A 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. — AFP
PARIS: When two comedians started a podcast about Britney Spears’s quirky Instagram posts, they had no idea it would fuel a global online movement uniting superfans with rights activists in outrage over the star’s legal situation.
Britney’s Gram 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.
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A 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. — AFP
Britney Spears supporter Stephanie Lewis of Los Angeles holds a portrait of the pop singer outside a hearing concerning the pop singer's conservatorship at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, on July 14, 2021, in Los Angeles. — AP
Julio Sotelo holds a sign during a protest in support of pop star Britney Spears on the day of a conservatorship case hearing at Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles, California, US, on July 14, 2021. — Reuters
Fans and supporters of pop star Britney Spears protest at the Lincoln Memorial, during the ‘Free Britney’ rally, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Washington. Rallies have been taking place across the country since the pop star spoke out against her conservatorship in court last month. — AP
Hundreds of thousands of online posts have been tagged #FreeBritney – half a million tweets alone on June 23 when Spears gave bombshell testimony, saying she had been drugged against her will and was not even allowed to control her own contraception. — Reuters
