Will Smith’s Favorite Genie Meme Is A Cursed Sight To Behold

Will Smith is a corny dad, but he’s also With It (it’s why we love him). He enjoys a good meme now and then, even when he’s the butt of the joke. The internet has been littered with cursed images of IRL Genie from Disney’s live-action Aladdin remake ever since we got our first look at the blue dude. The jokes and memes, many of the Sinbad and Shrek variety (now there’s a buddy comedy I would pay to see), haven’t stopped since, and Smith, for one, is a big fan.

“It was very funny,” Smith told Empire magazine about the online reaction. “There was a Sonic the Hedgehog / Genie frog. Everything is under such critical scrutiny. I came up in an era where there was no internet. It’s a new thing that I’m trying to get a handle on.” Sonic Sure. Genie That checks out. A frog Huh. I haven’t seen any mammal-genie-amphibian abominations (and I shudder to think that poor Pepe might be involved), only this nightmare of an image.