Rachel Zegler’s live action Disney Snow White reboot trailer has finally been released on YouTube, and Disney fans are flocking to the video to voice their displeasure. The video has garnered more than 195 thousand dislikes in less than a day.
The like to dislike ratio for a video can tell you a lot about how audiences feel. If you have more likes than dislikes, then you have a generally favorable reputation with the audience. But when the dislikes outnumber the likes by a wide margin, it might be time to panic.
The like to dislike ratio on Disney‘s Snow White trailer – YouTube, Disney
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It’s safe to say that Disney might panic after the Snow White trailer’s initial YouTube launch. The video currently sits at 16 thousand likes and a whopping 195 thousand dislikes.
Many believe this was because Disney feared the exact reaction viewers are having to the trailer right now.
YouTube typically hides dislikes on its videos to the general public. However, they’re still accessible with certain browser extensions that uncover the ratio and even highlights the discrepancy with green and red lines.
This isn’t the first time Snow White has achieved such a ratio.
The last teaser trailer for the big budget Rachel Zegler live action remake currently sits at 99 thousand likes to more than 1.4 million dislikes.
The Like to Dislike Ratio for the Snow White teaser trailer as of December 4, 2024 – YouTube, Disney
So what do people hate about this film?
For one, the trailers have shown a much different interpretation of the original Disney animated classic, portraying Snow White in the 2024 “strong independent woman” stereotype. This is something viewers are frankly getting tired of, particularly from Disney.
Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones (2019), HBO
Then you have the dwarves. Instead of casting actual little people as Snow Whites seven friends, Disney caved to pressure from actor Peter Dinklage, who said that casting little people in the roles would be offensive. It should be noted that currently just about every major Hollywood role made for little people goes to Dinklage.
Disney went on to cast seven diverse actors (only one of which was a little person) to play the roles, but reversed course after a set photo was mocked relentlessly by the entire internet. It has since gone with seven CGI characters that have become the laughing stock of the film world.
Then you have Snow White herself, played by Rachel Zegler.
Zegler is an outspoken activist whose incendiary rhetoric has incensed an already agitated fanbase time and time again since this movie went into production. She loudly and proudly criticized the original 1937 film, insinuating that it had sexist themes surrounding love and marriage.
Rachel Zegler as Snow White in Snow White (2025), Walt Disney Studios
She noted proudly that her version of Snow White wouldn’t be saved by the prince or dream of true love. Rather, she would be dreaming of becoming “the leader she always knew she could be.”
She also referred to Snow White’s prince as “a man who literally stalks her” before calling it weird in a moment that has become an infamous meme.
Zegler also used the film’s last trailer as a soapbox to get her opinions out regarding conflict in the Middle East. When commenting on the widely despised trailer several months ago, Zegler ended her social media post by saying “Free Palestine.”
It should be noted that her co-star in Snow White, Gal Gadot, is a veteran of the Israeli army.
Rachel Zegler via Good Morning America YouTube
Then, following the US presidential election last month, Zegler went on a wild social media tirade in which she appeared to wish harm or misfortune on president-elect Donald Trump and his supporters.
“I shouldn’t be this shocked,” she said of the election results. “But I am. I am heartbroken for my friends who awoke fear this morning. And I am here with you. To cry, to yell, to hug. To wax poetic on how the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forward. This loss should not have been. And it certainly should not have been by so many votes. I echo Ethel Cain’s statement more than anything. May Trump supporters and Trump himself never know peace.”
Rachel Zegler as Maria in 20th Century Studios’ WEST SIDE STORY. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2021 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Zegler issued an apology a few days after backlash against her comments reached a fever pitch. However, certain inconsistencies between the rant and the apology have led many to wonder whether she actually wrote it in the first place.
Honor Gillies as Barb Azure, Konstantin Taffet as Clerk Carmine and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Photo Credit: Murray Close
Snow White has gone through several expensive reshoots, which has ballooned the budget of the film to somewhere in the neighborhood of a half billion dollars. That means Disney is looking at a major money loss should this movie fail.
And with such a stark like to dislike ratio, many wonder how it could possibly succeed.
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