Started on 12 April, the process for defamation filed by Johnny Depp against ex-wife Amber Heard give every day horrors And wonders different, depending on how much they consider the very dirty clothes that the couple has decided to wash in public as a subject for entertainment. Betrayals, scenesturbulent air travel, broken bottles, written on the walls col bloodstrips of cocaine on the table: these weeks of debate have spared us practically nothing. In America, where it all takes place in an anonymous courtroom in Fairfax, Virginia, the Depp vs Heard affairs are rapidly accumulating more attention online of some of the most important and urgent news in the country, things of no small importance such as the leaked decision of the Supreme Court on the subject of abortionthe war of Russia in Ukraine, inflation galloping. According to data from NewsWhip, in the period from 4 to 16 May, articles about the process have generated more interactions totals in the form of likes, comments, shares on social media with respect to coverage on abortion, the Supreme Court and inflation. The number of searches on Google for Amber Heard was double that of Elon Musk in the last month, according to data from Google Trends. There have been nearly four times more searches for his name than there have been on abortion or the Supreme Court. Not only that, entertainment sites and newspapers are treating the event as if it were the Super Bowl: who is ahead, who has the favor of the public, who is struggling. Rachel Stockman, president of the Law & Crime network that streams everything live, said they are seeing numbers from record: The average daily audience on their app is 50 times higher than before. Translated into numbers means that on the Law & Crime YouTube channel only about every day a million of spectators connects to watch it. According to data from SimilarWeb, some of the largest entertainment news sites in the world are recording huge traffic increases. The sites of People, Us And New York Post all reported traffic increases for April of 9%, 16% and 22% respectively.
All this was possible, of course, because the process is first and foremost public, thanks to courtroom cameras that capture every moment. Second, because a lot of what happens in that classroom is transformed into meme and then relaunched hundreds of thousands of times in the form of an online clip. The meme of the crying face by Amber Heard, for example, is among the most viewed on TikTok. And the same goes for other moments: the scribbles that Johnny Depp passes to his lawyer, his giggles under the mustache, i comments in a low voice, but also Amber who rolls her eyes and her lawyer who gets stuck in questions. Even the expressions of the judge have become meme stuff. For a few days then there is a new viral clip: the hug that the charming lawyer of Depp Camille Vasquez gave his client after the end of the interrogation to Amber Heard flew the innuendo on the real relationship between the two: will they be together? Online conjectures abound and the beautiful Vasquez can already boast about one fanbase of millions of aficionados (the clip of the hug has been seen further 500 million times). Since the vast majority of viral content they ridicule Heard and are downright pro-Depp – just compare the hashtags: #justiceforjohnnydepp has over 10 billion views, while #justiceforamberheard it has 39 million – since there is this big one disparityit was said, the feeling is that everything has already been decided, that the sentence has already arrived: Johnny Depp won. Amber Heard lost. So she decided on the court of TikTokand it matters little if the trial evidence does not coincide with the memes.
Source: Vanity Fair
