For a few weeks in August, an American Eagle blue jeans advertisement featuring actress Sydney Sweeney ensorcelled the nation. The advertisement embraced a known truth—sex sells—and used a classically beautiful woman (blond hair, blue eyes, buxom) to do it. The ad included a lame pun on the word “jeans,” with Sweeney reciting lines from what sounded like a middle-school science textbook to land the joke: “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color,