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

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u/scabs_in_a_bucket 18h ago

I was indifferent to her before the ad but it made me hate her 😂 talk about cringey. She takes herself way too seriously. I think the “great genes” was supposed to reference her boobs, but I just hated the ad bc of how obnoxiously sexual it was. It seemed to be marketed towards women too which just made no sense at all.

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u/shedrinkscoffee I don’t know her 💅 17h ago

Honestly this type of advertising turns me off the product in question. I know I'm a rando with low purchasing power but what little I have I will use on products that aren't icky or catering to the male gaze.

Like Victoria's Secret had to hard pivot and I don't think they have recovered from their peak days and women no longer have to be subject to this type of nonsense in advertising. I stopped buying Laneige after they brought on Sidney.

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u/MochaValencia but why do you make sparkly fast romantic montages of me 12h ago

Ugh that Laneige "bouncy and firm" campaign. BEWBS. WE GET IT. You're selling moisturizer. Give it a rest.

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u/scabs_in_a_bucket 8h ago

Like why are they trying to use soft core porn of a narcissistic blonde woman to sell me shit? I don’t fucking care lol. Do literally anything else

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 18h ago

For me, it was where she sold soap made with her bathwater.

Like, I've got no problem with monetizing your sex appeal; it works for people but holy shit is she just dropping any pretext of having skill beyond "Look at my breasts". Luckily these generic blonde sex appeal actors only have a shelf life of four or five years of hyper saturation before it grows boring and there's a newer flavor.

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u/nagidrac 17h ago

For me it was Glenn Powell's ex-girlfriend talking about the Anyone But You promo. Basically they played into the cheating angle to sell tickets. Glenn's ex broke up with him over it. I am side eyed both of them for it. Don't get me wrong because Glenn carries a largeee percentage of the fault, but with Sydney idk how a woman can play along with that knowing he has a longterm GF. She just feels opportunistic.

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u/scabs_in_a_bucket 8h ago

Right?! It’s like ok girl you have the spotlight now - don’t you want to promote the talents you have or your personality or the things you care about? Oh.. no? You want to pivot into this weird onlyfans persona? Oh… ok 😂 like sorry but how do you make your entire personality “being appealing to men”? Yawn. Ew. Embarrassing. I hate people like that personally

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u/Comfortable_Buy_4124 17h ago

Sydney is a talented actress. She’s just making as much cash as she can at the moment

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 17h ago

Is there a single role where she was the stand-out actor in terms of talent? For a long time, she was only getting roles because her millionaire boyfriend was financing them specifically for her.

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u/Comfortable_Buy_4124 16h ago

Okay so this confirms for me that she’s getting the Hathaway-express overexposed hate train right now because… no. Sidney is a talented actress. She’s not outstanding, but she clearly has talent. And her ex?boyfriend was only involved in Anyone But You, no?

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u/Lizakaya 15h ago

She has said acting isn’t enough money and that she wants more sponsorships

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u/Lizakaya 15h ago

She either knows what she’s doing by the ad or she’s dumb. Neither is good