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The Bud Light controversy rumbles as the beer brand broke its silence on social mediawith would-be boycotters responding with fury.

Earlier in April, Bud Light faced widespread criticism and calls for a boycott of its products after it sent personalized merch to transgender influencer and actress Dylan Mulvaney.

Bud Light's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, faced calls for a boycott on all of its products as its stock sat untouched on store shelves, some people destroyed its goods, its share price dropped and celebrities weighed in on the debate.

Outspoken Republican Kid Rock fired an assault rifle at multiple Bud Light cans in a viral video, while comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan called the whole ordeal "goofy."

The dispute over transgender brand ambassadors is symbolic of a wider debate about the inclusion of transgender women in female issues and spaces. Some say transgender women should be treated the same as other women, while others say they are different and that hard-won women's rights must be protected.

Throughout the discussion, Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch have remained relatively quiet, with Bud Light only posting its first social media post on Friday, April 14.

"TGIF?" the official Bud Light account tweeted out tentatively. The tweet received a couple of thousand likes, a few thousand retweets and over 25,000 comments.

The busy comment section was filled with people still seemingly furious about the collaboration with Mulvaney, people mocking those people, and typically for the internet, jokes and memes.

"Stop promoting transgender ideology," stated Stephen Miller, former senior adviser to Donald Trump.

Polish politician and member of parliament Dominik Tarczyski weighed in within the comment section to Bud Light's tweet. He wrote: "NO! Thank you."

British TV journalist and self-professed publican Adam Brooks suggested it was too late for Bud Light now. "Nah. You've blown it," he wrote.

Just as a viral video suggested Bud Light stands for something else, ("B**** you don't like it? Go home then") many popular comments made a new acronym out of the TGIF comment. "That Guy Isn't Female," wrote @MattsIdeaShop, and many other Twitter users, including member of the Oklahoma Senate, Nathan Dahm.

American lawyer and Republican Party official Harmeet K. Dhillon also made her feelings clear with a brief acronym of her own. "GTH," which we can safely assume stands for "Go To Hell." Later across the weekend, Dhillon added on Twitter: "Dylan Mulvaney controversy at Anheuser-Busch is giving the company a bitter sip of woke."

Psychologist and right-wing social media presence Jordan Peterson also weighed in over the weekend.

He called for a "boycott" for Budweiser and Nike. The sports brand was also slammed after it hired Mulvaney to advertise its new range of sports bras. He also shared a link to a free service offering "woke alerts" to people who want to be aware when a company "caves to the woke mob," as put by the team behind the service.

But some Twitter users took umbrage with the outrage. Damon Gonzalez wrote: "Karens are mad. Lol. F'ing hypocritical cancel culture snowflakes." And Smedley G. added: "Look at all these fragile conservative snowflakes. So emotional. After 30 or so failed boycotts in the past decade, they feel this one is going to work. Isn't that cute?"

On the same day that the Bud Light account shared its "TGIF?" message, the official account for Anheuser-Busch issued a statement from its CEO, Brendan Whitworth.

After discussing the history of the Anheuser-Busch brand, Whitworth suggested he was "focused on building and protecting" the brand's heritage.

"I care deeply about this country, this company, our brands and our partners," he wrote, ending with: "Moving forward, I will continue to work tirelessly to bring great beers to consumers across our nation."

This statement was also mocked by social media users and comedians such as Rob Delaney and the Hodgetwins. They pointed out that the best comments are available to read under the hidden replies feature, which was filled with angry messages aimed at the brand.

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Andrew Tate was hounded by fans in his replies after making it sound as though he had a pet wolf.

The controversial internet personality tweeted a photo of his dog, which appears to be a breed of Alaskan Malamute. The former kickboxing champion added that it was the first time seeing his dog since his arrest four months ago.

According to Tate, his dog had been 'acting up' because he wasn't around and hoped that seeing him would return him to being an obedient animal once again.

Tate then added that if required, he would have no issue facing his 'wolf' in hand-to-hand combat.

After posting the video of his dog and his typical cryptic caption, fans of 'Top G' have taken issue with the fact that his dog isn't a wolf, which he had previously led them to believe.

Multiple fans joked that the only animal they saw in the video was a 'fat husky'.

Another fan praised Andrew Tate for his confidence but stated that 'Cobra' had no chance of victory fighting a wolf.

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Israel Adesanya has revealed that he is a fan of Andrew Tate and believes his message about male masuclunity is an important one for society.

The UFC middleweight champion opined that Tate's philosophies can be held in the same regard as male rights activist Jordan Peterson and former Navy SEAL David Goggins. 'The Last Stylebender' believes the world is out to "soften" the men of today, and has taken inspiration from those who dare challenge that.

