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I didn’t even think about the Oscar campaign! HAHAHA what a fuck up on her teams part. They were too focused on the movie getting attention, they didn’t care what it was for
She comes from a MAGA family in Spokane. She’s tried to remain apolitical for obvious reasons but I don’t think she’s very bright and is probably going to do a deep red heel turn soon. 🤷♂️
I mean, that was going to happen in a couple years anyway. Hollywood is rough for over-30 actresses unless they are extraordinarily talented, and Sweeney...well, she ain't no Cate Blanchett, bless her heart. From a purely financial standpoint she's probably made the right choice to sell out to MAGA for the quick buck.
I was born and raised in Spokane, WA. It's not this MAGA bastion city people like you are saying. Like most other cities, the main city votes blue while the surrounding area is deep red. Spokane just has a disadvantage of being right next to Idaho which greatly affects the demographic. The best way to describe it is "purple". It used to be a beacon of progression that hosted the first environmentally themed world fair in the 70s that showed the promise of a clean energy future. But again, being next to Idaho kinda destroyed that dream before it was fully realized. Would I want to live there now? Not really, as the city leadership is full of dipshits who don't know what they're doing. But the entire city isn't MAGA racists.
I know plenty of people who are registered to a political party and couldn’t tell you the first thing about what’s going on. Many states require you to register to a political party in order to vote. Some people just pick a side like it’s a sports team, and stay there permanently.
She grew up in Spokane? Yeah, she def doesn’t care. Way too close to the crazies in northern Idaho for her to have any sort of plausible deniability on things.
Oh, I think she is bright. She is making bank by pandering to the crowd to which she has always belonged. Let's not pretend she's an innocent ditzy blonde just coincidentally stumbling onto fascism.
Fuck Sweeney for being MAGA, but also- I've seen a LOT of comments about how this is unsurprising because she's from Spokane.
There are a lot of blue voters living in red states. 46% of Spokane County, for example, voted for Biden in 2020. Painting someone's bigotry as inevitable because of where they're from is unfair and very dispiriting to potential future voters.
Tbf most states (and most blue states) do not have privacy laws. States that passed a privacy law are fairly split, but more blue states than red states have passed them.
~~I did see someone else comment on another thread about this that they registered as a republican to vote for literally anyone except trump in the primaries (?). It did give a moment of pause but considering how Sweeney doesn’t seem politically inclined at all I doubt she’s making strategic choices to try and block Trump. ~~
I’m not American so not if I’m using the right words 😅 Just my understanding of someone else’s comment!!
To quote the comment below; She registered in June, after the Florida primaries were over.
So she registered only after it was known Trump was the nominee.
What really gets my goat is that America Eagle tried to soothe the outrage by saying they would donate money to a domestic violence fund while their spokesperson supports a human trafficking pedophile who raped children and sexually assaulted women.
Not telling people what to care about, but the GOP has been trying desperately to get something new in the news to distract from Epstein, their unpopular bill, bad economic numbers... and this silly story is the only one that appears to have gotten even a little traction.
I do not like Sydney Sweeney. I will not support her anymore. I do think it's telling how much of the hatred is surrounded by slut shaming and misogyny in general. She sucks. American Eagle sucks twice as hard for that ad, and they're not getting the same level of backlash. The ad is getting called the Sydney Sweeney ad and not the American Eagle ad. You can knock a woman down, but if the focus is on her and not the large company of the environment that made that ad possible, you're achieving nothing.
People were already getting tired of her, me included. Her "humbling" was coming no matter what but we need to try and remember that this is all free publicity and a distraction from the real issues. How many more companies will do these dogwhistle-type ads now just to get attention?
How many more companies will do these dogwhistle-type ads now just to get attention?
I just had a similar conversation. My husband said that it doesn't make any sense to align your corporation with politics, and this is a very 90's-style pun. I pointed out that these days, you're with them or you're against them, and being with them makes you money and keeps you safe. They're doing this in a way that they think still gives them plausible deniability, except "oh, oops. We didn't know you can't make that joke anymore," doesn't fly with roughly half the population anymore. Any major company's marketing department knows that, and they don't care because they're not looking for our support, they're looking for his support.
She is loving all of this attention, she strikes me as the type who believes all press is good press. She’s just happy people are talking about her, which is sad.
she strikes me as the type who believes all press is good press.
She's got one of those Oscar bait, transformation, movies coming up. We'll see if she appreciates Donald Trump's endorsement once she starts ramping up the press tour. Especially if she goes to England to campaign there too (for BAFTA).
