The internet has thoughts about the way Sydney Sweeney publicly responded to the widespread backlash to her American Eagle campaign.

“I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans,” Sweeney, 28, told GQ for its latest cover story. “I knew at the end of the day what that ad was for, and it was great jeans, it didn’t affect me one way or the other.”

The Christy actress fronted American Eagle’s denim collection earlier in August with an ad campaign titled “Sydney Sweeney Knows Good Jeans.” A handful of social media fans thought the advertisement, using jeans as a play on the word genes, promoted the controversial-yet-discredited theory of eugenics.

“I wasn’t thinking of it like that, of any of it,” she told GQ of the viral attention

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