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USA Today
an hour ago
- USA Today
American Eagle stock rises after Trump praises Sydney Sweeney ad amid backlash
Clothing brand American Eagle may be entrenched in controversy over its latest ad campaign, but company shares were only rising on Monday, Aug. 4. The retailer's stock rose more than 23% after President Donald Trump defended its ad starring Sydney Sweeney. Critics have argued that the campaign, which launched on July 23, as well as its slogan "Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans," was a double entendre endorsing eugenics, the pseudoscience that promotes the belief that some genetic features are better than others. After a reporter informed Trump that Sweeney was allegedly registered as a Republican in Florida, the president applauded the "Euphoria" star's campaign. BuzzFeed first reported Sweeney's party affiliation on Aug. 2, though USA TODAY was unable to verify whether a person in public voting records named Sydney B. Sweeney is the Emmy-nominated actor, whose middle name is Bernice. "Sydney Sweeney, a registered Republican, has the 'HOTTEST' ad out there. It's for American Eagle, and the jeans are 'flying off the shelves.' Go get 'em Sydney!" Trump wrote on an Aug. 4 Truth Social post. "Being WOKE is for losers, being Republican is what you want to be. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" Despite an initial 16% boost upon the ad's release, American Eagle shares were down over the past week as backlash escalated, according to reporting from Reuters and CNBC. However, following Trump's praise, the stock saw a 23.53% increase at the market's close on Aug. 4. What have JD Vance, Americans Eagle and Sweeney said? Vice President JD Vance addressed the ad during a Friday, Aug. 1 episode of the conservative "Ruthless" podcast, where he poked fun at outrage toward the ad, quipping, "I actually thought that one of the lessons (Democrats) might take is 'we're going to be less crazy.'" "And the lesson they have apparently taken is 'we're going to attack people as Nazis for thinking Sydney Sweeney is beautiful,'" he said on the podcast. "My political advice to the Democrats is continue to (call) everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi." Some critics have argued that the ad promotes the idea of a conventionally attractive, blonde, white woman with blue eyes being the archetype of "good genes." While Sweeney has not publicly addressed the backlash against the ad, American Eagle issued a statement on Instagram on Aug. 1. "'Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans' is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. We'll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way," the statement read. "Great jeans look good on everyone." Contributing: Anna Kaufman and Jay Stahl, USA TODAY
Buzz Feed
2 hours ago
- Buzz Feed
31 "Beloved" Celebs People Think Are Actually Terrible
A while back, Reddit user brody0628 asked, "What is a celebrity everyone loves but you think is insufferable?" and people had some stronggggg opinions. Here are celebrities they think are actually bad people — along with some responses from the BuzzFeed Community and this Reddit thread. "Nick Cannon. The fact that the internet makes jokes about how many kids he has or tries to paint him as a good father because he takes his kids to Disney World is disgusting! He couldn't even remember the names of all his kids when asked. Most, if not all, of his kids are going to grow up having no relationship with him." "John Lennon. I know he's been dead for 40 years, but man, he was such a shit person." "John Stamos. He looks like a wax museum version of himself and it seems like his ego is as big as his Disney collection." —jessethecowgirlStamos also once told a story about convincing a woman she was having sex with him when it was really his friend:"[In the mid-eighties] I was in a band. I was playing somewhere in Finland, and there was a girl hanging around who was really drunk and interested in me. I wasn't into her, but my friend was. So the girl came back to my hotel, and I turned the lights down, and we started making out. I said, 'Hold on a second, I've gotta go brush my teeth.' It was dark, I left the room, and I sent in my friend who looked like me. And she thought she was having sex with me, but she was really having sex with my friend."Suggested by jeramoo "Whoopi. She's the boomerest boomer to ever exist. Has no empathy for younger generations and is constantly telling struggling millennials/Gen Z people they don't have it that bad." "Jackie Chan: Hong Kong-born but pro-Beijing. That's enough for me." "Brad Pitt isn't the stand-up guy he portrays! Maybe it was the story about him ... [allegedly] being abusive to his wife in front of his children that turned me off. Definitely not something a nice guy would do!" —quizzydog27 [Editor's note: You can read more about the plane assault allegations here, but Jolie did eventually drop the lawsuit. Pitt has denied there was any physical violence.]Pitt also dated Juliette Lewis when she was 17, and he was a decade by re89245 "I've disliked Jimmy Fallon since his SNL days when it felt like he'd break character in a sketch to get a bigger laugh. Ruffling Donald Trump's hair during his interview pretty much turned me off of him for good." —rachelc43 "Far worse is Jimmy Kimmel — he 'pranks' his family on his show, but they all seem to really hate it. I had to stop watching him during the Trump presidency because all he could do on his show was make 'fat jokes.' Trump does a million wild things; stop making the same cringey and offensive jokes from the early '90s! And if you have any doubts, look up The Man Show — absolutely horrific." —bric4349cd9f2 "Owen Wilson, a seemingly good dad to his sons, [is allegedly a] deadbeat father to his daughter: he underwent a paternity test, still refuses to meet her, and just threw money at her (he dated the child's