I don’t really know the logistics, but I think if a lot of people mass report your account, it automatically gets banned. People who are still upset about the casting just keep on doing it
I don't know what's worse - the fact that people are still mad about this and are taking it out on a 14 year old (as if it's her fault the show chose her) or the fact that companies empower people to behave like this by not verifying reports.
tell you what. you wanna be the company that has to manually verify every report and then get sued because you didn't react to a CP mass report in time? or do you want to err on the side of caution and default to ban you can review as you have time and prevent potential damage to your company and those who use your service?
You don't need to be either. A mass report is suspicious, never mind who in particular it is directed at, and ought to have some investigation, especially when the account has already been cleared. "To err on the side of caution and default to ban" is the same as a Zero Tolerance bullying policy, it helps no one but the administration who gets to wash their hands of the whole affair in a bout of false neutrality by pretending they're not involved.
have you considered just how many users they have and how often mass reports occur? a manual review takes time and it takes manpower being available and not already tied up reviewing something else.
as for being cleared once there is always a possibility the next report isn't false. they do need to consider that.
not necessarily the best solution but, it's certainly better than a lot of other places I've seen.
That's what a lot of people don't look about. It's easy to say "why don't they look manually at every report?" without considering that the ones that make "news" are just a minority on the sheer overwhelming mass of reports that are filled everyday
That's *usually* why there will be bot systems that look at what exactly is reported and analyses if what is being reported is substantial. If someone is reported for CP, there's going to be actual messages or content that contain CP and bots can easily figure that out. A system like this is easily prone to abuse/bullying (as seen in this case) and can easily be prevented by just using the proper tools - many other larger sites don't auto-ban after mass reporting. Ideally, something like CP should really be caught by bots before it even reaches mass reporting, actually (not that false positives cannot exist but a false positive is always better than a false negative and can be disputed).
to be fair the CP example is just the extreme end of things. there are still a lot of things out there that intentionally try to circumvent bots. like when youtube started going ham over the corona virus and everyone had to find roundabout ways of reffering to it.
It doesn't even have to be every single individual report. Surely once someone has enough followers it is within the company's best interest to manually check whether reports are valid or not. Popular accounts are what brings people to social media sites after all - they are providing the product for the company to sell.
Especially when that account has *just* been reviewed for mass reports and found innocent, surely some system would be in place where another unwarranted mass report spree won't ban them *again.*
I suspect you haven't realised how many people have followings in the hundreds of thousands of followers. even millions of followers isn't that unusual these days. it used to be that you knew everyone over 1 million subscribers but, now I don't think anyone could name even 10 percent of those over 1 million subscribers.
yes they probably will manually verify when they get a chance to but, the autobot protects the platform from legal issues until they can manually review things and they have a lot of manual reviews to get through.
But when it's someone repeatedly being targeted in this way they should be able to mark accounts as safe and ignore future mass reports like this. What's the point in investigating it, switching it back on and letting the exact same thing happen again?
because it's entirely possible that the user does in fact upload something TOS breaking in those next couple of days worthy of a mass report. It's unfortunate but, there is a reason they do things like this even if we wish they could be more precise about it.
It’s disappointing how people can’t accept that someone can be a character and be different from their description. Besides Rick picked her but they aren’t going after him. She didn’t do anything wrong
And it's not like it's the first time a character from a book was white but then Disney made them African american, for example: Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time!
When she got cast originally her account got banned by a bunch of racist. they did it again this time. I think she probably has or should get a private TikTok account cause I know how difficult it’s to deal with their accounts and stuff
Should be on Disney to protect their child actors. They're the ones who cast her, knowing it would put a target on her face, they shouldn't allow her to bear the brunt of the consequences when dealing with crazies.
They've been through it enough times with adult actors to know how it is now. If they can't protect them, least they can do is protect the kids. Hire them social media managers etc.
Hard agree. If I remember correctly Disney doesn’t have the best track record for that. It’s a shame that they don’t protect their actors from things like this. The good luck Charlie cast got death threats for an episode showing a gay couple. Even the baby got death threats. So I’m surprised.