Speaking to Emilio Urrutia on the Honey Badger Hour podcast, Adesanya said:

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As I see the deluge of posts about ChatGPT mostly humorous queries and B+ grade AI blog posts I cant help but feel that most professionals, even those who are typically early adopters, are already being outpaced by the changes in GPT since December.

Unlike other major software developments of the past that are updated incrementally and centrally (i.e. operating systems, video editing software, office software), ChatGPT is spawning at a daily and even hourly rate hundreds of new startups leveraging ChatGPT to transform entire disciplines.

Take for example, a recent tweet by Jordan Peterson, psychologist, professor, author, YouTube personality and podcast host, requesting info on how to create a chatbot based on a podcast:

The response, just minutes later:

The technology to create AI-powered chatbots already exists, and the company, Context, is ingesting thousands of hours of content every couple of hours, creating publicly accessible online ghosts of the most popular personalities on the internet.

Its moving fast. A hell of a lot faster than, GPT3 can write poems or What a great SEO article it generated!

As an event professional and one who is heavily invested in how digital technologies drive attendance and experience, I'm deeply interested in how AI like ChatGPT will transform the way event businesses work.

Here are three of the areas that I think will begin to disrupt or transform the trade show/large-scale events space using generative AI plus live internet data.

Combine your event FAQs, documentation, web information and live local internet information into an always-on customer service bot that can answer the hardest questions faster than a human. Quickchat AI is on this with its new Intercom integration. These bots will be able to upsell customers by conversing or even inferring needs perhaps based on live customer data housed on social media platforms. Once combined with generative AI video services like Synesthesia, AI transforms human-to-human customer service.

In case you thought the C suite was exempt from AI disruption...nope! AI will ingest all of your event's vendor contracts, financial performance records, marketing performance data, event strategy documents, website data, customer feedback and, combined with live internet data, present deeply nuanced event strategy plans that can be refined based on further context and human input. For instance, presenting multiple plans based on the risk appetite of the event organizer or projections based on the likelihood of economic headwinds in future years. Thus AI disrupts the C suite and event leadership.

Similar to the above, AI ingests all marketing data including visual assets and creates marketing strategies with full marketing campaigns built out from the ground up. They can be selected at will and morphed and edited at any point in the campaign based on feedback from the event team. Or the AI can simply change the campaigns themselves based on live performance data. AI disrupts and utterly transforms marketing.

As of yet, ChatGPT use in the events industry is in its infancy and still very much misunderstood. Training will be critical for employees across departments and disciplines to understand that ChatGPT is not fundamentally a copywriting platform. It is an intelligence system capable of reasoning, combining multiple abstract concepts and creating unique and insightful takeaways for business leaders.

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The quality of truth in an existential cause may be measured by the quality of the intellects of its most committed followers. Allow me to illustrate.

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Imagine the fumings of a climate alarmist. Here, a representation of what goes on in the alarmist mind.

The world is in deep imminent threat.

It may end.

Our beautiful, blue, penguin-marching-David Attenborough-marble may be no more.

All life will disappear. Farewell soy milk. Farewell shocking pink hair dye. Farewell all.

What can I do?

Why, I can call out from every hollow my comrade eco-warriors. Come in a black mask, or strip to your unsightly nudity when you get there, will be the summons.

And what is the plan that I and my fellow eco-doomsters have to avert planetary extinction?

We are, above all, strategists and tacticians. We know what earns quality and never-challenged coverage on NPR and festivals of authentication from CBC.

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We are, above all, strategists and tacticians

That is why we organize the type of protests that we do. Direct actions and exhibitionist displays stripping down at awards shows that speak to the farmer, the logger, the fisherman, the movie star falling from favour, or the sad professor who does not have Jordan Petersons reach and fame.

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So when we want to avert the gravest challenge humanity has ever had to face, that is why we select actions that will in the words of a very great writer strike home to every bosom.

Is there a Monet or a Goya or a Munch or a Botticelli or a van Gogh in your citys art gallery? Well, off to the hardware store and the supermarket. There is glue to be bought and cans of tomato soup to drop into the backpack.

There is glue to be bought

Glue yourselves to the painting or throw the tomato soup over it. Doesnt matter which.

When the world, on TV and the internet, sees these brave assaults on western art at its highest, you know everyone, just everyone, will park their cars, turn off the heat, refuse to buy anything with a petroleum base and insist that all the heads of oil companies and plastic manufacturers be put on trial for genocide, and Hollywood liberals will forsake their mansions and move to caves.

