Sydney Sweeney's family is seemingly coming to her defense following her controversial American Eagle ad. The actress' brother, Trent, made a playful reference to the uproar via his Instagram Story on Wednesday,

The crux of the campaign is Sweeney’s assertion that her jeans are good, but the whole thing rests on a pun: She’s also talking about her genes. “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring,” she says in one video, “often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.”