While opinions are flying about the verdict of the trial of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, Locklear and his viewers were taken to task in a program on France 5, which caused a real outcry on social networks.
After weeks of highly publicized verbal sparring, the verdict has finally come. Amber Heard, found guilty of defamation, will have to pay her ex-husband 15 million dollars (amount later reduced to 10.35 million) in damages, while Johnny Depp, also found guilty of defamation, will have to pay him 2 millions of dollars.
The course of this trial having been assiduously followed and commented on on social networks, its outcome has also caused much ink to flow. As they wondered about the stakes of this trial, the verdict of which for some dealt a blow to the #MeToo movement, the columnists of the show C this evening (available here) came to talk about Twitch, where several streamers had followed and commented on the trial.
“There are streamers who are extremely young, Locklear type, etc., but who comment on the H24 trial and who are violent with Amber Heard and we are talking about very young men. And here I think it’s quite symptomatic of the backlash of a new generation that is coming (…)”said journalist Sonia Devillers before being cut off by reporter Alice Augustin, who said:
“Here are all these Americans who are called incels, so these involuntary celibates who haunt video game forums, including in France, and it is these young people who can sometimes be found carrying out mass shootings in the USA (…).”
I dream or they compare the viewers of @Lockl34r to perpetrators of shootings? #JusticeForJohhnyDepp pic.twitter.com/BS5qMC6i50
— Lesion X (@lesionxbeats) June 1, 2022
Internet users protest against such a shortcut
Neither one nor two Internet users shared their dissatisfaction on social networks, outraged by these scandalous remarks which once again brought up a new version of the eternal debate on the existence or not of a link between mass killings and video games.
France 5 really pic.twitter.com/7R2aMyd09W
— Lesion X (@lesionxbeats) June 1, 2022
Compared crazy people who kill people in the states to French gamers, it’s shameful and incredibly violent (to use his words) 6th: To say that it’s a masculinist sphere when there are plenty of girls who are on twitch, and especially since I’ve never seen so many
— Boubou70 ?? ?? (@Booubouzetla) June 3, 2022
Oh @France5tv it’s not okay to make this kind of shortcut on your channel ask your columnists to work a minimum on their subject instead of talking nonsense and making dangerous shortcuts
— Ryaad Kratos’ ?? ?? (@Ryad_Kratos) June 3, 2022
wait wait
it’s about the trial of Johnny depp but it drifts on the american incels and the french fps streamers which leads to shootings?
What’s the connection between a defamation lawsuit, French streamers and shootings in the United States?
—Shineo (@Shineooff) June 3, 2022
Locklear meanwhile asked his community on Twitter not to add fuel to the fire.
I see there’s a clip playing right now and it has some pretty serious and defamatory comments.
I ask you not to harass please.
They’re probably out of content.?♂️— Locklear (@Lockl34r) June 3, 2022
The irony around these defamatory remarks, expressed during a program evoking a lawsuit for defamation, will not have escaped anyone.
Anyway, this viral clip came to bring grain to grind in the opposition between traditional media and social media.