JinnKid’s first series of Skyrim IRL videos garnered nearly 3.5 million views on YouTube, and his TikTok videos have over 12.1 million likes.
The videos are filmed from a first-person perspective like in Bethesda’s RPGs, and Abulaban impersonates Skyrim's various NPCs. The videos mock the game's notorious glitches and other strange in-game occurrences normally encountered during a Skyrim playthrough, such as NPCs glitching into walls or speaking voice lines that don’t fit given scenarios. The Skyrim IRL star has amassed almost one million TikTok followers, with some of the posts on the JinnKid account including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim-themed videos.Īli Nassar Abulaban’s claim to fame is Skyrim IRL, comedic videos poking fun at the open-world fantasy RPG. Ali Nassar Abulaban, a TikTok user known as JinnKid popularized for his 'Skyrim in Real Life' video series, was charged with double murder after allegedly killing his wife and her friend.