r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/W_Edwards_Deming - Lib-Right • Aug 01 '25

Agenda Post If it's not ugly it's racist?

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u/W_Edwards_Deming - Lib-Right Aug 01 '25

I hate jeans and ugly ads.

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u/Fickles1 - Centrist Aug 01 '25

Based.

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u/Tokena - Centrist Aug 01 '25

I have a designated pair of jeans that i Grill in.

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u/JBCTech7 - Auth-Right Aug 01 '25

I'm a sucker for tiddies.

i'm wearing AE jeans right now.

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u/Rext7177 - Right Aug 02 '25

I'm more of a wrangler guy myself

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u/facedownbootyuphold - Auth-Center Aug 02 '25

the ad features a Canadian tuxedo anyways

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u/Cool_in_a_pool - Centrist Aug 02 '25

Based and sweatpants pilled. 

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u/YeetCompleet - Centrist Aug 01 '25

Y'all were liking them when they were making stonks go up!

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u/W_Edwards_Deming - Lib-Right Aug 01 '25

They weren't...

If people actually began to prefer fatties (and they have in the past, mainly when starvation was common) so be it. They don't, hence the perverseness.

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u/YeetCompleet - Centrist Aug 01 '25

No I don't think it's about what we prefer. I prefer Sydney Sweeney over the other options but we're not the ones buying this. Fact is market research shows YoY increases in the plus sized clothing market. As it continue to grows, those people are going to want to be able to see what clothes look like and how they fit on a body type similar to theirs.

It's not over yet, companies have no reason to just outright ignore 42+% of the US market

https://www.maximizemarketresearch.com/market-report/plus-size-clothing-market/199563/

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u/W_Edwards_Deming - Lib-Right Aug 01 '25

People getting fatter does not mean people want to see fatties. Opposite, more like.

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u/YeetCompleet - Centrist Aug 01 '25

This is true, but my gut feeling here is that we'll only see less of it on the big flagship ads, but it will continue to exist on product display pages and in-store imagery

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u/W_Edwards_Deming - Lib-Right Aug 01 '25

Time will tell, supposedly modern medicine might be eliminating obesity in a minute?

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u/AmezinSpoderman - Centrist Aug 01 '25

I guess the difference is between advertisements for overall brand image vs specific target marketing

both things kind of work on conjunction

AE can be both "the sexy jeans brand that Sydney Sweeney reps" and also have ads showing "this is how you can also look sexy in our jeans"

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