Dylan Mulvaney — whose Bud Light promotion led to conservative protests — cracked a beer joke after winning a Streamy Award

• Dylan Mulvaney won the 2023 Streamy Award for Breakout Creator.
• To close her acceptance speech, she said she was "going to go have a beer."
• The trans creator may have been referring to her Bud Light ad campaign that has been overshadowed by conservative protests.

After winning an award Sunday night at the 2023 Streamy Awards, Dylan Mulvaney joked that she was "going to go have a beer."

Mulvaney took home the award for breakout creator at the Sunday night award ceremony, beating out TikTok it girl Alex Earle and Jake Shane — a.k.a. "octopusslover8" on TikTok — as well as Drew Afualo and Keith Lee.

A "shocked" Mulvaney took the stage after her win was announced, and joked that she always thought the only award that she'd ever win would be "maybe a Tony award," adding "Theater TikTok we made it to the mainstream!"

Mulvaney then pointed out that 532 days ago, she posted "a coming out video that turned into my Days of Girlhood series and my life has been changed for the better."

"But, on the flip side," she continued, "there's also been an extreme amount of transphobia and hate and I know that my community is feeling it and I now know that even our allies are feeling it." She then called on allies to "support trans people publicly and proudly."

"I think the trans community and the creator community actually have something in common and it's that people often underestimate us," Mulvaney declared, adding that "we can stay optimistic about just the future of transness in general because if we can influence people to buy $22 Erewhon smoothies, we can also do this."

To close her acceptance speech, Mulvaney thanked her fans and said she loved them, then quipped "I'm going to go have a beer," an apparent reference to her Bud Light Instagram post that sparked conservative protests against the brand and hatred against her.

Mulvaney, who has over 12 million followers across her TikTok and Instagram, was swept up in the backlash after she posted a Bud Light promotion on her Instagram back in April. Conservative critics called for a boycott of the Bud Light brand, and LGBTQ+ advocates called on Bud Light to make clear its support for the LGBTQ+ community.

Mulvaney, who initially remained quiet on her platforms about the controversy, previously said that Bud Light's parent company never reached out during the uproar. The Bud Light controversy may be dying down: Bud Light sales took a hit in the months following the April post, but are now showing signs of a rebound.