Sydney Sweeney - When your FACE Don’t Match Your PERSONALITY!!

So, obviously this is rage bait, but here's what nobody's really talking about. This campaign is poking at women's greatest and most tender insecurity under the patriarchy, which is desiraability in the beauty standard. It affects not only non-white women, even though this is clearly white supremacist Aryan race propaganda, but it also adversely affects the majority of white women who do not naturally have blonde hair and blue eyes. >> My jeans are superior, and by that I mean white with blonde hair. Don't check my roots. MAGA stands for my ass looks great in American Eagle. Sorry, I just took a huge [ __ ] These are quality jeans. So, 78% [music] polyester and 100% German descent. It's an American staple. And by that, I mean the white part. In honor of Page Six officially posting that Sydney Sweenie is a registered Republican. Um, to that I say duh. Cuz don't we remember her mom's 60th [music] birthday party? the Make 60 Great Again hoown that was in 2023. The party itself super cute. They looked like they had a dang boot crushing good time, but everybody was like catching it in the background that a bunch of people were wearing these red hats that said make 60 great again. >> This is an insane answer to an easy question. >> The ad spoke for itself. >> You think the ad spoke for itself? Okay. And white people shouldn't joke [music] about genetic superiority. So, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically. >> I think that when I have an issue that I [music] want to speak about, people will hear. >> So many men were asking for Sydney Sweeny's bath water after she did her ad with Dr. Squatch that they decided to bottle it up and are selling it in bars of soap. As much as I wish I was joking, Dr. Squatch just said, "Introducing Sydney's Bathwater Bliss in collaboration with Sydney Sweeney. We created a limited edition soap infused with her actual bath water. Why? Because you would not stop asking for it. And Sydney said, "Let's do it." >> You know what? Nobody's saying Christy. >> I didn't even realize that that was in theaters this week, which is like a testament to the non-marketing happening. Ranks number 12 in the worst >> in the list of worst opening weekend box office debut. Jeans are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue. Sydney Sween's rise and fall isn't just people being messy online or randomly deciding that they are over her. It lines up with a bigger change in how fame works right now. At first, she was easy to like. She came off shy, awkward, and emotionally open. The kind of actress that people wanted to protect. Her role as Cassie on Euphoria just made her feel raw and real. And it pushed the idea that she had depth, not just a pretty face. >> That dang Sydney Sweeney, she's quite the actress, man. She really, really can act. And what do [music] you think, Logan? >> What do you want from me, bro? She affects me. No, she affects me. She affects me, bro. [music] I said it. It's hard for me to watch sometimes because I'm just sitting there like this. She affects me. >> You're swooning over Sweeney. >> I'm swooning over Sweeney. >> I thought that's why you said that. >> And by the way, so are millions of millions of That's why I'm just another S. >> Fast forward to late turning 25 and that image was gone. Inside of being seen as relatable or vulnerable, she was suddenly framed as anti-w MAGA adjacent and way too comfortable being praised in right-wing spaces. And this Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle collab has showed us that fashion is never just fashion. It's a reflection of the political and economic moment. [music] And when things are unstable economically, brands tend to double down on what's safe. and what's safe is basically like nostalgia, idealized femininity, and traditional gender roles. That shift did not come out of nowhere. Over time, the Nest HBO newcomer started presenting herself so differently. She leaned into being detached. No politics, no opinions, just vibes, money, and a lot of brand deals. She saw that distance as being honest or neutral. But for a lot of people, it came off as not caring. And in a moment where everything feels charged, not caring looks like a decision. Some conservative viewers read her silence as brave, and others saw it as her quietly allowing herself to be used without ever owning. She never openly picked a side, but she also never pushed back on who was cheering her on. Looking back, what makes it uncomfortable is how intentional it all feels. It did not look like someone who was lost. It looks like someone saying how far they could go without actually saying anything. [music] Say just enough to keep attention on you. Stay vague enough to dodge responsibility and let the noise work in your own favor. The problem is people notice when someone just stops feeling real and starts feeling like a brand pretending to be a person. Her story ends up pointing to a bigger issue with celebrities right now. Can you really last by standing for nothing? By treating culture like a game instead of something that affects real people or do audiences eventually sense the emptiness and move on situation suggests that staying neutral while benefiting from the fallout does not make you untouchable. It just makes you harder to believe. That being said, let me introduce myself. Hi guys, welcome to my channel. My name is Joel and on this channel I speak about whatever I want to speak about. I do divides documentary commentary whatever and yes so if this is something that you would love to see kindly like share subscribe if you care and see you next time after you've watched this one see you next week or tomorrow with a brand new video that being said let's get back into the video now let's talk about the origin meth and hustle of Sydney Sweeney Sydney Sweeney was born in September 1997 and raised in a small town near Spokane Washington which is not too far from the Idaho border. Is it Idaho or either? I think it's either ho. Um I'm not really sure, but I think it's either. She has always described her upbringing as slow and quiet. The kind of place where everybody knows each other and life just moves at its own pace. One thing about Spokane is that it also happens to sit in a more conservative part of the country. And whether it's fair or not, people just tend to attach political assumptions to anyone who comes from there. That background blew up in 2022 after Sydney shared photos from her mom's 60th birthday party. What should have been a normal family post quickly turned into something else entirely. People online ignored the celebration and started dissecting what guests were wearing. A couple of red baseball caps were immediately assumed to be MAGA hat and one guest appeared to be wearing blue lives matter shirt. The reaction was instant. accusations spread that Sydney and her family were Trump's supporters. Sydney pushed back saying that the party had nothing to do with politics and that people were projecting. Her brother later clarified that the heart actually said make six secrets again. Even so, many felt that the situation could have been avoided altogether if the photos had never been posted publicly. [music] >> Sydney, girl, this wasn't the move. So, this was the tweeted response Sydney gave in relation to the pictures Sydney uploaded of her mother's uh birthday party. And there was MAGA paraphernalia 45 stuff and Blue Lives Matter stuff. A lot of her fans were very disheartened because it felt like Sydney was also kind of co-signing on it, which I understand, but in this she's trying to kind of distance herself in a very like pseudo but not really type of way. And it's giving I'm friends with the far left and the far right. Crutches and Spice has said this best several times, but it it's not really that, is it? You just don't want to say the quiet part out loud. At least that's how it seems. I feel like this makes her come off even more out of touch than she already did from her previous interview, which I did explain my thoughts on that already. Not her fault. She has to keep working, but honestly, this is giving no PR training, no media training, and you just did this to like absolve yourself of anything, and it just backfired. I wonder what's going to happen next. So, a lot of people are upset with Sydney Sweeney from Euphoria right now, and I wanted to weigh in because I think I have a unique perspective that I have not seen yet. So, for context, Sydney posted these photos from her mom's birthday party, and there was a man who people are saying is her dad wearing a blue Lives Matter shirt, and then the partygoers were wearing what looked like to be MAGA hacks. Now, this would have been bad on its own, but Sydney made it worse with this response. You guys, this is wild. An innocent celebration for my mom's milestone 60th birthday has turned into an absurd political statement which was not the intention. Please stop making assumptions. Much love to everyone and happy birthday mom. So, what is wrong with the statement? Um, first of all, it's defensive and it's dismissive. You cannot remove the political connotations from blue lives matter, nor can you remove the political connotations from Make America Great Again, even if you are attempting to parody that statement. Another thing that I've talked about in my work a lot is intent versus impact. You can say you didn't intend to make a political statement, but you did. [laughter] And the impact of that statement is hurtful to people. So the minute that you say like it's absurd and stop making assumptions, it's like mama, no one is assuming anything. We only know about this event because you told us about it and now people are allowed to feel their feelings. So, it is obvious to me that she went rogue and wrote this response on her own without any input from her team. Um, I always think no matter what happens, if people are upset with you, it's always good to take a beat before responding. Um, and so here is how I would have responded or I would have instructed to her to respond if I was on her team. Yesterday, I posted photos from my mom's 60th birthday party that left some of you feeling justifiably confused, disappointed, and upset. There are many things that my parents and I disagree on. And while you cannot choose your parents, you can choose how to respond when those disagreements arise. For that reason, I felt a joyous family celebration was not the right venue to discuss our political differences. With that said, please know that I will continue to have conversations with the people that I love about the issues that are important to me, but that those conversations are best had offline. Thank you for continuing to give me the space to learn from my mistakes. Okay, you can't tell me that wasn't a good ass statement. I'm on my Olivia Pope [ __ ] Honestly, someone should be hiring me. Cuz these celebrities, when they make these statements, they're usually bad. They're usually very defensive. They don't acknowledge the harm. And then they focus on their intention. Who cares if you didn't intend to hurt people's feelings? You did. People are upset. They love this girl. They love her work. They assume that she's liberal and they're upset that she hasn't like cut off her parents, which, you know, I'm not going to get into that. But I do think that by focusing on the venue, what she's doing to repair the harm, have those tough conversations offline, um, and then thanking people for letting her make mistakes is the way to go. So, how do you think she should have responded? Those assumptions also fell apart once people looked a little closer at her mom, Lisa. So, her mom is a lawyer who worked in the cannabis industry and played an active role in advocating for the legalization of marijuana. She even challenged the DEA over hempbased CBD products and campaigned publicly before legalization passed in California. This history does not exactly match the neat conservative image that people tried to force onto the family. Sydney grew up in a lakeside house that had been passed down through her family for five generations. During a financially difficult period, they lost the house. Years later, after her career took