Ahh, back when clickbait had to scourge for fake things instead of just boiling 1000 gallons of water.
Lmao
Submitted 3 weeks ago by InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Mr. Worldwide
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Reverse image search?
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
TinEye searched over 83.3 billion images but didn’t find any matches for your search image.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
TIL from comments here that Aladdin was originally set in China, so this is very plausible.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, otherwise we get along 🎵
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ah yes, the two races: poor and white.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Oh so I’m mixed race.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
You’re a furry, doomed to be either suspiciously wealthy or flat broke
No inbetween
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i think the us president said that a few years ago
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That’s not a hair on my screen
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Maybe it is a hair on your screen because I’m not seeing what you’re seeing.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Okay. The Aladdin thing. THAT’S NOT FUCKING
And yet it’s literally a blowjob. Checkmate (/s)
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I did not have sexual relations with that demigod.”
Madu@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
lol how did the comment or know the porn movie and shot from it so quickly?
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Quickly?
The post lists the date and time. Comment is relative time. That means greater than 24 hours
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
What? I think you may be confused as to what I wrote.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There were fee more, non-subtle stuff too tbf.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anon is a cartoon expert
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
I know right
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
This guy social medias
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
could make his blue shirt gold as well