Keiko Kopp, the Florida prisoner who gained Tik Tok fame, used the email system at Lowell Correctional Institution to send her videos to her mother to post on the site. But using a prison’s electronic messaging service, it can still be shared with a friend or loved one on the outside, who then can post it to the internet. It can be posted directly online, if the prisoner can get a cell signal on his phone – often impossible in the rural areas where many prisons sit. Once a video is made, it can be shared in a number of ways. And the number that remains undetected? It is exponentially higher, experts say. However, such bans are clearly ineffective the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation reported confiscating almost 750 cellphones every month since 2019. So how do these prisoners do it? To film their videos, they need a cellphone – illegal contraband behind bars. In the U.S., an imprisoned Florida “vlogger” garnered 153,000 followers and 8 million views of videos she posted to Tik Tok in late 2021, chronicling drug overdoses and prisoner fights, as well as the struggles elderly prisoners face. From behind bars at a UK prison, one incarcerated video blogger has reportedly amassed 24,000 followers who watch his Tik Tok videos, earning him £1,700 (about $2,129 USD) monthly.Ī report posted to the web news site Inquisitr on April 22, 2023, notes that Tik Tok videos posted by British prisoners cheekily claim to be coming from “HMP Butlins” – appropriating the name of a popular vacation tour operator to one of the UK’s lockups. In the age of social media, when anyone can become a star overnight, there is an unlikely group joining the ranks of internet fame-seekers: prisoners. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email
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