Barbie Is Officially Woke And A You Tube Vlogger ( HBO)
MARINA DEL REY, California She s got brown hair and brown eyes, and she s dressed in a black Lycra suit. That s right: It s the famous Mattel doll Barbie, in the flesh. And she s woke as hell. Her name is America Young, and for the past three years, she s donned a motioncapture suit every month as part of Mattels effort to bring the 59yearold icon into the digital age. On shoot days, Young is presented with a script that she quickly reviews and acts out in Barbies bedroom, an empty white room but for a few sets of stacked apple boxes that represent furniture. As Young performs, animators take notes as they work to turn the stick figure on their screens into the familiar blonde supplemented with a human edge. Despite Barbie s universal fame, kids werent playing with her like they used to, Mattel says they want iPads, instead. So in 2015, Barbie got her own vlog. Today, she has nearly 5 million subscribers on YouTube, an audience that
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