In a year of exploding influencer budgets, gay creators should be having the best year of their lives. They're not. The Pride briefs never came, and brands quietly swapped creators for safer celebrities. Gayle and Daryl went looking for a boom and found the opposite. They spoke with OG influencer Owin Pierson on the influencer experience, Smirnoff's José Vélez on making Troye Sivan his Chief Vibes Officer, and The Trevor Project's Kevin Wong on the under 1% of philanthropic giving that reaches LGBTQ+ causes.