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this post was submitted on 16 May 2026
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oh yea gotta love Sweeney's dead eyes
Yeah I really don't understand the over-the-top infatuation with her in particular. She's not that great of an actress from what I can tell. She has a very flat affect (the "dead eyes" you mention) which can be a good thing and just what certain roles call for but not great for versatility and expressivness in general. And there are countless other conventionally beautiful actresses that can check off all the same tickboxes for mass/pop-culture appeal that Sweeny can. I guess it all has to do with being in the right place at the right time and doing a bit of work in some crass and culture-war adjacent things, like that dog-whistley jeans commercial, that made the chuds latch onto her symbolically as the quintessential Murican woman.
It was until this comment (specifically about a jeans commercial) that I thought “maybe I’m thinking of the wrong actress” because I was imagining Tilda Swinton modeling jeans and that seemed a little strange.
it's mostly her chest
Plenty of other actresses with
booba too.
idk there's been 25 years of one busty white woman at a time being popular in hollywood but she leans into it more or something, i don't follow celebrity stuff so i only get the leakage.
Right place right time, mostly. She's an attractive white and blonde woman playing a sexually active (and available) teenager in a show right at the tail end of "woke" fiction's peak. Her debut was so over the top sexuslized that it thrust her into the zeitgeist as a sex object first and an actress second in a way that hadn't been seen since around the 90s.
I think that's the reason why the chuds love her, it's basically their fantasy