Meet the fan merch purveyors capitalizing off the intense media interest in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial.
Nelson tells“I feel so bad for him, everything going on with the trial, listening to him rehash what happened. I watch a lot of the clips of the trial and I thought the ‘hearsay’ thing was hilarious. So I drew the design myself and went with it.” She posted the shirt on Wednesday night, less than a day before we talked on the phone. She’s already sold more than 10 copies.
One vendor who has also pivoted to selling pro-Johnny Depp merch is Bianca Padilla, 26, an art teacher in New Jersey who, like Nelson, started her own Etsy store selling hand-painted shoes during the pandemic. Like Nelson, Padilla has not watched the entirety of the trial, seeing only its most viral moments as captured in digestible chunks on TikTok and Instagram. Yet she too is a longtime Depp stan who has been captivated by his tongue-in-cheek demeanor during the trial.
“That wasn’t where my brain was at all,” she says. “It was just like, ‘He’s being funny. It’s funny.’ As a business owner, you go with the trends, and that’s what is trending right now. So I was just like ‘Let me jump on this.'” Nelson, the Etsy boutique owner making pro-Depp merch , does not harbor such concerns about what impact the trial may have on domestic violence survivors. “I’
When asked if the backlash against Heard could potentially deter survivors from reporting, Padilla is somewhat torn. “I
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