After back to back flops, Sydney Sweeney pulls a Hail Mary

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Is this NOW?! lmao, "no I'm not a nazi, I just chose to silently go along with the nazis helping me for months and -"

i love the jeans
they're the lowest quality shit money can buy lmao this is the most transparent backpedaling imaginable
- I know, Jesus. Any mall brand jean is going to be so shitty, especially for the price.

Okay, denounce white supremacy then
- she's denounced division and hatred with the cadence of an LLM what more do you want?

Her "silence regarding this issue" was itself an answer and we heard her loud and clear.
- I always think it would be fun, and my indomitable human spirit opens me to being hurt, if someone genuinely got educated after some shit like this.
  The only instance I can recall is someone of prominence whose name completely escapes me. They jokingly called him "chairman" something, like Rose [1]. He had a full change of heart and started calling himself a socialist and decrying US foreign policy.
  [1] Chairman Rose is the main antagonist of Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield. He is the charismatic chairman of the Galar pokemon League and the president of the ...
  
  They jokingly called him "chairman" something, like Rose [1]. He had a full change of heart and started calling himself a socialist and decrying US foreign policy.
  Peter Daou?

She needed 3 record breaking flops to realize the far right don't fuck with her movies like that
- I saw Christy as a mystery movie [edit: it was fine, better than The Smashing Machine imo but not something I'd intentionally watch] and was totally unaware of the drama. I can't even imagine getting involved with a project like that, playing a lesbian boxer, and also trying to court chuds. Like...did she think she could bring both sides together or that people wouldn't notice? She or her PR team are dumb for real. Its like Hillary Clinton still trying the faking an accent similar to the people you're talking to in the internet era, except Sweeny fucking grew up with it. The mind wobbles.

I still have absolutely no idea who this is. At this point I’m convinced that Hollywood keeps inventing random new celebrities and expecting us all to go along with it.
- I’m convinced that Hollywood keeps inventing random new celebrities
  New celebrities have to come from somewhere, idk if you're expecting to have a permanent and unchanging set of famous people but new ones filter in pretty often
  
  idk if you're expecting to have a permanent and unchanging set of famous people
  This isn’t what I’m talking about, like 5 months ago out of the blue Sydney Sweeney was all over social media and the news about how she is “polarising” and “everyone is divided over her” as if we’re all just supposed to already know who she is and have a concrete opinion on her.
  
  Not anymore bucko! 100000 years of tom cruise thanks to CGI!!!!
- She was on Euphoria and White Lotus which at one stage were like the hottest television shows around. I missed those trains so I also had no idea. But she also transitioned from a TV actor to a Film actor which isn't unheard of but is fairly uncommon.
  Also she's conventionally attractive and a registered Republican so Chuds like her a lot.
- Hollywood goes through female actresses like Ben Affleck and young women
  
  Do you mean Leonardo DiCaprio? The stereotype with Ben Affleck is he only likes women named Jennifer
- That is exactly what they’ve done since the studio system was set up.

It’s been like years of chuds all falling over themselves to praise her “anti-woke boobs.” Her entire existence as an actress has been celebrated by chuds as the death of “wokeness in hollywood,” by which they of course mean token representation in movies and such. And what about that whole criticism of her hanging out with family members wearing blue lives matter shirts and stuff, to which she pretty much said she didn’t care. To say her main fault in all this has been her silence is laughable. She has leaned into all of this for the last few years, this ad being only the most recent example.

it's so weird when a celeb tries to play like they actually like the brand/product they endorsed in some advertising campaign. like i'm sure there's something in the contract for public statements with some kind of clawback of compensation if you publicly wipe your ass on something within a certain amount of time, but c'mon.
speaking of celeb endorsements, i was watching some free slop streamer the other day and there was an ad from Katherine Heigle endorsing an adult diaper. like only a 5% chance this was something i dreamed, pretty sure i was awake and it was real. i have a bunch of anti-ad anonymizer shit going on and i never make logins for free stuff, so i get really bizarre ads sometimes. local ads for the wrong place, sometimes in a language i'm not fluent in, menopausal support, kids toys, medicine for issues i can't have. it's almost entertaining how far off base they can get.
- it's so weird when a celeb tries to play like they actually like the brand/product they endorsed in some advertising campaign.
  some people only do ads for stuff they like anyway, but that's more of an above minimum-wage streamer thing than a movie star thing

Sydney Sweeney confirmed new type of guy.
White woman who knows chudslop is the most popular thing so panders to the normies…but to her dismay the normies all hate her for still being a woman.
- Chudslop is not the most popular thing, it just has thinktank freaks running culture war campaigns around it.
  "Normie" is a bad label born of cope from being alienated from society, but normal people aren't (on average) the sort of fash who bite off the heads of even reactionary culture warrior women for not being in the kitchen the way we infamously saw with, for example, Laura Southern.
  Sweeney's issue here very obviously is that she pandered to culture war shit for attention but now risks alienating a broader audience because they think that shit is distasteful, even if they have no real framework for opposing it and indeed feed into it by other means.
  
  The right wing culture war is what you pivot to when your star is waning and real studios aren't very interested in picking you up anymore. Kevin Sorbos, Ben Shapiro, Gina Carano. For an actress still very much in the ascendant phase of her career it's a laughably miscalculated move. I think that despite the countless horrors that visit upon the world daily, we should count chudslop's minute place in the culture among our blessings.

The Housemaid (2025) [natopedia] releases on Dec 19 [against Avatar 3 (2025) by the way] so this kind of feels like desperate timing to wash the nazi stain off of her before the big marketing push
- against Avatar 3
  Another box office bomb incoming

It's a bold move, Cotton. Let's see how it plays out.
(This would also be great in the new popculture community, but I'm too lazy to cross-post right now.)

Sure thing Ms. Grew-Up-In-Rural-Idaho-To-A-Religious-Family

I love the "hail mary" of responding to the criticism while giving some lib-tier platitude slop. This just reads like a Democrat trying to answer for their votes about Israel or something

Even with people explaining who she is and the TV shows that she was on, I feel like I understand even less of what the hell is going on (I don't watch much TV). I know there was some sort of thing people were arguing about, around a jeans commercial she did, but I absolutely don't understand it at all.
Like, at a meta level I understand she tried to do the chud meta for a bit but looks like that didn't make enough money so now she's trying to get on the liberals side but beyond that I don't know what the fuck this is all about
- tbh i never heard of her before the nazi jeans ad

Hey look ill never be mad at celebrities being cowardly in the right direction. There’s enough to be mad about in this world!

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