‘Internet’s garbage losers’: Sydney Sweeney’s co-star Halsey and comedian Matt Rife slam fans for boycotting Americana over denim drama

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In her next post, Halsey continued, saying it’s unfair to drag an entire crew over an ad that makes no sense. “I do agree words are important, but I don’t think it’s fair to predatorily rip a hardworking director and his crew for a film that is completely separate from, and unrelated to, a (pretty dumb) advertising take,” she added. Halsey’s defence comes just a day after Tost himself posted a string of social media posts saying movies live beyond the controversies of their release moment, and although he never saw Americana as some major hit, it was frustrating to see the current trend. Having seen his own past work “gobbled up by the zeitgeist,” he’s curious how Americana will be judged once the noise fades.

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Comedian Matt Rife also defended Sweeney, slamming the internet as “full of garbage losers”, twisting anything she does. The 29-year-old wrote, “I keep seeing people mad at Sydney Sweeney for noooothing.” He continued, “She’s learning that the internet is full of absolute garbage losers who will twist anything you say into a c*y misinterpretation. People are awful.”**

Meanwhile, Sweeney hasn’t directly addressed the American Eagle fallout, though she opened up about the criticism she received during the launch of her controversial batwater soap. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Sweeney said, “I think it’s important to have a finger on the pulse of what people are saying, because everything is a conversation with the audience.” She continued, “It was mainly the girls making comments about it, which I thought was really interesting. They all loved the idea of Jacob Elordi’s bathwater.” The Euphoria star, however, remained tight-lipped about her recent American Eagle controversy. The company earlier put out a statement saying, “It’s always been about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story.” They said they’ll keep celebrating people wearing AE in their own way.