Anger at 'Euphoria': Sydney Sweeney's new wild arc irks content creators

In Season 3, Euphoria has several bold storylines. One of whom is Cassie, portrayed by Sydney Sweeney, who stepped into adult content creation.

However, not everyone is happy with the portrayal. 

Some of them belonging to the adult content creation field have been rankled by the portrayal in the hit HBO drama.

Sydney Leathers, an OnlyFans creator, tells Variety, “There’s just a lot that’s ridiculous and cartoonish about it."

She continues, “There’s so much that they have her doing that is not even allowed on OnlyFans, and that alone is infuriating: the age-play stuff where she’s dressed as a baby in a diaper, for example."

"Credit card processors have very strict rules that you have to abide by, and the rules are getting stricter all the time.”

Another adult star, Maitland Ward, states, “In the climate we’re in, that they dressed her up as a baby to make pornographic OnlyFans content was beyond troubling and again serves to perpetuate stereotypes that sex workers have no moral compass and that they will do anything for money."

“And there’s always this untrue stigma that somehow sex work is synonymous with sex trafficking and abuse. And they just said, 'Let's make a joke of it.' That is so funny. I’m not laughing.”

In response to criticism of Cassie's arc, Sam Levinson, creator behind Euphoria, adds, “[Cassie] has got her doghouse 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."

He further tells THR, “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 and to break the wall.”

Euphoria's new episode will stream today on HBO Max.