Combs, Mangione Trials Create New Breed of TikTok Influencers

In over two centuries of Southern District of New York verdicts, it’s unlikely that before now any of them were greeted by a livestreamer spraying baby oil onto a cheering crowd by the courthouse doors.

For the influencers, streamers, independent journalists and self-styled content creators that have become dominant in much of cultural life by now, the Sean Combs sex trafficking trial, with all of its salacious details, offered a new world to conquer: the courts.