Vivian Jenna Wilson opens up about the impact of the ‘gross’ DMs she receives

Vivian Jenna Wilson has said the vile abuse she receives online from trolls and creeps makes her “feel gross.”

The 21-year-old trans influencer said she constantly receives waves of hateful, misogynistic, and otherwise “really creepy” messages from trolls and anonymous accounts on social media.

“A lot of people can be really creepy, especially about my body,” she said. “People say the most disgusting, unhinged things they would do to me. It makes me feel gross.”

Speaking to The Cut magazine, Wilson, who is the estranged daughter of tech billionaire Elon Musk, said that, since rising to fame, she’s seen an uptick in creepy DMs and hateful messages from right-wing trolls who, she says, try to “spin things I say into things I don’t mean.”

“Don’t text people on the internet all the ways you’d f**k them,” she said.

The iconic trans performer became notable in 2024 for her fierce reads of right-wing pundits, particularly her estranged father, Elon Musk.

Since then, she has launched into internet stardom on TikTok, Threads, and beyond. She even began a sure-to-be-illustrious drag career in June after performing at an immigration legal aid fundraiser.

Her fame hasn’t come without drawbacks, however. Wilson said the constant scrutiny has made it difficult for her to appear in public.

When going to queer bars, she said she now wears a disguise to make sure she’s not spotted after entertainment tabloid TMZ published photos of her at a party. Asked what the disguise entails, she said: “You don’t need to know my ways!”

Wilson added during the interview that, since distancing herself from her estranged father, she has struggled to know where to go with her career, adding that she’s considering going to community college to study language.

However, the influencer, who is currently living with three roommates to save money on rent, said it could be too expensive for her to go forward.

“College is expensive. I don’t have that inheritance,” she said. “People assume I have a lot of money. I don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars at my disposal. My mum is rich, right? But obviously the other one [Elon Musk] … is unimaginable degrees of wealthy.

“I don’t have a desire to be superrich. I can afford food. I have friends, a shelter, and some expendable income, which is nice and much more fortunate than most people my age in Los Angeles.”