Surprisingly (or not), it actually goes back around to my initial statement. It’s not so much criticism, rather, it’s people engaging in internet culture and misinterpreting fiction left and right and making demands that it bend to their agenda, because cartoons are all they watch and want to look woke for it, and he’s not afraid to call them out.
I don’t think he has a hate boner for her, he’s just fed up with some people demanding the character be something she’s not intended to be. Chloe is a textbook “mean girl” (think Bonnie from Kim Possible, for example). She talks down to anyone who’s not on her family’s level of wealth/social status, and there was once an incident where she stereotyped Marinette. As with any antagonistic character, there are going to be apologists (or stans, as the kids say), who think that this character can do no wrong and deserves to be “redeemed,” even when there’s nothing in canon that points towards that making sense, at least not at the moment. Because this is the internet in the 2020s, people’s way of expressing their personal qualms with fiction is to spam the person in charge. While the best thing would be to not acknowledge the trolls at all, we’ve seen that almost nobody working in animation can stay off of social media. Some of his statements don’t always land well, but I don’t think he’s got bad intentions. It’s more a matter of neither side being able to stop talking. But I do give him props for at least trying to point out fandom stupidity.
That aside, my main point is that the show itself just comes off as a good time and doesn’t try to over complicate things. It’s just a magical girl/superhero story, with interesting lore and likeable characters, and it doesn’t try to be more than what it is, or to pander towards older viewers or the “woke“ crowd, despite having good representation in a lot of areas, so it’s definitely a breath of fresh air that only a couple of other recent animated series have pulled off. And, as mentioned in my initial statement, boy does it get flack for being chill. It’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but for anyone it genuinely appeals to, it’s pretty damn good.
