These Tweets Sum Up The Furor Over HBO's 'Velma'

The debut of “Velma” late last week — a reboot posited to be the adult, modern reinvention of TV classic “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?” — came with an impressive achievement: It was the most-watched premiere of an animated series on HBO Max. In the series, Velma isn’t technically tied to whiteness — she probably ticks off “Asian,” then “South Asian” on her fictional standardized tests. — sai January 14, 2023 It’s wild to me that #Velma was the thing that sparked all the Mindy Kaling criticism. i’m personally extremely cool and sick of it — A January 13, 2023 #Velma So, Velma is a brown girl in this show, and Fred is a racist, rude douchebag?! pic.twitter.com/3Fb9R5KPVD — S.Prianka Khan January 17, 2023 Velma is unfortunately just the latest in a series of brown girl characters written by Mindy Kaling that represent brown girls by stripping them of their brownness https://t.co/dIlQzOgLq9 — zahaa January 13, 2023 Actually I’ve been seeing a lot of Velma discourse on my feed and wanted to share my quick two cents: Can we please get some positive Brown Girl rep for once??