Ariel the mermaid just pounded real-life Aladdin into submission

more accurately, her fans did ..

this after the dude juxtaposed his flick with hers

who played everyone's favorite street rat in the 2019 live-action adaptation --

just scrubbed his Twitter account due to a mountain of backlash he received Saturday

chiming in on the future box office prospects of Halle Bailey's new 'Little Mermaid' movie.

He was responding to an account that was reporting on how much 'TLM' was slated to make in its opening weekend -

about $115M, which it then compared to the $112M 'Aladdin' made in its opening weekend run.

Mena had some thoughts on that ... some took it as shade.

its initial box office numbers were considered a big win.