sl*t"" whatever that means according to some articles 😒. These dolls gave me confidence in my imagination and along the line it reflected irl aswell. Ya lots of things were negative but to little girls (me and my sisters) without knowing the controversy these dolls were everything and had a big part of our childhood. Edit I found a tiny bratz radio in the star brush container and it still had the little CD in the disk tray ahhh they don't make such detailed toys anymore.
One time I looked through my tub of toys to see what Bratz stuff I still had and I could barely find those little accessories. I think the accessories the dolls would come with were specifically really fun, just so many tiny compact mirrors and phones--I either broke or lost most of them 😭
@@toomanycrowns True, I remember the little compact makeup holders could open and I kept opening/closing it out of memorization and it broke lol. The only other bratz thing I have left is a faded duvet cover set and a beach towel. Its good reminiscing on such things ( ＾◡＾) but it hurts not having them all now 😭.
I'm a biracial (white mum, black dad) latina and my parents were indeed put off by Bratz' clothes being sorta revealing because of how woc and teen girls are constantly sexualized (to be fair, they felt the same about Barbie) and were a little thrown off by Bratz having no feet but were still more than happy to buy the dolls for me because of how much I liked them and because it wasn't that often that we saw dolls that looked like the people around us (because latin america is not white, not to mention in my country we have a large indigenous, black, asian and arab population).
Also, it' sad how the Tree Change Dolls started out as an honest effort by a WOC and Karens just appropriated them while also whitewashing them (also, Sonya's husband seems like a creep tbh). I also love how you mentioned the Larians being horrible people, I am being suspicious about the queer Bratz characters being an honest effort because of how it was revealed shortly after Larian's racist rant. The Bratz film was a mess too and turned them into stereotypes (many being racist caricatures), will not forget my parents who took me to see the movie being weirded out by how said stereotypes, not to mention how they whitewashed the characters and pulled a "hire a spaniard instead of a latino cause they are the same LOL". But other than this, I will forever cherish Bratz dolls.
I actually haven't considered some POC didn't like Bratz's clothing because of the racialized context of WOC being hypersexualized. Your comment's the first time I heard it! The backlash the dolls got was so overwhelmingly surface level and misogynist that I thought that was all there was TT_TT
I think there's indeed a place for dolls like Tree Change (I can't think of any dolls that *aren't* fashion/makeup-based at the top of my head), but the weird undertones people added to them is unfortunate. Sonya's husband does not help...
I'm very excited for the Barbie movie just so it can blow the Bratz movie outta the water lmfao
Wait issac is Jewish himset
@@toomanycrowns its quite obvious with Sasha. She frequently wears the most revealing clothing and booty shorts when the other girls wear less revealing clothing and skirts or pants. The original black voice actress stopped doing the part bc they wanted her and Sasha to lean more into black stereotypes. The character was played/voiced by a white actress
@@Angel-ts8rc the live action version?
@Angel-ts8rc can you give some examples of the sasha dolls who have less clothing than the other girls?
This is so important! The fact that white and black dolls are heavily demanded bc it is easier to paint barbie brown and label her African American is terrible(white supremacy-ish)?. It’s the absolute truth and thats probably why there were little to no Asian representation in dolls for me growing up(1999). Solely bc they couldn’t just paint barbie yellow and label her Asian American. Asian people have too different of facial features and obvi a threat to Eurocentric beauty standards. I mean barbies recent criticism? Not them not having an ambiguously Asian-American barbie whilst having the Tokyo olympics held in Asia?! I mean seriously.. So the fact that Jade was released at the forefront while having asian facial features along with Sasha and Yasmin having their own features. Really set mattel and mga apart. I am so Grateful for my Kool Kat! This video is great!
Thank you!! I just looked up the recent collection with the Barbie Tokyo Olympics and they straight up had no Asian/AAPI dolls...for the Olympics held in an Asian country... 😭
this was another fantastic essay, weird how things for girls always have to have so many standards that all contradict each other. weird that.
Thank you!! And it is odd isn't it 🙃
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I think that what most parents at the time didn't understand is that most children don't look at a doll as some sort of body goals inspiration. I think most children actually realize that what they're playing with is a doll, an object, so they don't see it as a human being that they aspire to look like. Yes, I loved the Bratz's features and thought they were really gorgeous dolls but I don't remember even once wishing to look like them. But I do remember watching music videos from pop divas from the 00s, wishing and believing I'd look just like them when I grew up.
