Bud Light Receives Boost Over Dylan Mulvaney Partnership Backlash
Newsweek has found that the overwhelming majority of individuals who were buying Bud Light before the controversy will continue to do so.Bud Light faced calls for a boycott after sending a personalized can to Mulvaney, a transgender influencer who has promoted the beer to their millions of social media followers, to celebrate "day 365 of womanhood."The partnership drew condemnation from some conservative celebrities and politicians, including musician Kid Rock, who shot cases of Bud Light in a viral video.
In Missouri, a Republican state senator posted a video of himself smashing a can with a baseball bat outside the state Capitol building.
Country music star Travis Tritt vowed to take Bud Light off his tour rider.The controversy also caught the attention of the White House, which condemned bomb threats against several of Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch's factories.The online poll was conducted on April 24, 2023, and had a sample size of 1,500 adults in the United States over the age of 18 with a 2.53 percent margin of error.Participants were asked: "Bud Light recently hired Dylan Mulvaney, a prominent transgender person, to advertise its brand.
To what extent, if at all, do you support or oppose this decision?"Thirty-five percent of the participants said they "strongly support" the decision while 25 percent said they neither support nor oppose and 18 percent said they support.
