Sydney Sweeney / American Eagle Controversy

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Anonymous wrote:Well, Sydney Sweeney is now a MAGA hero. Hope that works for her like it has for so many celebrities. /s

Seems like it’s the other way around. How’s that Snow White actress doing these days?

And yet she’s still hotter than Sydney.

Jokers out tonight

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Anonymous wrote:So many hot people on TikTok are parodying her video because of how ridiculous she sounds, even if you don't think it has eugenic-related implications. But of course the losers here think it's because people are jealous and ugly. You're no better than the people who whine that the people who don't like their preferred media are racist/misogynistic.

It’s a weird ad campaign even with the genes comment taken out. This is their back to school season campaign with an ASMR clip of this girl unzipping her pants and zoom ins on her chest and lips. In one pic she is wearing two very baggy jeans on top of each other. At best it’s an odd advertisement.

"Weird" is pretty on point for a brand targeted at Gen Z in the Tik Tok era. Kids like weird, plus it garners attention in a crowded landscape. I bet a lot of ad agencies sit around trying to figure out how to make ads more weird on purpose.

The baggy jeans and layered jeans are an actual style. Baggy jeans are very in and especially popular with teens and 20 somethings. The "double jean" look started as a weird high fashion impersonation of street style. I don't think any normal people actually wear it, but I've seen it in many ad campaigns and fashion editorials in the last couple years. It's all part of this exaggerated denim silhouette with dad jeans, barrel jeans, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:So many hot people on TikTok are parodying her video because of how ridiculous she sounds, even if you don't think it has eugenic-related implications. But of course the losers here think it's because people are jealous and ugly. You're no better than the people who whine that the people who don't like their preferred media are racist/misogynistic.

It’s a weird ad campaign even with the genes comment taken out. This is their back to school season campaign with an ASMR clip of this girl unzipping her pants and zoom ins on her chest and lips. In one pic she is wearing two very baggy jeans on top of each other. At best it’s an odd advertisement.

"Weird" is pretty on point for a brand targeted at Gen Z in the Tik Tok era. Kids like weird, plus it garners attention in a crowded landscape. I bet a lot of ad agencies sit around trying to figure out how to make ads more weird on purpose.

The baggy jeans and layered jeans are an actual style. Baggy jeans are very in and especially popular with teens and 20 somethings. The "double jean" look started as a weird high fashion impersonation of street style. I don't think any normal people actually wear it, but I've seen it in many ad campaigns and fashion editorials in the last couple years. It's all part of this exaggerated denim silhouette with dad jeans, barrel jeans, etc.

And yet Gen-Zers on TikTok are mocking the shit out of it. Just admit you're an out-of-touch dinosaur who's pretending to be knowledgeable about marketing.

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Regardless of looks, one has a career in the toilet and one doesn’t. When the audience prefers your understudy, it’s hard to come back from that.

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Regardless of looks, one has a career in the toilet and one doesn’t. When the audience prefers your understudy, it’s hard to come back from that.

All right, grandm/pa, stop watching Fox News and go to bed already.

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Regardless of looks, one has a career in the toilet and one doesn’t. When the audience prefers your understudy, it’s hard to come back from that.

All right, grandm/pa, stop watching Fox News and go to bed already.

It’s ok if you barely know who she is or what you’re talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:So many hot people on TikTok are parodying her video because of how ridiculous she sounds, even if you don't think it has eugenic-related implications. But of course the losers here think it's because people are jealous and ugly. You're no better than the people who whine that the people who don't like their preferred media are racist/misogynistic.

It’s a weird ad campaign even with the genes comment taken out. This is their back to school season campaign with an ASMR clip of this girl unzipping her pants and zoom ins on her chest and lips. In one pic she is wearing two very baggy jeans on top of each other. At best it’s an odd advertisement.

"Weird" is pretty on point for a brand targeted at Gen Z in the Tik Tok era. Kids like weird, plus it garners attention in a crowded landscape. I bet a lot of ad agencies sit around trying to figure out how to make ads more weird on purpose.

The baggy jeans and layered jeans are an actual style. Baggy jeans are very in and especially popular with teens and 20 somethings. The "double jean" look started as a weird high fashion impersonation of street style. I don't think any normal people actually wear it, but I've seen it in many ad campaigns and fashion editorials in the last couple years. It's all part of this exaggerated denim silhouette with dad jeans, barrel jeans, etc.

And yet Gen-Zers on TikTok are mocking the shit out of it. Just admit you're an out-of-touch dinosaur who's pretending to be knowledgeable about marketing.

You are so wildly out of touch. It’s funny.

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She sounds like she’s had several martinis, maybe a roofie. Def a few bong hits.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like people are just not getting the pun.

The joke is that "Sydney Sweeney has good jeans." Not genes. That's the whole point. Saying someone attractive has "good genes" is a thing people say (about people of all ethnicities) but the add is making a joke about that and saying no, she just has good JEANS.

I feel so stupid trying to explain this.

When she says "my jeans are blue" she is talking about her blue jeans, not her eyes. It's. A. Joke.

I just feel we are all getting dumber and dumber here.

You failed a lot of high school English if you have always been this literal in your analysis of media. “Laura just really likes tiny figurines. It’s not the playwright’s way of alluding to her fragility.”