off, she bought the house back. She has spoken about that moment with pride along with being able to pay off her mom's mortgage once she had the means to do so. Acting was not some lifelong childhood plan. It started almost by chance when she auditioned for a small independent film filming locally in around where she lived. And her parents were hesitant at first. They valued education and stability and acting did feel like a risky path, especially coming from a small town without industry connections. To show she was serious, Sydney put together a detailed five-year plan when she was just 12 years old. It broke down how she would pursue acting step by step. That presentation is what finally convinced her parents to let her just try acting. >> My first set was actually for a zombie movie in my hometown. And I begged my parents to let me do it. I wrote a 5-year business plan presentation of what could happen if they let me audition. And they took me. I ended up getting it. She began auditioning in nearby cities like Seattle and Portland, landing commercials and small roles where she could. One of her earliest projects was a low budget zombie film. Eventually, her parents and her family made the massive decision to move to Los Angeles so that she could chase acting full-time. That move came at a very huge cost. Even though both her parents had stable careers, the expenses piled up quickly. auditions, travel, and basic living cost in LA literally drained them. And for about 8 months, the family lived out of a single hotel room. Sydney slept in a bed with her mom while her dad and her younger brother slept on the couch. Eventually, her parents filed for bankruptcy and they later got divorced. Sydney has spoken openly about the guilt that she carried, feeling like her dream was a thing that broke her family apart. Some people have questioned what bankruptcy actually meant in their case, especially given her mom's legal career, suggesting that it may have been more overwhelming debt than total poverty. But regardless of the technical details, Sydney was still a teenager under enormous pressure. When she went back home, people asked her when she planned to get a real job and stop dragging everyone else down. Hearing that at 17 clearly stuck with her. That pressure pushed her to work non-stop. She took almost any job that she could, sometimes earning as little as $100 a day. She believed that if she could make enough money that she could fix everything, buy the house back and maybe even bring her parents back together. By the time she turned 18, she had about $800 to her name. And none of those things had happened yet. She kept auditioning relentlessly and finally started landing more serious roles around the time when she was 19 including Everything Sucks and Sharp Objects on HBO. At the same time, she stayed focused on school. She attended Brighton Hall in Burbank and Brighton Hall is this flexible private school that allowed online and hybrid learning. She excelled academically. She studied multiple languages. She joined clubs like robotics and math. as she graduated as a validictorian. >> That's I was validictorian in high school. Like I love school like a lot. >> Sydney, sweetie, validictorian. >> Yes, I was validictorian. >> Sydney is very good at absolutely everything. >> Stop. >> Let's get into her valadictorian and a straight A student in all AP classes. According to herself, she missed 117 days of school [music] just to do all these auditions and stuff like that. You're a validictorian, right? The funniest thing is there's like 80 students in Brighton Hall. So per class maybe there is like what eight people. So she was a validictorian among eight people in a school where you don't need to study. You just come at like what 9:00 a.m. and you leave at 1:00 p.m. Things you have to do is just check all the boxes. Basic education to get your high school diploma. You're a validatoran there. Well, you know what? There's a huge asterisk. And if you're validictorian among eight people, >> I mean that's not that impressive. [clears throat] I'm sorry. By the way, here's the picture of the class of 2017, I think, from Brighton Hall. Yeah, five students [music] and their moms and you're validictorian from these five people. Because money was tight, she relied on financial aid for both high school and college. In 2016, she briefly worked at Universal Studios, but quit after booking another acting job, once again, choosing to put everything on her career. Early on, her story became part of her appeal. It was framed as a classic grind story. A determined girl from the spoken area who refused to wait around for long. She often talked about convincing her parents to move to LA using a 5-year plan laid out in a PowerPoint. That plan did not pay off quickly. She booked small parts, but real momentum did not come until her 20s. While she chased auditions, her family struggled. She had always spoken about living in motel because rent was so expensive. Like I said earlier, by the time her career had finally started gaining traction, her parents had already been divorced and the bankruptcy was years behind them. So all of it happened just as the industry began to take her seriously. Sydney has said that those years shaped how she thinks. She learned early that nothing is guaranteed and that acting had to be approached like a business. She often ties her later successes, including paying off her mom's mortgage back to that original plan that she did when she was 12. In her version of the story, that PowerPoint was not a childhood gimmick. It was the foundation of everything. That origin story helped sell her as the relatable girl next door. The small town girl who made it through sheer effort. The regular girl who worked endlessly and pushed through setbacks. But beneath that image was someone who was always thinking strategically. From the start, she was not just acting. She was building something. You can see that tension in how she talks about herself. In interviews, she often says that she's just been herself as if the industry has not shaped her at all. At the same time, she is clearly aware of how she is marketed. One of the few moments that felt genuinely raw was when she spoke emotionally about how sexualized her character Cassie was on Euphoria and how uncomfortable that made her feel. There was a storyline of what is happening to Cassie and the sexualization that's happening in Cassie because of her nude photos that got leaked and just the perception of others on her because she has boobs. And then I see that happening to me [music] in real life even though everyone watched Euphoria. I go did you not >> did you did you miss the point? >> Did you miss the Exactly? >> That must be really frustrating. >> Exactly. [laughter] >> Things change slowly. >> They get used to it. And yet she's leaned into that same image when it worked in her favor. She's had bad deals like Dr. Squatch soap campaigns, including the viral bath water stone. >> Have you seen the Sydney Sweenies done this thing with like soap and she's put her bath water in soap? Why? It's a bar of soap soap with hole in it, right? >> And it's got her bath water in [music] it and it's like she's collabed with them. >> She's had fashion shoots that has centered her. >> Oh my god. Hter's mascot. She's had flirty press stores and carefully fooled romance rumors with Glenn Powell to sell anyone but you. The contrast was hard to miss. Publicly expressing discomfort with being reduced to her body while privately profiting from it. Over time, it stopped feeling like mixed messages and started feeling intentional. My body's composition is determined by my genes. Hey, eyes up here. >> Sydney treated her image the same way that she treated that early plan as something to adjust and fine-tune. If leaning into sex appeal brought attention, money, and momentum, she was willing to do it even while distracting herself from that label. The contradiction wore people down, not because anyone expected her to be perfect, but because the story stopped lining up. In the end, it left the impression of someone who treated her career like a living business plan. And what's that plan? Smart, calculated, and driven, but sometimes at the cost of trust. When your entire rise is built around strategy and hustle, people start wondering where the line is between surviving the system and quietly selling yourself to it. Now, let's talk about paying dues until the internet decide you are a sex symbol. Early in her career, nothing about Sydney's rise looked glamorous. It was a slow build, a bunch of small jobs that only seem impressive once you line them up later. She booked guest spots on shows like 90210, Criminal Minds, and Pretty Little Liars. At the same time, just being on those sets just felt so huge to her. She has talked about how genuinely excited she was, especially on Pretty Little Liars, which was a show that she had already watched as a fan. She was not trying to play it cool. She was just happy to be there. Things started to change when she landed Everything Sucks on Netflix. But the real shift came with Sharp Object. That audition changed how casting team saw her. She booked Sharp Objects in April. Then everything sucks the next month and she spent that summer running back and forth between both productions. One set during the week, the other on weekends. It was exhausting, but it also moved her into a different category. Suddenly she had bigger opportunities that came. For example, the handmade tail. She had Euphoria. She also acted in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For the first time, it felt like that childhood plan might actually be paying off. A sharp object. She played Alice. So Alice was a patient in a psychiatric fall facility whose death hangs over the entire story. It was dark, heavy, and nothing like the light thinned roles that people usually get early on. Not long after she appeared in Handmmaid's Tale alongside actors who were already widely respected. Being part of those projects just changed how she was perceived. She was no longer just popping up in shoes. People started taking her seriously. For the high mate tail, she had not even watched the series before her first audition. After getting a call back, she read the book in a day and focused completely on the character. So Eden's white wedding costume, the child bride, we wanted to be as pure and covered [music] up as possible. I actually wore binding underneath all of my costumes, and this was the hardest one to get the binding to work with cuz you're wearing white, so everything is going to be a little see-through. And so they custom made this corset that flattened my chest as much as possible. But um yeah, it was it was an amazing process. I loved it. It was my first TV show that I really felt like I was finally doing the stuff that I dreamt of. >> That work did pay off because of how the release schedules lined up. The Handmaid's Tail aired before Sharp Object, so it became the first time a wide audience really noticed her. She played Eden, a teenage girl that was forced into an arranged marriage. Once the episodes aired, people began recognizing her in public. Not to compliment her, but basically to complain how much they hated Eden. She had talked about sitting in restaurants and overhearing people just tearing the character apart, not realizing that she was sitting right there. Early on, she kept getting cast as women audiences just love to judge. the troublemaker, the temptation, the girl who makes the wrong choices. Those kind of rules, they do stick and they can follow an act for a very long time. That season of the Handmaid still just earned about 20 Emmy nominations which only added to the show's cultural weight. 