Have It Your Gay

Contents:

• WH GAY BURGER, THE POP-UP MOL GOT AN FLUENCER TWIST
• ELIJAH DANIEL UNVEILS VIRTUAL FOOD BRAND ‘GAY BURGER,’ WH PROCEEDS BENEFG THE L.A. LGBT CENTER
• GAY BURGER
• REVIEW: “GAY BURGER” VIRTUAL KCHEN OPENS SAN FRANCIS
• HAVE IT YOUR GAY AT BURGER KG
• GAY BURGER OPENS LA, SF, NYC BRACHILD OF ELIJAH DANIEL
• WHERE N YOU BUY ELIJAH DANIEL’S GAY BURGER? LOTNS AND MENU EXPLORED!

WH GAY BURGER, THE POP-UP MOL GOT AN FLUENCER TWIST

For a brief moment Febary, an unknown food brand lled Gay Burger — which featured dish wh nam like “Beef Me Up Stty” and “Love Me Daddy” — went viral on Twter. Gay Burger, a livery-only rtrant available on Uber Eats and DoorDash, cropped up largely out of nowhere, and didn’t have the backg of any large food pani: a YouTuber named Elijah Daniel, pl an entreprenr named Katia Ameri, had e up wh the ia a month earlier. Buoyed by Daniel’s followg of half a ln fans and a seri of “be gay, eat burger” mem, the brand briefly took over Twter.

#GayBurger. — Gay Burger (@gayburger) Febary 10, 2021. Wh a few days, Gay Burger’s viral moment passed.

Ghost kchens like Gay Burger — which have the spontaney and sense of humor of an ter meme — are rare.

ELIJAH DANIEL UNVEILS VIRTUAL FOOD BRAND ‘GAY BURGER,’ WH PROCEEDS BENEFG THE L.A. LGBT CENTER

“Gay Burger was que a succs bee there was zero marketg spend, ” said Ameri. Acrdg to Ameri, Daniel first floated the ia for Gay Burger January.

Wh a few weeks of the ial joke, Gay Burger was live three ci. Wh the lnch of Gay Burger, Ameri said she was hopg to tt whether ghost kchens uld plsibly reprent an alternate revenue stream for YouTube and TikTok creators, many of whom are lookg for ways to moize their acunts outsi of jt ads or product placements. It isn’t hard to image why someone might buy om Gay Burger or MrBeast Burger a first time — “you have the niche on that pop-up, and people will orr and try jt bee ’s fun, ” she said.

YouTube prankster/activist Elijah Daniel has unveiled his latt stunt: Gay Burger, a virtual rtrant brand that will donate all proceeds to the Los Angel LGBT Center.

GAY BURGER

“Gay Burger me along as a joke spired by MrBeast Burger as a creative new way to raise money and help out small rtrants, ” Daniel tells Tubefilter. “It was origally a joke where I jt yelled, ‘I WANT A GAY BURGER CHAIN’ out of nowhere.

It might’ve stayed a joke had Katia Ameri–a tech entreprenr who’s also Daniel’s iend and profsnal partner–not turned Gay Burger to a bona fi bs plan for his birthday last month. “Obvly my ridiculo iends were down, so along wh @TreviMoran, @BryanaSalaz, and @st0rmryan, we had Gay Burger.

REVIEW: “GAY BURGER” VIRTUAL KCHEN OPENS SAN FRANCIS

To brg Gay Burger to life, Daniel, Ameri, and team hooked up wh Silin Valley-based startup, which bills self as “a llective of 20+ seasoned founrs and unirn operators lnchg dtry disptg pani. ” Together, they lnched Gay Burger as a virtual brand—“virtual” meang don’t have any dited brick-and-mortar lotns of s own, but s menu n be adopted and served by any tablished kchen Los Angel, San Francis, and New York Cy.

That menu clus cheekily named ems like Love Me Daddy (a “studly beef daddy patty” topped wh Amerin chee, pickl, whe onn, lettuce, and special hoe sce “gayoli”), No More Milk Daddy (“vegan daddy patty, ” sliced tomato, onn, pickl, lettuce), and I Like Chicks (ied chicken “daddy patty, ” gayoli, mtard, lettuce, pickl). Ctomers n also grab Gay Fri (“Fri but they’re gay, y’know?

HAVE IT YOUR GAY AT BURGER KG

”) or up the ante wh Extremely Gay Fri (your average gay i pl ramelized onns, chee, and ban). Like MrBeast Burger before , Gay Burger is available for livery only through Postmat, Uber Eats, and DoorDash.

You n see Gay Burger’s plete menu here.

GAY BURGER OPENS LA, SF, NYC BRACHILD OF ELIJAH DANIEL

Are the two bottom buns gay men?

“As a gay person, this is the funnit thg I have ever seen and I don’t thk I’ll ever stop lghg, ” unarnium said on Monday. In a 2018 terview wh a lol Atlanta TV statn, Chick-fil-A chairman and former CEO Dan Cathy said he did not support gay marriage, but was not anti-gay.

When nsirg hamburgers, you may not thk about gay culture — but try thkg aga. Elijah Daniel, a YouTuber and sger who releas mic unr the psdonym Lil Phag, has unveiled his new project lled Gay Burger. 9, clu the Love Me Daddy (the basic burger wh a proprietary “gayoli” sce), the No Milk Daddy (the vegan burger wh a black bean patty) or the Gay Fri, which, acrdg to the menu, are sentially i “but they’re gay, y’know?

WHERE N YOU BUY ELIJAH DANIEL’S GAY BURGER? LOTNS AND MENU EXPLORED!

Gay Burger don’t have s own brick-and-mortar lotn, so for the time beg the menu is a profable si htle for Lol Kchen and We Merchant, a rtrant on 1st Street the South Beach neighborhood South of Market. Daniel claims this viral stunt/fundraiser/rtrant was spired after seeg fellow YouTuber MrBeast’s virtual burger kchen vio December 2020 (which has sce spawned a natnal cha wh 300 US lotns) and wishg that burgers uld one day “be” gay. Katia Ameri, a tech entreprenr, founr of Rocketship Hoe, and iend of Daniel, handled the logistil si of the Gay Burger, which Daniel lnched wh fellow LGBT celebri — Bryana Salaz, Trevi Man and Storm Ryan — who are the fac of their rpective bo meals.

As a bisexual burger nsumer, I knew I had to see what ma a gay burger.. To fd out, my (straight) and I drove om Oakland to San Francis to nduct important rearch the name of gay science. Once our meal arrived, and my and I pared not, the burger wasn’t knock-your-socks-off amazg — but that don’t mean the experience was any way buns were more buttery and bready than your average same seed bun, and the Love Me Daddy was texturally well-balanced wh pickl, tomato, onns, shredd lettuce and the right of amount of gay the gayoli sce.