Sydney Sweeney / American Eagle Controversy

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Anonymous wrote:Sweeney has been held up by the right wing as perfect white womanhood. The ad is pandering to that.

We should also note that the red pillers sexualized her as a minor and think she’s stupid because she has big breasts.

I don't know her racial background, but her look isn't even a pure white/Aryan sort of look. She has a very mixed vibe.

ngl, she looks like she has a mild case of Downs.

How green are your eyes?

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Their market is teenager and young adult women. They do sell men’s clothes but that is probably the smallest part of their brand. The also have sister stores Aerie which is underwear and loungewear and Offline which is fitness wear, both of those are women only.

It’s a saturated market yet here we are talking about AE. By that measure it was very successful.

We will see if it translates into long term customers. None of it matters if people go into the store and think that the price doesn’t match style and quality. The jeans are mid priced hovering around 40 to 60 dollars a pair. People are talking about Sydney and not the jeans.

https://www.ae.com/us/en/c/women/womens?pagetype=plp

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

You keep asking questions and not answering. I don’t need to design an ad for AE. Unlike you, I don’t owe or care about their success or whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

Are you one of the people saying are making a mountain out of molehill? Weird you want someone to be specific about what kind of ad would make a teen daughter buy jeans. Do you work for AE? I’m definitely starting to buy that AE people are the ones trying to gin a fake controversy.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

A popular TikTok influencer wearing their jeans.

Taylor Swift wearing their jeans.

Hot pin up bare chested photo of a young adult male celebrity wearing their jeans.

Sydney Sweeney is not going to attract any teen girls unless they are maybe LGBT, and then they will be repulsed by the message.

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

Are you one of the people saying are making a mountain out of molehill? Weird you want someone to be specific about what kind of ad would make a teen daughter buy jeans. Do you work for AE? I’m definitely starting to buy that AE people are the ones trying to gin a fake controversy.

People getting mad about an ad for a product they don’t use or like anyway is what’s entertaining.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

A popular TikTok influencer wearing their jeans.

Taylor Swift wearing their jeans.

Hot pin up bare chested photo of a young adult male celebrity wearing their jeans.

Sydney Sweeney is not going to attract any teen girls unless they are maybe LGBT, and then they will be repulsed by the message.

This is the most powerful way of marketing to teens. Get influencers with a variety of body to try it on and show how good they look in them. The jeans will sell themselves afterwards. Sydney Sweeney whispering into the microphone about offspring while her chest is out isn’t selling jeans.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

A popular TikTok influencer wearing their jeans.

Taylor Swift wearing their jeans.

Hot pin up bare chested photo of a young adult male celebrity wearing their jeans.

Sydney Sweeney is not going to attract any teen girls unless they are maybe LGBT, and then they will be repulsed by the message.

This is the most powerful way of marketing to teens. Get influencers with a variety of body to try it on and show how good they look in them. The jeans will sell themselves afterwards. Sydney Sweeney whispering into the microphone about offspring while her chest is out isn’t selling jeans.

The only people paying attention to that are the teen girls dad's, and dads don't typically like to shop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a teen boy who knows who she is but I doubt it's going to make him want to start shopping there.

But I bet he’s seen the ad already.

DP. Is he buying clothes? If not, it’s a big miss.

Who is their audience? They can’t be all things to all people. If you don’t like them don’t shop there but don’t pretend you have been a long term customer up until now. You aren’t their market either.

Dude, you are spinning. Are they selling more clothes because of this ad? The answer is going to be more.

What ad campaign do you think they should have run if this such a flop in your mind? What would get your teen daughter to buy their jeans? Be specific.

DP. Sydney Sweeney is 27 years old. Getting a younger social media star to advertise these would make more sense if they are marketing to teens.

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Anonymous wrote:Sweeney has been held up by the right wing as perfect white womanhood. The ad is pandering to that.

We should also note that the red pillers sexualized her as a minor and think she’s stupid because she has big breasts.

I don't know her racial background, but her look isn't even a pure white/Aryan sort of look. She has a very mixed vibe.

Tell us you know nothing about eugenics without telling us.

This woman is literally a Type 1A Aryan. Literally the master race, as nazi scientists defined the bloodline.

Three primary traits:

Blonde hair

Blue eyes

Facial structure featuring squareness in the jawline and high, prominent cheek bones.


She’s as nazi as they come.

These comments are disgusting. It's almost as if you want to erase anyone who has whatever you deem to be Nazi features. How stupid....80% of the models throughout the 20 and 21st century don't have the right to have made money on their looks....because their looks are triggering, according to what you've implied? If you're going to talk about inclusiveness, you need to understand that goes for ALL races.

Won’t anyone think of the poor maligned blue-eyed, blond-haired models?!??!??

It’s hilarious. As if SS needs to apologize to the brunettes and brown eyes of the world for merely existing. The fake meltdown was predictable from the usual people who thrive on controversy for clicks.

I don’t recall seeing anyone who has said that Sweeney needs to apologize for existing. But you have to exaggerate to make it look like a fake controversy. I imagine people who do that can’t deal with the real controversy as it exists.

Is she allowed to be grateful for her good genes or not?

She’s “allowed“ to do anything. And I’m allowed to think she has poor taste for highlighting the genes she did and in the way she did.

So she should be ashamed. Lol. Not going to happen. Sorry the pretty white girl has triggered you. But that’s a you problem.

I didn’t say SS should be ashamed. Nor am I triggered. As I said, you folks need to exaggerate because you cannot deal with facts as they exist.