20 Emmy nominations is a lot. And not long after, Sydney had a small role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For her, it felt so unreal, like checking off dream projects faster than she could fully process what was happening. Then came Euphoria. Sydney auditioned for Cassie by filming a self tape in her mom's bedroom. The scene was not even from the final script, but she connected to the character immediately. Cassie was emotional, insecure, desperate, and messy. And Sydney leaned all the way into that. When Ephora premiered in 2019, her life shifted almost overnight. The show shocked people. It was intense, explicit, and uncomfortable. Especially since the characters were meant to be teenagers. People when they watched Euphoria, they did not know how to feel. They were disturbed. They were obsessed. And they were always arguing non-stop. Even with the backlash, Euphoria became impossible to ignore. Influenced fashion, beauty trends, and how people talked about sex, addiction, and mental health. Cat has writes in the middle of that conversation. She's written as deeply insecure, someone who uses her body to feel wanted or in control. Sydney has explained that Cassie does not know another way to express her needs. No one ever showed her that she could be loved without performing for it. For Cassie, sexuality becomes both a coping tool and a way to grab power when she feels powerless. That role hit closer to home than Sydney expected. Her mom understood what the show involved because she had visited the set, but her dad did not. And he ended up watching the series with Sydney's grandparents and they were so uncomfortable that they turned it off and walked away. But her grandmother stayed supportive and proud and watched the series to the end even if the material was so hard to see through. >> See, the problem was I completely forgot to tell my dad I was doing Euphoria. And um he sat down with my grandparents and turned on Euphoria. And how long did that last? >> Five minutes. >> Yeah. >> And what did you say to him? >> I got the phone call. What is this? [laughter] What do you mean what is this? Goes Euphoria. I go, "Oh my god, I completely forgot to tell him." Go, that's not the show you sit down with Nana. >> Euphoria also reopened criticisms about Sam Levenson's writing and direction. Many people felt that the show leaned too heavily in sexualizing young female characters and framing them through a male gaze that did not always feel necessary. Some thought that it crossed the lines instead of telling the story more carefully. Sydney on the other hand has acknowledged that discomfort. She has said that she spoke up when scenes felt unnecessary and when she did those scenes were removed. She has also been clear that she was never pressured into anything that she did not want to do, even if the debate around it never fully went away. Despite all of that, her performance was widely praised and picked up awards attention. After Euphoria, Sydney fully crossed into mainstream fame, red carpets, magazine covers, constant commentaries about her body. Somewhere along the way, the line between Sydney, the actor, and Cassie, the character blood. For a lot of people, she stopped being seen as someone playing a role and became the latest version of a very old image. And what is that image? The blonde bombshell repackaged for the internet era. Now, let's talk about Hollywood's favorite optical illusion. At some point, Sydney Sween's appearance just stopped being one detail among many and became the only thing that people seemed interested in. Blonde hair, blue eyes, a curvy body, and that's what gets talked about first, last, and loudest. [music] Her acting ability, the range she's shown, the effort she puts into her work, all gets drowned out by how she looks. With Sydney, the line between her talent and her body was blurred early on, and it never really got untangled. You can see it most clearly online. She said herself that a large part of her audience is made up of men. And the way some of them talk to her is so hard to ignore. The comments are bluntly sexual. They're sometimes creepy and often come with this strange sense of entitlement. When she shared a photo kissing her fianceé, the response from certain corners of the internet was so unsettling. Instead of normal well wishes, there were men acting like she had done something to them personally. There were jokes about heartbreak. People were crying. People were bitter. And all of these they were disguised as humor. It gave off the impression that they thought that they had some kind of claim over Sydney Sweeney or they thought they were going to be with her sometime in the future. That reaction doesn't appear out of thin air. It's built over time by the way she has been positioned. This is where the male gay stops being academic knowledge and starts showing up in real life. It's not complicated. Women in film and television are often framed around what men are meant to desire, not who those women are as people. When an actress gets locked up into that framing early, it can quietly shrink her options. Ro starts orbiting around attractiveness instead of complexity. The longer that expectation sticks, the harder it becomes to shake. Jessica Alba's experience during the Fantastic 4 is a textbook example. I'm going to give credit to Happy Micro Mind because she actually spoke about Jessica Alba's experience when it comes to how she's being presented by people. So basically Jessica Alba when she was acting the Fantastic 4, there is a scene where her character strips down to her underwear to turn invisible. It does not move the plot. It does not deepen the character. It exists purely for the audience to look at her body. Later on, Alba asked the director if she could appear less polished on screen so that people could focus on her performance. She was told that her crying looked unattractive and that her emotions were too intense and that she should just cry in a sexy way in not like in quotes, but like hypothetically. I don't know if that's a word to use, but she should just cry in like a sexy way and then they will smooth it over with CGI tears. That moment, if you think about it, captures how little say women often have once they are boxed into a sex symbol role. Sydney has been open about how draining it is to live under that kind of scrutiny. Everything she does gets exaggerated, sexualized, or twisted online. She said that people project whatever version of her that they want onto her, and there is no real way to fight it without burning yourself out. I've never felt uncomfortable and I I've always looked at Cassie and her scenes as like I said it's it's a form of communication for her >> and without that >> there's there's she doesn't know anything else and >> those scenes are setting her up in a different path than what she would have without it. >> Once people feel entitled to your image you stop being in control of it. Since Euphoria, it feels like many people decided who Sydney Sweeney was meant to be and never revised that idea. Whether she leaned into the image or tried to resist it, the label followed her. She's explained that the version of herself that people see at premieres and in interviews is still a performance and it is not the full picture. But when people only want one version, certainly doesn't matter much. She's also spoken honestly about how dehumanizing it feels to have her body treated like public property, like something she no longer owns. And there've been media outlets like Vog who have written about this using the blonde bombshell trope which has been around forever. The blonde bombshell is expected to be sexy but harmless, confident but not threatening, desired but never fully respected. Put on a pedestal but never given like real authority. It looks flattering from the outside, but it's a trap. Attention is allowed, control is not. And from the way Sydney talks about her career, it's very clear that this was never the path that she imagined for herself. She said that she was sexualized even in high school because of her chest. And that didn't start in Hollywood. What made it harder was realizing that the same dynamics that Euphoria was supposedly critiquing through Cassie were playing out in her own life. At the same time, Cassie [music] is judged, reduced, and punished because of her body, and audiences of Euphoria turned around and did the same thing to Sydney. There is even a story line where Cass's private photos were leaked, and she's treated like she's ruined afterwards. And Sydney had said that it was strange just watching that arc unfold, knowing that once the show aired, attention would inevitably shift towards her body in a very similar way. There was a storyline of what is happening to Cassie and the sexualization that's happening in Cassie because of her nude photos that got leaked and just the perception of others on her because she has boobs. And then I see that happening [music] to me in real life even though everyone watched Euphoria. I go did you not >> did you did you miss the point? >> Did you miss the Exactly? [laughter] >> That must be really frustrating. >> Exactly. >> Things change slowly. >> They get used to it. When Megan Fox was asked if she had any advice for Sydney, her response was blunt. She said that she survived barely and she didn't really know what advice there was to give. And that answer says more than any Polish encouragement ever could because this pattern has existed for decades. Sydney is just the latest person to be dropped into it. What complicates everything is that Sydney does sometimes choose when to lean into this version and when to step out of it. That choice matters and [music] it's also something that not everyone gets. Many people who are boxed into stereotypes, especially along racial, disability or class lines, they do not have the option to op in [music] and out. That tension is part of why the conversation around Sydney just feels very uncomfortable. She can be harmed by sexualization and still benefit from it at times. Both times can be true. Some people even argue that she's fully aware of how she's playing the game. Someone actually even described her as controlling the spectacle, deciding when to go along with it and when to pull back. Other people have drawn comparisons to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe is someone who understood how her image worked and used this strategically even when it came at a personal cost. Sydney has pushed back against the dumb blonde label, pointing out that she's naturally brunette and she's not unintelligent. But here is the hard truth. Objectification works by stripping someone of agency. One way women try to reclaim some control is by getting ahead of it by sexualizing themselves before others can do it for them. The logic becomes brutal but simple. If this is going to happen no matter what, I might as well benefit from it over time. That seems to be the calculation that Sydney made. Whether it came from pressure, exhaustion, or survival instinct. Financial rewards started to outweigh the hope of being seen as primarily as a [music] serious actor. Maybe at some point she realized the industry had already made up its mind about what it valued most. That's what leaves a bad taste for so many people. Not that she's imperfect, but that the system keeps rewarding the same setup while pretending it's empowerment. [music] Sydney Sweeney did not create the blonde bombshell role or stereotype. She stepped into a part Hollywood has been rehearsing for generations and now she stopped negotiating how much of herself she has to trade away just to keep moving forward. I hate this image. Watch me use it anyway. Sydney lives in this constant push and pull with the version of herself that the public expect. And that tension does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to how people respond to her. She isn't just stuck in a stereotype. She also knows how to use it. And that makes awareness plus participation is exactly why people can't quite decide what they think of her. One minute she's intriguing, the next she's irritated, and then suddenly people are sad eyeing her altogether. On the surface, she fits a very familiar Hollywood template. Blonde, blue-eyed, covery, instantly legible to an industry that has been selling that look forever. Once that image settled in, it started shaping everything around her. The character skewed towards women who are volatile, who are volatile, overly emotional, or heavily sexualized, sometimes all at once. The marketing leaned playful and flirty, occasionally drifting into dumb hot territory. Even when she turns into a strong performance, it's often framed like a