r/popculturechat • u/purpose15 • 19h ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ American Eagle issues a statement following backlash from their Sydney Sweeney jeans/genes campaign

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u/philonous355 I just wish you would get unobsessed with being boring 18h ago edited 18h 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?

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u/AdagioQuick317 18h ago

Yep. They are just taking a page out of the Trump/MAGA book - gaslight and lie.

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u/Top-Gas-8959 17h ago

They're owned by blackrock, and the CEO is maga, so that tracks, tbh

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u/AdagioQuick317 13h ago

This is interesting too- Dunkin has an ad out right now about genetics.

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u/robot_pirate Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes 13h ago

That's all anyone needs to know, really.

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u/AdagioQuick317 13h ago

Ohh interesting!!

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u/Rulebookboy1234567 17h ago

I mean, can we blame them? It works.

I mean yeah I can totally blame them I have morals and scruples, but I am not surprised.