Why did S ydney Sweeney do an ad for American Eagle promoting good jeans ? Did she actually mean “good genes”? In which part of the commercial does she mean “jeans” and in which part does she mean “genes”? Can we peep the script? Doesn’t she know what’s happening in this country right now? Isn’t it all a bit tone-deaf? Is she just referencing the Brooke Shields ad from the 1980s? These are the questions that have plagued the American public since the Euphoria and Anyone But You actor dared to gesture toward a blatant superiority as of the most notable hot people right now. Even Donald Trump weighed in. It didn’t help, of course, that Sweeney is a relatively private, if not guarded, figure in popular culture who refused to acknowledge any hint of her own biases — one way or anot

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