pleasant surprise, as if skill wasn't something that people expected from someone who looks like her. She's positioned as something to look at first and a serious worker second. That didn't happen by accident. It's tied to a very specific version of femininity that Hollywood knows how to sell. one that places white conventionally attractive women at the center of desiraability. When Sydney leans fully into that image, especially in moments like the jeans versus jeans campaign, she's tapping into a longstanding cultural script. Desire, innocence, and whiteness wrapped together into something that feels harmless on the surface, but carries a lot underneath it. Even without saying anything political, the [music] visuals do the talking. At the same time, she keeps trying to step just far enough outside that box to remind people that there is more going on. She points out that she isn't a dumb blonde. She mentions being a validictorian, a robotics kid, someone who plans things carefully. She highlights projects like reality or her work as a producer as proof that she wants respect, not just attention. When she talks about craft and longevity, it doesn't sound fake. That part of her feels sincere. where it gets messy is trying to hold both positions at once. She wants the benefit that comes with being sexualized, the attention, the money, the visibility while also resisting the fallout that comes [music] with it. You can see that clearly in how she talks about nudity. She said she's asked for certain euphoria sins to be cut out when they didn't serve the story. That wasn't about shame. It was about having control. She wanted to decide when her body was part of the narrative and when it wasn't. But moving in and out of the stereotype does not weaken it. If anything, it makes it sharper. Where she takes on roles meant to signal seriousness but avoids addressing the audience that she's cultivated, people don't read it as balance. They read it as a strategy. When she talks about being worn down by sexualization while appearing in bathwater soap [music] ads and male gays denim campaigns, which we'll speak about later on in this video, people hear someone that is trying to reap the rewards without fully sitting with the consequences. Sydney is constantly switching gears. One moment she's joking about being a dumb blonde and telling people not to overthink it. The next she's asking to be seen as a layered artist with depth. [music] That back and forth is interesting, but it also creates fatigue. It gives the impression that she's always recalibrating based on what works best in the moment. That became especially clear when she hosted Saturday Night Life in March 2024. Hosting SNL is usually the chance to flip the script. Show range, poke fun at yourself, reset how people see you. But for Sydney, a lot of the sketches fell right back into familiar territory. There was a Hooter style sketch that leaned hard into the hot clueless blonde joke, a platform that is being built for reinvention. The same punchline just kept coming up and her monologue was something that has already been shown before. She referenced Euphoria. She joked about Madame Web under performing. She teased Immaculate and then she leaned straight into the Glen Power rumors. She denied the affair, but the camera caught to Glenn in the audience instead of her fianceé. That wasn't accidental. She did not shut the gossip down. She turned it into part of the act. >> Sydney Sweeney hosted SNL last night and addressed rumors of whether she cheated on her fiance with Glenn Powell. Listen to this. Fiance, Jonathan Deino, and I have to say, he's got to be a better man than me because it would make me so uncomfortable and eat me alive to see my partner, my wife or fiance in a situation like Sydney Sweeney does for her job. And again, it is her job, so there isn't real chemistry behind it, but [music] it would just eat me alive. And so, the fact that he's willing to put up with it and stay confident, I applaud him. But that's my opinion. What do y'all? >> The reaction afterwards split cleanly into two. Some people thought that the jokes were lazy and overly reliant on her looks. Others argued that it was unfair to objectify her for years and then clutched pearls when she's leaned into the joke herself. Both takes hold weight. The internet spent a long time turning her body into a spectacle. When she tried to steer that spectacle, people were suddenly reminded how uncomfortable it was in [music] the first place. But when Yang later said that Sydney encouraged writers to joke about her chest, her point was that she knew how she was already being seen, so she chose to play along instead of fighting it. Sydney has echoed that idea herself. Her logic seems to be that pushing back too hard only makes the system punish you more, so she just goes with it. Attention is currency, but at least this way she gets some control over how it's spent. The problem is that this strategy doesn't age well. Shock loses its impact when it becomes routine. Leaning into the stereotype stops feeling subversive when it's expected, and it raises a question that keeps hanging over her career. Did the people drawn to the sex symbol version of Sydney actually show up when she wants to be taken seriously? That question got louder when she took on the role of Christy Martin? On paper, it was everything that she's been asking for. A real person, a respected athlete, a survivor, a queer woman with a difficult, painful history. Sydney trained relentlessly, reshaped her body, lived like a boxer for months. She talked about how demanding it was, how much [music] it took out from her, and still the focus drifted right back to her body. Not Christy Martin's legacy, not the story itself, but Sydney's transformation, how much weight she gained, how different she looked, and the irony was so hard to miss, especially since it mirrored exactly what she said, exhaust her. >> My boobs got bigger and my butt my butt got huge. It was crazy. I'm usually like a size 23 and I was wearing like a size 27. Sydney Sweeney has opened up about her transformation while filming for her new role. The star is set to play lesbian boxing legend Christy Martin in an upcoming biopic. Christy came out in 2010 after suffering years of domestic abuse from her late ex-husband. The biopic will focus on Christy's rise in boxing and her tumultuous personal life including substance abuse and her relationship with her ex who tried to kill her. Christy met her wife Lisa Hullwine in the ring back in 2001 and they later married in 2017. Sydney's previously given fans a peep into her new look for the role, sporting brown hair and toned arms and a red sleeveless top. But now she's shared just how much her body changed. I gained a little over 30 lbs. My body was just completely different. >> Sydney says she trained rigorously for 3 and 1/2 months to achieve that boxer physique. She weight trained for an hour in the morning, kickboxed midday for 2 hours, then went back to weight training at night for another hour every day. And Sydney's body confidence doesn't stop there. It also extends to her playing roles in The Nude as well. >> Is it hard to act while I'm not wearing clothes? >> No. >> The actor went on to share that playing Cassie in Euphoria helped her with confidence and self-awareness. However, Sydney hasn't always been this body confident. The star previously shared the struggles she's experienced with designers and stylists when it comes to [music] fittings. >> It's not made to fit my boob. >> Sydney Sweeney has revealed her massive ongoing struggle on the red carpet. The 26-year-old explained how designers using sample sizes can cause problems for her curvy figure. And this is one of the reasons she gets hate for the fit of her looks. >> And a lot of times when [music] I see trolls online that's slamming me or whoever is styling me um for things that don't fit my my boobs, it's because it's sample. >> She said that with some designers, there has been a reluctance to alter dresses >> and a lot of times we're not allowed to like cut or alter stuff. So, I'm like forced to fit in something that doesn't fit me and it won't look right. But luckily for Sydney, she has found two designers who customize looks specially to fit her body. >> I'm always so appreciative to both Mium and Armani because they will remake dresses for my boobs. That's when it looks better. That's when you see that I look more confident and happy on the carpet as well. But the superstar hasn't always been so confident in her figure. Sydney Sweeney has shocked fans with a big confession, admitting her desire to have plastic surgery when she was in high school. >> Always my boobs. >> In an interview with Glamour magazine, the 26-year-old shared how she was always uncomfortable with her body. She said, "When I was in high school, I used to feel uncomfortable about how big my boobs were. I used to say that when I turned 18, I was going to get a boob job to make them smaller. However, it was her mom who persuaded her to embrace her natural curves." She recalled the conversation, "Don't do it. You'll regret it in college, and I'm so glad I didn't. I like them. They're my best friends. Everybody's body is beautiful." She opened up about her relationship with her parents, admitting that her acting career in LA, or lack of, led to her parents filing for bankruptcy. The Euphoria star reflected on her teenage dreams and how she missed out on a lot of her normal childhood to work 12 to 14hour days. She said, "I wish I would have experienced all of that stuff as a teenager because now there are parts of me that want to experience life that can't." >> There is a wider critique sitting underneath all of this. Biopics are a well path to credibility. They come with built-in seriousness and an easy transformation story. Even with her own production company and real influence, [music] Sydney keeps choosing routes that the industry already understands as respectable instead of taking risks that might actually disrupt how she's seen. When you keep chasing approval from the same system that box you in, you don't escape it. [music] You just renegotiate the terms. And when you factor in how unstable acting work really is, her constant hustle just starts to make sense. Business choices creep ahead of artistic ones. Visibility becomes survival. And that's where Sydney Sweeney really exists. Not as a villain, not as a helpless victim, but as someone constantly adjusting herself inside a system that keeps rewarding the very image that she says she wants to move beyond. Too famous to be poor, too poor to stop working. If you want to make sense of Sydney Sunni's decisions, the fastest way there isn't culture war discourse or stand debate, it's money. Once you follow the financial incentives, a lot of what looks contradictory suddenly clicks into place. Back in 2022, Sydney [music] said something that immediately sets people off. She explained that acting doesn't pay the way people assume it does anymore. [music] Streaming changed the rules. fewer residuals, shorter commitment, less long-term security. Then she broke down where her money actually goes. Agents, lawyers, managers, publicist. She's mentioned that her publicist alone costs more than her mortgage. The takeaway was clear. Even with high-profile roles, she doesn't feel secure enough to slow down. To most people, Hollywood stars still equal unlimited money and zero financial stress. So hearing someone on one of the biggest shows of the decade say that she couldn't afford to take half a year off sounded so absurd. To a lot of people it came across as tender rather than transparent. And to be fair by that point she was doing very well. So many reports put her Euphoria season 1 pay at roughly $350,000. She's earned tens of thousands per episode on the White Lotus. Other projects weren't public, but estimates suggested that she had cleared around a million dollars by late 2022. That is not struggling in any normal sense. So, when she framed brand deals as something that she had to do, people pushed back very hard. Plenty of actors make less, they live more modestly, and they survive just fine. What Sydney was really saying wasn't, "I can't survive." It