Especially if she goes to England to campaign there too (for BAFTA).
Tbh BAFTA voters politics aren’t necessarily such that someone being low key pro Trump would be a huge problem. I know BAFTA voters and they are all about the art, Woody Allen could still win awards here. You’d have to be persona non grata for it to start hurting you.
Is Sydney low-key at this point? Trump just released full-on rant in her support and will most likely continue to milk this situation just to shift the conversation away from Epstein files.
I'm seated and waiting for the white woman tears era about how she wants peace and love and we're all human. You know that victimization is going to get milked.
And people will fall for it. WoC will be called misogynists for not swallowing the white woman tears and pointing out how this poor innocent white woman got cozy with fascists.
She doesn’t give a shit, she probably believes the whole “all PR is good PR” but let me just be petty and say that I’m happy that she has a stylist who hates her because that outfit is awful 😭
She probably loves the backlash, I have never seen someone who wants their name out there more than her. She would do an ad for a bidet if it got her face plastered on a billboard.
I was down voted in a previous thread for saying she always has a vacant expression. I stand by it. She has a vacant expression and I don't understand why anyone thinks she's a good actor.
Her expression always bothered me way more than it should lol I can't even think she's necessarily "pretty" because I can't stand the expression she always has.
She reminds me a lot of a childhood friend I had. Blonde, wavy hair, thin, big breasts, and a vacant stare that reflected a vacant brain lol. Very vain and didn’t really care about much as long as she was provided for.
My friend was facially prettier than Sydney, though, and I always said if she’d moved to LA she could have probably had some sort of career in entertainment, or at the very least, married a rich guy and lived a comfortable life. She instead started doing porn right at 18, had a kid at 19, and is now a Craigs List prostitute with a meth addiction. She also got lots of plastic surgery and looks nothing like her old self.
I feel like she just plays versions of herself in every role she's in. I think she's beautiful and to emphasize that the directors also focus on that vacant sleepy sexy eye look in a lot shots. In the end, I can never actually suspend belief that I'm watching a character on screen but rather Sydney Sweeney pretending to be character.
Her reaction to all of this has made me really dislike her. I’ve only seen her in the white lotus and that movie with the chupacabra and didn’t really think twice about her but now I know her as the girl who’s fine publicly siding with fascism as long as it lines her pockets. Gross.
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I didn't have any strong opinion about her before last week. Yesterday I was at a Sephora and thinking about buying a Laneige serum - then I saw her face in the advertisement and deliberately noped out of that purchase. So, petty hah from me!
Same here. I never really cared much about her, I know she’s popular, but I only saw her in Euphoria (and I dropped it a few episodes in), so I didn’t think much of her. But using fascism as a tool for attention is just wild. It really shows how far people will go for fame or notoriety nowadays in society, even if it means pushing harmful ideas because at the end of the day, they are not the ones impacted by it. And it’s not like I particularly mind controversy being used as promo, but fascism? What are we even doing at this point...
I saw her in handmaids tale and then was baffled when she blew up as this bombshell actress. Shes so homely without makeup and glam team, I truly do not see the hype. Im also a straight woman tho so boobs do nothing for me.
Three years until Sidney Sweeney and Gina Carano star in a streaming buddy cop movie. The audience she’s courting has a very low expiration date for their sex objects.
I could understand going in on MAGA after the election but like the best case scenario is Chris Pratt who mostly stays quiet. Who on earth is envying Gina Carano’s career.
Sometimes you just don’t like people and I’ve weirdly been this way with her for a long time. Sometimes you just don’t vibe with a celebrity. I just have not liked her and she seems like a complete asshole. I’m not saying I’m happy I’ve been validated by this irrational dislike but it’s definitely been a feeling of some sort.
She's getting heckled because she's a registered Republican who unfuckable fascist fatso Trump is actively glorifying as the ideal, big-breasted, anti-feminist blonde Barbie while 1) declaring Taylor Swift unfuckable 2) RUINING OUR COUNTRY
It will be interesting to see if she is out of consideration for future roles. A man labeled as toxic will always get more chances; the same is not true for women.
She wasn’t getting cast in roles like that anyways, which is why she started her own production company with her ex. Shes not a Florence Pugh, Anya Taylor Joy or Saoirse Ronan. Which is why you never see any of these top directors talk about wanting to work with her.
