Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA bizarre and disturbing trend has swept across TikTok over the last several days: Dozens of posts on the short-form video service — some amassing millions of views — have used video or audio from Amber Heard’s wrenching testimony in the Johnny Depp trial, with the creators of the videos dramatically reenacting it, doing dances to it or otherwise mocking her.The trend includes one video, which has more than 30 million views in five days, with a video clip of Heard emotionally testifying on the stand, with a sound of Kim Kardashian in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch saying, “Ew, this is so cringe.
Guilty.”Another viral TikTok is this video, viewed more than 14 million times since it was posted Sunday, that features a cat with a blond wig (supposed to represent Heard) and as Depp’s Jack Sparrow in “The Pirates of the Caribbean.
As previously reported reported by Rolling Stone, the 9-second video uses audio of Heard from the trial saying, “I said, ‘Johnny, you hit me.
You just hit me.'” According to TikTok, it has removed several such videos that use Heard’s testimony, which the company says violate its anti-bullying policies.
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