You “Heard” unsuitable.
Snapchat has dispelled a preferred social media rumor that its viral, new crying face filter relies on actress Amber Heard weeping in court docket. The social media platform cleared the air in a press release to TMZ.
For the digitally uninitiated, the filter is basically an augmented-reality lens that you simply superimpose over individuals’s faces, turning them right into a blubbering mess like a digital Greek tragedy masks. The characteristic amassed over 1.3 billion Snapchat impressions because it premiered final week as social media customers throw crying faces over movies throughout the net.
On the similar time, rumors started swirling that the characteristic was impressed by Heard’s tearful testimony within the ongoing defamation swimsuit introduced in opposition to her by ex-husband Johnny Depp. The “Aquaman” actress broke down in court docket final week, prompting die-hard Depp supporters to accuse her of “faux crying” and being a “dangerous actress.”
“The Amber Heard filter goes laborious, and they're killing me,” wrote one gullible gawker on Twitter of the alleged digital facsimile. One other mused, “New #AmberHeard Snapchat filter simply dropped. Am ded.”
One social media rumor service provider even posted a TikTok video juxtaposing the filter with Heard’s now-infamous “crying face.”
Snapchat p.r. reps have since dismissed the rumors, insisting that the filter shouldn't be primarily based on the “Justice League” star, TMZ reported. To not point out that the corporate had begun creating the filter six months in the past, nicely earlier than Heard sobbed on the stand. Snapchat had additionally rolled out a smiley filter prior, so it was maybe solely logical that a unhappy face would comply with.
Nevertheless, this wouldn’t have been the primary time social media took potshots on the “Rum Diary” actress. Heard was just lately ridiculed on-line over a press release by which she wincingly recalled how her “canine stepped on a bee” whereas describing a combat with then husband Depp.
TikTokers lampooned the clip by enhancing in bits and stitching collectively movies of their very own random rhymes and winces.
The viral movies start with the unique “my canine stepped on a bee” bit from Heard’s testimony earlier than TikTokers escape into their very own poetry.
“My dad has to pee,” one man says earlier than person Cloeann Hardee sorrowfully says, “I forgot my home key” in a video that has amassed 6.3 million views.
Depp is suing Heard for defamation over a 2018 Washington Publish op-ed that the actress wrote, by which she stated she was a sufferer of sexual violence.
She didn't particularly identify Depp within the article, but it surely was written after Heard filed for a restraining order in opposition to her ex-husband in 2016 over abuse allegations. Depp is looking for $50 million in damages whereas Heard has filed a $100 million countersuit.
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