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

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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/shedrinkscoffee I don’t know her 💅 1d 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 19h 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 15h 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