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One of our very keenest moves happened over the weekend in Ottawa. An eco-warrior threw a bucket of pink paint on the Prime Ministers Office and padlocked herself to a rail after the ritual half-undressing. A whole bucket of pink paint if that doesnt hold off climate Armageddon, what will?

All on camera. So bold.

She did not it is most necessary to add honk! End of musing.

We should measure the value of high-order environmental activism IPCC stuff, Davos effluvia, anything Al Gore or David Suzuki so stridently say by the quality of the minds and actions of their most intense supporters.

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By which I mean the gluers on paintings, the neuron-challenged street-blockaders, simpletons who smear soup on masterpieces, and a great example the dimwit(s) who think throwing paint on the PMs office amounts to a persuasive, consciousness-raising tactic.

Instead of what everyone else knows it to be: a display of desperate intellectual incapacity, delusionary arrogance, and the Hey-Im-saving-the-world-so-I-can-be-as-stupid-and-supremely-annoying-to-anyone-as-I-f-ing-well-choose attitude of such world saviours.

Thats the level of non-thought that supports most energetically and egregiously the high priests and savants of the net-zero fantasy. Measured by the standard of its pathetic protests, environmental alarmism is the religion of children, a sandbox for narcissists regardless of how old they are.

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Multiple American and Canadian independent pro wrestling promotions have cut ties with Canadian pro wrestler Kobe Durst in recent days following Dursts promotion of transphobia on social media.

Indiana-based promotion Black Label Pro and Ottawa-based promotion Capital City Championship Combat more commonly known as C*4 announced that Durst would no longer be appearing on their events due to his actions.

The opinions shared by Durst go against everything we strive to build within our C*4 community, read a statement from C*4 management released Saturday morning. We believe [in] a welcoming and safe environment to all fans, especially those within marginalized groups. We believe in punching up. We strive to have a welcoming locker room to all people, regardless of their race, gender or orientation. The opinions shared by Kobe are not supported or in line with anything about C*4 or the people behind it.

Very disappointed in Kobe, said Black Label Pro owner Michael Blanton via Twitter Friday. That kind of behavior is completely unacceptable at BLP or in general.

Two additional Canadian promotions, Hamilton-based Courage Pro Wrestling and Quebec-based Fdration Montrgienne de Lutte (FML), also announced that Durst wouldnt be appearing on upcoming events. FML also stripped him of its King of Richelieu championship, which he had held for nearly a year.

These decisions came after multiple wrestling fans called out Durst online for retweeting a story from a Twitter account called End Wokeness celebrating longtime Team Canada Powerlifting head coach Avi Silverberg.

Silverberg entered an Alberta powerlifting competition in March claiming he identified as female despite never doing so before in previous competitions and reportedly with no record that he provided the government-issued photo ID displaying his gender as required by the Canadian Powerlifting Union.

Silverberg went on to break a womens bench press record held by trans powerlifter Anne Andres. The act was celebrated by trans-exclusionary womens sports group the Independent Council on Womens Sports as mocking the discriminatory CPU policy on trans inclusion. The same organization misgendered Andres and numerous other trans athletes in other social media posts.

Dursts promotion of this event sparked arguments between Durst and fans. It prompted William Quintana, owner of Oregon-based pro wrestling promotion Prestige Wrestling, to call out a copious amount of tweets from other transphobic figures, including The Daily Wire host Jordan Peterson, that Durst had liked and/or retweeted.

It is also notable that Durst thanked a Twitter user who used the #ProtectOurKids hashtag in defense of Dursts beliefs. The phrase is recognized by the ACLU as being co-opted by trans- and LGBTQ-hate campaigns fueling the deluge of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ laws proposed and passed by many state legislatures, in defense of Dursts beliefs.

Despite severing ties, at least one promotion, C*4, expressed a hope that Durst learns exactly why the content he promotes is harmful.

We have told Kobe that until he recognizes his behavior is hurtful and dangerous, he will not be welcomed back, C*4 said in a statement. And if he wishes to ever return he must make public and meaningful acknowledgement of the pain he has caused people and why the rhetoric he [is] using is dangerous and causes incredible harm.

While some may question why we dont completely write him off, I believe that if there is no path to redemption, consequences mean very little and will only lead to hardening beliefs within individuals. Radicalization happens far too frequently and easily in this day and age of social media echo chambers. Ignoring that people can hopefully change for the better undoubtedly pushes people further down the path of dangerous ideologies.

We expected more out of Kobe, and are disappointed in his behavior beyond words can express.

Outsports reached out for comment to Durst and Toronto-based promotion SuperkickD, where Durst is a regular. Neither responded at the time of publication.

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