Videos, memes, supercuts, livestreams and images from the celebrities' defamation trial can be found everywhere from YouTube to TikTok and Instagram to other social media platforms. Why is this case so inescapable? Plus, experts worry the attention the event is receiving could have a "chilling impact on domestic violence survivors."
Big media companies, true crime TikTokers and, now, little-known YouTubers converge onto the Heard/Depp trial to grow their audiences any way they can. A recent story on the homepage of the website Law&Crime wasn’t a story at all, but a celebration. “Law&Crime Network Hits Record 330 Million Viewers …
Notes on the paranoid style in online fandom A shadow box above Rebecca’s dining-room table, hanging there since 2006, displays an autographed copy of the Pirates of the Caribbean script—signed by Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom, and Johnny Depp. Though Rebecca, at age 36, is emphatically no longer a …
The consequences of the defamation trial seem to have gotten lost in the media circus surrounding it. But it could have a very chilling impact on domestic violence survivors. There’s been a lot of chatter about the ongoing defamation trial involving actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. A TikTok trend …
There’s a reason why it’s difficult to describe a meme out loud: Any given unit of these digital artifacts, composed of words and pictures in varying grades of conventional aesthetic value, is almost always so heavily enshrined with niche context and references that it resists verbal translation. …
You aren’t imagining things. The internet is completely underwater, submerged in memes, supercuts, livestreams, fancams, and conspiracy theories about the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial. The trial is part of a long-running legal battle between the two actors. In May 2016 Amber Heard …
"That's true, but I'll allow it. Because it does sound fun, and this trial is for fun." I'm only saying this because it's true: I can't stand celeb gossip, haven't followed the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard defamation trial, and couldn't possibly tell you how much of this Saturday Night Live cold open …
