sydney sweeney

It's time.

https://i.imgur.com/zFQPbpi.jpeg

hot ready and legal?

I don't know too much about this person, except I saw her in the one "White Lotus" and, like Glen Powell, she's both pretty and weirdly ubiquitous/talked about a lot, at least to me, considering how little of their works I have seen. But I do recall Sweeney's mom or grandma or something having a party, and people wearing what looked to be MAGA hats, and how Team Sweeney scrambled to say, no no no, that was just a gag, we're not all a bunch of Republicans. And now it's been reported that, pysch, actually she is a registered Republican?

I actually liked her in Everything Sucks, the short-lived Netflix teen comedy set in the '90s. Otherwise I've only ever seen her in Handmaid's Tale and White Lotus and she was just kinda there in both. Never seen Euphoria, but I guess that was her breakout role.

I've seen White Lotus (agreed on her not being v memorable there) and Anyone But You, which was deeply mediocre though I wouldn't blame her alone for that.

would be cool if being a republican and signing up as the poster girl for white supremacy* killed her career but I doubt it

*as much as the "EUGENICS!" accusations are a little ott, am I the only one who now primarily associates the phrase "good genes" with Trump?

She’s good in Immaculate. Everyone is being very weird about the politics they want / imagine her to have.

The optics are bad but I really do believe this is exactly what the ad agency thought they were doing:

https://clickhole.com/addressing-the-backlash-american-eagle-is-clarifying-that-their-sydney-sweeney-ad-was-only-intended-to-make-people-masturbate/

lol of course that was the main concept, but I don't think it's completely off to see the ad reflecting, broadly, a cultural shift. like I'm not suggesting AE was consciously evoking the fact Trump talks about "good genes" all the time, just that it's out there in the atmosphere.

ShariVari: she registered as a Republican in Florida, which moves it out of the imaginary, no? I'm open to this not being even slightly important in the grand scheme of things though, but registering as GOP in Florida in June 2024 is going to rile people up

I do remember that she played up the idea that she was having an affair with her co-star in some romantic comedy in order to get media attention, so I assume everything about this is pretty calculated.

I don't know anything about her, but what an awful position to be in. Assuming she's not a terrible person, imagine being made an unwilling MAGA avatar, and the instant backlash that speaking out would entail.

She was very good in the Handmaid's Tale, which is ironic since she's now a Republican (she registered as such in Florida prior to the general election last year). This entire thing is annoying and exhausting and I think there is truth to both sides of the discourse: that the ad is wink-winking at very problematic cultural and political trends, and that the reaction to it is a little overblown, but I'm pretty certain that was the intention behind the ad. At the same time, people stating that 'no one on the left/dems/liberals actually cares about this' is also false.

It's possible that she is dumb and doesn't understand any of this, which would explain her being a Republican in the first place. I doubt she is going to make a statement one way or the other.

Tbh, the first time I saw the ad I thought mostly that it was just an attempt on a new version of the icky Brooke Shields jeans ad, but they chose really poorly in the ad text. At least Sweeney isn't underage in this one.

She was one of the secondary Manson girls in OUATIH.

I saw on Reddit what I believe was a fake screenshot of an Acyn post featuring a clip of Jesse Watters proclaiming that the endgame was Sweeney marrying Barron Trump and creating the ultimate (White) Power Couple.

I couldn't find a real link, but with everything being what it is, it's ridiculously plausible that Fox News would spin this in the direction that would get BT laid.

just an attempt on a new version of the icky Brooke Shields jeans ad

it is that, with added white supremacy sprinkled across the top. in the end this speaks to how people view culture. I understand that there are people who will watch this and not pick up on the implication of talking about 'good genes'; such implications have become more problematic in recent years due to weird shit like pro-natalists, Musk and Trump etc. If AE had rolled out the campaign with more diverse models I don't think it would have raised such a fuss. The fact that they didn't tells me that someone was probably aware of how this could be received.

I think the fact that Buzzfeed had to go digging around in the voter registration rolls indicates how little she’s been willing to engage with politics to date.

No spoilers but producing, financing and starring in perhaps the most pro-abortion, anti-religious extremism genre film of recent years doesn’t really suggest she’s a MAGA lunatic, but it’s not really anyone’s business when whatever views she may or may not have are kept entirely to herself.

which film would that be

oh, Immaculate.

I knew about the Manson film, but didn't pick up on her being in the Handmaid's Tale at all.

When all I saw was the tagline "good jeans," it seemed like mostly a bad pun. When I actually saw the video ad, with the discussion of genetics being passed down etc., I could understand the minor fuss a bit more. It is still a mostly invented controversy though — like 5 percent actual mad leftists and 95 percent right-wing white men taking the opportunity to protect a pretty white lady (while implicitly leering at her the whole time).

She was very good in the Handmaid's Tale, which is ironic since she's now a Republican (she registered as such in Florida prior to the general election last year).

Maybe not incredibly more ironic than the star and executive producer being a hardcore scientologist.

lol just truly amazing that somehow happened

she was on handmaid's tale in like the second season, it might have been the first thing I ever saw her in. Spoiler: she dies.

