Accountability in Entertainment • Page 471

That ad was way less offensive and culturally tone deaf than the Kendall Jenner BLM Pepsi ad, and I don't remember people going after Jenner the same way they're going after Sweeney.

 

I’m not in twitter or threads or whatever it’s called so maybe I’m just insulated a little but I’m not actually seeing people go after her. I’m seeing some backlash against the company but not even much of that. It’s mostly people acting mad about people being mad about the ad, but I think it’s caught a wave where what people are complaining about isn’t actually happening. I remember way more people mocking Jenner for that Pepsi ad.

 

I mean there were people going after her in this very thread.

 

It was literally just one person! Everyone else either said it’s not on her or defended the entire ad. That’s not exactly public backlash

 

There's a clear difference between "she has good genes" and "she has the only kind of good genes that exist and all other genes are bad"

 

it's also literally just a play on words

 

some underpaid idiot at AE advertising was like 'omg good genes but make it kinda also about pants'



and now here we are.

lets just move on.

 

Also, Vase. Have I mentioned that?

 

Didn’t someone from AE say they wanted to really go for it or something like that? Or was that fake? If it was real, they clearly knew how people would take it, even if it wasn’t meant to be a serious statement.

Seems like a stupid choice to make, but Sydney is innocent haha

 

Fake. They didn't say anything themselves until today but I too saw what you're talking about yesterday. Here's their statement:

This was the fake floating around:

 

I have a hard time buying that nobody in what I presume to be a big marketing campaign and all the layers of approval wouldn't realize it was not a great look. Then again if it was an echo chamber we see ridic ads all the time. I have a feeling if it had been released during a different political climate it may not be received quite as harshly. Given the state of everything I kinda get people being cynical about intentions from these big corps.

 

That’s not the statement I saw, but whatever. I’ll just assume what I saw was fake, too.

 

The better “joke”/less offensive way to have done that add is to have had her fully lean into the “jeans” part of it and as she talks about what your jeans do, instead of talking about how they determine your eye color or hair color, have her say shit about what good fitting jeans can do for your look or shape or etc. Then when she says she has good jeans, you get all the pun of the jeans/genes because obviously she’s good looking and the insinuation of genes is there but you’re not making as obvious an implication about blonde hair/blue eyes/etc

 

Hah

 

Lol at Louie being reduced to touring with Tim Dillon
https://www.axs.com/events/883645/louis-c-k-tickets?skin=foresthills

 

I personally think no one is actually caring about the “bad look” it’s more like corps seeing “what can we minimally get away with” until it’s too late for people to realize they actually have no rights. They don’t actually care about the common public. Just revenue

 

I don't know if it is loving corporations but more about how corporations operate. Corporations try to be as inoffensive as possible; what advantage is there to be openly pro-eugenics?

 

Also no one is talking about the near identical dunkin ad. It’s all horrible.

 

There's a donut ad about attractive people?

 

If you actually care yes there’s another ad mentioning genes. Just look it up because I’m not sharing it here

 

We’re pre another genocide. Yes this ad propaganda is happening. Shocking.

 

I did, and everything in this article is depressing, including and especially the audience latching onto the messaging as being "non-woke".

Dunkin Donuts ad with Gavin Casalegno sparks controversy

Why can't anyone be normal about anything anymore?

 

here. Disgusting

 

You’re so funny.

 

I feel like I’m being tricked into watching these shitty ads for these things that I would otherwise never see. this one doesn’t even make sense. At least the AE one was based on a pun, this one shoehorns in the genes stuff for no reason