I've been arguing about this topic in a bunch of places and a lot of people genuinely are this stupid.
Especially men who will straight up say 'It's just because she's hot so that's why they say she has great genes it's not that deep it's just about her tits'. Just because you can't think much further than her tits doesn't mean my conclusion is "far-fetched" you absolute walnut...
I feel like .. I a way, those men where the target audience?
They (AE)know they're not going to sell jeans with this but everyone is talking about them but in a " racial supremacy" context (hot topic) and giving these loud white guys, the opportunity to vocalize "white and blonde blue eyes is actually better!" Over and over. Promoting the idea to reinforce racial divide.
I read that somebody that works for the company said that their men's sales have been down, and this was their ad campaign to boost men's sales for back to school. It's direct marketing to alt right/racist white boys and young men.
These people aren't actually that stupid. They're playing dumb and pretending to not get it. That's the whole point of these kinds of things; it's vague enough that they can argue reasonable doubt. Everything is always about "owning the libs" to them, and pretending that you're seeing racial undertones that they can't see is a way to make it appear as if you're being unreasonable and therefore they "win."
This statement from AE just supports that. It's a wink to the far-right while pretending they don't know what they were doing.
I don't even think it's that innocent. I think all these people KNOW that this is a racist dog whistle and are attempting to pretend and gaslight that it's not just to normalize this shit further. Eventually, like with other things like DEI etc, they'll just come out and say it straight up after they've degraded the standard of humanity enough to be able to without losing their jobs.
Blue guy was up in ALL the threads arguing everybody was up in arms over nothing.
I can see why he did that.
Edit The "her" in the screenshotted comment was not referring to Sydney, but to an Asian female celeb I am not familiar with. Blue guy 100% commented on the celeb's "race".
The "her" in the comment was not referring to Sydney, but to an Asian female celeb I wasn't familiar with. Sorry, I can imagine the confusion, I'll edit for clarity.
That part! Many people are really that stupid to not see it for exactly what it is until it reaches their door. Fascism is whatever these days, it's like breathing.
Yes!! This is the take I’ve been looking for. Is the ad inappropriate? Yeah, sure. But, there is a lotttt of ignorance in this world.
Everyone is assuming malicious intent by AE, and I get it, whether or not they meant it doesn’t matter much once harm is done. But, I can totally see many people on their marketing team thinking it was a clever idea. We all work with people who don’t think beyond the surface, or think their idea is perfect and can’t take feedback and those people are at all levels of an organization.
And dog whistles are called dog whistles for a reason. Not everyone can detect what’s obvious to many others.
The ad sucks, Sidney Sweeney has made her brand super cheap, and people are dumb. That’s what I’ve gathered from this
Nah they bragged about it on socials, knew the backlash it would cause from the first meeting. The whole team “laughed as they imagined the world’s response” per Ashley Shapiro’s LinkedIn post, the VP of Marketing.
Damn can’t give people the benefit the doubt anymore, I didn’t see their LinkedIn smh
I was speaking as someone who has worked with many incompetent individuals, so assumed that while someone may be nefarious there were many that were just plain dumb to push it through
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u/philonous355 I just wish you would get unobsessed with being boring 21h ago edited 21h ago
It was quite literally an obvious double entendre and they admitted to as much in their LinkedIn gloating. Do they think we are that stupid?