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#Repost///@clickhole: American Eagle is in full-on crisis mode after their “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign was met by swift public backlash as critics accused the ad of invoking eugenics. Today, the clothing company finally put out a statement explaining the campaign’s original aim: American Eagle is clarifying that their Sydney Sweeney ad was only intended to make people masturbate.Wow. It’s easy to see how American Eagle’s intended messaging got lost in the execution. Good intentions or not, the damage to their brand may already be done.Swipe to check out American Eagle's statement.What a catastrophic mistake this marketing strategy turned out to be. American Eagle only wanted their Sydney Sweeney ad to make people touch themselves, but instead, it made millions of Internet users call them Nazis. Well, you can bet whichever American Eagle employee came up with this campaign is looking for a new job now!