was, "I can't maintain this level of career momentum and lifestyle without extra income." Those are very difficult and different claims, but they got flattened into one. >> In light of the SAG strike that's going on right now, I want to remind y'all of when Sydney Sweeney literally told us that she could not take a break from acting. She would not have the income to cover that. And mind you, she's been on two giant shows. She's been on White Lotus and Euphoria. If she can't take a break, imagine the actors who are just trying to break into the industry right now. Shawn Gunn, who played Kirk on Gilmore Girls, got zero dollars in residuals for one of the biggest shows on Netflix. He got no money for that. Taraji P. Henson could barely pay her son's school tuition with the money she got from a movie that she spent 5 months filming. Actors and co-star roles get paid less than a dollar in residuals. So, no, SAG is not striking to make the rich richer. They are striking to make sure actors get paid a livable wage, which they are not. >> Yes, this is a hot take, but there's a vast difference between making a livable wage and allegedly purchasing a $3 million home and then saying that you are not able to take a break from acting in order to afford quite a luxurious lifestyle. Two completely different things. Let's be clear, AI is going to affect all jobs, not just Hollywood. And it should have been regulated beforehand before being thrown to the wolves. made many videos on this topic as an intellectual property attorney. Anyway, as far as Sydney Sweeny's comments, it's one thing to say I cannot afford to quit because I have purchased a lot of things. Maybe cars, maybe I have a certain lifestyle to upkeep now, maybe purchasing real estate. It's different than saying, "I can't afford to quit acting right now." like you're not broke. Sydney Sweeney says she sometimes still struggles to pay her bills. She said she wouldn't be able to afford a six-month break from acting. >> Are we SUPPOSED TO FEEL BAD? LIKE I CAN'T TAKE 6 MONTHS OFF WORK EITHER. >> Oh no, she's 24 and has to work year round. >> She also said that she didn't have anyone backing her financially. She had no trust fund, no safety net, no one to fall back on if things went wrong. And the internet response was blunt. Most people don't have that either. That comment more than anything else just made her seem disconnected from how her words would have been received. Later, she tried to clarify. She said that she meant she didn't have the freedom to take long breaks, especially if she wanted kids someday. But by then, the impression had already stuck. To many [music] people, she sounded like a wealthy celebrity, framing herself as trapped. And this is where context matters. Sydney didn't drift into Hollywood. Her entire backstory is tied to financial risk. Her family moved for her career. They lost the home. They filed for bankruptcy. They lived out in hotel. She's talked openly about feeling responsible for that fallout. Growing up like that doesn't create someone who feels safe pausing. It creates someone who believes stability can disappear overnight. So when Euphoria and the White Lotus gave her leverage, she didn't slow down. She sped up. She took projects that weren't always prestige driven but paid well. Thrillers, commercial films, she took them all. Roles that kept her visible and working. She starts jobs instead of spacing [music] them out. And then she moved into producing because producing isn't just credit. It's ownership. It's back end. [music] It's long-term money. The same mindset shows up even more clearly in her brand deals. Instead of being selective and rare with endorsements, she went broad. skincare, fashion, lingerie, cars, soap campaigns that weren't subtle or refined, but loud, viral, and built to flood timelines. The bathwater soap stunts, the great jeans or jeans ad, they weren't about protecting her image. They were about reach engagement and checks clearing. From a financial perspective, those deals, they did work. They went viral. They sold product. Brands were so happy. But culturally they came with consequences. Especially the American Eagle campaign which landed at the same time her Republican registration resurfaced and [music] farright figures started openly celebrating her. From a money standpoint, it made sense. But from a public perception standpoint, it was radioactive. But if your primary filter is, does this pay and keep me visible? The choice [music] tracks. Sydney isn't just chasing quick paydays. She's trying to build something that lasts. a production company producer credit projects where she earns beyond [music] a single acting fee. She's looking for insulation in an industry that choose through women fast, especially women whose value is tied to youth and sex appeal. Even controversy fits into that logic. Outrage keeps her name circulating and circulation keeps her attractive to brands. Brands [music] keep the money flowing. And once that pipeline is established, reputational damage becomes something that you manage, not something that you avoid at all [music] cost. The trade-off is obvious. People can sense when money starts driving every decision. People who once rooted for her as a serious, hardworking actor now sees a pattern. Sexualized marketing brushed off as jokes. Politically loaded imagery waved away as just art. film choices that sometimes feel more like brand extensions than stories. Following the money has made Sydney Sweeney powerful, wealthy, and impossible to ignore, but it's also why she increasingly reads less like an artist caught in a cultural storm and more like someone making very deliberate calculations and calculations that are starting to clash with public trust. She isn't confused. She is not naive. She's doing exactly what someone with her history, fears, and incentives would do. The real question is whether the audience she's benefiting from now will still be there when she wants to be taken seriously later. Now, let's speak about selling soap, selling sex, and selling an image. A lot of the frustration aimed at Sydney Sweeney right now isn't coming from her film or TV work. is coming from her advertising choices and more specifically the pattern that people think they are seeing in in who those ads are meant to attract. When you stop looking at each campaign on its own and start looking at them as a collection, the through line becomes so hard to ignore. A significant chunk of her branding feels built to appeal to men and it's rarely subtle. Early in her rise, the approach was softer. She was positioned as laid-back and unthreatening, someone who felt approachable rather than polished. The hood arts fit neatly into the face. Casual clothes, self-aware, humor, loweffort energy. Point was not aspirational. It was familiarity. She wasn't being sold as glamorous or elite, but as someone that you could imagine hanging out with. That framing tends to resonate with male audiences because it collapses the distance between celebrity and fantasy. [music] She feels reachable. The Ford campaign stood out because it didn't rely on that same shortcut. It worked largely because it had lined with something that she had already been open about. Sydney has talked for years about her interest in cars and working on her Mustang herself. She shared stories about learning practical skills early on because her mom didn't want her dependence on anyone if something went wrong. So when she appeared in cover rolls talking about cars, it didn't read as performative. It read as an extension of something real. >> I come from a family of [music] mechanics and I learned how to drive on my great grandpa's F100. I think that's when I first fell in love with Ford. A vintage Ford Bronco was my dream dream car. [music] I wanted that car so bad. I was the only girl in the shop. I [music] changed the transmission, added power steering, new brakes, updated the radio, the suspension, redesigned the interior, and added a roll bar, but that is just the beginning. At first, I made videos to show just my family the process, but it turned out that a bunch of other people love seeing them, too. And once I finished my Bronco, I had to get a Mustang, of course. [music] The whole experience showed me I could do more than I thought I could. I hope other women see my passion for cars and want to follow their own passions, too. [music] The women can enjoy cast to angle did not feel tact. It felt natural and people responded accordingly. As her fame grew, though the focus of the ad shifted, the more attention she attracted, the more campaign centered the version of her the internet was already obsessing over. Once that happens, everything else fades. Her body stops being one element among many and becomes the selling point. The Dr. Squash campaign marked a turning point. Dr. Squash has always leaned into ads that allowed, awkward, and intentionally uncomfortable. That's the brown. Though casting Sydney and putting her bathtub speaking directly to the camera in a flirty tone was not a coincidence. It was designed to provoke a reaction. Some people thought it was funny and a lot of men predictably lashed on to it. And then the bathwater joke spiraled. Instead of shutting it down, the brand escalated and literally sold soap made with her bath water. At that point, the bit crossed into something that felt openly creepy. Not cheeky, not ironic, just something very unsettling. >> So many men were asking for Sydney Sweeny's bath water after she did her ad with Dr. Squatch that they decided to bottle it up and are selling it in bars of soap. As much as I wish I was joking, Dr. Squatch just said, "Introducing Sydney's bathwater bliss in collaboration with Sydney Sweeney, we created a limited edition soap infused with her actual bath water." Why? Because you would not stop asking for it. And Sydney said, "Let's do it." And this is it. This is the promo right here. There is the actual soap with her holding it. I don't know where this puts us as a society that we are now buying celebrities bath water, but here it is. The Sydney's Bathwater Bliss Sydney's Bathwater Medium Grit Men's Natural Soap. And as much as I wish this was sponsored, it is not. But apparently Sydney said, "My hope is that it just gets guys to think about taking care of themselves and cleaning themselves with some healthy products. I mean, I have been in some pretty disgusting dude bathrooms before. There will only be 5,000 of these bars of soap, and each will have a certificate of authenticity saying they came from the same water that Sydney Sweeney bathed in. There is a hole in the middle of Sydney Sweeny's bathwater soap. And I just watched this video of a girl who walked in on her boyfriend using the soap. The new flavors that they just announced actually makes me sick to my stomach. For context, Sydney Sweeny's bathwater soap sold out in 30 seconds. The new Sydney Sweeney bathwater flavors that they just announced are even more worseer than this one. Seems that the only positive from this will be that Gooners will finally be cleaning their ditches. A lot of girlfriends will actually be getting the next flavors of Sydney Sweeny's bath water for their boyfriends. It's really sad, but it seems like this is the only way that some boyfriends will be cleaning out their cheese. A lot of girls are mad at Sydney Sweeney because they say that Sydney Sweeney set them back a 100red years because no girl should be selling their bath water. It honestly seems that Sydney Sweeney just wants guys to be clean and that women should actually be thanking Sydney Sweeney for this. This is where it gets even more insaneer. went on Jimmy Fallon. She literally didn't even address the soap. However, people are begging for these next flavors and some men refuse to bathe themselves until they come out with this flavor. And if this is true, this is officially going too far. This is all alleged. Do you think that Sydney Sweeny's bathwater soap is a good thing? >> I have to ask you about this though. People on the internet were I saw some people say anything that'll make men shower. >> I mean, honestly though, [laughter] >> have you seen Sydney Sweeny's done this thing with like soap and she's put her bath water in