Bratz sexualizing teenager is a weak argument because they're never once bratz teaching teenager to be sexual instead it's encourage teenager especially non white teenager they can be stylish, they can be confident, they can be kind, they can have different fashion style that's not hyperfeminine
I grew up in eastern europe and then moved to the uk when i was very young and it caused me to be very shy as i did not know the langauge and couldn’t really make friends i remember how much the doll yasmin struck with me because even though she did not look like me she acted like me and she managed to be successful, the dolls actually have personality as well as diversity unlike barbie
I love this analysis - it really opened up my eyes to how sexist and racist people were when I was a kid and how it was normalized. Thankfully my family wasn’t like those panicked parents so they didn’t limit which toys I could play with, but I distinctly remember not liking the Bratz dolls and sticking to Barbie at the time for a few specific reasons. To me, the aesthetic was unappealing (I was a tomboy who couldn’t care less about the latest trends) and the dolls really did seem like a shallow caricature of what it means to be a girl, which made my stomach queasy. While Barbie had a variety of adult interests and career goals (like me), the Bratz dolls seemed way too much like a gross stereotype of what teenage girls should like - fashion, makeup, shopping, and maybe being a celebrity pop star. It really did seem like a step back, so I understand that side of things. They were another embodiment of the stereotype pushed on girls adding to an already giant pile of unnecessary stereotyping and gendering in toys and media. I actually would have liked the tree change dolls more - by comparison they are closer to the androgynous concept of what it means to be a kid, not as much of a stereotype of what it means to be a girl. However, the way that people reacted and the actual reasoning behind why the tree change girls were made is just gross. The fact that they erased the ethnic features is shocking and enraging, and the idea that people thought those features and teens having fun with fashion is in any way sexual is just so racist and sexist. The slut-shaming and victim-blaming mentality is so glaring in people’s responses. I myself was experimenting with different fashion trends in my teens, including mini skirts at one point, and there was no “sexuality” behind that - they were clothes! I didn’t even have a concept of trying to attract any kind of attention, it was just fun dress-up and self-expression. It’s really scary how people attach meanings to things teenagers wear. In the end, fashion is an interest like any other, and it should not be viewed any differently or be labeled as dumb or shallow just because it’s a “girly” thing to like (yet another example of how girls’ interests are devalued). Just because I wasn’t into Bratz doesn’t make me any more smart or interesting than anyone who loved them, it’s just a personal preference. And there is no denying the immense value of representation that Barbie lacked. I was lucky - a white European kid who could easily relate to Barbie - but it is heartbreaking to think of all the kids who grew up not being represented. In conclusion, I would have loved to see more doll lines that didn’t painfully reinforce the same gender norms time and time again - scientists or outdoor sports dolls would have been so cool! - but that doesn’t mean Bratz don’t have their place too for all the girly fashionistas out there.
You're very right that toys in general are very gendered but "girly" things are devalued at the same time! I kinda wish I rewrote the Tree Change doll part, because I completely understand the demand for dolls that aren't so feminine. I still think that Sonia Sigh wasn't being malicious or anything when she made the dolls, but it says a lot when even her own family members will make a statement for her, one with a lot of weird implications about Bratz and other dolls like them, for the idea of fashion, etc.
Its funny because I was a fashionista when I loved Barbie but I wasn't into ANY girly stuff when I had my bratz phase! I still think it's weird!😂
I was obsessed with Bratz when I was younger, and still kinda am now. I played with Sasha dolls the most and my Sister played with Yasmin dolls the most because those were the dolls that looked like us the most. Course we got the other girls, and would mix and match all of their clothes and outfits.
My mother was also in love with the dolls as well for those same reasons and would dress them up when we weren't looking.
But I also remember the My-Scene dolls and how they were a strange hybrid between Bratz & Barbie
Myscene!! Those were my girls lol
@@manibbygil ya
@@manibbygil I was too young to know them I was 6 when they stopped airing
i love how that one person was more mad about Bratz being spelled with a Z than anything else lmao
Intentional misspellings like that are cute to me imo!
Ironically so in an era when misspelling words by replacing 's' with a 'z' and abbreviations were the most common thing in texting and online chatting.
LMFSAO😭
My mother didn’t really like or want me to have bratz dolls because she thought their makeup and clothes were inappropriate. The kicker: I’m blind.
LMAOO. Not laughing at you but just the whole circumstance.
@@TheOfficialPrettyPrincess yep… Pretty dang stupid. I got my ultimate revenge though by being an adult Bratz enthusiast and collector haha.
