Dina and the Prince

About

Dina and the Prince is an animated YouTube children's fairy-tale video uploaded by PinguTV in July 2019. The video features a maiden who gets punished with "losing her beauty" by gaining darker skin, curly hair and scars on her face. The video was soon recognized as racist due to its beauty standards.

Origin

On July 17th, 2019, My PinguTV uploaded "Dina and the Prince" which has since been taken down. On July 22nd, Twitter user @xbabyIon posted a clip from the video captioned, "this is the most disgusting thing I have seen in a LONG time" (shown below). The video gained over 25,800 likes and 11,800 retweets in four days.

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On July 22nd, 2019, Twitter user @Oloni^[1] responded to the video by saying, "I’m disgusted at the thousands of black kids who have watched this and will question their beauty" (shown below, left). The tweet garnered over 3,200 likes and 1,800 in four days. That same day, Twitter user @FestiveHime^[2] also replied to the video with an image of someone pointing a gun at their phone saying, "Imma need this whole channel deleted" (shown below, right). The tweet accumulated over 900 likes in four days.

On July 23rd, YouTuber Paris Milan uploaded a video explaining the plot of the original video and why people are enraged by it. The video gained over 41,500 views and 3,200 likes in three days. On July 25th, My PinguTV uploaded a new version of Dina and the Prince which included an apology saying they made a "mistake."

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