This ‘We Need A Disney Princess’ Meme Has Derailed Twitter And It’s Amazing
Why is this Disney Princess Twitter meme so damn funny? Disney should thank the public for delivering such a fruitful brainstorm on what the next princess should be and I hope it takes on some suggestions.
The meme format can be traced back to comedian Sofie Hagen’s tweet from back in September. She called for a fat Disney Princess, making a very fair criticism of the lack of body diversity among the princesses so far.
Since it made so many little men sad, we'll repeat:
We need a fat Disney princess.
We need a fat Disney princess.
We need a fat Disney prin-— Sofie Hagen (@SofieHagen) September 2, 2017
It’s true Disney has historically delivered impossibly thin and traditionally beautiful princess characters. There have been some improvements but not a super impressive amount of progress.
Damn those princesses. They are too perfect and they are cocky about it.
We get it Snow White you’re hot.
While the need for more diverse female characters in children’s movies is a real issue, we deal with these things the only way we know how: humour and memes. Now the good people of Twitter have revisited Hagen’s sentiment and taken the Disney princess aspirations to some wild places.
Like this:
we need a disney princess with spatulas for hands
we need a disney princess with spatulas for hands
we need a disney princess with spatulas for hands
we need a disney princess with spatulas for hands
we need a disney princess with spatulas for hands
we need a disney princess with— dean (@InternetMallCop) March 27, 2018
And this:
We need a Disney princess that eats the hearts of all those who’ve wronged her.
— Doth (@DothTheDoth) March 27, 2018
Give them flaws! It’s relatable!
we need a disney princess who can’t do basic math
— adam (@brokeangeI) March 26, 2018
Make them insufferable!
We need a Disney princess who’s a Soundcloud rapper
We need a Disney princess who’s a Soundcloud rapper
We need a Disney princess who’s a Soundcloud rapper
We need a Disney princess who’s a Soundcloud rapper
We need a Disney princess who’s a Soundcloud rapper— Aklaq (@bre4kingbad) March 27, 2018
Make them ruthless
we need a disney princess who leaves boys on read
— ✰ samflower ✰ (@milkygoddess) March 26, 2018
Make them fucking gross…?
say it with me
we need a disney princess who drinks bong water
we need a disney princess who drinks bong water
we need a disney princess who drinks bong water
we need a disney princess who drinks bong water
we need a disney princess who drinks bong water
— Sam (@cursedarepa) March 27, 2018
Make sure they know what’s up tho
we need a disney princess who stands by the idea that remy from ratatouille would shit stomp stuart little in a fight
— ryan (@ryanyeetz) March 22, 2018
Then things just completely derailed
…into needing a Disney Princess who can name that song reference.
we need a disney princess who is falling asleep
we need a disney princess who is calling a cab
we need a disney princess who is having a smoke
we need a disney princess who is taking a drag
we need a disney princess who is going to bed— lucifer (@72goetia) March 25, 2018
we need a disney princess who is making her way downtown
we need a disney princess who is walking fast
we need a disney princess who had faces pass
we need a disney princess who is home bound— this side of paradise (@N8WasTaken) March 27, 2018
we need a Disney princess with apple bottom jeans
we need a Disney princess with boots with the fur
we need a Disney princess with the whole club looking at her— Kayla Joy (@joyful_kay) March 27, 2018
we need a disney princess who’s slipping into the lava and trying to keep from going under
— nick denbow (@nickdenbow11) March 27, 2018
we need a disney princess who’s never gonna give you up
we need a disney princess who’s never gonna let you down
we need a disney princess who’s never gonna run around
we need a disney princess who’s never gonna desert you— ???? (@oscarewilde) March 27, 2018
The moral of the story is, we need more diverse female protagonists from Disney, and we need the internet taken away from us.