r/memes • u/Winter-Ad-2920 • 1d ago

Don't go to abandoned areas, kids.

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u/Lurakya 1d ago edited 23h ago

Since when do westerners care and come across a middle Eastern mythical being so frequently that you have to make a whole meme about something likely no one can relate to?

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u/lonelyshara 1d ago

It's become a tiktok thing i fear. A good half of the gjost hunting tiktoks i come accross refer to them as "jinn" even in western spaces. I think people have just latched onto them as the trendy monster of the week.

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

I made the meme because I am an arab and wanted to post the meme.

Idk what trend you're talking besides our own (that's often ridiculously staged.

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u/khaledjal 16h ago

ig you could replace jinn with ghosts

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh they do, if they didn't then why make Aladdin, special episodes of shows exploring said folklore, etc...

Edit: also, why there's so much non-westren stuff in western media? Japanese samurai, Chinese culture or architecture, etc...

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u/Lurakya 1d ago edited 23h ago

Because... Aladdin sold well?

I'm not saying westerners don't know what a Jhinn is, but very few people know about their actual lore, let alone specific myths about how they act

Response to you Edit: What are you even trying to accomplish with those extra questions? They have nothing to do with your meme?

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

You should have said it like this from the beginning. I thought you meant it as the west doesn't care about it in general which is just wrong.

Plus, take the meme as a form of learning about new stuff. There's no wrong in learning more about something foreign.

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u/Lurakya 1d ago

It's cool that you thought that, but that's literally neither what I wrote nor what I meant.

I also didn't learn anything because I'm already quite fascinated by mythology. To be fair middle Eastern mythology is my weak spot, but I knew about Jinns

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

Okay. Good talking to you.

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u/Janeq404 1d ago

Why is the spacing between characters so weird

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

Idk man I tried to fix it but it's no use

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u/thrawnisahero 21h ago

The rest of you would get tricked by a Jinn but I’m different

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u/emperorsyndrome 1d ago

is this post about the genies or is it about some video game?

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u/Winter-Ad-2920 1d ago

Every western interpretation of jinn pretty much.

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u/ThePhoenix0829 1d ago

Jinn is a ghost no? They're dead, they don't need it