Ahh, back when clickbait had to scourge for fake things instead of just boiling 1000 gallons of water.
Lmao
Submitted 2 months ago by InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The original Aladdin story in One Thousand and One Nights is set in China (Aladdin is also Chinese), is based on a middle eastern folk tale, and was written and added to the book by a Frenchman. And then it’s most recognizable incarnation (at least to a western audience) migrates the setting and characters to a fictional Arabic kingdom and gives him an American white guy voice. The character, Aladdin’s, cultural identity as we know it is a little all over the place.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
An American white guy voice from the 90s
Aladdin is the most stereotypical, tv trope, radalicious, woahhhh, duuude voice
It’s like one or two steps away from being a Ninja turtle.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And part of the reason the setting is almost never China in adaptations is that the original 1001 Nights version of the story is very much set in China in name only, with the setting being modeled after the Middle East anyway. I mean, there are two jinns, a sultan, and the sorcerer is from Morocco. And when characters are actually named, they have decidedly non-Chinese names like Mustapha.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Mr. Worldwide
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ok, I never thought I will type “Aladdin yaoi” in my search engine, but here we are. There are far more Aladdin x Hercules hentai than I expected, so I couldn’t find where this exact screenshot is coming from.
Korne127@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reverse image search?
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TinEye searched over 83.3 billion images but didn’t find any matches for your search image.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like this kind of bullshit is a distraction from actual criticisms of the way the movie Aladdin depicts the Middle East.
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
“Where they cut off your ear
If they don’t like your face
It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home.”
For some reason they kept the “barbaric” part.
GreenShimada@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A Palestinian friend once went on this mini rant about how Aladdin wasn’t even Middle-Eastern. Al Addin (according to the friend) means “The Easterner.” So Aladdin should have been Indian or Korean or something.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TIL from comments here that Aladdin was originally set in China, so this is very plausible.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, the origination of the story is a mess to begin with so of course it’s going to misrepresent things, this comment kinda goes into the details a bit - lemmy.world/comment/23310329
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, otherwise we get along 🎵
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah yes, the two races: poor and white.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Oh so I’m mixed race.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 2 months ago
You’re a furry, doomed to be either suspiciously wealthy or flat broke
No inbetween
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i think the us president said that a few years ago
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
That’s not a hair on my screen
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Maybe it is a hair on your screen because I’m not seeing what you’re seeing.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Okay. The Aladdin thing. THAT’S NOT FUCKING
And yet it’s literally a blowjob. Checkmate (/s)
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“I did not have sexual relations with that demigod.”
Madu@fedinsfw.app 2 months ago
This reminded me of the crush I had as a kid on Jasmine and that rule34 is a thing… Fuck yeah!
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol how did the comment or know the porn movie and shot from it so quickly?
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
Quickly?
The post lists the date and time. Comment is relative time. That means greater than 24 hours
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The comments here feel like the lefts version of complaining when a kids movie gets the wrong culture put into a lead role and the right complains… Like when the right complained about the Little Mermaid.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So by your logic, Ariel being played by a black actress is the same thing John Wayne playing an Asian person while squinting?
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What? I think you may be confused as to what I wrote.
5ha99y@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Even though, if it were true, if he would only roam around in the castle and in the shade, he becomes paler. As a poor man living in the streets especially in such a warm region, you get pretty brown relatively fast. This accounts as true for people from this region especially, because they are basically white in skin tone. Their melatonin just rises (and that relatively quickly), because they are often in the sun. I know that, because I am turkish myself. I can be potato white but get pretty brown relatively fast when summer comes around and I am outside a lot.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There were fee more, non-subtle stuff too tbf.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anon is a cartoon expert
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Even if it wasn’t different media.
“Look guys! Here’s Aladdin in a dark alley in the evening and then later he’s in the open air in broad daylight and the fucking cartoonists colored his skin lighter!”
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know right
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oh, but you’re forgetting that any attempt to apply basic reasoning or logic when someone is trying to paint something as racist makes you a racist…
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This guy social medias
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
could make his blue shirt gold as well