'Demoralizing and demeaning': A gross TikTok trend mocking Amber Heard is going viral.
Tiktok’s primarily Gen Z user base is believed to be uniquely active when it comes to social justice, with much of the platform’s most popular content focused on issues like abuse prevention and trauma. Yet the comments for the video, which was posted yesterday and has almost 14 million views, are almost all light-hearted and adulatory. “This couldn’t be any more creative! Love it! They are better actors than Ms. Amber,” says one top comment with more than 10,000 likes.
The audio of Heard testifying to her abuse at the trial in Fairvax, Virginia, last week is currently going viral on TikTok, with nearly 15,000 videos using the sound. Most disturbingly, the top videos under the sound — many of which have more than 10 million views — appear to be literal reenactments of the abuse Heard describes in her testimony, with people in the videos seen mimicking slapping women across the face.
Most of the videos appear to be pointing out perceived inconsistencies in Heard’s testimony, particularly her claim that she “turned to look at [Depp]” after he allegedly hit her: “Don’t you have to be looking at someone in the face to be able to slap them across it?” reads the caption of the original video using the sound, a clip from the trial with 10 million videos.
Such videos have been up for at least four days and in the process have racked up tens of millions of views in total, despite appearing to violate TikTok community guidelines preventing content that “promotes, normalizes, or glorifies extreme violence or suffering on our platform.
“totally demoralizing and demeaning to all survivors, to all people, to everybody who believes all survivors should be treated compassionately and fairly,” she tells
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