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Anonymous wrote: Man! This forum isn't usually where I end up when I'm on dcum.But, as a heterosexual man, can someone..anyone, tell me why this woman is supposed to be the 'it girl' when it comes to looks. Is this supposed to be some kind of parody ? Can this Sweeney chick get more than one look from most boys on an American college campus ? Certainly not where I went to school. If she's what passes for hot these days,God help us all.

As for the ad, its very much in line with what a certain of this country believes in. There's an unmistakable double entendre there unless, of course, you CHOOSE to put on your blinders.

Oh please. She’d be the hot “it” girl on any campus. She is obviously gorgeous by any metric and what puts her over the top is her doe eyes, it factor and charm. She has a magnetic personality.

That’s not to say I think she’s an incredible actress. I honestly haven’t watched anything she’s in but she does pop on camera and she’s very charming.

As another straight man, I had the same thought as PP. Her doe eyes are weird. She's got big boobs but big boobs aren't hard to come by. I probably see a woman as hot as her any time I go to the mall.

It’s AE. It’s not some luxury aspirational brand. They sell $40 jeans.

Which is why they are reaching out to a certain type of white woman. One who only has whiteness as a reason why she (in her opinion) is not at the bottom of society. LBJ got it right about poor whites in America.

Progressives have spent the last several years trying to convince everyone that white women were ugly and undesirable. Yet here comes Sydney Sweeney, proving that nobody bought what they were selling and now they’re mad. The pendulum is swinging back to normalcy.

All she proves is that the Nazis are happy to have a poster girl to trick young white men into joining their movement. They used them in the 1930s, too.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like people are just not getting the pun.

The joke is that "Sydney Sweeney has good jeans." Not genes. That's the whole point. Saying someone attractive has "good genes" is a thing people say (about people of all ethnicities) but the add is making a joke about that and saying no, she just has good JEANS.

I feel so stupid trying to explain this.

When she says "my jeans are blue" she is talking about her blue jeans, not her eyes. It's. A. Joke.

I just feel we are all getting dumber and dumber here.

Liberal here:

It's a silly play on words. It's wordplay. Anyone with half-a-brain knows that it's not about eugenics. The phrase "they have good genes" has been used in the English venacular for as long as I can remember. You can make that statement regardless of ethnicity.

The rightwing spin machine took over discussion about the ad with a phony "controversy" that no rational person was actually discussing in real life. The only ones getting baited in this are conservatives who get engaged by a "controversy" that never existed.

DP. I'm sorry, but this is just ridiculous. You're embarrassed that liberals made such a stink over this and now you're blaming their (typical) gross overreaction on conservatives? Seriously? Reminds me of liberals blaming the idiocy of their "defund the police" nonsense on... conservatives. Just own the stupidity in your own party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/28/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad/
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/27/sydney-sweeneys-new-campaign-draws-fire-for-racial-undertones/
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-whiteness-rcna221630
https://apnews.com/article/american-eagle-sydney-sweeney-jeans-dunkin-e4d0cfade207d3b1e1b4e93531bfc082

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like people are just not getting the pun.

The joke is that "Sydney Sweeney has good jeans." Not genes. That's the whole point. Saying someone attractive has "good genes" is a thing people say (about people of all ethnicities) but the add is making a joke about that and saying no, she just has good JEANS.

I feel so stupid trying to explain this.

When she says "my jeans are blue" she is talking about her blue jeans, not her eyes. It's. A. Joke.

I just feel we are all getting dumber and dumber here.

I think people do get it, but they insist on being outraged. Can't knock the wokeness out of the woke. It's not that people are getting dumber, it's that they are becoming more and more uptight.

Find me a prominent politician, wealthy person with power, or "woke" celebrity who said this ad is offensive. Bring the evidence.

Where are these "woke" "uptight" people? Show me evidence of them being offended.

DP. You can't be this clueless. Also, who cares if the critics are "prominent/wealthy/powerful"? They are ALL liberals. As are all the twits on Bluesky opining about how this is clearly "eugenics speech." Spare us all.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/sydney-sweeneys-controversial-american-eagle-ad-explained/ar-AA1JBdsM

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Anonymous wrote:So many hot people on TikTok are parodying her video because of how ridiculous she sounds, even if you don't think it has eugenic-related implications. But of course the losers here think it's because people are jealous and ugly. You're no better than the people who whine that the people who don't like their preferred media are racist/misogynistic.

It’s a weird ad campaign even with the genes comment taken out. This is their back to school season campaign with an ASMR clip of this girl unzipping her pants and zoom ins on her chest and lips. In one pic she is wearing two very baggy jeans on top of each other. At best it’s an odd advertisement.

"Weird" is pretty on point for a brand targeted at Gen Z in the Tik Tok era. Kids like weird, plus it garners attention in a crowded landscape. I bet a lot of ad agencies sit around trying to figure out how to make ads more weird on purpose.

The baggy jeans and layered jeans are an actual style. Baggy jeans are very in and especially popular with teens and 20 somethings. The "double jean" look started as a weird high fashion impersonation of street style. I don't think any normal people actually wear it, but I've seen it in many ad campaigns and fashion editorials in the last couple years. It's all part of this exaggerated denim silhouette with dad jeans, barrel jeans, etc.

And yet Gen-Zers on TikTok are mocking the shit out of it. Just admit you're an out-of-touch dinosaur who's pretending to be knowledgeable about marketing.

You are so wildly out of touch. It’s funny.

It might make Gen Z's heads explode to realize that some people don't use Tik Tok. Who gives a damn what a bunch of flat affect Gen Z who live with mommy have to say about a successful actress.