People Are Mad At George Kittle For Promoting Bud Light & Kittle Fires Back

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49ers star tight end George Kittle does not want to be branded a sellout for promoting Bud Light.

For the past few months, Bud Light has been at the center of controversy after receiving intense backlash due to their partnership with trans social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Via NY Times

For more than two decades, Bud Light was the best-selling beer in the United States. Its sales exceeded $5 billion last year, roughly 9 percent of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s revenue. But since the boycott, Bud Light has been dethroned by Modelo Especial. In the four weeks that ended in mid-June, the volume of Bud Light sold nationally plunged an average of 29 percent from a year earlier, according to data from the research firm NIQ, analyzed by the consulting firm Bump Williams.

Bud Light has since distanced itself from Mulvaney and has been recently running ads with several NFL players.

Over the weekend, Kittle shared an ad featuring Bud Light on his Instagram page, which apparently didn’t sit well with some people.