August 5, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nation Sydney Sweeney Jonesy's imaginary girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I'm glad you said imaginary.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
She I just I feel if there was another time,
perhaps you know.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I feel like I got a connection with her. I don't
know what to do connection with her. Well, you've never
met her, you haven't seen a films.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You might be the only person left in the world
who's a fan of her. After this controversy, she is
at the center of a massive social media storm at
the moment following this new ad campaign. She's done with
American Eagles, so that's a US denim manufacturer. So Sidney Sweeney.
In case you don't know her, she's in Euphoria White Lotus.
She did that movie Anyone but You that was filmed
(00:39):
in Sydney. She has been accused and this brand has
been accused of kind of making linking this ad campaign
to ideals of white supremacy, specifically eugenics, by making a
punt about jenes with j and jeans with a G
genetic genes. I think we've got a grab of the
(01:00):
ad here for you.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
My Bardy's composition is determined by my genes. Hey as
a peer Sydney Sweeney has great gene Well that's just funny.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, well, what is the controversy?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
And I'm always ready to slag off anyone who's that attractive.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, yes, me too. But to give you an idea
of what people are writing. And when I say this
is all over, TikTok like it. It's mass twenty third
of July when this ad dropped, it has not gone away.
So one person wrote on TikTok, the American Eagle ad
wasn't just a commercial. It's a love letter to white
nationalism and eugenic fantasies. And Sydney Sweeney knew it. Another
(01:38):
person wrote, when those traits are consistently uplifted as genetic excellence,
we know.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Where this leads.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
This just echoes pseudoscientific language, a racial superperiority.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
See but you could have had a beautiful black model
act just saying I've got great cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm pretty sure Nami Campbell all those years ago there
was it's all about the genes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I'm pretty sure she said that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But I guess the argument here is that they didn't
hire a beautiful black woman to do this. They hired
a blue eyed blonlonde haired woman. So anyway, that's the
beginning of the controversy. It then intensified because there was silence.
We didn't hear from the brand.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Although their numbers went up exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We didn't hear from American Eagle for ages. Finally, after
more than a week, it responded and defended the ad, saying,
Sidney Sweeney has great jeans. Isn't always was about the
jeans with Jay, her jeans, her story. So they're maintaining
this kind of it's upon it's purely innocent, its wordplay.
Sidney Sweeney, though, still has said nothing. So she has
(02:38):
not made a peep or a reference about this. She
has appeared at events, she was on the Red Car
but a few weeks ago at a movie premiere, but
she's said completely nothing. It's not the first time, though,
that she's been at the center of a kind of
conservative esque controversy. A few years ago, at her mum's
birthday party, a bunch of the guests were seen wearing
(02:59):
Maga hats, and at the time there was this big fueror.
But Sidney Sweeney said, stop making assumptions and turning an
innocent celebration into an absurd political statement. Maybe she's doing
an afternoon show that was in twenty twenty two. Fast
forward to twenty twenty four, a US election year, Stay
with Me, Sidney Sweeney formalizes her Republican status by registering
(03:24):
as a Republican voter in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So why is that such a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's a big deal because or the Internet says it's
a big deal because she down a big deal. She
downplayed the kind of maga connections in her family, and
I think at the time people were willing to write
that off and say, well, well, if her family are Republicans,
doesn't mean she's a Republican. The twenty twenty five context,
or twenty twenty four when she registered, context of being
a Republican is of course, not the same context as
(03:50):
being a Republican twenty years ago. It's Trump's America. It's
Trump's party now, so there's those Trumpian kind of links
to if you subscribe to this party, that must mean
X y Z about you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
She's fair enough, Actually it's not as you do. Yeah,
but having said that, Republicans are.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
All bad, you know, But what Emma's saying is these days,
if you're Marga.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That is, there was another subsect the republic pushed.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
To the right, and Trump's now weighed in, hasn't he
Trump is waiting?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Of course, he loves it. He's very impressed by the ad.
I think we've got a grab of him speaking here.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
She's a registered Republican. Oh now, I love her ad?
Is that right? As Sidney Sweeney, you'd be surprised at
how many people are Republicans. That's what I wouldn't have known.
But I'm glad you told me that if Sydney Sweeney
is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He said he thinks it's the hottest at He used
the word HoTT type. And he also said that that
he thinks he thinks she's really hot and that this
is the end of workness. That's another part of the events.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Also, Wadian said something similar. But as you mentioned, Amanda,
American Eagle shares jumps twenty four percent after Trump's comments,
their best day in twenty five years, adding about two
hundred million dollars to the company's value. So from a
business perspective, it's great news.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
What size jeans do you think they're buying?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
For Sidney Sweeney. It's not going to be good for
her career. I don't think.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Because I read a Marina Hyde. She's an English journalist.
She's very acerbic. She wrote this in The Guardian, saying
it's because she's hot and she's attractive. Everyone's up in arms.
She's got a sense of humor, let it go. So
I don't know where to put myself with.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Silence is deafening though, whether she's a Republican or not,
whatever she says, it's going on and on and on,
and her not saying anything. I think the longest she
says nothing, the worse the conspiracy spirals out and she just.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
All drink her bath water and be done with it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
She has I mean, at the end of the day,
she's objectively very hot, so I think she'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
She's got a very hot ad. Thanks mister Trump, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Am you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Check her out. Ilios
And Amanda gem.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nation Sydney Sweeney Jonesy's imaginary girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
I'm glad you said imaginary.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
She I just I feel if there was another time,
perhaps you know.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I feel like I got a connection with her. I don't
know what to do connection with her. Well, you've never
met her, you haven't seen a films.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You might be the only person left in the world
who's a fan of her. After this controversy, she is
at the center of a massive social media storm at
the moment following this new ad campaign. She's done with
American Eagles, so that's a US denim manufacturer. So Sidney Sweeney.
