#FreeBritney: online army rallies behind ‘silenced’ Spears

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began in 2017 as a lighthearted podcast in which hosts Tess Barker and Babs Gray dissected the eccentric mix of memes, selfies and dance videos posted on the singer's account.

The comedians spent hours sifting through court documents, hoping to understand whether the arrangement was really working as intended: protecting 39-year-old Spears, who had suffered a high-profile breakdown in the mid-2000s under the intense glare of the paparazzi. “You guys are onto something,” he told Barker and Gray. “What is happening is disturbing to say the least.”

“In the past people could show up at a courthouse with signs saying ‘I love you’, but it’s way different if you show up on Twitter. You’ve got a global reach,” said Katherine Larsen, editor of theShe sees the # movement as part of a growing trend “where fans have been able to harness social media and get something done”, pointing to followers of K-pop superband BTS – who raised US$1mil in a day for the Black Lives Matter movement – as another example.

“There are many people who are part of the # movement who don’t even listen to her music,” said Gray, who has just launched a new deep-dive podcast with Barker into the guardianship,For fans, the fact that Spears’s conservatorship has now captured public attention is vindication of their efforts to raise the alarm – in some cases, for years.“It took years of writing about it, speaking about it, for the world to see what it felt like I had been seeing for a long time,” he said.

“A happy ending is Britney Spears just getting to enjoy the same liberties that we think everybody should be able to enjoy,” said Barker. – AFPA woman holds a poster of Britney with her mouth taped shut as fans and supporters gather outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse on July 14, 2021, during a scheduled hearing in the Britney Spears guardianship case. While local fans have staged protests outside the courthouse, the online campaign spans globally, from Britain to the Philippines.

 

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