soap? Right. >> It's a bar of soap soap with hole in it, >> right? >> And it's got her bath water in it and it's like she's collabed with them. >> I [music] mean, male audience, like I'm not going to want to bathe in Sydney Sweeny's bath water. >> Give me Channing Tatums. I will buy it. >> I love the outlook >> on it. What do you mean? >> Cuz you're the same as me. I saw it and I was like, I'm not buying that. But boys will love it. But then other people, so other women, >> surely other women aren't like devil worshiping the Sydney think hating it. They're like, "This is taking us back." >> Women rights. >> Yes. [music] Yes. Yes. >> I don't know about like Melissa and I are like on the fine edge. Like I respect like the movement and it's a very awkward thing to talk about because you get a lot of hate either way. You can't really say anything right. But like >> I would love it if all boys wanted to bathe in my bath water. >> Absolutely. I would go to sleep happy at night thinking I have succeeded. You all are buying. You're giving me money cuz you want to bath >> in my dirty bath water. >> Yeah. Like [ __ ] me. I'm a legend. >> Also, it's her choice. No one's [ __ ] making her do it. She's gone. Yeah. Sign along the dotted line. I feel like she knows what she's doing though. I think she's quite switched on. So, I feel like quite a joke's move to be fair. >> Oh my god. Do you think we could [laughter] >> Should we get some Wednesday's bath water? pregnant women's bath water. >> People would probably go mad over. >> What's telling is how the fallout played out. Most of the criticism landed on Sydney herself, not on the company that engineered the campaign, not on the audience that made it widely profitable. The soap sold out almost instantly and it was now resold online for ridiculous prices. But that success barely registered in the conversation. Sydney Sweeny's new soap infused with her bath water has women accusing her of setting back feminism by a hundred years. The Bathwater Bliss soap made by Dr. Squatch is due to go on sale on the 6th of June with only select 5,000 bars up for grabs. Alongside the sweet scent of Sydney, the soap also has hints of pine, earthy moss, and fur. Delish. Now, in terms of the public's reaction, there's about two camps right now. One side are just totally grossed out by the whole thing and are surprised that Sydney would even want there to be a target audience for this kind of product. The other made up predominantly of women have accused the actor of setting feminism back a whole ton. Their argument seems to suggest that while Sydney previously complained so much about the public objectifying her, she's now willing to participate in the objectification herself. Plus, the girlies hating on this collab have pointed out that Dr. Squatch is a malefounded and male ccentric brand. Personally, I think that both of these groups just need to grow a sense of humor. Where was this energy when the Jacob Lordi bath water candle went viral? I don't remember anyone beefing that product. When you look at what's happening around the world right now, I think it's safe to say that Sydney Sweeney selling an ironic and jokey bar of soap is not the thing that's setting feminism back. >> Her participation became the scandal. The profits became background noise. There is a clear double standard in that reaction. Men had been sexualizing her long before any of the ads, often without her own consent. But when she chooses to capitalize on that same attention, suddenly [music] she was framed as the problem. The entitlement gets normalized. Her response gets moralized. Sydney essentially acknowledged that logic herself. Her view was that the jokes already existed. She could ignore them and let people control the narrative or she could take ownership and turn it into something that benefited her. Of course, she chose the second option. Then she complicated things by suggesting much of the criticism was coming from women and comparing it to jokes that women made about Jacob's bathwater. That comparison missed why people were uncomfortable in the first place. It flattened a dynamic that was rooted largely in male entitlement and redirected blame in a way that felt dismissive rather than clarified. >> Sydney Sweeney is blaming you for the backlash she got from her bath water soap. It's been 3 months since anyone has cared about this situation, but Sydney is now going to defend herself, claiming it was mainly the girls making comments about it, which I thought was really interesting. They all love the idea of Jacob Lord's bath water, and the responses back to her did not miss. Let me know your thoughts. Do you think Sydney's right? What makes this message that many women has always been on her side? They defended her when men mocked her body. They hyped her during her swimsuit shoot and red carpet appearances. The vibe was very supportive and even protective. Over time, that support eroded. Not because of her look, but because the branding kept looping [music] back to the same place. More people started asking why her acting kept getting overshadowed and why she seemed willing to reinforce the same framing that buried her work. Even the criticisms get stuck in the same trap. Men objectify her. People dismiss her because she's objectified. Either way, her actual performances barely gets discussed. The Baskin Robbins campaign in 2025 just showed how insensitive the movement had become. On its own, it was mild ice cream, salt lighting, light flirting. In a different context, it probably wouldn't have caused much reaction. But because it landed when people were already irritated, it sparked backlash. Anyway, the brand reported the limited comments to keep things from boiling over. Zooming out, the pattern becomes clearer. The more she leans into viral, sexy, meme friendly advertisements, the less space there is to talk about her as an actor. She starts reading less like a performer and more like a product. [music] And it isn't just the content of the ads, it's the volume. She's attached to mass market brands, luxury brands, beauty, food, cars, men's grooming, etc. She's everywhere at once. She's oversaturated the market and her social media following. She's also been on billboard, payroll ads, and social feed. At a certain point, visibility stops supporting the [music] work and starts replacing it. Some campaigns stop feeling like endorsement and start functioning like events. the bathwater soap, the jeans or gin roll out. These moments, they don't sell products. They turn her into a headline and that creates a loop. She becomes clickable, polarizing, flammable and risky all at the same time. Even when they campaign justice towards empowerment or charity, what sticks [music] is the spectacle. At this point, her brand partnerships functions almost like a parallel career running alongside her acting. They brought her money. They brought her rich and le also cemented a hypersexualized controversy heavy image that is getting harder to separate from her actual work. And the longer that balance stays stilted, the harder it is to convince people that acting is still the main thing that she wants to be known for. Now, let's speak about the campaign that ended it all. By the summer 2025 rolled around, the discomfort people had been feeling about Sydney Sweeney didn't feel abstract anymore. It finally hit a focal point. Not because she suddenly did something dangerous, but because a long list of small uneasy moments all collapsed [music] into one very visible situation. That situation was the American Eagle Denim campaign. A deal that should have been simple and instead became a mess. On the surface, it looked like a safe bet. Major clothing brand, a well-known actress, a playful slogan built around jeans. [music] The kind of campaign that usually signals a star going fully mainstream. It was nothing edgy, nothing risky, just Sydney Sweeney selling denim. The execution is what changed the tone. Instead of keeping the word play light, the campaign leaned hard into a joke about jeans versus jeans, that is J E A Ns versus G E N E S. Sydney looks straight into the camera and talks about how traits like eye color and hair color are passed down genetically. Then pivot to saying that her jeans are blue. >> I'm not here to tell you to buy American Eagle jeans. And I definitely won't say that they're the most comfortable jeans I've ever worn or that they make your butt look amazing. Why would I need to do that? But if you said that you want to buy the jeans, I'm not going to stop you. But just so we're clear, this is not me telling you to buy American Eagle jeans. >> Sydney Sweeney Hasbird Canes. >> You see what I did there, right? Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. >> My jeans are blue. Sydney Sweeney Hasbro Kings Sydney Sweeney Hazburg Kings Sydney Sweeney Hazburg. >> Hi, I'm Sydney Sweeney and I'm from Spokane, Washington. I can work as a local hireer as well though and I am available for the American Eagle Jeans campaign shoot. >> Profile and hands, please. Thanks. We'll be in touch. >> The visuals pushed it further. Billboards with the word jeans crossed out and replaced with jeans. What you wear? He said he's passing. >> There were also lingering shots of her body. Jokes about people staring at her boobs. >> My body's composition is determined by my jeans. Hey, eyes up here. >> Sydney Sweeney has great jeans. >> The whole thing just played as cheeky and self-aware in a different moment. That probably would have passed without much reaction. But timing matters. In 2025, seeing a blonde, blueeyed, white woman front a campaign about good jeans wrapped in red, white, and blue imagery landed differently. The country had just spent years locked in arguments about immigration, race, and who gets framed as the ideal American. Against the backdrop, the drug didn't feel harmless to a lot of people. It felt tonedeaf at best. The push back online was immediate. Some people admitted they might be reading too much into it but still said something about it made them uneasy. [music] Others were more direct and called the campaign eugenics coded. That term sounds extreme but it comes from history. So language around good jeans and desiraability traits has always been used before to justify exclusion and harm. So watching a major brand clip that frame [music] even jokingly didn't sit right. American Eagle's response missed the mark. They released a calm statement saying that the campaign was always just about jeans and that great jeans looked good on everyone. That may have been true on a literal level, but it ignored what people were actually reacting to. The backlash wasn't about them. It was about symbolism and context. Why is this advert considered racist? Welcome back to another episode of Baddies of the Brain. And today we're going to be talking about the Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle new Great Jeans campaign. So, if you weren't aware, actress Sydney Sweeney, who's most famous for her role as Cassie in Euphoria, just recently launched a new campaign with American Eagle, which talks about her having great jeans. Now, if you're not media literate, you probably think that this is harmless. However, this perpetuates a long line of racism and eugenics that has been present in not just America, but all over the world. In the advert, Sydney Sweeney talks about how jeans are passed down from parent to offspring, and she has great jeans while it pans across her body in a very sexual way and zooms into her blue eyes and her blonde hair. I'm sure we're all aware of the play on words. They're advertising denim jeans, but also playing on the fact that she has good jeans, which is the genetic makeup that makes you who you are today and will decide if you're black, white, Asian, whatever. In the extremely conservative climate that we're in today, where the right-wing and white nationalism and patriotism is rising, this advert is a dog whistle to racists out there that basically confirms that their way of thinking and way of life is correct. Instead of having lots of different actors from different backgrounds being in this advert, showing that all jeans are good jeans. They specifically chose a blondhair, blue-eyed, white