In case you don't know her, she's in Euphoria White Lotus.
She did that movie Anyone but You that was filmed
(00:39):
in Sydney. She has been accused and this brand has
been accused of kind of making linking this ad campaign
to ideals of white supremacy, specifically eugenics, by making a
punt about jenes with j and jeans with a G
genetic genes. I think we've got a grab of the
(01:00):
ad here for you.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
My Bardy's composition is determined by my genes. Hey as
a peer Sydney Sweeney has great gene Well that's just funny.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, well, what is the controversy?
Speaker 4 (01:14):
And I'm always ready to slag off anyone who's that attractive.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, yes, me too. But to give you an idea
of what people are writing. And when I say this
is all over, TikTok like it. It's mass twenty third
of July when this ad dropped, it has not gone away.
So one person wrote on TikTok, the American Eagle ad
wasn't just a commercial. It's a love letter to white
nationalism and eugenic fantasies. And Sydney Sweeney knew it. Another
(01:38):
person wrote, when those traits are consistently uplifted as genetic excellence,
we know.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Where this leads.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
This just echoes pseudoscientific language, a racial superperiority.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
See but you could have had a beautiful black model
act just saying I've got great cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I'm pretty sure Nami Campbell all those years ago there
was it's all about the genes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I'm pretty sure she said that.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But I guess the argument here is that they didn't
hire a beautiful black woman to do this. They hired
a blue eyed blonlonde haired woman. So anyway, that's the
beginning of the controversy. It then intensified because there was silence.
We didn't hear from the brand.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Although their numbers went up exactly.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We didn't hear from American Eagle for ages. Finally, after
more than a week, it responded and defended the ad, saying,
Sidney Sweeney has great jeans. Isn't always was about the
jeans with Jay, her jeans, her story. So they're maintaining
this kind of it's upon it's purely innocent, its wordplay.
Sidney Sweeney, though, still has said nothing. So she has
(02:38):
not made a peep or a reference about this. She
has appeared at events, she was on the Red Car
but a few weeks ago at a movie premiere, but
she's said completely nothing. It's not the first time, though,
that she's been at the center of a kind of
conservative esque controversy. A few years ago, at her mum's
birthday party, a bunch of the guests were seen wearing
(02:59):
Maga hats, and at the time there was this big fueror.
But Sidney Sweeney said, stop making assumptions and turning an
innocent celebration into an absurd political statement. Maybe she's doing
an afternoon show that was in twenty twenty two. Fast
forward to twenty twenty four, a US election year, Stay
with Me, Sidney Sweeney formalizes her Republican status by registering
(03:24):
as a Republican voter in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So why is that such a big deal.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's a big deal because or the Internet says it's
a big deal because she down a big deal. She
downplayed the kind of maga connections in her family, and
I think at the time people were willing to write
that off and say, well, well, if her family are Republicans,
doesn't mean she's a Republican. The twenty twenty five context,
or twenty twenty four when she registered, context of being
a Republican is of course, not the same context as
(03:50):
being a Republican twenty years ago. It's Trump's America. It's
Trump's party now, so there's those Trumpian kind of links
to if you subscribe to this party, that must mean
X y Z about you.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
She's fair enough, Actually it's not as you do. Yeah,
but having said that, Republicans are.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
All bad, you know, But what Emma's saying is these days,
if you're Marga.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That is, there was another subsect the republic pushed.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
To the right, and Trump's now weighed in, hasn't he
Trump is waiting?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Of course, he loves it. He's very impressed by the ad.
I think we've got a grab of him speaking here.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
She's a registered Republican. Oh now, I love her ad?
Is that right? As Sidney Sweeney, you'd be surprised at
how many people are Republicans. That's what I wouldn't have known.
But I'm glad you told me that if Sydney Sweeney
is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He said he thinks it's the hottest at He used
the word HoTT type. And he also said that that
he thinks he thinks she's really hot and that this
is the end of workness. That's another part of the events.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Also, Wadian said something similar. But as you mentioned, Amanda,
American Eagle shares jumps twenty four percent after Trump's comments,
their best day in twenty five years, adding about two
hundred million dollars to the company's value. So from a
business perspective, it's great news.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
What size jeans do you think they're buying?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
For Sidney Sweeney. It's not going to be good for
her career. I don't think.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Because I read a Marina Hyde. She's an English journalist.
She's very acerbic. She wrote this in The Guardian, saying
it's because she's hot and she's attractive. Everyone's up in arms.
She's got a sense of humor, let it go. So
I don't know where to put myself with.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Silence is deafening though, whether she's a Republican or not,
whatever she says, it's going on and on and on,
and her not saying anything. I think the longest she
says nothing, the worse the conspiracy spirals out and she just.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
All drink her bath water and be done with it.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
She has I mean, at the end of the day,
she's objectively very hot, so I think she'll be okay.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
She's got a very hot ad. Thanks mister Trump, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Am you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Check her out. Ilios
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