OnlyFans creator Sophie Rain has bashed Sydney Sweeney's 'crazy' storyline in Euphoria, claiming it's way too 'over-dramatised' and 'misleading'.
We're just one episode into season three of Euphoria, and the HBO series is already facing backlash for several of its storylines.
Both Zendaya's Rue and Chloe Cherry's Faye are depicted as drug mules swallowing balloons of fentanyl to smuggle it across the border, while Sweeney's Cassie embarks on a career in adult content creation in order to pay for her pricey wedding to Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi).
And that's all within the first hour.
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Sweeney's storyline has so far received the most backlash, with one scene seeing Cassie dressed up as a dog on a leash, while another sees the character sporting a disturbing infant-inspired get-up, complete with a pacifier and a pair of white knickers which resembled a nappy.
Pretty weird, I know.
The controversial scene has not only received backlash from Euphoria fans and the general public, but also from OnlyFans creators themselves, with 21-year-old Rain calling Sweeney and showrunner Sam Levinson's take on the subscribers-only site 'crazy'.
An OnlyFans creator's take on Euphoria's storyline
"I think it's pretty cool that they're bringing OnlyFans into the entertainment world, but the way they're doing it is over-dramatised," Rain explained to TMZ.
"We shouldn't be portraying OnlyFans that way... It's very misleading."
'That should almost be illegal'
Addressing the controversial outfits directly, Rain said that she wasn't aware of 'any massive OnlyFans creators that are putting on dog outfits' before slamming the baby look as 'disturbing'.
"That should almost be illegal," she added.
Rain isn't the only person with strong views on the imagery depicted in Cassie's 'baby outfit' either, with new UK guidelines around pornographic content meaning that such a scene would be banned in the country if it were to be created in real life.
Viewers have also hit out at the moment on social media, with some people claiming the moment is 'playing into a paedophilic fetish'.
Sam Levinson's intention to show a 'layer of absurdity'
Meanwhile, Levinson has since responded to the backlash against his depiction of Cassie's OnlyFans career, saying it was intended to show a 'layer of absurdity' in the moment.
"[Cassie has] got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humour, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it," Levinson told The Daily Beast.
"What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we're able to tie into it so that we're not too inside of her fantasy or illusion - the gag is to jump out, to break the wall."
Topics: Sydney Sweeney, Euphoria, OnlyFans
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