actress whose family is MAGA, by the way, and she voted for Trump advertising that she has great jeans. So, what puts her genes above other people's? Answer to that would be eugenics. If you're not aware, eugenics is a pseudocience. It has been largely discredited for the damage that it has done. Essentially believes that you can improve the genetic makeup of the human population. However, when this theory was at its most popular, which was in the late 19th and early 20th century, eugenics was twisted and used to essentially say that the white Aryan race is the best. And in order for the human population to continue, it should only be these people with blonde hair, blue eyes that should be procreating in order to improve the race. Eugenics has been used all over the world, especially by the British Empire, by the Germans to justify the Holocaust and to justify the subjugation of Africans during colonialization and the subjugations of Indians and the British Raj. For a heritage brand like American Eagle to get up here and have an advert with a white actress saying how her jeans are so good compared to everybody else's is racist. Mind you, there had to be multiple meetings that happened before this advert can come to the public. and all these people sat in her office around a table and thought, "Yeah, this is a good idea." Really crazy to me how Sydney continues to cheapen her brand, not just with this and the obvious racism and eugenics, but with the whole her selling bath soap that's supposed to be like her bath water to panda to misogynists and men that only see women as objects. With a little bit of media literacy, you can see how a lot of conservative and farright and actually racist values are being pushed constantly in our faces, but this advert is a great example of it. But yeah, let me know what you think. Does Sydney Sweeney have great jeans? >> That's when the situation tipped into full culture war territory. Conservative media jumped on the criticism almost instantly. And of course, Fox News and other right-wing commentators framed the backlash as proof that liberals now hate beauty, humor, and attractive women. And there's also an influencer um UB YouTubing with American Eagle and Sydney Sweeney. And this is someone that calls out people on [music] his Instagram and Tik Tok. But anyways, he's Joy SW's friend, so what do you expect? But anyways, politicians weighed in. The story stopped being about advertising and turned into another cancel cultural debate. Sydney was no longer just a spokesperson for a clothing brand. She was being positioned as a victim of over sensitivity. Then Donald Trump added fuel to the fire. After being told that Sydney was registered as a Republican, he publicly praised the ad and said that he loved it. In that [music] moment, the story around her shifted. She hadn't said anything political herself, but suddenly she was being held up as an anti-woke symbol. For people who were already uncomfortable with her refusal to take positions, this was a breaking point. Being praised by Trump just made it much harder to believe the whole thing was accidental or apolitical. Even without statements, association started doing the talking. Things escalated further when public records showed that she had registered as a Republican in Florida in mid 2024. On its own, that details couldn't define anyone. Plenty of people they register with parties for mundane reasons. But layered on top of everything else, it added weight. her old birthday party photos, her lack of distance from the campaign implications, her apparent ease with being claimed by right-wing voices, it all began to feel connected. What really frustrated people was her response or the absence of one. She had multiple chances to clearly say that she didn't support [music] white supremacist ideas or that she understood why the imagery made people uncomfortable. Instead, [music] she brushed the situation off as people overthinking Agent's ad. No firm clarification, no boundaries drawn, and that silence didn't feel neutral. It felt deliberate. The result was not an instant career collapse. It was something quieter, but more lasting. The conversation around her shifted. The American Eagle ad became shorthand. It became a reference point that people used to sum up their discomfort with her brand, her silence, and the way controversy kept orbiting her. For American Eagle, the gamble paid off. The campaign went viral. The brand got attention. The stock saw a bomb. For Sydney, the outcome was different. She lost goodwill. She lost followers. And instead of discussions about her performance, interviews [music] or future project, everything became about denim, politics, and cultural war. That's the larger lesson here. This wasn't just a poorly judged ad. It was a clear example of how brands benefit from controversy. While celebrities absorb the fallout once you step into that space, even unintentionally, it's almost impossible to step back out cleanly. Sydney wanted control over her image. The American Eagle campaign showed how quickly that control can slip away when money, attention, and politics collide at the same time. Now, let's speak about the GQ interview and the flop. By the time autumn turned into winter, it was obvious that everything had to give. Too much had been left hanging for too long. The art, the silence, the cultural war nonsense attaching itself to her name. People weren't even asking Sydney Sunni to be eloquent anymore. They just wanted her to say something clear. They just wanted her to say anything. That moment came in November 2025 while she was promoting Chrissy, the boxing biopic that she had clearly worked on. This was meant to be the reset. It was meant to put the proof that she was serious now. Instead, it became the point where a lot of people just stopped giving her the benefit of the doubt. It happened during her GQ men of the year interview. GQ did not ambushed her. The question was careful and it was even almost generous. The interviewer brought up the American Eagle Jeans campaign and the backlash around it, including the comparison people were making to white supremacist talking points about genetics. This was the [music] easiest opening that she was ever going to get. All she had to do was say that she understood why people were uncomfortable and that she didn't align with that kind of thinking. [music] The thing is Sydney did not do that. Instead, she laughed it off. She said it was just a jeans art. She talked about how much she liked denim and she said that she wears jeans and t-shirts every day. That was it. There was no acknowledgement of the bigger issues. There was no attempt to engage why people reacted the way they did. And I'm thinking, if your publicist gets paid more than how much you pay for your mortgage, then is this the best that your publicist could come up with? And honestly, it was just a shrug dressed up as a casual charm. That answer was everywhere because it finally confirmed what people had been suspecting. She was not confused. She just didn't care. Online, people started joking about the way that she stood past the question like it wasn't worth her time. That look became a symbol not of confidence but of the kind of comfort that lets you opt out of conversations other people don't get to ignore. The interviewer tried again. She pointed out that the backlash hadn't stayed online that politicians including the president and vice president had weighed in. Sydney said that it felt surreal but claimed that she didn't really know much about it because she was filming euphoria and she had her phone up. She said that she missed most of the reaction. Maybe that was true. Or maybe it was just convenient. If you didn't see the criticism, you don't have to respond to it. Not because not knowing becomes an excuse. >> I'm literally in jeans and a t-shirt like every day of my life. >> Jeans are uncontroversial. Jeans [laughter] are awesome. >> I like your jeans. >> You look great in your jeans. I think I know how you're going to answer this, but I'm going to ask anyway. I mean, the president tweeted about the jeans ad or truth social about the jeans ad, and that just seems to me uh like a very crazy moment for anyone. And I wondered what that was like. >> It was surreal. >> It was surreal. >> Mhm. >> And it would be totally human. Uh, I would probably feel like thankful that somebody had my back in public, you know, and conveniently some very powerful people had my back in public. [laughter] And I wondered if if you felt that way. I don't think I don't think that it's not that that feeling didn't I didn't have that feeling, but I wasn't thinking of it like that or like of any of it. I kind of just put my phone away. I was filming every day. I'm filming Euphoria. So, I'm working like 16 hour days and I don't really bring my phone on set. So, I work and then I go home and I go to sleep. So, I didn't really I didn't really see a lot of it. >> You've made a really good case for keeping your thoughts and your life separate from that work. But the risk is that, you know, there's a chance that somebody will get some idea about what you think about certain issues >> and feel like I don't want to see Christie because of that. Like, do you worry about that? >> No. >> No. the criticism of the content which was basically that maybe specifically in this political climate like white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority like that was kind of like the criticism broadly speaking and since you are talking about this I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that specifically I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about people will hear >> then came the moment that really mattered the interviewer gently said that given the current political climate, jokes about genetics coming from white people, we're always going to strike a nerve. That was it. She could have said one clear sentence. I don't support racist interpretations of this ad. I don't align with those ideas. She didn't say that either. She just gave a vague answer about how when she wants to speak on something, people would hear it. Then she pivoted to correcting reports that the ad hurt American Eagle sales. She ended by saying that she knew what the ad was meant to be and that it didn't affect her personally. The message was obvious. This isn't my problem. She refused to draw a line. She refused to say the bare minimum. She stayed neutral even while being openly claimed by right-wing commentators. And that choice landed bad everywhere. Progressive audiences heard indifference. To them, it sounded like she didn't care who attached themselves to her image as long as she got paid. Conservative fans heard nothing, telling them to back off, so they leaned in harder. Everyone else watched someone with massive influence handle a harsh moment like it was beneath her. The interview blew up. So many supporters called it refreshing. Finally, a celebrity who won't apologize for existing. So many people also saw it as peak apathy, the kind that only works if you're cushioned from consequences. When she said that she knows who she is and she doesn't let people define her, it was meant to sound grounded. Instead, it felt empty. By refusing to define herself, she let the loudest people do it for her. And then the box office numbers came in. Christy opened at the end of October 2025 and it opened in more than 2,000 theaters. This was the prestige play, a real [music] person, a quest sport icon, a survivor of abuse, the kind of film that usually draws strong support from progressive people. [music] It made $1.3 million opening weekend. That is not a stumble. That is a failure. Reviews were mixed, but reviews weren't the issue. The issue was who did not show up. The audience that normally supports films like this had already disengaged. Even queer viewers, feminist people, progressive women, they weren't boycotting loudly. They just were not interested anymore. And the irony was brutal. A film about a lesbian boxer surviving domestic violence couldn't bring in the very people most likely to care. Partly because the star at the center had lost their trust. >> You know what nobody's saying? Christy, >> I didn't even realize