Doritos Faces Backlash for Transgender Ambassador's Tweet About 12-Year-Old

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April 2023, Bud Light became one of the first brands to face national attention and garner massive calls from conservatives to boycott the company amid its brief promotion involving a collaboration with transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney.Over the weekend Doritos Spain, which falls under PepsiCo Spain's branch of products, announced Hudson as a brand ambassador for the products including her in a 50-second promo called "Crunch Talks."Hudson is a transgender artist from Spain, who gained recognition through her social media presence and her YouTube channel where she shares fashion, beauty, travel and lifestyle tips.However, on Monday news of Hudson as brand ambassador sparked controversy as Hudson's previous tweets resurfaced, triggering a call for a boycott.Some have taken to X, formerly Twitter, to resurface the tweets and accuse Hudson of being a pedophile for some tweets that she published in 2015, regarding a 12-year-old, in which she tweeted, according to her, to be funny.Newsweek has reached out to PepsiCo US and PepsiCo Spain via email for comment.In addition, some have resurfaced other tweets of Hudson's accusing her of hating women who have been victims of sexual abuse.Newsweek has reached out to Hudson via Instagram direct message for comment.X user End Wokeness slammed Doritos for their choice of ambassador and accused Hudson of being a pedophile, writing, "Doritos just picked Samantha Hudson as their brand ambassador in SpainSamantha Hudson: -Admitted to being a pedophiIe -Identifies as a non-binary trans girl -Openly mocked victims of child r*pe -An advocate for 'annihiIating, completely destroying, and abolishing the traditional family'."X user Ian Miles Cheong noted the calls for a boycott writing on X, "Doritos is doubling down on wokeness by hiring Samantha Hudson, a transgender 'woman' and self-admitted p*do as its brand ambassador in Spain, resulting in calls for the boycott of the company's products."Another X user, Alberto Caliu, asked if.