Dylan Mulvaney is back on social media after a three-week break. Mulvaney posted a roughly three-minute video on Thursday, her first since she denounced the anti-trans backlash to her partnership with Bud Light:
Anheuser-Busch InBev has put two marketing executives on leave amid conservative backlash over Bud Light’s partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Here’s what you need to know.She acknowledged her silence online as a way to cope with the criticism that was “so far from my truth” and became “so loud that I didn’t even feel part of the conversation.” Mulvaney said she had taken the three weeks to sit “with my emotions ... not reacting,” a choice she attributed to therapy.
“I decided to take the backseat and just let them tucker themselves out,” she said, referring to commentary from conservative figures and upset Bud Light drinkers. “But then I remembered that nearly 13 million people at some point enjoyed me enough to hit the follow button on these apps and I was like, wait, wait, I want to talk to those people.”
Mulvaney shared that since growing up queer in a conservative family and in a Christian church she is accustomed to people degrading her for her identity. But what she has received in recent weeks since she posted her promotional Bud Light video has been something different.Kid Rock posted a video of himself shooting up Bud Light cases after the beer brand partnered with actor and transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
As the hashtag #BoycottBudLight took off online and people filmed themselves pouring out bottles of the beer, Kid Rock
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