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For those curious how Bud Light did during Sturgis Bike Week with a reported 500,000 attendance Video 1 Budweiser At Sturgis Is Not Going Well Video 2 Sturgis Free Bud Lights!

Budweiser showed up with a tent at a major motorcycle event that the company sponsored in the city of Sturgis in South Dakota. The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is the world’s largest motorcycle rally that began in 1938 by a group of Indian Motorcycle riders. It was originally held for stunts and races. Social media erupted as people saw no one visiting the Budweiser tent or drinking its beer. “ZERO attendees at the Budweiser tent in Sturgis,” one person commented. “This may be the BIGGEST marketing blunder of all time!”

A conservative nonprofit filed a federal civil rights complaint against Kellogg's on Wednesday, accusing the cereal brand of 'unlawful' diversity policies and 'sexualizing' its products. This is the second complaint this week against the company by America First Legal, a nonprofit headed by Stephen Miller, a former adviser to Donald Trump. America First Legal wrote to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming Kellogg's hiring based on race and gender violates anti-bias laws. The group claimed Kellogg's 'hiring, training and promotion practices are designed to achieve a balance based on race and sex that violates the federal law banning...

Billy Busch, the heir of Anheuser-Busch, said in an interview that his ancestors would be “rolling over in their graves” over the company’s partnership with “transgender” influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Busch made the remarks in an interview with TMZ host Harvey Levin on Friday. According to Fox2Now, Busch has been on a publicity tour for his new book, Family Reigns: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty. During the conversation, Levin asked Busch for his thoughts on Bud Light’s controversy with “transgender” influencer Mulvaney. “I think my family, my ancestors, would be rolling over in their graves. They...

Joe Rogan cracked open a can of Bud Light and took a sip — defying calls to boycott the beer over its tie-up with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Rogan began his wildly popular Spotify podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Tuesday by welcoming his guest, country music star Zach Bryan, with a toast in which they both raised cans of Bud Light. “We’re drinking Bud Light, ladies and gentlemen,” Rogan declared at the start of the three-hour broadcast. Rogan, anticipating fury from his many conservative-leaning listeners, offered a sarcastic apology. “Sooooorry,” he exhaled. “People are silly,” Rogan added. Bryan, who...

Ladies and Gentlemen, here’s a name I never thought I’d be discussing again: Dylan Mulvaney. Do you remember him? He’s the TikTok influencer who single-handedly sank the reputation of Bud Light with one viral video. Now, guess what? He’s asking for up to $40,000 to grace audiences with his presence on a college speaking tour. Can you believe that? This is the guy who’s planning on speaking on subjects like “female empowerment.” The same guy who’s credibility was called into question after his disastrous stint with Bud Light. Now, apparently, he’s graduated to empowerment speeches. You’ve got to give him...

Trans influencer and biological male Dylan Mulvaney appears to be trying to cash in on his newfound infamy after sparking a national Bud Light boycott this summer by soliciting speaking gigs on college campuses. “Booking speaking opportunities for the upcoming 23/24 school year and would love to come visit,” Mulvaney told his 1.8 million followers in an Instagram Story on Wednesday, according to a report by the New York Post. The trans influencer also included an email address “for serious inquiries,” before signing off with “love ya!” Notably, the Creative Arts Agency’s (CAA) talent agency lists Mulvaney on its website...

The transgender winner of the Miss Universe Netherlands pageant criticized the hate being directed at transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney, saying that those who wish they were dead 'see us as monsters.' In an interview with Newsweek, Rikkie Valerie Kollé said the vitriol Mulvaney continues to experience following a disastrous partnership with Bud Light is 'sad' and 'horrible.' 'I think it's really to make the girl that low in confidence,' Kollé said. She said that Mulvaney's experience reminded her of the brutal remarks she receives online daily. 'They see us as monsters, and my daily DMs are full of people wishing...

Dylan Mulvaney is back stateside for a flashy film festival event in California while she traveled to Peru where she claimed she didn’t feel safe in the US. The transgender influencer, 26, appeared in good spirits as she donned a daring dress at the celebrated LGBTQ+ festival Outfest at downtown Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre Thursday. The model opted for a see-through dress for the star-studded premiere, pairing the look with bold eyeliner and a pair of black heels. She enjoyed several photo ops on the pink carpet, before posing for snaps with TikTok star Chris Olsen. Mulvaney attended the screening...

