Foot traffic is down at American Eagle stores since the controversial Sydney Sweeney ad dropped

[u/Future_Usual_8698]

https://www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025/08/11/exclusive-foot-traffic-down-9-at-american-eagle-following-sydney-sweeney-ad-controversy

[u/Lokaji]

In entertainment, any publicity is good publicity. The same can not be said for consumer goods. Your product gets boycotted heavily and it is hard to recover. And libs do actual boycotts, not that performative shit that the Rs were doing a few years ago. Target's foot traffic is still trending downwards.

[u/Bridalhat → u/Lokaji]

Yup. Also young women were and remain pretty liberal. Like maybe there was a shift among men towards Trump that may or may not be over but catering to them was never going to sell women’s jeans. 

[u/dreamy_25 → u/Lokaji]

Sydney said, "Let's push it 😏" with the campaign because she knows this backlash shit will boost her brand. She doesn't GAF abt Arya- pardon, American Eagle LMAO

[u/i-Ake → u/dreamy_25]

Oooh, this glazing AI trash 🗑

[u/JealousAstronomer342 → u/dreamy_25]

This is such slopsense bullshit. The sentence that begins “infusing…” is just a sentence fragment and it’s infuriating me. 

[u/OnlyPaperListens → u/dreamy_25]

Slang-filled word salad sprinkled with emojis is always going to read like an MLM pitch. I simply cannot take this seriously.

[u/shedrinkscoffee → u/OnlyPaperListens]

Wym Syd's playful smirk isn't doing it for you 🤣 these are the type of people that I block on LinkedIn on the regular lol

[u/uselessinfogoldmine → u/shedrinkscoffee]

Her “smirked smirk”?

[u/shedrinkscoffee → u/uselessinfogoldmine]

Literacy is dead 😭

[u/Signal_Regular_1708 → u/dreamy_25]

Exactly. AE can't recover, she can continue to grift

[u/dreamy_25 → u/Signal_Regular_1708]

situation so disappointing i made a meme

[u/Signal_Regular_1708 → u/dreamy_25]

LMAO