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.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago

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