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American Eagle Responds To Sydney Sweeney Good Jeans/Genes Ad

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iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

3.5697 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After a week of controversy from an online AE ad that went all the way up to the White House, American Eagle finally issued a statement. BUT, as Amy and T.J. discuss, that statement pissed some people off even more than the original ad! The question, should we be mad, or should we be asking ourselves WHY we’re so mad and how can we all do better?

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:29.1

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0:36.4

Hey there, folks, it is a beautiful Sunday, August 3rd, an American Eagle has finally responded.

0:44.9

After setting everybody off with that controversial Sidney-Sweeney ad, we're talking everybody

0:50.6

from liberals, conservatives, black folks, white folks, Democrats, Republicans,

0:57.2

J.D. Vance, the White House, Lizzo, Doja Cat. They got everybody worked up about it, Robs,

1:03.2

and they have finally now responded. And you know what they said, folks? Not a whole lot.

1:07.8

Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, are you surprised? I kind of want to

1:14.1

give our reaction to the reaction. We did the story initially and some people were worked up,

1:17.9

but this thing's been going on in a full week now. Well, I would just say that if the goal of

1:22.4

advertising is to have people talking about you, then American Eagle has has won because everyone is talking about them

1:29.8

and everyone, it seems, has weighed in on whether or not they think their ad was appropriate

1:34.5

or not. But I think my reaction was that I get what people are saying. I think people read far

1:42.2

too into it. There are a lot of folks who believe this was

1:44.2

intentional that they're trying to get Trump supporters to buy American Eagle jeans. I don't know about

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