@@glamethyst9144 SAAAAMW
For me too but it was my dad. My dad didn't like them because they "showed to much skin". I was born in the late 80s so I only had Barbies but they were boring but when Bratz aired on television, I loved them especially Sasha and Yasmin. I sadly only had 2 Yasmin dolls lol😂.
"Face it, Mommy. Bratz are just cooler."
B R U H STRAIGHT UP ICONIC AF😩! We stan savage daughter✨💅
In all seriousness though, I'm glad my parents never denied me Bratz it's just they were more familiar with Barbie so they hardly bought Bratz but I'm glad they managed to get me the Wild West Yasmin. You wouldn't believe how my eyes lit up when I saw a doll that looked like a latina like me in Christmas. After that I become in love with Bratz and dreamed of getting their dolls. Sadly they could only afford a lot budget Barbie so I missed out on Bratz. Now that I'm a working adult I can buy literally all the OMG, Bratz, etc that I can and even though I played with Bratz, I literally struggle with body issues due to *society's* beauty standards lmao not because of Bratz lol. It's gotten better and I'm far more comfortable with showing my body arguably because I collected these dolls. It's honestly heartbreaking to hear such harmful comments but whatever that's their problem. Imma just sit here while playing with my dolls and transformers because I'm✨unhinged✨ lol
This video is so brilliantly done!! That "grow up"/"bla bla bla" song was my JAM as a kid, I remember one of the video games let you choose its background music from the Bratz album and I'd have that one on loop, lol. Then and now as an adult, I prefer presenting androgynously without make-up, but I still loved the Bratz because they loved fashion/their other hobbies for themselves, not as a front to impress other people or whatever. Like in the Rock Angelz movie Cloe tried changing herself to make a boy like her, and it was shown how much that hurt her and her friends! As you say, the franchise/creators definitely made mistakes, but there was genuinely some good stuff too.
Oh I remember my mom being one of the firm anti-Bratz moms back when the line was around (I was born in 1994) in stark contrast to me wanting to branch out of having Barbie dolls because the fashion that Bratz had was not unlike what my older sister wore in middle and high school. In fact, when I did have at least a few Bratz dolls, I felt ashamed of holding them because of how judgmental my mom was. Thankfully, though, she was able to relax her stance a lot more when Monster High came out since by then I was actually in high school and in dire need of a boost in self-confidence.
As an artist, Bratz dolls tend to be my biggest source of inspiration. I had bratz everything when I was kid. Movies, birthday cakes, video games, that one rock angelz CD and of course the dolls. Even as a child, I was made aware of how inappropriate adults thought the dolls were. I was about 6 when an adult told me how they "liked the doll but not the clothes they wear" (I was holding a cheerleader Sasha doll)
Honestly same! I had a Bratz Fashion Pixies arts and crafts set that came with stickers of the Bratz in it. I used to put them in my notebook and draw all sorts of characters and comics based off them! Boy did they leave an impact.
This is the best deep dive I’ve watched abt Bratz! I still can’t believe how much backlash the dolls got…like I know they were “controversial” but they were also extremely successful. It’s crazy how much we’ve changed in 20 years because now, dolls that are similar to the Bratz, aren’t getting even close to the amount of negative attention. so I guess that just shows that attention, good or bad, Is a good thing lol.
im so thankful that my parents were t the overly judgy type. My mother in particular loved the dolls she bought me and often commented on how "cool" they looked. Them and monster high!!!
Im a trans man, but man I loved the Bratz so much. My mom and even my piano teacher got me Bratz dolls as a kid (which I understand my piano teacher would, she was chill..but my ma was a white conservative lady I still am surprised she allowed my sister and I to play with them.)
I love how that one person explained monster high dolls as ‘lolly pop body’, there monsters, duh ofc there gonna have rlly skinny bodies, majority of monsters are dead 🙄
Loll I'm 10 and don't see anything wrong with bratz. They did everything barbie didn't and it worked in their favor. Barbie stuck with girly girl, Bratz tried EVERYTHING. And I just think they're so cool. The clothes, the style, heck, the movie! But something the soccer moms get mixed up is liking them doesn't mean we want to look like them. I don't want the bobblehead lol
:/??
No way you’re ten typing all that
@@VenusManTrap-777 well im 11 now so like-
@@VenusManTrap-777Bro they just have good grammar? I mean me being 12 and having decent grammar is just so shocking to people💀 You do realize they teach proper grammar at this age in school right? Some people actually use it. I have met some teenagers and older people that don’t use good grammar commonly I guess. Nit trying to judge but proper grammar can be used commonly.