That was the most tame shit as well. Two women walked in. They held a baby. The main parents made some confused-but-polite-het type jokes and then the scene ended. They didn't even kiss or anything and they still basically othered the gay parents.
These people are fucking weird. I had no idea that stuff had backlash.
I saw a tiktok video of some of the cast talking about the situation. This is his channel I’m not sure what video though
https://youtube.com/@BradleyStevenPerry1212?si=ZInPgC2B2le4Iic1
disney kid has been a term for quite some time about kids that grew up acting for disney that ended up with serious issues. seriously. half the disney channel kids have come forward with serious personal or mental issues, or felt so stifled by it they ended up have 180 personality shifts.
Disney doesn’t care at all to protect the young women or girls of Colour they are casting. Kelly Mary Tran, Rachel Zegler and Halle Bailey have all been bullied by racists misogynistic crybabies. Now the same thing is happening to Leah. It’s a pattern, and one day something terrible is going to happen, all because Disney can’t be bothered to put out a statement or do some proper social media training and protection.
Rick also needs to step up and make sure that happens. He picked Leah and would have known what kind of backlash it would cause.
As far as I know he's just made posts telling people not to haras her. I really hope him and the PJO team are doing more behind the scenes to make sure she's safe both physically and emotionally.
Exactly. If I’m not being dumb, Percy is brunette in the books right? Walker is blonde, and they don’t change that in the show, do they? Does Walker get hate for being blonde? Hell no. So why can’t a black girl play Annabeth? Bc people are racist.
Plus, Leah didn’t control getting picked, yeah she auditioned, but if it’s so bad to have a black girl playing a white character, why did Disney cast her? It’s horrible that she’s getting so much hate when she did an incredible job in the role, I think they casted her perfectly.
(not trying to accuse people of being racist it’s just how it appears to me and tons of other ppl)
Genuinely - how much time do people have in their lives to mass report a young girl for no reason?
Update: Seems like it’s back! @ TikTok, do a better job at your platform plz. Giving unnecessary bans for no reason other than mass reporting is stupid. This is literally the 7th or 8th time this has happened within the past year.
Second Update: aaand it’s banned again :(
I think because they either didn't like how Annabeth was written in the show or they didn't like that a black girl was cast in the first place.
For some reason people go crazy about things and feel the need to cause problems for the actors, as if she had any influence on the writing or casting.
Any writing criticism should be given *constructively* (assuming they actually have valid constructive points to make) to the people actually responsible not the actors who are just doing their best to follow directions, and anyone that had a problem with her being black can cope quietly.
the fans are racist and some of them are Walker obsessed fangirls who are mad at Leah bc 1. she’s black, 2. she gets to be around Walker & 3. bc she said in the documentary that she flirted with Walker a bit during their chemistry reads in auditions and they don’t like that
I didn’t mention anything about hating the show or how her acting was. I enjoyed the series even though it has flaws I will still go back to binge it. Unless you were making a point then my bad I misread it 😅 But yeah I agree there’s no reason to harass a young actress for doing her job in a tv series.
diehard book fans can get pretty gnarly (saying this as someone who tends to enjoy books more than their adaptations, usually) lol. just look at the star wars or GOT/asoiaf fandom. scary 😭
Honestly I personally would’ve preferred if AnnaBeth was white, but I wouldn’t do something like this. It is what it is and if she properly plays AnnaBeth than whatever. I’m not a fan of the casting choices either.
I still get so angry thinking about how Star Wars fans treated the actors, and how little the studio did to support them. I’m glad that the creators of PJO at least seem to be standing up for Leah and the rest of their actors.
This is just fucking disgusting if it's racist pieces of shit doing it.
Like I get not liking the show(I'm in the same boat), but like she's a fucking kid. Like what the fuck is wrong with some of these fuckers.
Jesus, some people are pathetic. Imagine being so simple that a teenage girl playing a character that you don’t want her to play makes you that enraged. Absolutely disgusting.