Wasting time on the so called facts is certainly a choice. You probably never shopped at AE before so this really has nothing to do with you. People are looking at AE and talking about it. That’s the only point.

I shopped at AE decades ago. My teens don’t like the store. SS’s ad and people defending it aren’t going to make it more appealing. Do you jokers realize we have kids who in the demographic?

I’m not PP but not only do I have Gen Z kids, I am around Gen Z kids daily. You are the one out of touch here. The kids who are making TikToks about how offended they are by the ad are getting mocked mercilessly.

[Anonymous]

I can see why some posters and progressives see this ad as dangerously regressive. Because it is regressive. It's a return to the s&x sells approach. This ad is sexy. Sydney Sweeney is sexy. The clothes she's wearing is besides the point. It's what ads for teen clothes used to be like till recently.

Someone commented to me that across multiple areas we're witnessing the collapse of a top-down driven command way of doing things, whether the media or advertising or movies. It was not market forces that demanded body positive advertising or mixed race advertising or dull movies with perfect race blind casting and girlbosses harpies, but ideology in boardrooms. And it turned out to be a money loser.

A heavy person in teen clothes is never going to sell. Pretending a heavy person can be sexy is command driven ideology. And that's why the progressives are freaking out. A sexy, attractive woman or man sells. Big time. I'm a gay dude and I can see exactly why the Sidney Sweeney ad is fun and enjoyable, and yes, sexy. I'm not offended by it (contrary to the previous poster screeching that LGBT+whatever would be offended by it). If there's anything "gay" in my admiration for the ad it's the aesthetics. And I don't doubt a lot of teens will lap this up because it's sexy and fun and full of implications of having a confident good time.

All the screechers are the modern equivalent of agony aunts clutching their pearls and moaning oh won't someone think of the children!

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Anonymous wrote:I can see why some posters and progressives see this ad as dangerously regressive. Because it is regressive. It's a return to the s&x sells approach. This ad is sexy. Sydney Sweeney is sexy. The clothes she's wearing is besides the point. It's what ads for teen clothes used to be like till recently.

Someone commented to me that across multiple areas we're witnessing the collapse of a top-down driven command way of doing things, whether the media or advertising or movies. It was not market forces that demanded body positive advertising or mixed race advertising or dull movies with perfect race blind casting and girlbosses harpies, but ideology in boardrooms. And it turned out to be a money loser.

A heavy person in teen clothes is never going to sell. Pretending a heavy person can be sexy is command driven ideology. And that's why the progressives are freaking out. A sexy, attractive woman or man sells. Big time. I'm a gay dude and I can see exactly why the Sidney Sweeney ad is fun and enjoyable, and yes, sexy. I'm not offended by it (contrary to the previous poster screeching that LGBT+whatever would be offended by it). If there's anything "gay" in my admiration for the ad it's the aesthetics. And I don't doubt a lot of teens will lap this up because it's sexy and fun and full of implications of having a confident good time.

All the screechers are the modern equivalent of agony aunts clutching their pearls and moaning oh won't someone think of the children!

Spot on.

The people freaking out about the ad are the ones slowly realizing that they can’t compel belief. They can compel a lot of things by using the system to their advantage, but they cannot compel a personal belief, and slowly understanding that is causing them to rage.

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Anonymous wrote:Sweeney has been held up by the right wing as perfect white womanhood. The ad is pandering to that.

We should also note that the red pillers sexualized her as a minor and think she’s stupid because she has big breasts.

I don't know her racial background, but her look isn't even a pure white/Aryan sort of look. She has a very mixed vibe.

Tell us you know nothing about eugenics without telling us.

This woman is literally a Type 1A Aryan. Literally the master race, as nazi scientists defined the bloodline.

Three primary traits:

Blonde hair

Blue eyes

Facial structure featuring squareness in the jawline and high, prominent cheek bones.


She’s as nazi as they come.

These comments are disgusting. It's almost as if you want to erase anyone who has whatever you deem to be Nazi features. How stupid....80% of the models throughout the 20 and 21st century don't have the right to have made money on their looks....because their looks are triggering, according to what you've implied? If you're going to talk about inclusiveness, you need to understand that goes for ALL races.

Won’t anyone think of the poor maligned blue-eyed, blond-haired models?!??!??

It’s hilarious. As if SS needs to apologize to the brunettes and brown eyes of the world for merely existing. The fake meltdown was predictable from the usual people who thrive on controversy for clicks.

I don’t recall seeing anyone who has said that Sweeney needs to apologize for existing. But you have to exaggerate to make it look like a fake controversy. I imagine people who do that can’t deal with the real controversy as it exists.

Is she allowed to be grateful for her good genes or not?

She’s “allowed“ to do anything. And I’m allowed to think she has poor taste for highlighting the genes she did and in the way she did.

So she should be ashamed. Lol. Not going to happen. Sorry the pretty white girl has triggered you. But that’s a you problem.

I didn’t say SS should be ashamed. Nor am I triggered. As I said, you folks need to exaggerate because you cannot deal with facts as they exist.

Wasting time on the so called facts is certainly a choice. You probably never shopped at AE before so this really has nothing to do with you. People are looking at AE and talking about it. That’s the only point.

I shopped at AE decades ago. My teens don’t like the store. SS’s ad and people defending it aren’t going to make it more appealing. Do you jokers realize we have kids who in the demographic?

I’m not PP but not only do I have Gen Z kids, I am around Gen Z kids daily. You are the one out of touch here. The kids who are making TikToks about how offended they are by the ad are getting mocked mercilessly.

They are not buying AE jeans. And that’s what’s important.