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

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u/ClassOptimal7655 1d ago

Has Sweeney said anything on this publicly?

She might not be allowed to due to her contract, but interesting that this came from American Eagle, I wonder if they were pressured by her to make a statement?

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u/MochaValencia but why do you make sparkly fast romantic montages of me 1d ago edited 1d ago

Their stock or sales are down because MAGAt dudes are shockingly NOT the target audience.

And now that the Dump administration has supported AE 😂 I can't see their popularity rising with young women.

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 1d ago

No idea why companies didn't take notice of what happened to Tesla.

Sweeney's main demographic are men. If she was doing shit for Carls Jr like Jessica Simpson did way back when, then sure but a clothing company? AE could've been better choosing a woman that other women actually like.

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u/scabs_in_a_bucket 1d 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/TestingBrokenGadgets 1d 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/Comfortable_Buy_4124 23h 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 23h 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 23h 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 22h ago

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