Cool. So I was wondering because my laptop and my desktop ran into the same issue.
I honestly thought the mirror broke.
Makes sense if there was a change and me running ftp as repo mirror on top of that.
I will mark the above command as solution as it fetches most likely a mirror with http/https.
If that is okay with everyone. (After all the bug has been indentified that it should go http first)
But also want to add here that anyone having the issues might as well exchange ftp to http/https in the mirrorlist to circumvent having to use a different mirror in the first place. (in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist)
Thank you everyone for the super fast support. Unreal how fast you guys are.