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Trans influencers find it harder to get deals after Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco
NY Post ^ | May 18, 2023 | Dana Kennedy

Posted on 05/19/2023 4:27:35 AM PDT by DoodleBob

...But now, after the backlash against Bud Light’s decision to partner with Mulvaney on social media and feature her face on beer cans, other trans influencers say they’re feeling the heat as well.

Some told The Post that, at a time when they are usually in high demand — the period leading up to Pride Month in June — brand partnership offers are drying up.

Rose Montoya, who has 1 million followers on TikTok and Instagram, said she’s noticed a big drop-off in the number of deals she’s been offered.

Prior to Pride Month last year, Montoya — a Seattle University graduate who bills herself as a content creator, trans advocate, model and actress — was getting up to 100 brand partnerships thrown her way. Now, she said, it’s been reduced to a trickle of maybe 12 or so offers.

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While she noted that “the market has also become over-saturated with influencers since 2000,” Montoya added that “the average queer creative makes all their money in June —enough to live on for the rest of the year. And the fact that there’s been a chill probably isn’t helped by the whole Bud Light thing.”

Montoya said that she can get up to $15,000 for a brand partnership. Some of her contracts are for six months at a time, and she hopes to renew one of those soon.

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“Bud Light lost their conservative demographic but, in their damage control response, they also alienated and lost their queer supporters,” Deran told The Post. “I’ve noticed a shift for sure in the deals I’m being offered. But I hope once Pride Month is upon us, these companies will remember that the LBGTQ+ community has money and power and needs them.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: budlight; influencers
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Most Americans are live-and-let-live folks. For a long time we went along believing, to quote James Baldwin, we can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

Somewhere along the line, we went from live and let live, to the Other Side demanding "You Shall Not Commit Mindcrime." And The Other Side was winning.

Something tells me, that the Other Side sees surrendering on Bud Light as a de facto Landing at Inchon, Normandy, or Midway.

1 posted on 05/19/2023 4:27:35 AM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: DoodleBob

How sad.;-)


2 posted on 05/19/2023 4:28:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: DoodleBob
Somewhere along the line, we went from live and let live, to the Other Side demanding "You Shall Not Commit Mindcrime."

And "You Shall Wear The Ribbon!"

3 posted on 05/19/2023 4:29:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: RoosterRedux

4 posted on 05/19/2023 4:30:25 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

Trans clown scammers hit hardest. (They’re only in it for the money)


5 posted on 05/19/2023 4:32:44 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: RoosterRedux
The "other side" you mention is the Marxist America Movement (that's not an official name as I understand it).

Marxism is so popular has to be required by force and anyone who disagrees must be canceled, cowed, and/or silenced.

6 posted on 05/19/2023 4:33:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: DoodleBob

Not to worry.......

It’s Trans.....itory


7 posted on 05/19/2023 4:34:56 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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I would like to know if the people following these influencers are even old enough to drink.


8 posted on 05/19/2023 4:35:15 AM PDT by beef (The pendulum will not swing back. It will snap back. Hard.)
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I would like to know if the people following these influencers are even old enough to THINK.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 4:38:11 AM PDT by Fireone (The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
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To: DoodleBob

What exactly qualifies someone to be identified as an “influencer?”


10 posted on 05/19/2023 4:40:34 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Fireone

I would like to know if their followers are even real. How many are bots created by groups or even our government to give the impression this sickness is actually quite popular.


11 posted on 05/19/2023 4:41:20 AM PDT by Yogafist (Voting rino is voting for the managed decline of America.)
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To: dfwgator
There's was a story recently about an older man who walked off a filming featuring guys in dresses. The man's comment is worth repeating:

“You know I love those people, I pray for them, I would never do anything to hurt them or condemn them. But men are not supposed to dress like women. I’m not going to go along with that! It’s time to stand up and be a man of God.”

I have met and interacted with two guys who had the reassignment surgery. Both guys were in their late 30s or early 40s. The interaction with one guy was about ten years ago, the other guy was last year. In both cases they had Guy voices and Guy mannerisms and a fairly strong handshake, but they had (as Zappa would say) mammalian protuberances and long hair. Dunno about the downstairs equipment.

Neither of them pushed their choice in my face or aggressively demanded the use of female pronouns. Basically, the only “odd” thing was referring to them by their female name.

Was it weird? Sure...calling a guy with protuberances and a tenor voice and a crusher handshake “Belinda” was strange. But they basically just wanted to do their thing and, in all honesty, they were kinda normal except for the obvious exceptions. It was weirder than the GenZ help at Hot Topic with extreme piercings helping me find a concert shirt. But not by too much.

I don't push my view that people should be armed down other people's throats. I'd like it very much if The Others were equally respecting.

I didn't ask for this battle. But here it is. Game on.

12 posted on 05/19/2023 4:43:03 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Yet Ford jumped right in


13 posted on 05/19/2023 4:43:15 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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Ford jumped in two years ago.

What is happening, is people are getting their swagger back, combined with conservatives launching their own Cancel Culture movement.

14 posted on 05/19/2023 4:49:15 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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Hahahaha


15 posted on 05/19/2023 4:49:34 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: GreenHornet
What exactly qualifies someone to be identified as an “influencer?”

When you supplement your day job with bot-generated Facebook likes.

16 posted on 05/19/2023 4:50:55 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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They can always learn to code.


17 posted on 05/19/2023 4:51:30 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: DoodleBob

“Somewhere along the line, we went from live and let live, to the Other Side demanding “You Shall Not Commit Mindcrime.” And The Other Side was winning.”

More than that, more like: “You Shall Not Commit Mindcrime, and by the way, we OWN your kids.”


18 posted on 05/19/2023 4:52:30 AM PDT by BobL
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To: DoodleBob

What’s a couple billion dollars of lost sales?


19 posted on 05/19/2023 4:53:24 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: lowbridge

I wonder if ChatGPT will wipe out the transinfluencer industry, too.


20 posted on 05/19/2023 4:53:58 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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