Meghan Markle has been accused of controlling Prince Harry in multiple viral TikTok videos with millions of views.
The Duchess of Sussex has spoken in the past about feeling social media trolling “hardly survived”, but so far much of the discussion about her experience has centered around Twitter and YouTube.
However, Chinese social media giant TikTok reports that the amount of traffic for content about Meghan and Harry has outstripped not only celebrities on Twitter, but print newspaper readers that have infuriated the couple and led to the lawsuit. .
A video posted by @the.royal.watcher on the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, captioned “Harry refuses to see Meghan,” has been viewed 24.9 million times and has almost 244,700 likes. won.
The proposal in a difficult moment between the couple stayed up all night holding hands in the Queen’s honor just days after they were publicly accused of being too affectionate.
In contrast, mail on sundayhas been sued between Harry and Meghan four times and sells 749,960 copies per day. daily mail According to data reported by, it has sold 872,576 issues. press gazette September 2022.
This is not a like-in-kind comparison, but in particular: Post The sheer volume of traffic on Tiktok videos demonstrates the challenges of trying to manage reputation by suing mainstream media organizations in a world where social media has become so popular.
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Video accuses Meghan of controlling Harry
The video, labeled “Most Disrespectful Meghan Moment Ever” by @the.royal.watcher, has 6.5 million views and shows the Duchess escaping Harry from the conversation at the Queen’s funeral, followed by: was captioned. I dragged him out without admitting it. ”
A third label with the label “Has it enough Harry?” suggests the prince was “disturbed” by Duchess Meghan “once again” and has 10.1 million views.
Many of the videos are set within the story of Meghan dominating or outdoing Harry and reaching out to him.
At other times, she’s alleged to have cut in or pushed in front of him at events.
One video from the same account, which has 9.1 million views, asks, “Would you mind interrupting me like Meghan’s mother?”
Other accounts have posted similar theories and have gotten a fair amount of traffic.
One Ossa TV episode labeled “Harry seems tired of Meg’s control” was viewed 8.3 million times and was “liked” about 220,200 times.
In contrast, Piers Morgan’s recent post on Twitter about Prince Harry’s memoir garnered 6,288 “likes: Compassion” and calling himself a “humanitarian”? ”
Should Harry and Meghan care about viral Tiktoks?
Christopher Bouzy, founder of data analytics firm Bot Sentinel, said: Newsweek: “They should definitely be concerned about this content that was produced and posted on TikTok. A lot of this stuff is getting millions of views.
“The question is whether it’s affecting other people. I don’t have data on that, but it’s definitely affecting some people. It’s getting millions of views. If so, there will be a minority of people affected.
“The problem with Twitter is that there are so many journalists and so many influential people on Twitter.So sometimes journalists see something on Twitter and think it’s organic. I have.
“They’ll write about it and say there’s this hashtag about Meghan Markle and there’s a story written about it, but it was inorganic. was amplified to
