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16 Feb, 5 tweets, 4 min read
In 2017, @TesstifyBarker and @BabsGray launched a podcast (@BritneysGram) dedicated to humorously dissecting Britney Spears’ enigmatic Instagram account.

And then #FreeBritney took flight latimes.com/entertainment-…
The #FreeBritney hashtag slowly transitioned into a bona-fide movement after a podcast episode in 2019.

That podcast featured a troubling voicemail from someone who claimed to be a former paralegal for a lawyer who worked on Spears’ conservatorship latimes.com/entertainment-…
That same fan-driven campaign is a through line in the much-discussed documentary, #FramingBritneySpears, which traces her rise to fame and the conservatorship she was placed under after a public breakdown in 2007-08 latimes.com/entertainment-…
(And here's an MTV video jockey's reflection on all the Britney coverage during those years👇) latimes.com/entertainment-…
We talked to @TesstifyBarker and @BabsGray, and they had a lot to say about the invasive media frenzy (and built-in misogyny) that engulfed Britney Spears and contributed to her personal struggles latimes.com/entertainment-…

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