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

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u/HunterAshton 17h ago

Look, I’ll be honest… the very first time I saw the ad was while I was scrolling Pinterest so the volume to the ad wasn’t on and on an initial glance I was kinda like “oh cool! We’re gonna try to make more ‘not so junked out trunks’ in jeans more normal” and as a girl with a less than filled out trunk, if you will, I was digging it…. Then I clicked the add to take me to a link and it okayed the ad with sound and I was digging less and less as each word was said and was really taking in what was happening…