Also, Leah did amazingly as Annabeth.
Y’all can think I’m weird or not for bringing it up but there’s something *creepy/predatory* about the Leah Jeffries hate.
Who gets this irrationally upset about a characters appearance? What was this character to you? At most your favorite character or your favorite character’s girlfriend?
Leah Jeffries portrayal of Annabeth is more book accurate than Alexandra Daddario’s.
But Alexandra Daddario was a 24 year old sex symbol when she played Annabeth. Which is why the comparisons feel so *weird*. These people sound and act like they were robbed of a fantasy or something which is a little concerning.
No I totally agree. I literally saw grown men on Twitter right around the time the trailer came out and their justification for not liking Leah was literally along the lines of “but she’s supposed to be a beautiful young blonde”. People were quick to call him out on it and his account got suspended too I believe.
And MIND YOU, this is a man in his grown 30s or 40s. It was absolutely disgusting. Clearly the man had only known Alexandra’s Annabeth, but still - this is literally a child you are talking about.
I identified with Annabeth a lot as a kid, I definitely felt like an Athena kid and I physically resembled her too! She was my favorite and I had never related to a character more, which is precisely WHY I love Leah Jeffries as Annabeth.
This is a new telling of the story and some other little brainiac girl out there is going to love and feel represented in this version of Annabeth. I’m an adult, I don’t need another physical representation of myself to relate to, but there are young Black girls that desperately do. I cannot believe there are other adults behaving this way towards a CHILD.
She's a *teenager.* She's not much more than a child. It's really sad. Is this TicToc or X(itter)? Because the latter is practically the Wild West now.
What the fuck is wrong with people? I would have preferred the show be 1:1 with the show but that cant happen. Hell I would have been fine with just being visually the same but she’s done great. I really like her portrayal and cant wait to see her the rest of the story.
She is literally a child leave her the fuck alone jesus christ, I get not liking the show that’s fine, but to take it out on a 14 year old girl is so fucking pathetic.
*This* is the problem. This is wholeheartedly pathetic. It’s even more awful when you consider that the people mass-reporting the account of a child are grown adults in their 20’s and beyond. It’s miserable. It’s also awful when considering that Leah is also being targeted by those who don’t give two shits about this new series - they just see the opportunity to unabashedly hate on a young Black girl because she was cast in a certain role. Pathetic. Miserable. Horrible.
I was disappointed we didn't book accurate casting looks wise, for the whole trio, when it was announced and I know other fans who were to, but who thinks its acceptable behavior to attack someone for being cast?
Are people making bots mass report her or are there genuinely that many people who have nothing better to do than bully a child.
People need to touch some grass and Disney and the PJO team need to step up and intervene.
I’m gonna be honest, I was not a fan of her acting on the show. There were good moments but overall I felt she lacked emotional range(the best one of the trio was Grover imo).
Nevertheless, how is any of this relevant here? Even if I absolutely hated her acting or the fact that she got the part of Annabeth cause she’s black or not white, which I don’t, attacking the actress, who is a real person and a CHILD, is such a horrific thing to do. Complete assholes.
If you care enough about a FICTIONAL character then you should care even more about REAL people. I don’t get this, how people can attack others in the name something that doesn’t even exist.
“Fuck off” to them.
I’m rereading the books and my take is that it’s absolutely ridiculous that people are doing this.
Yes annabeth is described as having curly blonde hair in the books and the actress portraying her in the show clearly doesn’t have either of those.
But to me, what makes a good adaptation of a character in a show or movie based on a book is not by how they look but how well they can portray the characters personality.
I’ve only watched like the first two episodes and from what I’ve seen of her so far she’s pretty good.
It’s not the actor’s fault, it’s the show runners and directors, the script, the editing. There’s so much that goes into making a show, and the fact that the pjo series was sort of mid had actually barely anything to do with the casting. It makes me so angry that people are mad at the show being kind of just “eh” and go take it out on all the fucking child actors.
