Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney admitted on a recent podcast episode that the relentless backlash over her Bud Light partnership has kept her up at night.
The TikTok star told fellow transgender activist Schuyler Bailar that the intense, weeks-long uproar over her paid sponsorship with the beer company has gotten under her skin, but that the fiasco may have been a blessing in disguise.
“Now there are hundreds of thousands of people that do not like me, and I still sometimes can’t sleep but it in a weird way has been a blessing to sort of break that people-pleasing mentality,” Mulvaney said during a Monday episode of Bailar’s “Dear Schuyler” podcast. “Because I can’t, there’s no way that I can win those people over.”
Mulvaney — who has tried to remain poised in the face of overwhelming criticism and transphobia — said her social media pages have transformed into a “cultural war” since announcing her partnership with Bud Light last month.
The fallout has led to nationwide boycotts and caused Bud Light sales to plummet week after week, with the carnage spilling into parent company Anheuser-Busch’s other brands like Budweiser and Michelob Ultra.
The influencer implied that she might not have accepted the paid sponsorship had she known the onslaught of opposition it would spark, for which she wasn’t ready.