The Jesse Watters thing was not fake

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-host-jesse-watters-shares-strange-fantasy-about-sydney-sweeney-and-barron-trump/

When I actually saw the video ad, with the discussion of genetics being passed down etc.,

this is another aspect that is annoying, because obviously genetic traits can be inherited, but even implying that seems to set some people off and cause them to scream 'eugenics'. one wonders how these people function in high school science classes when they study mendelism. Though the unsavory aspect of it is the 'good' part being purely superficial aspects.

Yeah, I mean you could make the same ad with Zendaya and it wouldn't have the arguable white supremacist undertone but would still be saying "Attractive people are better" in some ways. But also that's an implied message of most advertising and mass entertainment.

I figured the outrage was about what "good genes" are being posited as: Skinny but curvy white blonde straight cis Southern American woman. Not the idea of genetic in and of itself.

eujeanics

She's got a police bike
She's got a turned-up nose

https://i.imgur.com/N0AZ0Oa.png

hahahahaha

I thought she was very good in the one thing one seen her in other than the media circus (The White Lotus s1), btw.

What’s the OP’s image about?

one time there were two nuns birthing the Antichrist movies

she seems to be extremely canny in her decisions around production, control and selling of her work and efforts since breaking out

the jeans genes thing is excruciating to watch from outside the obsession with whether trump said a word once

the jeans genes thing

Jeans Gene-y love chimney stacks

Because I have passing interest in entertainment economics, I sometimes think about a quote I heard from Sweeney in an interview from probably around the time Anyone But You came out: the writer was pressing her about how well-off they felt she should be, and Sweeney countered to the effect of (I paraphrase) "I don't really have that much money. I rent a small apartment in suburban LA. I'm on a couple streaming/cable series with limited runs. I've had a few small roles in some big movies and more big roles in small indies. I'm starting to get big roles in some hopefully big movies, and maybe that will pay off."

Young women actors normally have brief careers, about as short as the average NFL player. It's no wonder if they try to wring the maximum economic benefits from any breaks they get.

Yeah, she hasn't appeared in many high-profile projects--however her media imprint is far bigger than that of a lot of actors who are more 'successful.'

She's taken on <a lot> of brand endorsement/product ambassador gigs. It reminds me a little of Anna Kendrick, who's been the center of a big but wrapped up franchise series, has worked with every major streamer, written a memoir, and done a ton of ads.

lmao at that Don Draper ad. Then Don would spend half a season cheating with her and being mopey about it.

can somebody explain the don draper joke? or is it just "lol random"

I take it as being a spoof a Draper's mystical ad-sense (lol) where he krafts (lol) an ad taking a negative and selling the controversy.

It's meant to indicate he is the one speaking the text above the image, pitching an ad to clients.

I liked Sydney Sweeney in Madame Web

ok theres no need for sarcasm

genuinely tho i did enjoy how the stars just disavowed the whole thing as soon as it was clearly a flop

so WS or no?

Dry your eyes for Madame Web

xp gross and I am dead serious.

it was obviously a joke and a reference to many threads that were on this very site

I first became aware of her from the video for the Rolling Stones' "Angry". I remember wondering if it was a parody of the typical hair metal woman-with-car-or-motorcycle video or if I was just supposed to look at Sydney Sweeney's chest unironically. I bet there are some sad, sexist losers who went through that video frame-by-frame looking for nipple shots.

Well, the joke's on you, losers. There aren't any nipples in that video. They use a mixture of sticky tape and video editing to eliminate stray nipples. I know this because I've also compulsively checked Reddit's Sydney Sweeney subreddit - back when people in the UK were allowed to look at that kind of thing - and no, there are no nipples in that video.

On the one hand I admire her moxie, on the other hand the jeans advert was a terrible, terrible idea. It's not even a clever innuendo - e.g. "Sydney Sweeney has great tracts of land". Furthermore I thought the entire point of Sweeney's brand is that she has a fantastic balcony. Not legs. I have no opinion on Sydney Sweeney's legs. They exist to support her body, but they're basically George Harrison circa 1964. Lots of potential but they aren't Lennon or McCartney.

Jesus Christ all the stuff about... when people say you shouldn't post to the internet when you're drunk on a Sunday evening, that's rubbish. My mind is just as sharp as always. Just as sharp. Like lazor.

this is what happens when boobs kill woke. get down america

fantastic balcony

Not all she has in common with Mussolini

anyone caught staring at Mussolini's fantastic balcony unironically will face 20 years hard labor

its wild how many right wing trolls are just posting pictures of her saying "liberals are gonna be so triggered by this!", I honestly wonder if you pressed a conservative as to *why* "the left" is triggered by the ad whether or not they'd know the answer

Triggered to what? Fap?

i just want those hot southern baptist preacher takes

Ashley Pomeroy thank you for that post

Unless surgeons intervene, she’ll be playing keepie-uppie with those knockers a la Hacky Sack by ger 45th birthday.

the cut 4th verse of "Into my arms"

Today in "Oh, you thought your right-wing culture war nod-wink stuff was popular?": Foot traffic down 9% at American Eagle following Sydney Sweeney ad controversy

Foot traffic fell 9% year over year at American Eagle stores for the week that began August 3, marking the second week of traffic declines since the retailer launched its controversial campaign featuring actor Sydney Sweeney, according to data from Pass_by provided exclusively to Retail Brew.