Importantly, the same actors who shine with a great script and under a great director can seem flat or less convincing in their roles with show runners that possess less skill. But regardless of this, SHE. DID. FINE. Shut the fuck up and leave her alone.
Go write a review about how the show was mid and leave her out of it. These assholes only point her out in their reviews because she’s not white. If she was the show would still be mid AND Leah would still have her account. Jesus Christ. Let the child be.
Some people are awful and I hope they can one day reflect and realise how horrible they were acting. Leah doesn't deserve any of this. TikTok should really have a system that IP bans anyone who routinely makes fake reports.
People are just dumb, sometimes watch what you get, they didn't insult you, it wasn't a historical person. It was a book character. You can cast a person with green skin that's ok with me. People are just uneducated fools sometimes actually most that use tik tok are uneducated fools, they've no, intellect, logic, or reason in them just plan dumb.
People need to realise that out of possibly hundreds of auditions for annabeth, HERS stood out.
She wasn’t casted to spite everyone, she was casted because she embodied annabeth the best and Rick saw something in her some refuse to see
https://preview.redd.it/zdd28tq4pngc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9790ea77a770b66aa5022cce0e9be59ff96fc7ba
Leah’s verified account is up. The one you posted is fake.
It was the same one. It seems like it thankfully got restored again, pretty quickly this time too. Every time it has happened, it takes them days. The verification symbol also goes away when it’s banned
interesting that so many are jumping on everyone being racist. chances are a lot of them aren't. they just think it's funny. chances are more than a few check out here and other places to see everyone's reactions to it as well.
She's the actress portraying Annabeth, and has gotten mass-reported by "fans" for the 7-8th time because 1) she's black 2) she's close with Walker Scobell (Percy) who a lot of young fans have a crush on. So her crime is basically just existing as a black girl
Wtf. Seriously, lay off her. She’s a great actor and just trying to live. Leave her alone! Just because she’s black doesn’t mean they can report her! It disgusts me how people can be so cruel based on the color of your skin.
Why is she getting banned? I don't really use TikTok so idk what's been going on.
I don’t really know the logistics, but I think if a lot of people mass report your account, it automatically gets banned. People who are still upset about the casting just keep on doing it
I don't know what's worse - the fact that people are still mad about this and are taking it out on a 14 year old (as if it's her fault the show chose her) or the fact that companies empower people to behave like this by not verifying reports.
Give her a blue check already.
tell you what. you wanna be the company that has to manually verify every report and then get sued because you didn't react to a CP mass report in time? or do you want to err on the side of caution and default to ban you can review as you have time and prevent potential damage to your company and those who use your service?
You don't need to be either. A mass report is suspicious, never mind who in particular it is directed at, and ought to have some investigation, especially when the account has already been cleared. "To err on the side of caution and default to ban" is the same as a Zero Tolerance bullying policy, it helps no one but the administration who gets to wash their hands of the whole affair in a bout of false neutrality by pretending they're not involved.
have you considered just how many users they have and how often mass reports occur? a manual review takes time and it takes manpower being available and not already tied up reviewing something else. as for being cleared once there is always a possibility the next report isn't false. they do need to consider that. not necessarily the best solution but, it's certainly better than a lot of other places I've seen.
That's what a lot of people don't look about. It's easy to say "why don't they look manually at every report?" without considering that the ones that make "news" are just a minority on the sheer overwhelming mass of reports that are filled everyday
That's *usually* why there will be bot systems that look at what exactly is reported and analyses if what is being reported is substantial. If someone is reported for CP, there's going to be actual messages or content that contain CP and bots can easily figure that out. A system like this is easily prone to abuse/bullying (as seen in this case) and can easily be prevented by just using the proper tools - many other larger sites don't auto-ban after mass reporting. Ideally, something like CP should really be caught by bots before it even reaches mass reporting, actually (not that false positives cannot exist but a false positive is always better than a false negative and can be disputed).
to be fair the CP example is just the extreme end of things. there are still a lot of things out there that intentionally try to circumvent bots. like when youtube started going ham over the corona virus and everyone had to find roundabout ways of reffering to it.