Bratz set the standard for a fashion doll.
I was born in 2002 so I only grew with the line as it developped but in 2010 I had a very few but I loved them. I got many dolls since 2012 but I'm so happy to have the 4 bratz in my collection finally. I use my dolls for drawing fashion designs and such,they're my mini models 💙
I love my girlz
Bratz's faces are amazing and ofc the FASHION
I like Barbie's og movies era. I need to get into the bratz's show and films more
The 2000's style is my fave thing about them
Some 2010's are cute,I just don't love the 2015 girls,I usually love cute but I feel they were a mix of cute and greatly fashionable before
I love the bratz's proportions,I draw exaggerated,it's cutsey
Not perfect as you say,at all, but mh,bratz and Barbie are all my faves
Since it's never been made clear and why tf not, I always headcanoned Meygan - the fifth Brat - as Native American.
Heck I think even Chloe could be spun into representation by centering her into a specific European culture. Maybe one that's underrepresented and stereotyped, like a Slavic culture. Chloe is a Greek name, so it'd make sense for her to be from the South.
Bratz are only sexualized by adults, makes me kinda sick🤢
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Bratz is such a guilty pleasure. I can’t explain it, but I used to love it when I was around 10-12 years old.
5:01 same voice actor moment.
I remember when I was little always wanting a Bratz doll but sadly both my parents were those that claimed they were to sexual to buy. They only way I could play with them was by going to a friends house. I remember specifically my mom making comments about how big their lips were when I ask why I couldn’t have one. Honestly it’s still one of the things I’m upset about today especially because my parents bought us a crap ton of MH dolls when they came out and legit my Dad use to watch Austin Powers with us all the time, like that shit is a nostalgic childhood movie to me. But ya know BRATZ we’re too sexual.
I watched this whole thing in one sitting. You have an amazing writing style. Will really keep an eye out for your videos to come!!!
Honestly I didn't grow up with Bratz dolls and my mom probably liked it that way. I did the same shit with my Barbies that other kids did with Bratz. I got into sewing cause I either hated my dolls clothes or they where broken. Kids will always make their dolls more adult cause children are obsessed with the adult world and dolls are an appearance for that.
My experience being a preteen/teenager at the time of these dolls, was we put them down for being "trashy" and "ghetto" and looking like they had lip injections and Botox eyes. But then now I'm re-examining as an adult, why racism and sexism shaped me saying those things and thinking those things about these dolls. Culture had taught me to see certain things as "trashy" and ghetto" to reinforce a certain status quo.
You are entitled to your opinions, but now I try to learn from and understand ways my opinions have been misinformed by bigotry of different types.
Reexamining subconscious biases is very good and important to do. We don't always notice them, so it's a big step to do so and be more understanding!
I'm 14 and I have a sister 5 years older then me so we had a lot of bratz stuff when, I was 5 I use to play the old website games they had, look at their movies and play with two bratz bags they made that hold the dolls so we had a lot of them. Plus I like that there was poc dolls I could relate to.
Lol I was typing so fast I forgot I'm 14 years old my bad
I was never overly into dolls, I usually preferred playing outside. But I still remember seeing Bratz dolls for the first time. I thought they were so cool but my mum made fun of me when I showed them to her, there’s no way my conservative christian, white parents would’ve let me have them. But I played with my friends’ dolls sometimes and I still think they’re really cool!
This video is very well done and I agree with your opinion on pretty much everything in it. As a college student who never had any Bratz dolls as a kid, but not because my parents didn't like them, I just couldn't find them in my area. I found a couple on a flea market last year and my Muslim mom likes their clothes a lot (she's very into fashion, meanwhile I'm more into collecting dolls). I hope Bratz will come back permanently and that they'll release the reproduction dolls (with better quality, I hope) in my country. As I mentioned, living in a small European country is tricky for doll collecting. The only dolls I can find in a 50km radius from my home are knock off Barbies, Steffi Love dolls and Sparkle Girlz... Does anyone here in a similar situation have any tips? I really can't spend over 30 bucks for shipping on Ebay or Amazon.
The person in that clip as a point 😭 my lips are so big and juicy I can’t think or even exercise without having them get in the way /jk
Anyways my dad got me treasures cloe when they came out and ever since bratz made me feel better about having beauty marks and bigger lips and thought me not to take myself so serious and experiment with fashion and my hair embrace differences both mine and others
Loved the video🖤🖤🖤
Right my lips are so big they literally take up half of my face /j
Your not a melinial your a gen Z as Gen Z is usually decided by being born into the technological era. Aslo this video was amazing and I'm glad you mentioned the doll community as the doll community itself aslo helped with the bratz comeback!
