Twitter banned a consumer who shared a modified, racist clip from Disney’s new stay motion The Little Mermaid Wednesday. The tweaked video turned the pores and skin of singer and actress Halle Bailey, who performs Ariel, from Black to white.

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The clip, which was shared earlier this week by consumer @vandalibm, led to widespread outrage on Twitter, the place it rapidly began spreading like wildfire. Tweeters weren’t solely flabbergasted that somebody had whitewashed Bailey and altered her options, together with cartoonishly reddening her hair, but additionally identified the irony that whoever created the clip made no modifications to her voice, seeming to point that they discovered it acceptable.

Unfortunately, there’s extra. In the unique submit sharing the modified video, @vandalibm claimed that the Ariel had been “fixed,” and that the whole film may be “fixed” in 24 hours upon its launch in May of 2023. Attempting to seek out the account now returns an “Account suspended” message.

Crediting the video’s unique creator, @vandalibm wrote, “He fixed The Little Mermaid, and turned the woke actor into a ginger white girl,” @vandalibm stated. “He says he can do fix [sic] the entire movie when it comes out with 4x A6000 in 24 hours. It’s over for wokecels.” In a follow-up tweet, @vandalibm harassed that he shared the clip purely for “educational purposes.”

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“This is purely for educational purposes, please do not misinterpret this in a racist way,” @vandalibm wrote. “I am just amazed by high-IQ friend [sic] who works with Artificial Intelligence and the stuff he can make, and wanted to show people his field of study.”

Gizmodo reached out to Disney for touch upon the modified video and to Twitter for touch upon why @vandalibm’s account had been suspended however didn’t obtain responses.

The “he” and “friend” @vandalibm refers to in his tweets is consumer @TenGazillionIQ, a self-proclaimed Ph.D. in synthetic intelligence and pc imaginative and prescient who @vandalibm claims initially made the modified video clip. A tweet @TenGazillionIQ posted on Tuesday during which he addresses new followers he obtained “from that Ariel thing” means that @vandalibm may be telling the reality, however the account itself didn’t share the edited video. Gizmodo has reached out to the account for remark.

As of Wednesday morning, @vandalibm’s account had been suspended from Twitter. @TenGazillionIQ’s account had not been suspended.

The launch of the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid 4 days in the past, which options Bailey singing “Part of Your World,” has provoked an enormous amount of racist backlash on social media. Bailey posted a video of pleased fan reactions to the clip on Instagram on Tuesday.