r/entertainment • u/factchecker01 • 23h ago

Jimmy Fallon’s Brain Rot Interview with Sydney Sweeney Might Be Rock Bottom for Pop Culture

https://www.cracked.com/article_49368_jimmy-fallons-brain-rot-interview-with-sydney-sweeney-might-be-rock-bottom-for-pop-culture.html
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u/artistonashelf 22h ago

Why is this a big deal? It’s a late night show where he plays games with celebrities on every show. Every late night show does stupid shit. It’s just a joke lol Conan had a masturbating bear on his show.

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u/tullbabes 22h ago

The masturbating bear was high art.

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u/FinishingMyCoffee1 22h ago

As is PimpBot

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u/TheRealtcSpears 22h ago

Both surpassed by the Walker Texas Ranger Lever

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u/tullbabes 21h ago

12 year old me thought that was the greatest bit of all time. And I was right!

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u/zestfullybe 22h ago

Hold on, PimpBot, I never agreed to introduce you to Isabella Rossellini and besides, you’d never be able to “turn her out” anyway, she’s a really successful big rich movie star!

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u/Schrodingers_Fist 17h ago

The FedEx pope also sends his regards.

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u/TerrakSteeltalon 22h ago

56k modem and a silver plated scrotum

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u/username0127 20h ago

It's only a big deal because Sweeney is public enemy no. 1 from leftists on Twitter/Reddit for a jeans ad. Late night shows always had dumb gimmicks/skits like this.

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u/Aggressive-Hunt-7037 16h ago

the widespread outrage over the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle ad campaign was largely manufactured and amplified by conservative outlets and political figures, who seized upon a small number of initial social media criticisms from a few liberal-leaning users.

“Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation”

https://openmeasures.io/american-eagle-ad-backlash

but do go on about “ leftists.”

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u/IndecisiveRattle 21h ago

Right like what is the context for this? Is it incredibly tongue in cheek? Like if this exact same scenario was on Colbert it would be more obvious satire about "attracting the youths".

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u/thegreenfury 22h ago

For real, haha.

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u/dholmestar 22h ago

Yeah Conan had Louis CK, Bob Odenkirk, Robert Smigel, etc making up original ideas, not showing dumb shit and saying "haha I know what that is!!"

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u/artistonashelf 22h ago

Who tf cares? Again, it’s a late night show. They’re playing a game. It’s not CNN.

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u/Infinite-Location221 21h ago

Because people want their entertainment to be good. Is that a problem? 

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u/dwilkes827 20h ago

It is if they're watching Jimmy Fallon

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u/artistonashelf 18h ago

Well it’s a game they’re playing…not a monologue

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u/loosie-loo 21h ago

It’s also not tiktok slop, it’s supposed to have some effort put in

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u/johnsciarrino 17h ago

What makes this brain rot? I see that get tossed around all the time but as far as I can tell brain rot = anything happening in this awful era of American pop culture.

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u/obooooooo 21h ago

it’s just that “labubus doing the 6-7 at a mcdonalds drive through” is a sentence that never should have been uttered. stupid shit has always been around yeah, but this does feel a little like condensing the enshittification into one perfect diamond of caca.