Ahh, back when clickbait had to scourge for fake things instead of just boiling 1000 gallons of water.
Lmao
Submitted 1 month ago by InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml to [deleted]
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LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Mr. Worldwide
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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 1 month ago
Reverse image search?
idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
TinEye searched over 83.3 billion images but didn’t find any matches for your search image.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
TIL from comments here that Aladdin was originally set in China, so this is very plausible.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat, otherwise we get along 🎵
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah yes, the two races: poor and white.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Oh so I’m mixed race.
EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 month ago
You’re a furry, doomed to be either suspiciously wealthy or flat broke
No inbetween
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
i think the us president said that a few years ago
tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
That’s not a hair on my screen
JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Maybe it is a hair on your screen because I’m not seeing what you’re seeing.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Okay. The Aladdin thing. THAT’S NOT FUCKING
And yet it’s literally a blowjob. Checkmate (/s)
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“I did not have sexual relations with that demigod.”
Madu@fedinsfw.app 1 month ago
This reminded me of the crush I had as a kid on Jasmine and that rule34 is a thing… Fuck yeah!
5ha99y@lemmus.org 3 weeks 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.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 month ago
lol how did the comment or know the porn movie and shot from it so quickly?
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 month ago
Quickly?
The post lists the date and time. Comment is relative time. That means greater than 24 hours
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
What? I think you may be confused as to what I wrote.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There were fee more, non-subtle stuff too tbf.
ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Anon is a cartoon expert
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
I know right
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month 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 1 month ago
This guy social medias
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
could make his blue shirt gold as well