mother on and off for five years)." —bigfinsquidWilson has not responded to these claims beyond a rep saying, 'This is a private matter, and it's not appropriate to comment further.' "Not to speak ill of the dead, but Kobe and the whole rape allegation. ... Not sure why people are so wild about him." "Matthew Broderick. Another example of rich people just not having to face consequences. For anyone that doesn't know, In 1987, he was driving during a head-on collision with another car, which killed a mother and daughter. He paid the equivalent of $175 and served no time." "Jerry Seinfeld. So many people seem to love him, and his show was wildly successful, but I can't stand him at all." "Steven Tyler, for [allegedly] convincing parents to sign a 14-year-old over to him. Then ... dumping her back on their doorstep at 17." —metal_jesterSome more info: Tyler actually admitted to having sex with a minor in his memoir. 'She was 16, she knew how to nasty, and there wasn't a hair on it," Tyler wrote. He was 26 at the time. He also wrote, 'Her parents fell in love with me, signed a paper over for me to have custody, so I wouldn't get arrested if I took her out of state. I took her on tour." It's likely that Tyler is referring to Julia Holcomb, who sued him in 2022 for sexual assault, sexual battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress back in the '70s. She says that Tyler persuaded her mother to sign over guardianship to him. Holcomb also says in court documents that she became pregnant and Tyler made her have an though not directly named in the suit, denied these claims, said their relationship was consensual, and claimed immunity because he was her legal guardian then, calling for the suit to be dismissed. Similarly..."I always find it weird that Anthony Kiedis from The Red Hot Chili Peppers admitted to having sex with a child in his autobiography, and barely a word is said about it." —bgar1432Some more info: Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers wrote about having sex with a 14-year-old in his autobiography Scar Tissue. The girl — who reportedly inspired the song "Catholic School Girls Rule" — came backstage at his concert, and the two had sex. According to Keidis, she then continued on with the band to Baton Rouge. After their show, the girl revealed that she was 14 and her father was the chief of police in her town, adding that "the entire state of Louisiana" was looking for her because she'd been reported said he wasn't scared "because, in my somewhat deluded mind, I knew that if she told the chief of police she was in love with me, he wasn't going to have me taken out to a field and shot, but I did want to get her the hell back home right away. So we had sex one more time.' He was in his mid-20s at the time. "Prince. He met his ex-wife when she was sixteen (and later declared he knew he was going to marry her right then) and then put her on birth control at nineteen after they had 'a really deep friendship' (yeah right) for three years." "[According to her,] he later made her do an interview soon after their son died, threw that son's ashes away, ... and dumped her by the time she was 26. I love the man's music, but I wish people would talk more about the hell he put Mayte Garcia through."—ToasterGuacamoleWrap "John Mulaney. He was so funny and really killing it. But what he did to his ex-wife is so terrible." —prodigalpunSome more info: Mulaney filed for divorce from Anna Marie Tendler in July 2021, after which point she released a statement reading that she was "heartbroken that John has decided to end [their] marriage." It was reported they'd broken up in February 2021, though Mulaney later claimed he'd asked for a divorce in October 2020. In September 2021, Mulaney revealed that he had been dating Olivia Munn since the spring (right off the heels of his time in rehab), and that Munn was pregnant with their child, despite the fact that Mulaney had been open about not wanting children. Mulaney has since credited Munn and their child in his recovery journey. "Doja Cat has been problematic. Even before she blew up commercially, she was being accused of racism — against Black people. Ngl, I like some of her songs, but there's a lot of mental dissociation involved for me. Sometimes I don't like being aware of this shit because this is why we can't have nice things." —pbbtDoja denied participating in racist conversations and apologized for her behavior in chat rooms when she was younger. "Oprah was basically the O.G. Jerry Springer and pioneered that genre of shock-garbage-emotional-manipulation TV. Now she's interviewing Prince Harry like she's Barbara fucking Walters or something. I don't get it." "Nicki Minaj, and thankfully everyone's finally starting to get it. All this information came out back in, like, 2021, and it somehow got swept under the rug. I never got good feelings from her." "Drake is creepy, the way he befriends young teen girls! That's a weird thing for a grown ass man to do." "I can't stand Kevin Hart. He's not funny, and his stand-up shows are forced laughter in a nutshell." "Tom Cruise. Scientology." "Gwyneth Paltrow. She can Goop right outta here." "Julia Roberts." "Fred Armisen. Of that SNL era I like pretty much everyone else; he just deeply skeeves me out for some reason." "Bill Murray. I don't hate him, but for some reason the internet thinks he is God's gift to comedy. He's alright, but he's nowhere close to the idol that the internet makes him out to be." "I know I'll get hate for this but Jim Carrey. I find the guy totally obnoxious! He seems like he's got one schtick and that's all he knows." "Leonardo DiCaprio. He seems like such a creep." "Paul Walker. He...[reportedly] dated a 16-year-old in his 30s." "Johnny Depp. I think he's overhyped. Used to be a fan, but the last decade he lost his shine for me." And finally, "Drew Barrymore." What "beloved" celebrity do you think is actually a bad person? Let us know in the comments.
