Tiktok bans consumer behind Gisele Pelicot ‘starter package’ meme; ‘An apology for rape’

Social networks have been awash with “starter pack” or “starter package” memes made up of a number of pictures that often describe an expertise.

Tiktok deleted the consumer’s account on Tuesday and the content material is now inaccessible, a consultant of the social community informed AFP.

“A person is utilizing Gisele Pelicot’s picture to advertise a libertine relationship web site,” the feminist account Ovairestherainbow stated on Instagram.

“It’s clearly an apology for rape,” stated the account with greater than 90,000 followers.

The feminist account posted the AI-generated “starter pack” meme that confirmed a pyjama-clad doll within the likeness of 72-year-old Gisele Pelicot, together with a mattress, a capsule and a digital camera.

The meme additionally featured a “4 ” age grading image, the phrases “pre-order your Gisele” and a hyperlink to a libertine web site.

French information channel BFM stated the picture had racked up a minimum of 30,000 views.

The broadcaster stated the person behind the picture had beforehand posted content material denigrating Pelicot, and “even a photograph of a board sport referred to as ‘do not wake Gisele’.”

Who was Dominique Pelicot?

Pelicot garnered worldwide popularity of refusing to be ashamed within the trial of her ex-husband final 12 months over him orchestrating her sexual abuse for nearly a decade.

Dominique Pelicot, her now former husband, drugged her for practically a decade so he and dozens of strangers he recruited on-line may rape her.

A French court docket in December sentenced Dominique Pelicot to twenty years in jail.

His 50 co-defendants have been additionally discovered responsible and handed sentences of between three and 15 years.