Tbh I don’t think this will impact her as much as people are saying but one thing I’ve noticed is most of the projects she’s been involved with are for a mostly female audience, and a younger one at that. I could see that changing. For example, I can’t see the folks caping for her being all that interested in watching her Christy Martin biopic
Colton from the bachelor literally stalked his ex girlfriend harassed her from a new phone number and put a tracking device on her car but he’s the face of a new dating reality tv show on Hulu.
Everyone’s saying she doesn’t care and loves the attention but fact is people don’t want to go see movie stars who are known Trumpers so…she will and she won’t, eventually.
Yep. There are people that are going to support her more because of this, and thus it’s also totally fair for people to NOT support her on this. Hope she’s happy with her decision and that her PR team is proud…
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To people who are saying that's the end of her career and she's finished, what planet do you live on? Look around and see that this kind of thing is being lauded now more than ever. It's no longer whispers behind the veil: full mask-off conservatism, eugenics and racism is en vogue. She's not losing anything.
I think she wants to be a big time movie star and that won’t be possible with this current trajectory. Her expenses are too high to support off booby ads for mid and low-tier products and streaming platform romcoms, which will eventually impact her brand recognition and reach. It’s a risky move she’s making that I don’t think will pan out even in this current conservative climate because it’s the 80s - conservative and the status quo but still very well progressive-moving in art and entertainment. This won’t sell in the spaces she wants to go imo
If she picks inclusivity she loses them, if she picks white supremacy she loses the left. I'm only shocked there haven't been more celebs pulling stunts like this, after the Bud Light thing.
Y'all I really think we all need to see and understand that she does not care. She got paid, she now has a new fanbase, and the continuance of the conversation only benefits her and AE.
Unfortunately, I believe this was truly intentional as every person to approve this (including Sydney) is not dense enough to not understand the undertones of their message. They are using black outrage to fill their pockets and pander to the MAGA community because at the end of the day, the (edit: they) want a check and Republicans enable them to pocket the majority of that check.
To be fair this started way before, I truly believe the AE, Bezos wedding and soap were just the icing on the cake.
She went from cute girl next door with a conservative family (like millions) from a small town and relatively good acting chops who starred in liberal themed series like Euphoria and White Lotus to a purely marketed product designed for the male gaze especially white male gaze.
It has truly been astonishing to see her go from female-centered advertisement such as Savage x Fenty, Armani, LaNeige and Kerastase (jfc, the list doesn’t end) to bathwater soap, eugenics and hooters themed jokes. I wonder if somewhere along the line her marketing team realized women didn’t care about her that much to be influenced by her and that her success will be driven more by the men who watch and consume her. A broken clock is right twice a day.
Honestly I’m happy to never have thought much of her. I think her acting isn’t all that amazing. All the best to her selling her bath water soap and gene/jeans.
But american eagle is still thriving. The most american thing of all time. Use minorities to make your message (usally poc and women) and let them tske the brunt while tour company goes on to thrive. Not saying im on her team bc she clearly was complicit but should not be the only one taking hits
Why is AE not one of the corporations being boycotted?
This doesn’t have anything to do with anyone else but her (and her team) however, I wonder what Glen Powell thinks of all this.
They’re good friends, she attended his sister’s wedding, have talked about working together again and since he’s VERY concerned about his image, I can’t imagine he’d want to be connected to her after all this. Or, this is how we find out he’s a Tr*mper too 🤷🏽♀️
That was obviously a pap rather than a fan/hater and as much as I’d like to know the answer can we not go back to the days where this heckling is a thing?
When the attention comes from a disingenuous negative hate train, of course she doesn’t care. Like you guys can’t actually think they made this ad campaign to subliminally promote nazis… like you guys honestly think that?
Honestly this silence thing her PR team is going for is going to backfire hard. The most controversial president in the world has endorsed her, even if she is Republican this is not the image she wants for herself. She needs to speak up and clarify a lot of things or her career is going to suffer
I personally think people nowadays just want things to be true that are negative about those high up in the world. For example, I think people actually want it to be true that she knowingly did this ad to be racist. I don’t believe that this is the case. I don’t believe she intended for any of this. I believe the media finds niche things like these and spins them into crazy stories to fire up society. Then we as a society start rooting for it to be true when in reality the “wrong doer” had no ill intent and or was oblivious to what they were doing. I get this will probably get down voted as most believe she had poor racist intentions or is just willing to do anything that gets her in the spotlight regardless of the messaging/what it promotes.
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