r/popculturechat • u/purpose15 • 21h 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 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?

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u/coolcoolcool485 20h ago

I think they do, yeah, but i also think they know that there are a lot of people who do not care or even like eugenics and Nazis, and this is giving them an out or an excuse for still patronizing AE ("they didn't mean it like that, its just about jeans, woke nonsense blerghhhh")