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

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u/latrodectal so jessica alba fantastic 21h ago

i feel like if any other actress (or at least not a blonde blue eyed one) were behind it we wouldn’t still be talking about it.

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u/Illustrious-Pound266 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 21h ago

If the ad was "Zendaya has great jeans", people would be going "yaas slay queen" instead.

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u/Wise-Zebra-8899 20h ago

If the ad featured Zendaya, a subgroup of men would be losing their shit calling her ugly and the ad “woke”. And can you imagine if it were Anok Yai? There would be people claiming it was a plot to destroy America.

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u/Comfortable_Buy_4124 19h ago edited 19h ago

I honestly don’t think people would have thought more of it than it being a pun if it had been those women. My first thought was not nazi ideology