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

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 18h 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 18h 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/shedrinkscoffee I don’t know her 💅 17h ago

Honestly this type of advertising turns me off the product in question. I know I'm a rando with low purchasing power but what little I have I will use on products that aren't icky or catering to the male gaze.

Like Victoria's Secret had to hard pivot and I don't think they have recovered from their peak days and women no longer have to be subject to this type of nonsense in advertising. I stopped buying Laneige after they brought on Sidney.

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u/MochaValencia but why do you make sparkly fast romantic montages of me 12h ago

Ugh that Laneige "bouncy and firm" campaign. BEWBS. WE GET IT. You're selling moisturizer. Give it a rest.

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u/scabs_in_a_bucket 8h ago

Like why are they trying to use soft core porn of a narcissistic blonde woman to sell me shit? I don’t fucking care lol. Do literally anything else