WATCH | 'She looks like me': Grab your tissues for these moving reactions to Disney's black Ariel

• In 2019, Walt Disney announced Halle Bailey would be the main character in 'The Little Mermaid'.
  
• Now, the company has released the trailer for the long-awaited Disney princess movie.
• Parents have been taking videos of their little ones reacting to the mermaid being Black.

The importance of representation has been a popular topic for years now, and we're very glad to see it go from discussion to action. This week, the trailer for the long-awaited movie 'The Little Mermaid' came out, and social media has been in a frenzy since. The trailer has already reached more than 14 million views on YouTube.

Now, you may ask why a Walt Disney movie is such a big deal. Well, it's because, for the very first time, the lead actor of a popular Disney movie is a black girl with dreadlocks. She's award-winning singer and actor Halle Bailey, from the duo Chloe & Halle. Upon the trailer's release, parents took to social media to share their baby girls' reactions to it, and those moments have proven more than ever that representation matters.  

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Grab your tissues because you are about to get emotional and, most importantly, feel goosebumps.

"She's like me"

"I think she's brown"

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"She's black! Oh My Gosh"

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"She looks like me"

"Wooow!!"

"She's blaaaack!"