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I'm in love

Not only does Sidney Sweeney have great jeans, she has great splits too. @TaranTactical pic.twitter.com/w6xTncQZxp

— Phil Labonte (@philthatremains) August 1, 2025

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Okay, I'd buy her bath water.

Was in AE today with two teenage granddaughters and the place was packed

EllisCoAg said:

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Was in AE today with two teenage granddaughters and the place was packed

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The Morgan Wallen effect.

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It seemed clear to me that they were aligning themselves with a white nationalist, MAGA-friendly identity," said Shalini Shankar, an anthropology professor at Northwestern University who studies youth and advertising.

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Pro tip for you Lefties out there: Whatever amount of student debt you need to go into to study under this professor....do it!!

torrid said:

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It's official everyone, CNN has deemed the Sydney Sweeney ad "a disaster". We are fortunate we have organizations like CNN and the people they quote to put this into the proper context for us.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-dunkin-drama-cec

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"Our leadership team passed around some articles about it, and we were discussing whether we thought the American Eagle team when it first came out, did they understand? Were they trying to do something edgy and sexy that came across racist and didn't recognize that?" asked Kimberly Jefferson, senior vice president of client relations at PANBlast, a public relations firm that serves brands in the tech sector. "A quick look at their leadership team: They're a very white organization. So did they just miss it? Or is this intentionally playing to at best, a conservative, at worst, a racist ideal system that is pervasively growing in America? We went back and forth on that. How intentional was this?"

It seemed clear to me that they were aligning themselves with a white nationalist, MAGA-friendly identity," said Shalini Shankar, an anthropology professor at Northwestern University who studies youth and advertising. "I think that this is them trying to rebrand themselves for the present moment, and language is very deliberately used here. People don't invoke genetics casually. It's just, it's very, very easy to sell denim without ever referencing it."

"This one is just the consequences of bad and, dare I say, lazy writing. I don't think it was funny or clever," said Alyssa Vingan, fashion writer and former editor of Nylon and Fashionista. "And I do think obviously it's cheap humor to have somebody like Sydney Sweeney, who's blonde with large breasts and a small waist, say she has good genes because she's hot. I don't think that it was much deeper than that. Unfortunately due to the climate we're in and things going on in America at large, it does read very, very, very poorly and insensitively."

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I believe y'all here in F16 call this "REEEE"?

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These folks sure think they are smart.

I'm pretty sure they are just suffering from mental illness. Wow what a life of misery.

It's an ad, that's it people.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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torrid said:

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It's official everyone, CNN has deemed the Sydney Sweeney ad "a disaster". We are fortunate we have organizations like CNN and the people they quote to put this into the proper context for us.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-dunkin-drama-cec

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"Our leadership team passed around some articles about it, and we were discussing whether we thought the American Eagle team when it first came out, did they understand? Were they trying to do something edgy and sexy that came across racist and didn't recognize that?" asked Kimberly Jefferson, senior vice president of client relations at PANBlast, a public relations firm that serves brands in the tech sector. "A quick look at their leadership team: They're a very white organization. So did they just miss it? Or is this intentionally playing to at best, a conservative, at worst, a racist ideal system that is pervasively growing in America? We went back and forth on that. How intentional was this?"

It seemed clear to me that they were aligning themselves with a white nationalist, MAGA-friendly identity," said Shalini Shankar, an anthropology professor at Northwestern University who studies youth and advertising. "I think that this is them trying to rebrand themselves for the present moment, and language is very deliberately used here. People don't invoke genetics casually. It's just, it's very, very easy to sell denim without ever referencing it."

"This one is just the consequences of bad and, dare I say, lazy writing. I don't think it was funny or clever," said Alyssa Vingan, fashion writer and former editor of Nylon and Fashionista. "And I do think obviously it's cheap humor to have somebody like Sydney Sweeney, who's blonde with large breasts and a small waist, say she has good genes because she's hot. I don't think that it was much deeper than that. Unfortunately due to the climate we're in and things going on in America at large, it does read very, very, very poorly and insensitively."

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I believe y'all here in F16 call this "REEEE"?

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These folks sure think they are smart.

I'm pretty sure they are just suffering from mental illness. Wow what a life of misery.

It's an ad, that's it people.

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Who knew an entire career could be made of teaching a university level course on the clothes people wear and reading into the deep meanings of some advertisers trying to sell jeans

torrid said:

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A quick look at their leadership team: They're a very white organization.

Shalini Shankar, an anthropology professor at Northwestern University

who's blonde with large breasts and a small waist

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PANBlast is all white. All feeling guilty af.

Shalini, learn some different grooming skills. Groom your hirsute self not young minds.

And lastly Alyssa, God did you bad. Flat and a brunette.

Jack Squat 83 said:

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torrid said:

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It's official everyone, CNN has deemed the Sydney Sweeney ad "a disaster". We are fortunate we have organizations like CNN and the people they quote to put this into the proper context for us.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/02/entertainment/sydney-sweeney-american-eagle-ad-dunkin-drama-cec

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"Our leadership team passed around some articles about it, and we were discussing whether we thought the American Eagle team when it first came out, did they understand? Were they trying to do something edgy and sexy that came across racist and didn't recognize that?" asked Kimberly Jefferson, senior vice president of client relations at PANBlast, a public relations firm that serves brands in the tech sector. "A quick look at their leadership team: They're a very white organization. So did they just miss it? Or is this intentionally playing to at best, a conservative, at worst, a racist ideal system that is pervasively growing in America? We went back and forth on that. How intentional was this?"

It seemed clear to me that they were aligning themselves with a white nationalist, MAGA-friendly identity," said Shalini Shankar, an anthropology professor at Northwestern University who studies youth and advertising. "I think that this is them trying to rebrand themselves for the present moment, and language is very deliberately used here. People don't invoke genetics casually. It's just, it's very, very easy to sell denim without ever referencing it."

"This one is just the consequences of bad and, dare I say, lazy writing. I don't think it was funny or clever," said Alyssa Vingan, fashion writer and former editor of Nylon and Fashionista. "And I do think obviously it's cheap humor to have somebody like Sydney Sweeney, who's blonde with large breasts and a small waist, say she has good genes because she's hot. I don't think that it was much deeper than that. Unfortunately due to the climate we're in and things going on in America at large, it does read very, very, very poorly and insensitively."

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I believe y'all here in F16 call this "REEEE"?

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These folks sure think they are smart.

I'm pretty sure they are just suffering from mental illness. Wow what a life of misery.

It's an ad, that's it people.

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Yes, and no. Bud Light's gimmick was an ad, too. But as we've seen many times before, the most effective advertising taps into culture. Why the Left is apoplectic about AE's ad is that it cuts right to something the Left finds abhorrent in America - physical beauty and appeal to masculinity. There's a reason the Left is littered with repulsive hags and physically unappealing warthogs. It is a haven for those types, and to see the huge positive response to AE's extremely successful SS ad drives them insane.