Dylan Mulvaney Asks for Help Fighting Trolls

Influencer Dylan Mulvaney is no stranger to facing online hate but admits it has taken a toll and needs her fans’ help to counter it.

Mulvaney first became the target of trolls in 2023 when she partnered with Bud Light for its March Madness promotion and because the beer brand gifted her personalized cans with her face on them. Bud Light had sent her the not-for-sale cans to commemorate the one-year anniversary of beginning her gender transition.

Ever since then though, Mulvaney’s star has been on the rise and she has collaborated with many companies for brand endorsements, including the latest one with cosmetics line Urban Decay.

The company posted an ad featuring Mulvaney to its Instagram account and was quickly inundated with hateful comments, especially transphobic ones such as, “stop playing dress up” and that Mulvaney wears “more makeup than a kabuki actor. APOLOGIZE to women.”

The following day Mulvaney took to her Instagram stories to reveal she was feeling hurt by the trolls, but then an overwhelming sense of pride when her fans rallied around her to flood the comments with positive messages.

“The comment section of the video was rough,” she said in the video, adding: “I try not to look at that stuff too much, but this morning I went and looked again and all of you were there.

“And I started crying the happiest tears because there was more love than the hate that was already there and you just made my whole day, so thank you.”

Mulvaney continued: “I think it goes to show the more we can put kindness out there it will overpower through the bad things and let me know if you ever need a hype girl, because I will always hype you up.

“That was epic.”

Mulvaney rose to fame on TikTok where she documented the first year of her gender transition and which culminated in live-streamed cabaret show called 365 Days Of Girlhood.

Despite facing a rough time with trolls, Mulvaney revealed she did have a reason to celebrate and had updated the gender marker on her passport to female.

“On an exciting note: I just got my gender marker and photo changed on my passport, so now the airport should be a little less daunting in 2024,” Mulvaney wrote in article for Net-A-Porter.

“I hope everything will be less daunting. I hope that love pours over the hate and, most importantly, that the majority of the love comes from within. Because, really, the only person I need to please is myself.”