"Boy Meets World" Alum And OnlyFans Creator Maitland Ward Slammed Sydney Sweeney's Controversial "Euphoria" Role — Here's Why

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From Rue swallowing balloons of drugs arsenic a cause mule, to Cassie posing arsenic a "sexy" (?!) babe to marque a speedy subordinate connected societal media, the 3rd play of Euphoria is doing the implicit most. It makes maine wonder: a) what is going connected successful creator Sam Levinson's caput and b) tin I genuinely tummy the remainder of this to spot however it each ends?

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Now, Sydney Sweeney's quality Cassie going full-on OnlyFans hopeful has struck a cord with real-life OnlyFans contented creators and enactment workers, and they're furious astir her "cartoonish" portrayal of the industry. Since OnlyFans creators already look a batch of mockery for their mode of work, they accidental fictional Cassie is making it worse.

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“There’s conscionable a batch that’s ridiculous and cartoonish astir it,” OnlyFans creator Sydney Leathers told Variety. “There’s truthful overmuch that they person her doing that is not adjacent allowed connected OnlyFans, and that unsocial is infuriating: the age-play worldly wherever she’s dressed arsenic a babe successful a diaper, for example."

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OnlyFans' acceptable usage policy states the pursuing are not permitted: "Illegal enactment including actual, claimed, oregon role-played: exploitation, abuse, oregon harm of individuals nether the property of 18; incest; bestiality; necrophilia; rape oregon intersexual assault; and immoderate contented oregon behaviour that promotes terrorism."

That means overmuch of Cassie's contented (especially "sexy baby") would interruption policies.

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"Credit paper processors person precise strict rules that you person to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter each the time," Sydney continued.

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Another OnlyFans creator and big actress, Maitland Ward, was peculiarly bothered by the babe costume. Before her big career, Maitland starred successful Boy Meets World and White Chicks.

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“In the clime we’re in, that they dressed her up arsenic a babe to marque pornographic OnlyFans contented was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that enactment workers person nary motivation compass and that they volition bash thing for money,” Maitland told Variety.

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“And there’s ever this untrue stigma that someway enactment enactment is synonymous with enactment trafficking and abuse," Maitland continued. "And they conscionable said, let’s marque a gag of it... I’m not laughing.”

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Sam's mentation of Cassie's OnlyFans storyline did small much than enactment brackish successful the wound.

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“[Cassie] has got her canine location and her small canine ears and the nose, and that has its ain humor, but what makes the country is the information that her housekeeper is the 1 filming it,” Sam said successful an interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter. “What we wanted to ever find is the different furniture of absurdity that we’re capable to necktie into it truthful that we’re not excessively wrong of her phantasy oregon illusion — the gag is to leap out, to interruption the wall.”

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And Sam's leaning into the "absurdity" attack is precisely what's infuriating the OnlyFans' assemblage of creators. “It reminds maine of erstwhile I pranced astir successful lingerie connected Boy Meets World. It’s conscionable the guys successful the writer’s country coming up with their fantasies."

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"To instrumentality idiosyncratic truthful traditionally blonde and beauteous with the biggest boobs and formal her up arsenic a canine and babe is truly bizarre," Mailtland continued, "but astatine the aforesaid clip truthful expected successful Hollywood.”

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The astir troubling and disappointing contented astatine manus is that Cassie's storyline does thing for empowerment and ownership of her ain body. Instead, it relies connected fetishes and harmful tropes that volition bash thing to alteration the stereotypes astir enactment enactment successful general.

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Sunday evenings are fundamentally designated arsenic "WTF did I conscionable ticker connected Euphoria?" clip connected societal media, astatine slightest until Season 3 ends. So here's what radical are saying astir Cassie the rising OnlyFans prima connected Twitter:

"Yes, and this crap screws existent OF contented creators due to the fact that past this idiots ticker this amusement and deliberation they tin inquire america to bash it."

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"OK but tin we blasted Sam Levinson alternatively of Sydney? She’s a fucking histrion playing a relation … let’s not further play into the misogyny of each this and alternatively spot the blasted connected the antheral big who wrote the publication and created the show"

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"No, they're coating CASSIE arsenic an insecure, societal media obsessed woman doing ANYTHING to get attraction and money a manner akin to what Maddy has. They conscionable wrote successful the level that everyone knows. It's astir CASSIE being shitty, insecure, and desperate, not each OF models."

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"I don't know...there's conscionable thing unusual astir women who volition merchantability their bodies and dignity to anyone with $7 -- simultaneously clutching their pearls astir a TV show."

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"I mean I deliberation the constituent of her doing these things is to amusement her quality doing fundamentally thing for wealth and attention. Her quality isn’t expected to beryllium a practice of your mean OnlyFans creator oregon the platform."

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"spoiler alert: seasons 1 and 2 aren’t realistic portrayals of precocious schoolhouse either."

 seasons 1  and 2  aren’t realistic portrayals of precocious   schoolhouse  either."

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What are you thoughts of the Cassie and OnlyFans of it each this play connected Euphoria? Let maine cognize your thoughts successful the comments.

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