Such incredible writing and so well put together! You put in some really interesting points I think a lot of people generally forget about 🙌 So well researched and spoken, loved this documentary! ❤️
Such an amazing video! Thanks for making it. Usually I wouldn’t even watch a 30 minutes long video but here I was sooo into it.
The tree dolls are nightmare fuel
kinda unrelated but this video has SUCH an excellent use of the Hades soundtrack
Thank you!! I love using music for specific sections in my videos!
Compare the bodies of bratz and barbie. Bratz have a less 'sexualised' body type then Barbie.
most of the Bratz dolls that were used in the photo of the Bratz challenge weren’t even official dolls. Most of those are custom made
True! But I guess if the author knew, she'd say those dolls were another example of the yOOUTHSssssss losing their morals or something...
@@toomanycrowns she’d say their minds were corrupted since childhood 😭😂
@@toomanycrowns great video btw! 😊
Bratz is the reason why I am the woman I am today. I wear edgy clothing; leather jackets, lace mini skirts and I feel the need to express myself (fashionably and personally) Without Bratz, I don't know where I'd be.
Yasmin is Middle Eastern and Jewish x she’s inspired by Larians daughter but they made her Mexican in the film maybe because of the us market x
I’ll be honest this isn’t to slander the artist I’m sure she’s a nice and great person but idk to me the tree change dolls just feel uncanny, the bratz dolls are designed to look like older teens and having them be repainted to look like little girls just feel off, the proportions don’t match , there are already doll lines who are a much better example of dolls made to look like little girls like American doll
My mom always called the Bratz line slutty, but she still bought them for me anyway cuz I liked them and she knew that at the end of the day it was just a toy. She was also probably just glad they didn't have a ton of little annoying pieces like my polly pockets did, as I would lose those all the time lol.
the playstation games were amazing and i demand a remaster
Your video is amazing! Hit all the points
I love this video, thank you so much for making it!
I've never been a doll person. didn't like Bratz, didn't like Barbie. My best friend, and a few other white friends all had both dolls. Nobody to my knowledge was banned from playing with them... but I never liked them.
I think it was the fishnet stockings that put me off - I can see how that can and will be considered too sexual for dolls aimed at young girls (the feather boa tho? really?).
But in a far more personal way (and not really the fault of the dolls), the thing that put me off them entirely was that they were popular with my friends who were all around 12. They were changing rapidly in ideals, personality and interests. Barbie was no longer an interest to them, but smoking and stealing alcohol to drink in the park was.
They always put me down for my interests - animation, drawing and "old" music - but there they were having no hobbies other than drinking on the playground swing set.
I always knew the dolls were aimed at older girls of this exact demographic, and in my mind, I had married the dolls themselves - and what they represented - to my rapidly deteriorating friendships. I never wanted to join in with them, and I sorely missed the friendships we once had. I remember once getting angry with my best friend for it all, and her idea of an apology was to break into somebody's shed, steal their collection of old money, and try and sell it to me. I was so angry with her - with them both (the other was somebody who wasn't my friend to begin with) - and I told her to give it back. No idea if they did.
Full context for that is I was no angel myself, my friend and I loved to mess around and trespass in private property, just to kid around and play harmless pranks (like turning all the lawn decorations to face another direction, writing messages using pebbles etc). Stealing was something else, though
All these years I knew I had a bias against the dolls. I'm glad I clicked on your video - it was very informative and has given me a new perspective on something I've not thought about for a very long time.
(full disclosure though, I might have had dolls as a kid if Monster High was around. I've always been into witches and other paranormal creatures so I think this line might have stood a chance for my little tomboyish self)
the “FEMINIST” flashing on screen with the gasps in the background had me dead 😭
Literally people just hater like it so much
Bratz were anti woke magnets before anti woke stuff was popular
I had a lot of Bratz dolls and I grew up in a pretty conservative household. Even from a young age, I’ve always thought that Bratz were prettier and cooler than Barbie dolls.
great job with the video, you deserve more views!
I’m happy for you Elizabeth ❤
Those tree change doll's eyes look absolutely soulless.
