XPost: alt.tv.commercials
On Aug 1, 2025 at 1:53:14 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <
[email protected]> wrote:
Dunkin' Donuts took a page from the American Eagle playbook with a recent ad featuring actor Gavin Casalegno from THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY and the
left is having a collective meltdown, claiming that the ads amount to "racist
dog whistles" and support for "eugenics".
I think this is hilarious. Instead of bending the knee to screeching leftist wokesters like they've been doing for the last 10 years, these big
corporations are now trolling them.
If this keeps up, we may not have to worry about winning the next election.
The opposition will all have gone stark raving mad.
(Apparently there was already controversy over the casting of this guy's Netflix show. People have been complaining since the beginning that it wasn't 'diverse' (read: not white) enough, so this ad just throws gasoline on that fire.)
The ad starts with Casalegno sitting by a pool, dressed in shorts and a button-down shirt only buttoned at his waist. "Look, I didn’t ask to be the king of summer. It just kind of happened," he says as he walks from the edge of the pool to a lounge chair. "This tan? Genetics. I just got my color analysis back. Guess what? Golden summer. Literally."
The ad, which ran primarily on TikTok, quickly began to rack up the video responses from liberals who compared it to the recent American Eagle ad featuring actress Sydney Sweeney and her "great [genes] jeans".
"They’re getting BOLD," one complained. "They were already bold, but they are
getting f***ing BOLD right now. Holy s***," one woman complained. Text over her video read, "Another eugenics-based ad ... Get effed Dunkin' and your nasty
watery never-consistent shyt coffee."
The text over another video read, "Dunkin' Donuts learned nothing from AE, Sweeney as they dip their toes into 'perfect genes' talk."
The man in the video added, "Have you not learned anything Sydney Sweeney and
American Eagle?”
Oh, Dunkin' has learned plenty. They saw American Eagle's stock soar after the Sweeney ad and are trying to ride this wave before it peters out.
"Now, I understand that these are slight, slight messages that just skim off the top, but once again, we're making an ad where we're calling out genes and
saying these are the perfect genes, I’ve just been blessed with the perfect genes, and it's these white people, have been blessed with the perfect genes," he said, claiming that the goal of the Dunkin' add was to suggest that whiteness was necessary for "perfect genes".
And once again, if it was a hot black girl in a blue jeans talking about her perfect genes, no one would be screeching "fascism" and that they're
suggesting "blackness" is necessary to be perfect.
"And they have not apparently see any of the controversy that's been going
on with American Eagle-- or they did and decided, hey, let's jump on that!"
Exactly the latter. Sweeney's ad has made bank for American Eagle and Dunkin' wants to get a part of that bag.
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