When Zendaya was originally cast in Spider-Man: Homecoming, the word was that she was attached to a character named Michelle.
While there were a handful of possibilities about who that could have been, none were the sort that gets the internet buzzing.
There are still plenty of places to find “MJ classic” if you are so inclined.
As with every case that has occurred where an actual human person of color was cast to play the role of a fictional artistic image that was portrayed as white, the internet handled the news with grace and aplomb.