Americans Care More About Depp v. Heard Trial than War, Abortion, Inflation

[Franklin Pierce]

Americans are grappling with soaring inflation, the ongoing pandemic and the likely overturn of Roe v. Wade — but they are interested in one issue above all else.

The blockbuster defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is currently generating more social media engagement than any other topic, according to data from media monitoring platform NewsWhip.

The data firm claims that the captivating courtroom drama has garnered an average of 508 social media interactions — i.e. likes, comments and shares — for each published article over the past month.

That is almost five times as much engagement as articles pertaining to abortion (141 social media interactions) and more than 10 times as much engagement as articles about COVID-19 (44 social media interactions).

 

[AshG]

They love entertainment and drama. Helps explain the ratings on another entertainment show.

 

[AshG]

Panem et circenses.

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

I'm going to tell you this as fact. You have an emotional piggy bank. You really do .Once it's empty you don't care anymore. There are things you can do something about, and there are many you have NO CONTROL OVER. None. Stop spending your emotional piggy bank on it. There are people that can spend on it. We have a saying in our house.. really, we say it all the time.

"YOU CANNOT SAVE THEM ALL."

You do what you can when you can. Good is not about doing it all. It is about doing what you can.

 

[allvol123]

Americans are grappling with soaring inflation, the ongoing pandemic and the likely overturn of Roe v. Wade — but they are interested in one issue above all else.

The blockbuster defamation trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is currently generating more social media engagement than any other topic, according to data from media monitoring platform NewsWhip.

The data firm claims that the captivating courtroom drama has garnered an average of 508 social media interactions — i.e. likes, comments and shares — for each published article over the past month.

That is almost five times as much engagement as articles pertaining to abortion (141 social media interactions) and more than 10 times as much engagement as articles about COVID-19 (44 social media interactions).

I would say this would just capture people that are in the social media world to begin with. Those kind of people are going to be geared towards that kind of junk.

 

[PEPPERJAX]

Johnny Depp hasn't made a good movie in years. His ex dropping a deuce in his bed would make a great plot for a Netflix series.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

No, they don't care more. They just want something to distract them for a while from all the other horrible **** going on.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

Doesn't surprise me.

'Murica

 

[volinbham]

hate to throw cold water on this but the Heard/Depp trial is current and salacious - of course it gets more commentary. The amount of commentary is not the same as how much someone cares about an issue.

Abortion, inflation have been stories for months or even decades in the case of abortion. They have been talked about to death.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

It was in every news feed but managed to avoid reading them all.