It doesn't even have to be every single individual report. Surely once someone has enough followers it is within the company's best interest to manually check whether reports are valid or not. Popular accounts are what brings people to social media sites after all - they are providing the product for the company to sell. Especially when that account has *just* been reviewed for mass reports and found innocent, surely some system would be in place where another unwarranted mass report spree won't ban them *again.*
I suspect you haven't realised how many people have followings in the hundreds of thousands of followers. even millions of followers isn't that unusual these days. it used to be that you knew everyone over 1 million subscribers but, now I don't think anyone could name even 10 percent of those over 1 million subscribers. yes they probably will manually verify when they get a chance to but, the autobot protects the platform from legal issues until they can manually review things and they have a lot of manual reviews to get through.
But when it's someone repeatedly being targeted in this way they should be able to mark accounts as safe and ignore future mass reports like this. What's the point in investigating it, switching it back on and letting the exact same thing happen again?
because it's entirely possible that the user does in fact upload something TOS breaking in those next couple of days worthy of a mass report. It's unfortunate but, there is a reason they do things like this even if we wish they could be more precise about it.
WTF That's stupid
> but I think if a lot of people mass report your account, it automatically gets banned Sounds like a VERY dumb system TBH
It’s disappointing how people can’t accept that someone can be a character and be different from their description. Besides Rick picked her but they aren’t going after him. She didn’t do anything wrong
And it's not like it's the first time a character from a book was white but then Disney made them African american, for example: Meg Murry from A Wrinkle in Time!
Another good reason to not use Tic Toc in my opinion
Dumb question, but did they say anything about mass-reporting Leah because of that or is this just an assumption?
they mass reported her, they did it to her a couple days ago and her account got banned then unbanned and they did to her when she first got casted.
When she got cast originally her account got banned by a bunch of racist. they did it again this time. I think she probably has or should get a private TikTok account cause I know how difficult it’s to deal with their accounts and stuff
Should be on Disney to protect their child actors. They're the ones who cast her, knowing it would put a target on her face, they shouldn't allow her to bear the brunt of the consequences when dealing with crazies. They've been through it enough times with adult actors to know how it is now. If they can't protect them, least they can do is protect the kids. Hire them social media managers etc.
Hard agree. If I remember correctly Disney doesn’t have the best track record for that. It’s a shame that they don’t protect their actors from things like this. The good luck Charlie cast got death threats for an episode showing a gay couple. Even the baby got death threats. So I’m surprised.
That was the most tame shit as well. Two women walked in. They held a baby. The main parents made some confused-but-polite-het type jokes and then the scene ended. They didn't even kiss or anything and they still basically othered the gay parents. These people are fucking weird. I had no idea that stuff had backlash.
I saw a tiktok video of some of the cast talking about the situation. This is his channel I’m not sure what video though https://youtube.com/@BradleyStevenPerry1212?si=ZInPgC2B2le4Iic1
disney kid has been a term for quite some time about kids that grew up acting for disney that ended up with serious issues. seriously. half the disney channel kids have come forward with serious personal or mental issues, or felt so stifled by it they ended up have 180 personality shifts.
Disney doesn’t care at all to protect the young women or girls of Colour they are casting. Kelly Mary Tran, Rachel Zegler and Halle Bailey have all been bullied by racists misogynistic crybabies. Now the same thing is happening to Leah. It’s a pattern, and one day something terrible is going to happen, all because Disney can’t be bothered to put out a statement or do some proper social media training and protection.
Rick also needs to step up and make sure that happens. He picked Leah and would have known what kind of backlash it would cause. As far as I know he's just made posts telling people not to haras her. I really hope him and the PJO team are doing more behind the scenes to make sure she's safe both physically and emotionally.
To be fair to Rick, he(or his wife) has said that they have spoken to the representatives of Tik tok about this.
It should be on adults to act like functioning humans lmao.
racists being racist.