Buzz Feed
4 hours ago
- Buzz Feed
Feel Free: Viral TikToks Show Potential Risks Of Tonic
Warning: Discussion of drug abuse. 'No joking. This video is a warning, specifically for parents, but I guess really for anybody. Something truly disturbing just happened to me,' he begins in the TikTok, which has since been viewed over 19 million times and details how, earlier that day, he was approached by a 'child' who was 'maybe 14 years old' at a gas station. 'He comes up to me and he says, 'Hey, can you buy me some Feel Free?'' Misha had no idea what Feel Free was, and after he declined the person's request, he says the aftermath was swift: 'This young kid lunged at me and tried to take my wallet out of my hand.' He also says he told the gas station attendant about the incident, who replied that some customers would purchase Feel Free 'five [or] six times a day.' 'I think that is very telling of how scary this substance is, especially when it's marketed as safe,' Misha says to BuzzFeed about the response his TikTok received. 'One positive that has come from my video is the amount of parents I've seen who said they, like me, had never heard of this product and will be talking to their children about avoiding it.' Feel Free's most well-known variant — the 'Classic' tonic made by the company Botanic Tonics, which also makes a 'Kava Maté' and capsules — is advertised as a 'feel-good tonic that features kava root and other plant ingredients known to help with relaxation, productivity and focus.' A bottle contains two servings, and the website does tell buyers to 'consume responsibly' and not take more than a bottle every 24 hours. Their ingredients label lists kava root extract, a depressant, and ground leaf kratom, a drug that can provide both stimulant and sedative effects depending on the quantity. In the FAQ section of the site, it tells consumers that 'most commonly, you'll feel more social and a calm, focused boost of energy.' If you look at the front of the bottle, you'll notice the words 'consume responsibly near the bottom'; according to the company, that advisory was added to the packaging last year along with a warning that reads, 'This product contains leaf kratom which, like caffeine and alcohol, can become habit-forming and harmful to your health if consumed irresponsibly. Consider avoiding any potentially habit-forming substances if you have a history of substance abuse. If consumed in recommended quantities, feel free CLASSIC has not been shown to cause any serious physical or social harm. Caution: This product is not for consumption by or sale to persons under the age of 21.' Misha isn't the only person who's gone viral for their anecdotes about Feel Free. Jasmine Adeoye, a 30-year-old based in Austin, has had numerous TikToks about her experiences with the tonic pass the million-view mark. She first bought Feel Free in 2022, after hearing it advertised on numerous major podcasts as a safe alternative to alcohol. She told BuzzFeed that she initially used the product occasionally for around a year, until she found herself in an incredibly stressful job. 'At the most, it was 12 [bottles] a day. That was like just taking them to feel normal in any way, shape, or form,' she said. 'It was like, 'Oh, I can't physically get out of bed unless I take this.' At the height of what she says was her addiction, Jasmine claimed that she had 'super, super dry and flaky skin,' adding, 'It was like alligator skin, I would take my clothes off, and flakes of skin would fall off of my body.' She further said that 'chunks of [her] teeth were falling out' as a result of throwing up so often. After telling her mother and now-husband the extent of her use in 2024, Jasmine was able to find sobriety. She began making TikToks shortly afterwards. 'When I got sober, I knew that I wanted to talk about it publicly. I was, like, 'I cannot be the only person going through this,'' she said. 'I expected some people to resonate with it, but not on the level that it actually did, which makes me sad.' So, what does Feel Free have to say about the users' claimed experiences? When asked for comment on these users' alleged experience, Botanic Tonics directed BuzzFeed to a statement that said, 'Botanic Tonics is leading the industry in our commitment to providing consumer education and transparency and we will continue to prioritize the safety and well-being of our customers above all else." 