, bite-sized pieces of her tearful testimony have been memed, remixed and dubbed to hell, particularly on TikTok. One popular audio clip features Heard describing an incident of alleged physical abuse: “I was walking out of the bedroom, he slapped me across the face, and I turned to look at him. And I said, ‘Johnny, you hit me. You just hit me.
These types of collective shifts in social attitudes can have unintended consequences. And that is something that concerns advocates for survivors of sexual abuse and domestic violence, who worry about nonfamous, under-resourced victims. Much has been made of the cultural leaps we’ve made since the ‘90s and ‘00s — arguably the peak of celebrity gossip tabloid culture — when overtly misogynistic headlines were de rigueur. As Jessica Bennett recently wrote in The New York Times, we are now inin which we are revisiting stories the public feverishly devoured 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 years ago, but with a new air of smug enlightenment.
Who is the villain? Who is the hero? There is a glee when we, as viewers, feel like we’ve made a breakthrough; when we’ve cracked the human code.
emmaladyrose This article is a joke in itself. When a DV ambassador is using DV victims to paint her lies, when she makes a mockery out of the whole judicial system, don’t blame the people finding humour in this. The only thing scary in this was a woman abusing actual DV victims.
emmaladyrose How long will it take the media to say, 'Ok, we jumped the gun and backed the wrong horse' How long will they cling to AH? Amber played the media like a fine-tuned interment and they were happy to take the clicks and views without looking beyond her words. justiceForjohnnydepp
emmaladyrose “tearful”? not a tear was shed.
emmaladyrose why was this not a hate crime
emmaladyrose Oh please. I couldn’t even finish reading this. Is this a result of her new PR team? Give me a break.
emmaladyrose This entire lawsuit is a joke. None of it is about defamation now. It's just a performance aimed at resurrecting Depp's career and ruining Heard's.
emmaladyrose Hot garbage alert 🚨🚨🚨