Vivian Jenna Wilson explains why anti-trans pundits should be ‘thanking’ her

Vivian Jenna Wilson called out transphobic trolls as having “so much sadder” lives in a scathing read with RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Sasha Colby.

The 21-year-old influencer and model let out her inner stan after sitting down with her favourite drag queen to discuss the trials and tribulations of her rise to fame.

“I’m talking to Sasha Colby, okay hold on,” an elated Wilson exclaimed during the Wednesday (25 June) sit-down interview. “I’m good, I’m good, I’m great, this is great, I’m very normal.”

Spilling all the tea on behalf of Teen Vogue, Wilson and Colby discussed everything from the influencer’s recent foray into drag, to her online presence.

The TikTok star first rose to fame for her iconic reads of various right-wing pundits, including her estranged father, Elon Musk. She’s since made a name for herself as an irreverently iconic source of queer chaos and as a living encyclopedia for all things drag.

Asked whether she believes her platform constitutes a form of activism through her chaotic positivity, Wilson said: “I view my social media presence as me doing what I feel like and then people watch it sometimes, whcih I think is the most accurate way to describe it.

“I have thoughts, I have ideas, and a budget of about zero dollars, and I do things and people watch them and sometimes they like them,” she joked.

Described as a “viral sensation” by Colby, the RuPaul’s Drag Race star commended Wilson for being “unapologetically outspoken” in spite of the right-wing abuse she receives as a trans perso online.

Responding, Wilson said the hate doesn’t phase her; she even finds them “funny,” to which Colby joked that the influencer had “that Gen-Z attitude that I wish I had.”

“They’re so funny. I think that they’re so funny,” Wilson said. “It’s like, your life is so much sadder than mine, and, oh, you think you can come for me?”

Wilson has faced abuse from right-wing pundits the world over since rising to prominence online. In 2024, she read Andrew Tate to filth after he tried, and failed, to roast her, saying she was too busy to respond “because I have a life rather than being on house arrest in Romania for s3x crimes.”

Commenting on the right-wing furore over her audacity to express herself, Wilson said Conservative pundits are “making money off of my name” and so should be “thanking me behind the screen.”

“You’re welcome,” she exclaimed.

“If they’re talking about me, then they’re free to talk about me. But I don’t have to listen,” she continued, before Colby replied saying Wilson had “just saved me like 10 of the past years in therapy.”

Wilson said that a lot of her confidence comes from her love of drag; a medium which helped her overcome the anxiety she felt in high school.

“I do get it from drag … I was really, like, anxious and shy and closed off in high school,” she said. “I was basically like this anxious femboy who was obsessed with languages and didn’t go outside.

“It was kind of during that process when I was also figuring out my own trans identity and it completely recontextualised my idea of gender expression, which I think was really helpful for me.”