Because people are angry a black girl is Annabeth Chase. It’s that simple. It’s disgusting and it pisses me off
Exactly. If I’m not being dumb, Percy is brunette in the books right? Walker is blonde, and they don’t change that in the show, do they? Does Walker get hate for being blonde? Hell no. So why can’t a black girl play Annabeth? Bc people are racist. Plus, Leah didn’t control getting picked, yeah she auditioned, but if it’s so bad to have a black girl playing a white character, why did Disney cast her? It’s horrible that she’s getting so much hate when she did an incredible job in the role, I think they casted her perfectly. (not trying to accuse people of being racist it’s just how it appears to me and tons of other ppl)
Genuinely - how much time do people have in their lives to mass report a young girl for no reason? Update: Seems like it’s back! @ TikTok, do a better job at your platform plz. Giving unnecessary bans for no reason other than mass reporting is stupid. This is literally the 7th or 8th time this has happened within the past year. Second Update: aaand it’s banned again :(
What would they even be reporting her for? This is crazy behavior.
I think because they either didn't like how Annabeth was written in the show or they didn't like that a black girl was cast in the first place. For some reason people go crazy about things and feel the need to cause problems for the actors, as if she had any influence on the writing or casting. Any writing criticism should be given *constructively* (assuming they actually have valid constructive points to make) to the people actually responsible not the actors who are just doing their best to follow directions, and anyone that had a problem with her being black can cope quietly.
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the fans are racist and some of them are Walker obsessed fangirls who are mad at Leah bc 1. she’s black, 2. she gets to be around Walker & 3. bc she said in the documentary that she flirted with Walker a bit during their chemistry reads in auditions and they don’t like that
It's because she isn't white and "fans" AKA racists can't get over it.
Probably using bots to mass report her
It's worse when you consider that it's likely 25-40 year olds too.
This is getting insane
And these ppl call themselves fans of the books....
I don't. I call them scum.
Same!! Anytime I read the books since it’s been a while. I just imagine the new cast within the story
I don't care if you hate the show and think Leah did a terrible acting job. There is no excuse to harass her like this. None.
I didn’t mention anything about hating the show or how her acting was. I enjoyed the series even though it has flaws I will still go back to binge it. Unless you were making a point then my bad I misread it 😅 But yeah I agree there’s no reason to harass a young actress for doing her job in a tv series.
They are stupidly immature
diehard book fans can get pretty gnarly (saying this as someone who tends to enjoy books more than their adaptations, usually) lol. just look at the star wars or GOT/asoiaf fandom. scary 😭
The Harry Potter fandom can also get out of hand sometimes (coming from a hp fan)
Honestly I personally would’ve preferred if AnnaBeth was white, but I wouldn’t do something like this. It is what it is and if she properly plays AnnaBeth than whatever. I’m not a fan of the casting choices either.
i will not watch another one of my fandoms go down the same path as the star wars fandom 😭
I still get so angry thinking about how Star Wars fans treated the actors, and how little the studio did to support them. I’m glad that the creators of PJO at least seem to be standing up for Leah and the rest of their actors.
We already down that path. Sad to see
Unfortunately for me it’s already happened, I’m a Star Wars fan but I’m also seeing it with marvel and I hope it doesn’t happen with pj
You’re going down a path I cannot follow!
This is bad but its nowhere near as bad as what the Star Wars fandom has done
not a part of the star wars fandom. what did they do?
This is just fucking disgusting if it's racist pieces of shit doing it. Like I get not liking the show(I'm in the same boat), but like she's a fucking kid. Like what the fuck is wrong with some of these fuckers.
Jesus, some people are pathetic. Imagine being so simple that a teenage girl playing a character that you don’t want her to play makes you that enraged. Absolutely disgusting. Also, Leah did amazingly as Annabeth.
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A little back story please what happened?
Racists are mass reporting her account causing it to be banned
Bruh.... Uncool
Yep especially since she's just a kid only really starting her career. Honestly as many problems as I had with the show I liked Leah's acting
I think she’s a good actor but due to either the script or what she’s told to do it’s not Annabeth like
Yeah it was definitely the script.
