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What are the dog whistles being shown here?
The Sydney Sweeney jeans ad makes a bunch of “genes/jeans” puns that can be read as “white genes = good genes,” although it’s not explicitly presented as such and could be interpreted as “I got hot girl genes.” Which is the trouble with dog whistles, they take the same form as innocuous things. That being said, I’ve seen waaaay more “discussion of it being controversial” than people actually being offended by it, which flags for me that this might be more a manufactured outrage than an organic response. Like either American Eagle is planting “this ad be controversial” stories or the right wing outrage machine amplifying a small handful of critiques into “the left has been triggered by Sydney’s boobala!”
No clue about the other two.
The entire outrage and backlash-to-the-outrage cycle has been so obviously manufactured from the beginning. They’re playing chuds like a fiddle.
I wonder how many millions of dollars a year the 22 year old dipshit consultant who designed these ad campaigns gets paid a year
Like not to minimize nazi stuff, but I think there's a bigger chance it's a reference to the actual concept of the "Golden hour" rather than being a reference to a greek neo nazi party
It's also an incredibly popular tiktok/youtube song.
Fair point.
New fictional Digimon organization, too. I'm hoping it's a reference to the British Hermetic Secret Society but you never know with Japan.
Digimon creators are really into weird esoteric shit, so it is probably referencing the British one here.