Love this video sm
you ate this was sooo hot
a few years back i got so close to collecting Barbies- i bought like one that i always wanted when i was a kid
2 years later ive got 6 Bratz dolls and 1 Barbie LOL
They were the dolls i had as a kid that i really admired... i had 2- Fun n Glow Sasha and Funk Out Dana
I dunno how doll collectors do it because it must be expensive but I wish I could collect dolls here and there too 😭 My favorite Bratz line was the Rock Angelz one; I wish I could get all the accessories because it's all so cute and well-made!
I collect Bratz too. However I’m intrigued about skin diversity like what Mattel released Generation Girls with different skin color. And they say fashion forwad like how about Barbie Fashion Fever they do have same y2k outfits. The only difference is they’re physical appearance.😊💖and if MGA create Burdine as a mockery of Barbie then okay. However if MGA used the right face of Barbie😂in all Bratz animations then Burdine would be still pretty in the end of the day.😊💖
Though barbie media like movies were always centered on the white barbie, and her colored friends were barely involved in the story
Loved this video❤️❤️
📸i dont get why parent and media hate bratz but are ok with my scene and monster high #teambratz 📸
I never new the G word was a slur oh sheeesh
Yasmin’s Latina.. don’t know if that’s already been said
I had to play with my bratz at my sisters house, my minister mother wasn't having it 😂😂😂😂
It wasn't until seeing tthis video in my recommendeds that I realized that Berdine and the Twievils are Karens.
Also I quite like bratz babyz 😂there just a cartoon depiction , nothing like real babies
They was just mad that BRATZ would’ve overtaken Barbie but I’m glad there BACK NOW ❤
This was a Fake NEWS JOKE Reportage!!!! 19:51
The only problem I have with them is the name
14:58 I seen reverse too
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Unfortunate that they sexualized other cultures and demonized femininity. Always thought it was weird and petty to base the villains off a stereotype one noted Barbie.
are you one that is sexist to men and wants women to be supperior?
or the ones that believe in equality.
i hope its the second as everyone deserves to be equal
I'm white and my parents (especially my dad) wouldn't let me watch the Bratz movies or get any of the dolls because they didn't want me to end up like a "brat". I never understood why they did this and just accepted it for a while. Nowadays I really appreciate what they stand for and don't truly understand why my parents thought I would be influenced by it negatively. I'm not the biggest fan of Bratz, but maybe if I grew up with them along side Barbie I would have nostalgic feelings and appreciation for them like I do with Barbie.
So basically some rich white guy decided to appropriate asian culture and market it to young adults and teens.
Edit: Yes, some of the Bratz doll lines appropriated Asian cultures but that was definitely not the thesis of this video 💀
@@toomanycrowns what was you going for
@@toomanycrowns they all appropriate asian fashion culture and anime. The dolls all of them are modeled after anime style.
@@rabidspiders01 Well since you're being deliberately obtuse and misinterpreting what the overall video's about, I'll just thank you for giving me a view
@@toomanycrowns you didn't have a clear objective with it. So would you care to explain?
I played with Bratz all the time and i am the furthest thing from a feminist
Uhh... Congrats?
@@toomanycrowns uhhh.. thanks? no need to be judgemental, I didnt get smart with you. this is exactly why im not one. if someone does not agree with like one thing from your ideology you antagonize them. I just dont see the correlation with Bratz and feminism. thats why i made the comment.
@@GamingUser-nm6tzThere is no correlation, it's just clickbait.
7 mins in I don't see a clear objective in this video other than informative. Decent video
Also thank you for not using robo voice.
"colonization of palestine".
well then what else is it supposed to be? or we could call just it a genocide?
14:54 mind your words, especially when you make an essay video, and especially when it's a political essay. Israel has a right to defend itself, but doesn't have the right to occupy and continue to expand settlements on illegal land. You know that both can be true right? lol. We were at WAR. I had rockets flying over my goddamn house. Do you know how frustrating it is to just casually watch a Bratz essay and randomly see a war your country participated in literally displayed as one sided?
excuse you? defense is when you're at a disadvantage, a victim, in the right side
if isreal occupies lands and actively kills, steals, and break human rights, do you expect the people of the land to just ask nicely? mind yourself
sucked in
Long live Israel
Israel kills Arab kids. Arabs don’t kill Jewish kids en masse through an army. Period.
i thought your video was great until you started talking about Israel. PLEASE NEXT TIME YOU TALK ABOUT SOMETHING SO LONG AND SO HARSHLY MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT. I ENVITE YOU TO ISRAEL AND TO LEARN A BIT BEFORE YOU TALK
ok
Israel kills Arab kids there is no two sides here. They kick Arab residents out and have illegal settlements. This is not rocket science.