Conservative podcaster claims ‘air fresheners turn you gay’ in resurfaced clip
A conservative podcaster claimed air fresheners make you gay (YouTube/Digital Social Hour Podcast by Sean Kelly | Stock image via Getty Images)
A viral podcast moment in which a woman claims car air fresheners are turning people gay is doing the rounds again.
The clip, from July 2025, sees Alex Clark, a conservative “wellness activist” say on the Digital Social Hour Podcast by Sean Kelly that she even made an Uber driver get rid of one.
Clark says in the clip: “Your car air freshener is turning you gay!”
Continuing to speak in an animated manner, she adds: “It is depleting you of testosterone. It is wrecking your hormones.”
It’s believed that she has no expertise in medicine or biology, having attended Ivy Tech Community College and previously working in radio.
In the podcast, she adds: “I was just in an Uber and the Uber driver had like a pack of trees, pack of car fragrance trees.”
Sean Kelly appears sympathetic, adding: “I had it yesterday. I had to hold my breath the whole ride.”
Clark goes on: “Disgusting. It needs to be banned. None of the artificial fragrance air fresheners in a car.
“So I tell the Uber driver, ‘You realise that those are turning you gay?’ He parks to drop me off. He immediately grabs the pack of trees and he puts them in the trash and goes, ‘Thank you for telling me that.’
“That’s all it takes. I just saved that man’s balls. It can make you very, very sick. It can make it hard to get pregnant. I mean, there’s a myriad of issues with anything that has perfume or fragrance that’s artificial in it.”
There is no evidence to suggest that fragrances affect testosterone levels in the human body. There’s no link between testosterone levels and someone’s sexuality.
The return of the viral clip
Comedy creator Luke Hamnett, who is gay, shared the video on his Instagram.
After the clip plays, he can be seen in his car, ripping a yellow air freshener off his mirror.
He sarcastically says: “I am shocked, I can’t believe all this time I’ve been gay because of this.”
The influencer then chucks it out of his window, before putting on a deeper voice and saying out of his window: “Alright darling, get your f****** t*** out.”
Because apparently that’s all it takes to stop being gay, if you believe Alex Clark.
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