After Samantha White reported her ex-husband to the Coast Guard for domestic abuse charges
NBC News / Getty ImagesSamantha White’s life hasn’t been the same since December, when videos posted by her ex-husband went viral on TikTok, Reddit and other social media platforms.
Last year, after an investigation, the Coast Guard found that White’s allegations and the evidence she provided met its criteria for emotional, physical and sexual abuse, while Vences’ didn’t. Five months later, in November, the Coast Guard discharged Vences for misconduct. Five days after that, he uploaded the videos to TikTok. In aposted after his discharge, Vences said he took “bad advice” from a legal representative in the Navy and wasn’t able to present his “side” during the investigation.
One email, sent to White after a fight during their marriage, appears to show Vences writing: “Like you say, im abusive, dont love you, dont care about you, im a horrible husband. I shouldn’t have pushed you. Ill be home later tonight. Im done. Goodbye Samantha. Im not good for you. Im blocking the email as well.”
White said that the videos Vences posted made her look “crazy” but that the reaction to them shows people “want victims to be meek scaredy-cats.” In one of the videos Vences shared, he included screenshots of text messages in which White conveyed that she had raised her voice and thrown things at him.
While men’s rights content has thrived online for years, the framing of women’s making false allegations against men has exploded in the past year after the Depp/Heard trial drew major attention online. Creators like Sunderland have moved on to relatively unknown men and women, like White and her ex-husband, leaning heavily toward blaming women and exonerating men. Videos of breakups and upset women have become their own niche content genre.
“There’s a longer thread here about the way women are portrayed that’s not something that’s just crept up in the last five or 10 years of social media,” Munn said. “Women who become emotional are portrayed as aggressive monsters, while men who do the same thing are strong alpha males. It’s the social media logic, and it’s the gender logic.”
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