"Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans" American Eagle Ad

"Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans" American Eagle Adrefers to aviral debateabout actress Sydney Sweeneydoing anadvertisingcampaign for American Eagle jeans in which she says, "Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My jeans are blue." The advertisement ends with the words, "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans." Though theviral marketingcampaign garnered significant attention for its suggestive themes, many internet users also criticized Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle for the ads, accusing them of making an advertisement that contained "Nazi dog whistles" and promoted "white supremacist" ideas aboutsuperior genetics and eugenics. Otherinternetusers pushed back against this characterization of the advertisement, saying critics were being toowokeand that the ad was directly inspired by a tape Brooke Shields recorded for Calvin Klein when she was 15 years old.