CNN is under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” in a segment about the “culture war” being waged over the transgender influencer’s partnership with Bud Light. Correspondent Ryan Young failed to use the 26-year-old influencer’s preferred pronouns in a short segment about the backlash against the beer giant that has led to plummeting sales. Young also mispronounced Mulvaney’s first name as “Dylvan” while describing the social media star to “CNN News Central” viewers Tuesday. “He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with, with Bud Light,” Young said, using “he”...

CNN is under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” in a segment about the “culture war” being waged over the transgender influencer’s partnership with Bud Light. Correspondent Ryan Young failed to use the 26-year-old influencer’s preferred pronouns in a short segment about the backlash against the beer giant that has led to plummeting sales. Young also mispronounced Mulvaney’s first name as “Dylvan” while describing the social media star to “CNN News Central” viewers Tuesday. “He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with, with Bud Light,” Young said, using “he”...

Dylan Mulvaney had sought a change of scenery in Peru Monday “to feel safe” as the blowback from her partnership with Bud Light continues to unravel. The transgender influencer said she no longer felt safe at home in the US after raising ire among critics over becoming a rep for the beer brand in a March Madness contest. After finally returning to social media in April following a tight-lipped hiatus, Mulvaney is seemingly doing some solo travel around the world to get her mind off things back home. Alongside a video of herself interacting with llamas, the 26-year-old said she...

Seriously, man … how embarrassing can one company get? For over three months since its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, beer giant Bud Light has been getting rocked with embarrassment on a daily basis. For both Bud Light and its umbrella brand Anheuser-Busch, sales have completely tanked. And speaking of that umbrella, it’s been getting slammed with heavy rain as Anheuser-Busch’s stocks have come down as well. And what’s been A-B’s plan in an attempt to get out of their Mulvaney disaster? To just simply act like nothing ever happened. Instead of just owning up to their stupidity and...

Joe Rogan has slammed transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney as 'mentally ill' and an 'attention w****' on a new podcast episode after she claimed Bud Light abandoned her after their disastrous partnership. In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan criticized comments Mulvaney made when she broke her silence over her involvement with the beer brand last week. Mulvaney said she felt abandoned by the beer company after facing 'more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined' over her partnership with the brewing giant. Such criticism continued with Rogan as he described her as being 'mentally ill'...

Bud Light's sales have plummeted so much that a glass bottling company was forced to shut down two of its plants and lay off nearly 650 employees. The Ardagh Group, one of the largest glass producers in the world, announced last week it was shuttering its Wilson, North Carolina, and Simsboro, Louisiana, plants on July 17. The Wilson plant employed nearly 400 people, and the Simsboro plant had 245 - all of whom now find themselves without jobs. The company did not cite a reason for the closures in its statement, just saying it was part of a 'multi-year performance...

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, in a video posted to TikTok Thursday, addressed the ongoing anti-trans controversy over her partnership with Bud Light, accusing the company of not supporting her or even reaching out after the conservative backlash. “For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse in my opinion than not hiring a trans person at all because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said in her TikTok video. “And the hate doesn’t end with me.” Bud Light, which is owned by Anheuser-Busch, partnered...

According to The Daily Caller who spoke to an exclusive source familiar with the matter, both Group Vice President for Marketing Daniel Blake and Bud Light Marketing Vice President Alissa Heinerscheid are “gone gone” from the company. They are no longer “on leave.”

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Transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney was seen out-and-about in Los Angeles in a rare public appearance as she has kept a low profile since her disastrous advertising campaign with Bud Light. The 26-year-old was seen in photographs obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com leaving her apartment in a white crop top with white jeans, sunglasses and a face mask on Saturday, as she picked up her $800 Prada bikini top and a pink dress from a local dry cleaners. She later headed to a Beverly Hills salon where she underwent laser hair removal before admittedly speeding away. Mulvaney's public outing comes after...

Bud Light's parent company Anheuser-Busch has seen its market value plunge $15.7billion since the disastrous campaign with transgender-influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Since April 1, the company has consistently been dropping down the rankings, with experts saying it 'just keeps getting a little worse each week'. But their competitors have added $3.2billion in market value to their brands in the same time. Molson Coors, which owns Coors Lite, has seen an increase of $2.2billion market value, around 20 percent, while Heineken has a spike of $1billion – an increase of 1.7 percent. Sales of Bud Light are down more than 23 percent...