that that was in theaters this week, which is like a testament to the non marketing happening. ranks number 12 in the worst >> in the list of worst opening weekend box office debuts. It goes up to number nine on the list if you exclude re-releases. >> Oh, a lot of people are saying online, "Baby girl, you betrayed the girls and the gays." And that's who would have gone to see this movie. >> I would have seen what you packed weight on for and took your craft really seriously for had you not been acting a fool in the press for the last month. >> So confused what the plan at all was. her public persona lately does not align with kind of the trail that she's been creating for herself. Like it's a lot of heavy [music] subjects. Unfortunately, Sydney Sweeney posting Instagram kind of pushing everyone to go see it. It's like we don't really feel like supporting you right now. You playing Christy doesn't feel genuine. And when the first pictures came out where she was putting on the weight and cutting her hair and training, I feel like a lot of people were intrigued. They could have gone it down a way [music] to get people interested and it just went the complete opposite [ __ ] direction. >> Ruby Rose, who had once been attached to the project, said the quiet part out loud. She publicly criticized Sydney, saying that the film deserved better and accused her of pushing away her LGBTQ audiences. Her [music] comments they were messy, but the box office had already made the point, and the other audience Sydney had gained didn't show up either. The anti-war crowd sharing her jeans ad had zero interest in a film about quo women overcoming abuse. Their support existed online only because we know that the rightwing do not care about qu people. So she ended up in the worst possible position. Famous talked about constantly but without a reliable audience willing to buy a ticket. After the number dropped, Sydney reframed the conversation. She talked about the film's message instead of its earning. She said, "If even one woman felt empowered or found safety because of Chris's story, then it mattered." That's a fair thing to say. It's also the only thing you can say when the numbers looked like that. But the contrast was so impossible to ignore. Less than a year earlier, she had led a romcom that pulled in over $200 million worldwide. Now, her passion project couldn't break 2 million. What this showed wasn't just a bad release. It showed how split her audience had become. When people feel polarized about you, they don't show up casually. They either support loudly or they stay away quietly. And that kind of split kills [music] films that need broad appeal. This wasn't about one ad or one bad answer. This was the moment everything caught up at once. Silence stopped protecting her. Neutrality stopped working. And the gap between how Sydney Sweeney sees herself and how the public sees her finally became impossible to ignore. [music] And now let's talk about apathy as a privilege. SWIN situation ends up forcing a pretty basic question that Hollywood keeps dancing around. Is it better for celebrities to say where they stand or to stay quiet and hope [music] that it all blows over? Now Sydney, she's trying to walk back everything. She's tried the, "Oh, I'm not racist. I don't stand with the white conservative or whatever. But you [music] know what? All that does not matter any longer. We already know who you are. You were given so many chances, but you blew them away. The jy woman gave you three chances for you to correct yourself, but no, she did not. More important, what actually happens when you choose silence? To understand why this went sideways for her, it helps to look at someone who played the same game but with way more control. And that is Taylor Swift. For most of her career, Taylor avoided politics entirely. She built this clean, inoffensive image that let fans project whatever they wanted onto her. Conservatives didn't feel threatened. Liberals didn't feel pushed away. She kept it vague and she kept it vague on purpose. But when she finally spoke up in 2018, it was not messy or reactive. She endorsed specific [music] Democratic candidates. She spoke cleanly about the LGBTQ right, and she left it there. She didn't turn herself into a full-time activist. She just made her baseline values clear. That's the difference. Taylor didn't shout her belief, but she also didn't leave space for the worst people to claim her. When white supremacist tried to latch onto her image years later, she shut that down cleanly. No confusion, no maybe. Her silence before that wasn't apathy. It was control. Sydney took a different route. Instead of quiet neutrality, she leaned into not caring. Every time someone asked her to clarify something, she would brush it off. Just a gene ad, just jokes, just zeniming. If she had something to say, people would hear it. Until then, she wasn't engaging. That approach only really works if you're someone the system already protects. Sydney is white, straight, conventionally attractive, and rich. Nothing about the political climate threatens her direct. So stay out of feeling something. So staying out of it probably feels like minding her business. The problem is silence stops being neutral once controversy shows up. Taylor avoided politics but she never avoided values. Sydney avoided both. When farright figures praised her gene ad, she said nothing. When people asked her to clearly reject racist interpretations, she shrugged. When fans said that they felt uncomfortable, she acted like she didn't understand why it was even a discussion. Her thinking seemed to be, "If I don't engage, I won't alienate anyone." And you know what? That backfired. Instead of staying neutral, she became a blank screen. Progressive saw privilege and indifference. Right-wing commentators saw someone they could claim without push back. Everyone saw a [music] celebrity with a massive platform refusing to use it even to say the bare minimum. And here is the thing that people kept skipping over. Apathy isn't neutral when bigotry is involved. It becomes a position on on on its own. Yes, people are afraid of fake activism. Nobody wants celebrities posting holo hashtags every week. But there is a difference between not performing activism and refusing to condemn harm when it's pointed directly at you. One feels normal, the other feels like you don't care who gets hurt as long as your career stays intact. Sydney seemed to bet that audiences were all over this. That vibes mattered more than values. Now, for a while, that gamble worked. She stayed vague. She stayed desirable. People projected whatever they wanted onto her. Then, the American Eagle campaign happened and the ambiguity collapsed. At that point, people weren't getting anymore. They were reacting. And when she still refused to draw any lines, neutrality started looking like complicity. The Christy flaw made that obvious. That movie needed progressive audiences, queer viewers, feminist spaces, younger women, the same people who had spent years defending her online. A lot of them, they didn't show up, not because they hated the story, but because they no longer trusted her. And that's what gets mislabeled as cancel culture. It wasn't outrage, it was disengagement. Inside the industry, the [ __ ] was noticeable, too. [music] Reports started floating around that some people were quietly creating distance from Sydney Sweeney. Zena who has been open about her own values reportedly avoided joint press. Euphoria's promotion became more cautious not because Sydney was being blacklisted but because she'd become awkward. She's been risky. A conversation no one wanted to babysit. And that matters in Hollywood. Sydney hasn't been cancelled. She still books work. She still gets deals. But the temperature around her has changed. The goodwill is thinner. The benefit of the doubt is gone. And once that is gone, it's so hard to earn back. A shared preview of Hollywood's future. Maybe there is definitely an audience for anti-woke personalities and stars who brand themselves around not caring. But most of those figures live outside the mainstream. Sydney tried to play that game while still wanting prestige films, award attention, and progressive audiences to show up for her serious work. That contradiction is what cuts up with her. People don't need celebrities to stand for everything, but they do expect them to stand for something. And when someone refuses to do even that, the question becomes pretty simple. Why invest in someone who won't invest in anything at all? Conclusion: Sid's career doesn't really feel like a scandal. It feels like something slowly coming apart. Nothing blew up all at once. There wasn't a single mistake that tanked everything. It was a lot of small decisions pointing in the same direction until eventually there was nowhere left to stand. Early on, she had real momentum. She could act. She worked hard. Her backstory made people root for her. She didn't look like someone who looked into fame. She looked like someone who chased it and earned it. When Euphoria hit, people genuinely liked her. They defended her. They wanted her to break out of the boxes she was being put in. The shift came with how she handled the attention. Instead of defining herself, she chose emptiness, not privacy, not mystery, but active non-answers. She avoided taking position. She avoided drawing boundaries. She avoided saying what she believed in. The logic seemed obvious. If you don't commit anything, no one can really come for you. And for a while, it worked. She kept she stayed booked. She stayed visible. She kept every door open because she never picked a side. But that only works until it doesn't. Once controversy showed up, silence stopped feeling neutral. It started feeling like not caring. And when people are asking you to acknowledge harm or draw a basic line, not caring doesn't read as calm or mature. It reads as comfort. It reads as someone who knows the consequences won't really touch them. What actually hurt her wasn't outrage or cancellation. It was people quietly checking out the audiences that had supported her the most. Younger women, queer women, progressive fans, they didn't organize a boycott. They just disengaged. They stopped defending her. They stopped showing up. And that kind of quiet withdrawal is far more damaging than loud backlash. Meanwhile, the audience loudly claimed her. Didn't really sustain her either. The anti-woke crowd was happy to treat her like a symbol. But symbolism doesn't buy movie tickets. They weren't interested in her serious work. Their support was shallow and temporary. So she ended up stuck in the middle. Extremely famous, constantly discussed, but without a solid audience willing to carry a project. Not loved [music] deeply enough by anyone to show up when it matters. And none of this means she lacks talent. She doesn't. She's proven that she can act and she's shown range. In a slightly different version of this story with Clara choices, she could have built a long stable career with broad support. Instead, she became an example of what happens when identity turns into strategy. When flexibility matters more than clarity. When being unbothered becomes the brand. Hollywood is shallow but it still runs on belief. Audiences don't just watch performances. They invest emotionally. They want to feel like the people or the person on screen stands for something or at least understands the world that they are moving through. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to be loud, but you do have to stand somewhere. Sydney tried to stand nowhere. That didn't make her untouchable. It made her empty. And emptiness doesn't hold attention for long. No matter how talented someone is. Her career is not finished. She still has room to reset, to change course, to decide who she actually wants to be in public. But the warning signs are already there. You cannot build something lasting on nothing. Eventually, people are going to notice. And once they stop believing, attention alone won't save you. So guys, that brings us to the end of this video. If you guys enjoyed this, kindly like, share, and subscribe if you care. 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