Ophenya's TikTok account is still inaccessible. Twelve days after the French influencer, real name Ophélie Vincent, was banned from the Chinese social network for having “infringed [ses] community rules” – TikTok refuses to specify which ones and does not communicate on the duration of the sanction – its fans are as if in disinheritance. Alas, some of the “bgnyas” (the name given to the members, mostly teenagers, of his online community) take refuge in “fan accounts” to mourn their idol and defend her. “I collapsed”reacts one of them, without however despairing of one day seeing the one she calls “Ophe” return to the platform with vertical videos.
The loss of her approximately 4.8 million subscribers on TikTok is not, however, the only problem currently facing the content creator. Recently, the Interministerial Mission for Vigilance and the Fight against Sectarian Abuses (Miviludes) took legal action regarding it, as revealed Politico on November 13. And this on the basis of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure, which allows any authority, public officer or civil servant who “acquires knowledge of a crime or misdemeanor” to notify the public prosecutor. Contacted, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed Mondehaving received this report, “which is the subject of an analysis” Right now.
Behind this procedure, of which we do not know the trigger or the potential criminal offense concerned – Miviludes refusing to make any comments – is the collective Miners, Ethics and Networks (MEER). Made up in particular of education professionals, this citizen group carefully examines the relationships that Ophenya maintains with its young fans. He has been communicating for almost a year with various actors, such as Miviludes, on the behaviors deemed problematic by the influencer, and prides himself on being at the origin of the report which led to TikTok's decision.
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One of the members of this collective, employed in the territorial civil service, also claims to have also taken legal action, again under article 40 of the code of criminal procedure. With her report, this educator, who wishes to remain anonymous, says she transmitted numerous elements that she describes as “evidence” materializing the dangerousness of the content creator towards her audience (video excerpts, screenshots of messages sent by some of her fans in psychological distress, etc.).
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