"Bitch, I got good jeans like I'm Sydney," rapper says in snippet of new track, and one of two TikToks Lizzo posted about the controversial ad campaign

Did a viral TikTok video show the actor Sydney Sweeney responding to backlash over her role in a controversial American Eagle ad campaign? No, that's not true: Sweeney posted the video in question more than four years earlier.

Sydney Sweeney's nonresponse to backlash over her American Eagle "Good Jeans" ad suggests a brand strategy that embraces controversy, PR experts say.