'Our website features a comprehensive 'Learn' section with detailed resources about our ingredients, including dedicated information about kratom. We believe informed consumers make better choices, and we're committed to providing clear, accurate information. All Botanic Tonics products are manufactured in our FDA-registered, cGMP-certified Oklahoma facility, ensuring uncompromising quality and potency,' they continued. It's not just TikTok where users are claiming negative experiences. There are 5k members in the subreddit R/Quittingfeelfree, where users about their sobriety experiences. Amongst those who spoke to BuzzFeed, some were previous opioid users who found themselves caught up in what they claim was the cycle of addiction again. Justin, a 43-year-old who was previously sober for six years, said he saw a Feel Free ad offering 'energy and calm' in a gas station before work. He quickly bought two, despite having read about kratom addiction previously. 'It did what it said it would do,' he claimed. 'Meth wasn't this hard to quit. This stuff is a special kind of bad.' But some say they had no problems with substance abuse whatsoever. Lisa, a 63-year-old mother of three from South Jersey, said that a friend suggested Feel Free just over three years ago as an alternative to a cocktail. 'I don't have an alcohol problem. I just thought it would be fun to have something else that was natural,' she said, opting to order the drink online after watching a podcast interview with the company's creator. 'It was marketed as being safe and healthy, and that you would get a natural euphoric feeling from it. I was using it sporadically, and I was using it safely.' Things changed when two things happened in quick succession: Lisa broke her shoulder and one of her daughters became estranged from her. Amid the stress and pain, her Feel Free intake rose to five a day, purchased from her local 7/11. Realizing she had a problem around a year ago, she's now consulting with drug addiction professionals to find the best way forward.'Your skin gets so dry and itchy. If you don't take it and you are trying to sleep, you get restless legs. It wakes you up,' she claimed. 'But when you try to take it, sometimes you vomit. It's horrific, and for somebody like me, who was a professional and a mom, I can't believe this has happened to me.' Similarly, 30-year-old Detroit resident Anthony said he previously used kratom and kava 'in moderation.' He tried Feel Free after seeing it advertised in a gas station. 'It tasted horrible, but within a matter of minutes, I felt a rush that I've never felt before using regular kratom,' he said. After a few months, he said his use escalated to 10-12 bottles a day. 'Roughly $120 a day addiction. Before I knew it, I was spending my entire paycheck on these blue devils.' But it wasn't just Feel Free that was available to him. 7-hydroxymitragynine, 'a concentrated byproduct of the kratom plant' also known as 7-OH, can bind itself to opioid receptors in the brain. It's been found to be more potent than morphine in treating pain. It was during his time on Feel Free that Anthony said he started using 7-OH tablets as well, using cash advance apps and a $2,000 loan to fund his addiction. 'I'm currently in the process of tapering both the 7-OHs and the Feel Free. I'm in a better place mentally and financially, but have a mountain to climb,' he said. 'The withdrawals are unfathomable.' When asked for comment, HHS pointed BuzzFeed to recent news that the FDA is now taking steps to limit the availability of 7-OH. But a product like Feel Free, which claims not to artificially inflate its 7-OH levels, doesn't fall under these proposed regulations. "Our products contain trace amounts of 7-OH that occur naturally during the traditional drying process — levels that are dramatically different from the concentrated synthetic products now under FDA scrutiny,' Botanic Tonics said in a statement after the FDA announced its new plans on 7-OH. "Leaf kratom is different than concentrated 7-OH, a kratom synthetic that the FDA announced that they are moving to ban. Botanic Tonics should not be included when referring to 7-OH products," they further said in a statement to BuzzFeed. Recovery from kratom products can be a challenging road. Mike, a 37-year-old based near Sacramento, found himself in a financial 'disaster' after at times using over 12 bottles a day. 'I've maxed out four credit cards and taken out loans totaling over $50,000. I had to enroll in a debt relief program last year because I couldn't make my minimum payments,' he said. In recent days, he says that he's been trying to quit Feel Free, but relapsed before a big work day after only getting a handful of hours of sleep the previous few nights. He's found that some people in 12-step programs don't take kratom addiction seriously and has had difficulties abusing Suboxone and Feel Free simultaneously. He's considered rehab, but he works for a 'cutthroat' major company that he says can look down on taking leave. As he put it, 'I'm not sure if I'm at the point yet where I'm willing to lose my job because I don't want to screw things up for my kid.'
