YMMV / Aliyah

• Americans Hate Tingle: Despite internet fans - particularly those on Diva Dirt - finding Aliyah underrated and misused, the NXT crowd really doesn't like her. In one match they sarcastically chanted "let's go Aliyah...no go home!" or else "A-li-yah...sucks!"
• Broken Base: The "Did You Find It?" theme song. William Regal himself didn't particularly like it and a few fans were cheering when she changed it. Others found it unique and that the following "Fatal Fantasy" was too generic. "The Cat's Meow" has been better received.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: She has a rather strong online following for someone who has only made minimal appearances on television, usually as a jobber when she does, and doesn't even have a defined character yet. Usually when Diva Dirt posts the spoilers from the NXT tapings, among the first comments will be asking if Aliyah has a match.
• Fan Nickname: As with most mononym female wrestlers in WWE, fans will sometimes use her real last name as a kayfabe one — making her Aliyah Areebi. Given that it was also her last name as Jasmin on the indies, it makes enough sense to form a full three-part name.
• Funny Moments: As she makes her entrance for a match with Xia Li, she spots Robert Stone passed out drunk and drags him to ringside to be there for her match - trying to go straight into her normal turnbuckle pose seconds after propping him up against the apron. And she wins the match...because Robert vomits into the ring and Xia Li is just that disgusted. As Aliyah goes to celebrate, the commentators wail "don't step in it!"
• Growing the Beard:
  • In 2018 she finally settled into an actual persona, started picking up wins and got actual mic time. General consensus was "Aliyah has finally arrived."
  • Hooking up with Robert Stone seems to have worked out well for her, with them becoming an entertaining Goldfish Poop Gang and being featured more regularly.
• Memetic Loser: Due to how long she was on NXT before being called up to the main roster (signed in 2015, not called up for six years), and being mostly used as a jobber in the interim.
• Moe: If it's possible for a wrestler to have such qualities. She's very endearing and adorable. On Breaking Ground she seemed to inspire this reaction from the other talent too, calling herself "the baby of NXT". Unsurprisingly she's been used a lot as someone for a nasty heel to beat on just so a top-tier star can rescue her.
• Never Live It Down:
  • Subverted. As she hadn't debuted on TV yet, few people remember the racist tweets controversy. Whenever it's brought up, it's often forgotten she was only sixteen when the tweets were made.
  • For some, she hasn't lived down her embarrassing performance on Breaking Ground.
• Testosterone Brigade: Due to her stunning beauty and Genki Girl personality out of character, Aliyah has quite the male fan following.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Has a problem of starting out a gimmick that has potential, disappearing for some time and then dropping it before it has a chance to get going.
  • The Sultry Belly Dancer character had lots of potential and would have been a good way to introduce a more positive Arab persona to the mainstream audience. Instead it was barely used and changed to a generic heel persona before she had a chance to get going.
  • Aliyah herself was criminally underutilised in 2017. Despite being able to go in the ring, she's barely featured and there's not even an attempt to develop her character. Notably she was passed over in the Mae Young Classic in favour of Bianca Bel Air and Vanessa Borne, two incredibly green developmental talents. She went back to jobber status and rarely appeared until late 2018. Her colorful Kid-Appeal Character went back to generic black and she had no persona until her 2018 return.
  • And then there's the boujee gimmick and alliance with Vanessa Borne, which looked like it was getting going. Then Aliyah was written off TV so she could have a rhinoplasty, and was back to being a jobber when she came back; the alliance quietly disappearing.
  • Some felt the third spot in The Riott Squad should have gone to Aliyah, who was in an alliance with Liv Morgan on NXT and wasn't doing very much beforehand either (and would find herself jobbing for most of 2018). This would have given the squad a little more continuity with NXT, as many felt that Sarah Logan was out of place as the third member.
• Unnecessary Makeover: The black hair she adopted after she was first signed. Fans speculated it was done to make her look more stereotypically Arab - and Becky Lynch had likewise dyed her hair red for the sake of an Oireland gimmick. Unsurprisingly she was back to brown hair a few months later. She went dark again in 2018 but it looked much better then.
• X-Pac Heat: During one battle royal Aliyah was booed by the live crowd for eliminating Rachel Ellering, and when she herself was eliminated, the crowd chanted "thank you".

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