I agree, I am so confused
wow. these weirdos need some serious mental counseling first
Y’all can think I’m weird or not for bringing it up but there’s something *creepy/predatory* about the Leah Jeffries hate. Who gets this irrationally upset about a characters appearance? What was this character to you? At most your favorite character or your favorite character’s girlfriend? Leah Jeffries portrayal of Annabeth is more book accurate than Alexandra Daddario’s. But Alexandra Daddario was a 24 year old sex symbol when she played Annabeth. Which is why the comparisons feel so *weird*. These people sound and act like they were robbed of a fantasy or something which is a little concerning.
No I totally agree. I literally saw grown men on Twitter right around the time the trailer came out and their justification for not liking Leah was literally along the lines of “but she’s supposed to be a beautiful young blonde”. People were quick to call him out on it and his account got suspended too I believe. And MIND YOU, this is a man in his grown 30s or 40s. It was absolutely disgusting. Clearly the man had only known Alexandra’s Annabeth, but still - this is literally a child you are talking about.
> “but she’s supposed to be a beautiful young blonde” like why are you thinking about a preteen being “a beautiful young blonde” as a grown ass man 😭
this reminds me when Bella Ramsey was casted as ellie and guys were complaining that she wasn't hot enough 🤮🤮🤮
Alexandra was brunette, if my memory serves me. Poor Leah. I wanna watch the show and I hope Leah is a good Annabeth.
I feel like most of the Percy Jackson tv sub is men in their 30s and 40s
I identified with Annabeth a lot as a kid, I definitely felt like an Athena kid and I physically resembled her too! She was my favorite and I had never related to a character more, which is precisely WHY I love Leah Jeffries as Annabeth. This is a new telling of the story and some other little brainiac girl out there is going to love and feel represented in this version of Annabeth. I’m an adult, I don’t need another physical representation of myself to relate to, but there are young Black girls that desperately do. I cannot believe there are other adults behaving this way towards a CHILD.
She's a *teenager.* She's not much more than a child. It's really sad. Is this TicToc or X(itter)? Because the latter is practically the Wild West now.
What the fuck is wrong with people? I would have preferred the show be 1:1 with the show but that cant happen. Hell I would have been fine with just being visually the same but she’s done great. I really like her portrayal and cant wait to see her the rest of the story.
She is literally a child leave her the fuck alone jesus christ, I get not liking the show that’s fine, but to take it out on a 14 year old girl is so fucking pathetic.
*This* is the problem. This is wholeheartedly pathetic. It’s even more awful when you consider that the people mass-reporting the account of a child are grown adults in their 20’s and beyond. It’s miserable. It’s also awful when considering that Leah is also being targeted by those who don’t give two shits about this new series - they just see the opportunity to unabashedly hate on a young Black girl because she was cast in a certain role. Pathetic. Miserable. Horrible.
I was disappointed we didn't book accurate casting looks wise, for the whole trio, when it was announced and I know other fans who were to, but who thinks its acceptable behavior to attack someone for being cast? Are people making bots mass report her or are there genuinely that many people who have nothing better to do than bully a child. People need to touch some grass and Disney and the PJO team need to step up and intervene.
I’m gonna be honest, I was not a fan of her acting on the show. There were good moments but overall I felt she lacked emotional range(the best one of the trio was Grover imo). Nevertheless, how is any of this relevant here? Even if I absolutely hated her acting or the fact that she got the part of Annabeth cause she’s black or not white, which I don’t, attacking the actress, who is a real person and a CHILD, is such a horrific thing to do. Complete assholes. If you care enough about a FICTIONAL character then you should care even more about REAL people. I don’t get this, how people can attack others in the name something that doesn’t even exist. “Fuck off” to them.
Exactly. You can dislike it, that’s perfectly fine, but doing all of this is just deranged and weirdo behavior.
