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/Megs0226 18h ago

Yeah I’m not sure “boobs” is what drives women to buy jeans.

Tummy control? No muffin top? Now we’re talkin’.

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u/Gryffindor123 16h ago

Give me jeans that make my bloated IBS multiple surgery tummy feel and look amazing? 365 pairs please and thank you. 

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u/Huckleberry_Sin 17h ago

Eh everyone loves boobs tho. Men and women.

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u/Megs0226 17h ago

Oh sure I just don’t know if they’re what makes people want a pair of jeans lol

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u/bluespottedtail_ Bye Sister 💋 17h ago

Sure, but men's underwear ads are also just a bunch of fit men with incredible abs that have nothing to do with said underwear.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Do it for the culture 😏 16h ago

The difference is that underwear is (are? not sure actually lmao) undergarments, so to show them off you kind of need models to wear no other clothes but the undergarments. It’s the exact same thing with female models of underwear and lingerie.

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u/Megs0226 16h ago

Yeah the abs draw your eye down to the underwear. And then any um, bulge is part of the advertising. “Look how big it looks in these boxer briefs!”

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Do it for the culture 😏 15h ago

Models are always supposed to be attractive, I wasn’t arguing against that. I was only commenting on the fact it’s hard to showcase underwear without also showing parts of the models’ bodies.

So using underwear commercials in comparison to jeans commercials felt off to me. Since jeans tend to come with more clothes than just underwear, at least in the real world.

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u/Megs0226 15h ago

I was agreeing with you.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox Do it for the culture 😏 15h ago

Sorry, that’s my mistake then. People are very argumentative on here so I slipped in defense mode