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june 1 2023 The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has altered its rating system for Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, as reported by Variety.
The American entertainment publication said IMDb had found “unusual voting activity” following a racist backlash after the casting of a black actress as Ariel.
The film, which was released in May, has allegedly become the latest target of “review bombing”. This is when users with multiple accounts flood a production with negative reviews or use bots to create new ones.
Since its release, The Little Mermaid had at the time of writing received 41,000 user ratings on IMDb. While the film has earned a positive 7/10 average score, more than 15,000 of the ratings are 1 star.
Variety reported that IMDb had placed a notice on the film’s ratings page. It said that the site’s “rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.”
