Pokimane quickly deletes Depp vs Heard meme after backlash Pokimane \/ Gage SkidmoreTwitch star streamer Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys was criticized after turning the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard defamation trial into a meme, so she quickly deleted her tweet. The high-profile court case is set to run for five weeks in Fairfax County, Virginia, and is expected to come to a close after May 27. Heard has accused her divorc\u00e9 of domestic violence throughout her court appearances. This follows on from the 2018 op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post \u2013 which led to Depp suing her for alleged defamation, stating the claims made in the article were untrue. Both celebrity actors have provided the jury with photographs, showing marks on their faces following alleged domestic abuse. Pokimane turns Depp vs Heard trial into a meme As is the case with any celebrity case in the United States, mainstream media attention has put every shred of evidence, testimony, and witness under a grander spotlight than the average legal sitting. So much so that the trial has been streamed around the world, attracting millions of views. Several big Twitch streamers have been commenting along the way, one of which has been Pokimane. On May 3, she posted her first YouTube video about the matter, joking that Heard \u201cGoogled how to look sad\u201d in court. The content creator has been watching along ever since, and on May 17, Poki decided to engage with the memeification of the case. Using a popular meme format from The Office, where the character Pam shows two photos that are identical looking, asking for differences, Pokimane added photos of Ms. Heard. In the trial, it was said that different lighting shows the marks more prominently. \u201cThey\u2019re the same picture,\u201d the meme joked. Depp vs Heard trial meme splits opinion It didn\u2019t take long before a number of Twitter users criticized the move, saying it was making light of domestic abuse. One user said: \u201cAh yes let\u2019s make memes and jokes about this case cuz this will definitely not affect anyone in the same situation.\u201d Right? Love mocking a huge domestic abuse case!! This will definitely not signal that I’m a terrible person to come to in case you’re being abused! \u2014 Blauw \ud83d\udd4a\ud83c\udf6e (@LiefDuif) May 17, 2022 Another posted: \u201cLove mocking a huge domestic abuse case!! This will definitely not signal that I\u2019m a terrible person to come to in case you\u2019re being abused!\u201d you can delete all you\u2019d like but it doesn\u2019t erase the fact that you posted this @pokimanelol pic.twitter.com\/FJLzwFHszz \u2014 bree (@xmenrogues) May 17, 2022 \u201cImagine making a \u201cmeme\u201d using pictures of a domestic violence survivor\u2019s bruises. you\u2019re evil,\u201d one other user stated. Pokimane has since deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane quickly deletes Depp vs Heard meme after backlash Pokimane \/ Gage SkidmoreTwitch star streamer Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys was criticized after turning the Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard defamation trial into a meme, so she quickly deleted her tweet. The high-profile court case is set to run for five weeks in Fairfax County, Virginia, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}