American Eagle launched its campaign, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” on July 23. For the first full week after the campaign, which began on July 27, its foot traffic declined 3.9% YoY. In both of the two full weeks preceding the campaign, its traffic increased over last year, up 5.9% on the week that began July 6 and 4.9% on the week that began July 13.

Most Trump voters can't afford name-brand pants.

Proud Boys milling around American Eagle stores should reverse this trend

Go anti-woke go broke

It’s dumb that conservatives think liberals are mad at sydney sweeney because of cleavage.

Most Trump voters can't afford name-brand pants

There are wealthy Trump voters. I see them on their boats at the Jersey Shore.

The average Trump voter has more money than the average Democrat.

Better genes too

is white privilege considered a form of genetic inheritance now?

Well, yeah

I suspect we'll all see her in some Daily Mail/National Enquirer piece a few year from now: "Can You Recognize This Former Starlet We Spotted in a Costco Parking Lot?"

Republicans being weird about Sweeney doesn’t mean libs have to be weird about her too.

Chances are pretty good she had not a clue that by signing onto this ad campaign she'd be accused of endorsing racial eugenics. More like, "you'll pay me how much? OK. What's the campaign like? Oh, I see; jeans & genes. That's kinda clever. When's the photo shoot?" Now she's thinking "how the fuck did all this bad publicity get dumped on me?! It's just a play on words!"

"...and why is Barron Trump texting me thrist traps?"

XP she'd be right

btw guys this is a fucking weird thread with some really fucking weird posts. do a few of you think there's a combination at play hete that gives you permission?

because honestly a ws thread is cleaner and more honest

otm

"Sydney Sweeney has great tracts of land"

It struck me later on that if American Eagle were really, truly committed to a completely filthy innuendo then they should have cut a deal with the US Navy. That way the slogans could have been "she has a powerful set of steam catapults", or "her stern sponsons require constant maintenance", or "her flight deck is regularly awash with seamen", and if anybody complains the company could simply point out that the captions were referring to USS Nimitz, and that Sweeney's presence in the adverts was purely coincidence.

"She has an impressive freeboard", "her bows can accommodate three shafts", "her former commanding officer was dismissed for failing to follow orders during the midst of the COVID pandemic", "she participated in PAC-EX 15", "for the most part traditional latticework masts were replaced with enclosed superstructures in the 1990s and early 2000s".

The United States isn't good at innuendo. It's a British thing, because we have a mixture of sexual frustration and self-loathing. The United States doesn't have that, or at least it doesn't have self-loathing.

of course it does. unless you're the very british problems twitter account.

say no more.

Think there may be innuendo outside of British shores yeah, clue is in the name. xpost

I'm going to posit that the entire history of blues music negates this premise

Sydney Sweeney as the cultural mirror people are looking into to validate their own views is really some peak 2025

I didn't know American Eagle was still a thing. This is like when I became aware there is a brand of shoes called "Hey Dude" which she also did an ad for that I'd never heard of. I'm not sure who any of this is for but kudos to the ad industry for reminding us they exist outside of the Super Bowl and the obnoxious junk on the web that reminds me I need to update my adblock rules.

maybe british exceptionalism is the real very british problem, is what i would say if i hadn't lived in britain so long that i'm nervous about mentioning a cup of tea!!!

this thread really is silly. what are we doing?

we were just getting somewhere

I tried to wrap it up last week but the subject is just too darn compelling to silence

The United States doesn't have that, or at least it doesn't have self-loathing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCYMvaUcrA

americans are able loathe themselves as well as everyone else concurrently

Ok, lol Fox News:

Sydney Sweeney's Dolly Parton-inspired Western will benefit from ad backlash: expert

america doesn't have self-loathing

tucker carlson bizarre 'then dad comes home' speech to thread

my theory is that yanks outsourced their national self loathing to canada but predictably enough trump looks set to bring it back

We self-deprecate, not self-loathe.

I don't know who Sydney Sweeney is but here's a picture of another Sydney to enjoy

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Sydney_Greenstreet_in_Across_the_Pacific_trailer.jpg/250px-Sydney_Greenstreet_in_Across_the_Pacific_trailer.jpg

the entire "america has a crisis of masculinity" thing comes from people who absolutely are striving for their own vision of masculinity and failing

the self-loathing is baked in. the tradwife stuff also has a lot of it

https://themagnificent60s.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sweeney-1.jpg

“sweeney todd has great pies”

Matt Sweeney's Jeans (probably have a big fat outline where his big wallet goes [I'm guessing])

take that one back to the writers' room