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Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney is trying to launch a stand-up comedy career. But unfortunately for the influencer, things are not going well, with social media users slamming Mulvaney's jokes as “embarrassing”.
Mulvaney's Comedy Law
After Bud Light's parent Anheuser-Busch cost $1.4 billion in sales last year, Mulvaney decided stand-up comedy was the perfect solution, the Daily Mail reported. However, it didn't take long for social media users to shut down the idea.
After Mulvaney took the stage at a comedy club in Utah, viewers said the scene was “awkward” and that the audience “was clapping not because it's funny, but because they want to be supportive.”
“Look at me standing up,” Mulvaney said in a clip posted to social media after his appearance at Wiseguys Salt Lake City last January while wearing a pink crop top and white skirt.
Mulvaney went on to talk about the Bud Light boycott launched by conservatives last year after the brand collaborated with a transgender influencer.
“Conservative guys get upset because I can beat them at beer pong,” Mulvaney said. “And conservative women get upset that their kids call me ‘mom’ in all my Instagram comments.”
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Social media users respond
Although Mulvaney claimed to be “very happy” that the show “went so well,” social media users made it clear that was not the case at all.
“Dylan Mulvaney is arguably one of the most attention-seeking people in modern history,” one user commented, and another simply added: “Very annoying.”
A third user commented: “It's true that even men who pretend to be women aren't good at comedy.” A fourth person wrote: “I feel like the applause is not because it's funny, but because they want to be supportive, which is nice, but not comedic.”
After Mulvaney teamed up with Bud Light in a partnership last year, conservatives launched a highly effective boycott of the brand that resulted in its parent company Anheuser-Busch losing $1.4 billion in 2023, “primarily due to Bud Light's declining volume,” according to the network. CNN, citing the brewery's fourth-quarter earnings report.
“In the US, performance remains very disappointing with revenue falling at double-digit rates as the group loses market share,” said Arin Chekri, equity analyst at online investment platform Hargreaves Lansdowne.
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Mulvaney is ditching Bud Light
Mulvaney abandoned Bud Light almost immediately after the boycott began.
“A company hiring a trans person and then not publicly standing up for them is worse than not hiring a trans person at all,” Mulvaney said in a video posted on social media in June of last year, according to Billboard. “It gives clients permission to be as transphobic and hate them as they want.”
“And the hatred does not end with me. It has serious and dangerous consequences for the rest of our community,” Mulvaney added. “And we are agents too. I know a lot of trans people who love beer.
Mulvaney went on to claim that he is “scared” to leave the house, and that he suffers from “a loneliness that I wouldn't wish on anyone.”
“Turning a blind eye and pretending that everything is fine is not an option right now,” Mulvaney concluded. “And you might say, ‘But Dylan, I don’t want to get involved in politics.’ Darling, supporting trans people, it shouldn’t be political. There shouldn’t be anything controversial or divisive about working with us.”
There's nothing funny about Mulvaney, so we can't imagine why the transgender influencer thought stand-up comedy was a good idea. Only time will tell if Mulvaney decides to grab the mic and subject the world to an unfunny comedy set again.
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