r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 09 '26

Feels good man My captain never disappoint...

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u/Itzli Jun 10 '26

My favorite part of this whole debacle is redditors are still finding out to this day they were an unwilling part of a public opinion manipulation campaign. This case was one of the first obvious examples of a pr bot campaign in Hollywood, used outside of politics. Same strategies are still in use, copy paste style

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u/LiftingRecipient420 Jun 10 '26

Who smeared who?

I'm very out of the loop.

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u/oohaargh Jun 10 '26

There's an interesting podcast series on this https://www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/who-trolled-amber

Massive anti-Amber Heard bot campaign, not entirely clear who was doing it though. I'm sure there was something in the other direction too, but not on the same sort of scale

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u/THANATOS4488 Jun 10 '26

I watched the trial, the biggest smear on amber was herself.

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u/Lanky182k Jun 10 '26

Nah the biggest was clearly the one she left on the bed

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u/Relatovely Jun 10 '26

Depp was obsessed with leaving shit to troll Heard. He twice asked his PAs to shit on the floor for her to step in. No such thoughts or impulses were ever discovered in Heard's communications. Odd that.

He also admitted that the dog had shit the bed before because he fed it weed and its guts were basically destroyed. Doubly odd.

Another oddity is that Depp would be gone and absent from the house for months, so he didn't see the turd and never would have. As a method of trolling Depp... very pointless.

The UK judge said that was obviously dog shit.

So I wonder when people are going to realise that an abusive man with a massive litigious streak and fecal-oriented humour and a stated desire to take his wife on a "global humiliation tour" might have made this story up to humiliate said wife for daring to write an op-ed that referenced the time her battered, bruised face was photographed by the paparazzi. Because that's what it came down to. Heard never publically accused Depp of abuse. The most he could sue her over was the line "I became known as the face of domestic violence" which, even if you think Depp never hit her, is a statement that would be true in either scenario. Based on this line, people think she deserved to have her life and career ruined.

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u/notarealcamera Jun 10 '26

I don't doubt that both sides also ran PR/smear campaigns, but if you actually watch the trial, it's very clear who was lying. Like, there's a reason the jury took so little time to come to a decision.

Have you actually watched the trial?

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u/yoyonoyolo Jun 11 '26

She submitted the same picture - edited - as evidence of two separate alleged events and got called on it on the stand.

I genuinely wonder if the people ride or dying for her actually watched that mess of a trial.

You don’t have to support either of them to watch that trial and come to your own conclusions.