Posted on 07/30/2025 2:16:58 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The campaign has been linked to Eugenics and Nazi ideology
Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to controversial ads. In recent history, she has sold us her bathwater and in 2024, skincare lovers expressed discomfort about her advertisement with a skincare brand, in which the words “bouncy and firm” were plastered across her chest rather than, y’know, near her face. Now, she’s back in hot water with the campaign for American Eagle that has been called out as a “conservative dog whistle” and with headlines on Newsweek like “Sydney Sweeney Fronts Ad Campaign for Jeans – Sparks Debate About Eugenics.” The campaign, which features elaborate worldplay, is jeans, “genes”, and Sweeney’s blonde-haired, blue-eyed good looks has… not gone down well. Now celebrities like Doja Cat have weighed in on TikTok. And, a former American Eagle employee has broken down exactly what went wrong with the “good jeans” ad.
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Companies do not want to be considered to be “controversial”.
And the fact is, the cultural Marxists get to decide just what is “controversial”, it gives them the “Heckler’s Veto”.
I think there is a reason it is a “thing”. It’s like a backlash
That huurtz! I have pheelings! LOL!
There has been so many people of color commercials over the last four years one would think the population of black Americans is 70%.
And a woke leftist too. Screw her. (Not literally.)
And that ugly goth wanna be chick featured in the article… it’s an insane world when her type are given a voice and anyone pays attention to them. The only one hearing them should be the shrinks in the psych ward.
“Companies do not want to be considered to be “controversial”.”
There’s that too. Companies have to do a balancing act. Sometimes they screw up.
The car in the ad is not a real 65 Shelby GT 350 it’s a clone.
Cartoon
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