Oh, now this one’s rich — Lizzo decided to take a swipe at Sydney Sweeney’s viral American Eagle ad… and it backfired big time.
The 37-year-old singer jumped into the controversy by posting what appears to be an AI-generated image of herself in full denim with the caption, “My jeans are black.” The kicker? The image also included the words, “If the Democrats won the election.”
And the reaction? Brutal.
Fans torched her in the comments, accusing her of promoting division and race-baiting over… an ad campaign about jeans. “Lizzo this is embarrassing,” one follower wrote. Another asked, “So companies are no longer allowed to use any white models to model their products?” Others flat-out called the post “racist,” “divisive,” and “irrelevant.”
Adding insult to injury, Lizzo didn’t even credit the original creator of the image — Kevin Flynn, who runs the “whitepeoplehumor” account — and cropped out his name before reposting it. Not a great look.
All of this, of course, stems from American Eagle’s “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign, which left the perpetually outraged crowd clutching their pearls and screaming “Nazi propaganda” because — gasp — an attractive white woman modeled jeans. In one ad, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring… My jeans are blue.” That was enough for leftist influencers and even some mainstream media hacks to lose their minds.
But here’s the best part: American Eagle didn’t apologize. They didn’t grovel. They doubled down. “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story,” the company posted. “We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way.”
That’s how you handle the mob.
Meanwhile, Lizzo tried to pile on and wound up getting cooked by her own followers. Turns out, people are getting tired of this manufactured outrage — especially when it’s about a denim ad that literally offends no one outside of the professional victim class.
