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⌈ Secret Post #6889 ⌋

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Transcript by OP

[fscom]

The Sydney Sweeney outrage is so ridiculous and OTT I feel like it's at least partly manufactured because I personally never heard of her before this whole kerfuffle and suddenly she's talked about everywhere I look.

(Also, I just don't want to believe that so many people are so damn bored that THIS is the big faux anti-racism hill they want to die on.)

Re: Transcript by OP

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I'm still baffled by the absurdity of it. I remember my friend telling me about it and showing me the ads, and I was like, "Wait, that's it?!" The amount of head-tilting you have to do to get white supremacy/eugenics from those ads is something else.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I have to ask, who is Sydney Sweeney and why are they controversial?

[feotakahari]

Something to do with an ad that said she had "great jeans." People thought it was white supremacist. Personally, I blame the ad writers more than I blame the actress.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even blame the ad writers. Great genes can just mean "someone is good looking". There would be next to zero outrage if this ad was done with a pretty POC.

[feotakahari]

Eh, they're ad writers. It's their job to come up with whatever puts the company in the best light. You can have all the good intentions in the world and still get that Folger's Coffee commercial.

[(Anonymous)]

ppl tend to be oversensitive about stuff like this, which tbh is understandable, but at the same time sometimes they go too far with it

like its ok to point out that the line doesnt sound great. but maybe instead of blowing it up into a huge thing and going on and on and on about it, you just stop there

same with taylor swift and some of her lyrics in the new album. maybe they sound questionable but making it into a huge thing gets a little silly. unless of course you're a content creator and want all the view$$$ from ppl watching taylor swift videos

[(Anonymous)]

A less-than-stellar but otherwise inoffensive actress who happened to be the face of a questionable advertising campaign for a jeans brand that made use of the 'genes'/'jeans' pun in a way that was either "clumsy but harmless" or "full-on neo-Nazi eugenics endorsement", depending on who you ask.

[(Anonymous)]

Actress. She made a jeans ad for American Eagle where it said "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans" - which of course means she's a white supremacist POS who thinks her white genes are superior.

[(Anonymous)]

She became "big" after being in Euphoria, back then there was a bit of controversy over her family being MAGA (based on photos from a family party she attended). This year there was an ad campaign about how she has "great jeans (genes)" which was read as racist by some folks. For context, the ad talked explicitly about genetics and how her blue eyes and blonde hair, so the jean/gene thing was deliberate. It also harkens back to an older ad featuring Brooke Shields, who was underage at the time. I believe American Eagle's founder? current CEO? is a bit icky, but don't quote me on that - it's just what I've seen float around.

In any case, Sweeney's became a MAGA/conservative darling, on account of being an "all-american" girl who frequently shows off her assets. Think back to when Taylor Swift got hailed as some sort of neo-nazi idol.

To be fair, recently in an interview, an interviewer asked about the ad and Sweeney gave a bit of a non-answer, which has been taken as her implicitly supporting the conservative feelings over the whole debacle (conservatives pointed to her not giving a substantial answer as a wink-nod in their direction, while liberals saw it as her refusing to answer a soft-ball question on white supremacy).

[iff_and_xor]

I don’t know why my brain refuses to distinguish between Sydney Sweeney and Sabrina Carpenter.

If I concentrate, I remember that Sweeney is an actor and Carpenter is a musician. But my first thought on this secret was going back to that fuss over the Sabrina Carpenter album cover.

I guess I haven’t actually seen or heard any of this round of outrage.

[(Anonymous)]

Sabrina Carpenter= really tiny (5 feet tall).
Sydney Sweeney= big boobs, 5'3".

[bannedbookweek]

It's 100% manufactured lmao. She's a forgettable actress with a cute face. She doesn't have any particular star power or charisma. Online support is easy to bot but no one I've talked to irl have any idea who she is, even the co workers who enjoy People magazine. She's very much an internet only thing.

[(Anonymous)]

It is not racist. The internet is totally overreacting as usual!

I'm beginning to hate the stupidity and the "everything is racist!" cries of the young'uns.

Yikes.

[(Anonymous)]

When did fandomsecrets turn into a clan--I mean, MAGA--no, I mean clan rally?

Am I going to see y'all start defending Trump any second now?

Ho-ly shit.

Re: Yikes.

[(Anonymous)]

Lol get help hun

Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Guys... are you forgetting context? In, say, 2008, yeah, this would have just been an innocuous play on words, but if you're incapable of figuring out why a genes/jeans ad featuring a woman who is the conservative ideal of a White, American woman is, at the very least, a deliberate attempt on the part of the company to generate buzz by seizing on hot-topic issues around race and eugenics in the present day...

I mean, it's great to be you, but some of us are non-White, Jewish, etc., and things like this slap us right across the face.

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

"Never assume malice when it could be explained by stupidity" is still true. It does not look great, but if you refuse to acknowledge that it may at least not have been deliberate then you're vastly underestimating the amount of people who genuinely do not pay attention to political climates (because it simply does not affect them and they have that luxury) and do dumb shit like that without understanding the implications. Being in an online bubble makes this stuff look inescapable even to normies, but it really really is not.

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Sydney Sweeney probably wasn't aware of the implications. Sure. I have zero good faith in corporations in 2025. They will monetise anything for attention and profit

Also, that's what I'm saying about being non-White. People have told me directly to my face that they hate people of my nationality. My mother had to sit me down and tell me that people would be racist to me when I was in primary school. I've never been able to ignore that, and people just don't seem to understand. Being alert to dogwhistles is not "an online bubble." That is my life.

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

"Some if us are Jewish" lol you're under more threat by leftists than MAGAs these days.

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Reductive statement. Jewish people are under threat on *all* sides these days.

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

What? There are so many outspoken leftist Jewish people and also that doesn't make it OK to be maga??

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Idk, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the racist vibes were fully intentional, but then I didn't know who she was or what she did outside of the ad, so it's not like I can avoid someone whose work I never watched in the first place. I didn't even know she was an actress until this thread.

Plus I thrift almost all my clothes so my main association with American Eagle is the CEO being a piece of shit and also the company notoriously buying and destroying their clothes that end up at thrift stores because they don't want poor people wearing their clothes. I wouldn't shop there if I won the lotto!

Re: Some ice cold takes ITT

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the ad was straight up trying to appeal to white supremacists.