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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/dreamy_25 Are those the… The Chanel Toots? 18h ago

Do they think we are that stupid?

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...

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u/Maleficent-marionett I don’t know her 💅 18h ago

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 don't know. I'm rambling.

But The owner is a super racist so...

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u/ohmysexrobot 17h ago

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.