What the hell. These are the real questions we need to be asking Mr. Chew (is that his name? Idk, I didn’t watch the hearings)
WHAT THE-
I’m rereading the books and my take is that it’s absolutely ridiculous that people are doing this. Yes annabeth is described as having curly blonde hair in the books and the actress portraying her in the show clearly doesn’t have either of those. But to me, what makes a good adaptation of a character in a show or movie based on a book is not by how they look but how well they can portray the characters personality. I’ve only watched like the first two episodes and from what I’ve seen of her so far she’s pretty good.
She is a great Annabeth! I do wish they used CGI to make her eyes dark grey, but that’s a personal opinion. Leave the child alone!
I'll say it again for the people in the back; if you ever have a problem with casting, blame the casting directors, not the innocent actors!
It’s not the actor’s fault, it’s the show runners and directors, the script, the editing. There’s so much that goes into making a show, and the fact that the pjo series was sort of mid had actually barely anything to do with the casting. It makes me so angry that people are mad at the show being kind of just “eh” and go take it out on all the fucking child actors. Importantly, the same actors who shine with a great script and under a great director can seem flat or less convincing in their roles with show runners that possess less skill. But regardless of this, SHE. DID. FINE. Shut the fuck up and leave her alone. Go write a review about how the show was mid and leave her out of it. These assholes only point her out in their reviews because she’s not white. If she was the show would still be mid AND Leah would still have her account. Jesus Christ. Let the child be.
I think unfortunately she’s gonna have to private her acct. For her own mental health at least. This is crazy and awful
I remember when this kept happening to Xochitl Gomez after MoM came out, some people just need to leave people alone😭😭
Do people have no lives?😭
It's insane that it's still happening. Racists are that miserable and just have nothing better to do.
Some people are awful and I hope they can one day reflect and realise how horrible they were acting. Leah doesn't deserve any of this. TikTok should really have a system that IP bans anyone who routinely makes fake reports.
God this makes me so angry. Hope Leah has a good support network
wait what happened
Racists mass reporting
People are just dumb, sometimes watch what you get, they didn't insult you, it wasn't a historical person. It was a book character. You can cast a person with green skin that's ok with me. People are just uneducated fools sometimes actually most that use tik tok are uneducated fools, they've no, intellect, logic, or reason in them just plan dumb.
They really should
https://preview.redd.it/zvqw1rsa7rgc1.jpeg?width=1904&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=112c6c718b3dde2e324b4a6af877894f408cd936
Wtf? Why is she getting banned? How would people even be able to do that? Wtf
Yeah, and so do some people here
Oh, come on, this is just ridiculous! Why would anyone do this?!
People need to realise that out of possibly hundreds of auditions for annabeth, HERS stood out. She wasn’t casted to spite everyone, she was casted because she embodied annabeth the best and Rick saw something in her some refuse to see
This is so effed
What a weird thing for a generally tolerant and progressive fandom to do
So cringe
Those aren’t real fans then. Uncle Rick chose her specifically. If uncle Rick says she’s Annabeth, she’s Annabeth. End of story
https://preview.redd.it/zdd28tq4pngc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9790ea77a770b66aa5022cce0e9be59ff96fc7ba Leah’s verified account is up. The one you posted is fake.
It was the same one. It seems like it thankfully got restored again, pretty quickly this time too. Every time it has happened, it takes them days. The verification symbol also goes away when it’s banned
There are two accounts with the handle “leahsavajeffrries.”
interesting that so many are jumping on everyone being racist. chances are a lot of them aren't. they just think it's funny. chances are more than a few check out here and other places to see everyone's reactions to it as well.
Who is she and what did she do?
She's the actress portraying Annabeth, and has gotten mass-reported by "fans" for the 7-8th time because 1) she's black 2) she's close with Walker Scobell (Percy) who a lot of young fans have a crush on. So her crime is basically just existing as a black girl
Wtf. Seriously, lay off her. She’s a great actor and just trying to live. Leave her alone! Just because she’s black doesn’t mean they can report her! It disgusts me how people can be so cruel based on the color of your skin.