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Right-wingers are so pissed about Bud Light's LGBTQ marketing that they keep buying the beer just to film themselves destroying it

Apr 11, 2023, 15:58 IST
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  • Trans TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney posted a video that was sponsored by Bud Light.
  • Angry with the beer brand's LGBTQ marketing, right-wingers have filmed themselves destroying cans.
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Right-wingers enraged at Bud Light's pro-LGBTQ marketing campaign have started filming themselves destroying the beer cans.

This outpouring of rage came after Bud Light partnered with Dylan Mulvaney, a trans influencer and TikTok star. Mulvaney talked about the partnership in a video on Instagram on April 1, where she cracked upon a can of beer.

Now conservatives, angry with the brand's association with Mulvaney, started taking out their rage on beer cans.

One example was the singer and far-right figure Kid Rock, who posted a video on his Instagram page. In the video, he uses his rifle to shoot multiple cans of Bud Light stacked atop each other on a wooden table.

The video, posted on April 4, has been viewed over 1.6 million times.

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Other far-right wingers quickly caught on and found ways to show their displeasure with the brand. Some people — like TikTok user tanmanwho — tossed their beers into garbage cans.

Others chose a more emphatic approach.

A person with the TikTok username browneyedgirl1010 stuck five beer cans behind her car tire and drove over them, popping them one by one.

A Twitter user named Randy Bump posted a video of a heavy-duty tractor driving over the multiple cans lined up on a farm road.

The right-wing camp even produced a TikTok sound to go with their anti-Bud Light proclamations.

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"Today we salute you, Mr. Budweiser-head-of-marketing-guy," the sound goes. "20 years of amazing ad campaigns, and this is where we end up. What the fuck were you thinking?"

Meanwhile, others — like TikTok user ramrebel1500 — are calling for peace and for people to stop destroying beer cans just to make a point.

"I'm gonna drink my goddamn beer the way I like it. Fucking cold. Who cares? Stop bitching about shit."

Though right-wingers have called on people to boycott the brand following the Mulvaney partnership, Anheuser-Busch has defended its decision.

"Anheuser-Busch works with hundreds of influencers across our brands as one of many ways to authentically connect with audiences across various demographics and passion points," a brand spokesperson told Buzzfeed News.

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It's worth noting that despite the pushback Bud Light faced from the right, the oft-cited alternatives to it — like Coors and Miller Lite — have also run pro-LGBTQ campaigns.

The violent show of displeasure against Bud Light harks back to the right-wing ethos of "owning the libs." This term is often used by right-wing individuals to describe antics meant to target and shame liberals or left-leaning people. They can be anything from destroying a beer can to writing offensive things on social media.

The Bud Light boycott, however, is linked to a deeper, more sinister anti-trans sentiment brewing on the right.

Anti-trans laws are being enacted nationwide: Oklahoma banned insurance coverage for transgender care in February, and the South Carolina Senate passed a bill to ban gender-affirming medical care for minors in March. And down in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is targeting drag queens, framing his crackdown on drag shows as a crusade to protect children.

Representatives for Anheuser-Busch and Mulvaney did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

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