TikTok moms are pointing cameras at their infants and weeping in solidarity with a woman who strangled three children to death.
While a Massachusetts jury still can't agree on a verdict, thousands of women online have already decided – Lindsay Clancy is a victim.
Now they're making sure you know they might do the same thing.
The "Same, Lindsay" TikTok Trend Taking Over the Lindsay Clancy Trial
The videos follow a template.
Phone propped at a low angle.
A mother rocking a baby or toddler against her chest.
On-screen text: diary entries from Lindsay Clancy herself – the same words read aloud in Plymouth Superior Court describing her despair, her anxiety, her overwhelming exhaustion.
And then the caption: "Same, Lindsay."
Clancy, 36, has been on trial since July for the January 2023 murders of her three children – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, just 8 months old. She strangled all three with exercise bands while her husband, Patrick, was out picking up takeout she had sent him to get.
Prosecutors say she knew exactly what she was doing.
Her defense argues postpartum psychosis removed her criminal responsibility entirely.
The jury has spent days deadlocked – at one point sending a note to Judge William Sullivan saying they cannot reach a unanimous decision.
Sullivan sent them back to keep trying.
Meanwhile, a Facebook group called "We Are Lindsay Clancy" has drawn thousands of members.
GoFundMe campaigns for Clancy's family are closing in on $1.8 million from nearly 60,000 donors combined.
TikTok Banned a Video Questioning the Lindsay Clancy Postpartum Psychosis Defense
TikTok didn't just let this trend spread – it actively protected it.
When a video appeared challenging the postpartum psychosis defense narrative, TikTok removed it.
The reason given: violation of community guidelines.
A video defending a woman who strangled three children – allowed.
A video questioning whether that defense holds up – banned.
That is the platform shaping how an entire generation of young mothers understands a triple child murder.
The Daily Wire's Virginia Kruta reported on the removal, noting TikTok's enforcement landed entirely on the side of Clancy's defenders.
TikTok's algorithm didn't stumble into this outcome by accident. It engineered it.
The Lindsay Clancy GoFundMe Has Raised Nearly 2 Million Dollars and Counting
It gets stranger.
Some commenters on social media have insisted that Patrick Clancy – who made the 911 call after coming home to find his children dead – "killed the kids."
Others have dreamed that Patrick abused the children and posted those dreams as evidence.
One viral comment declared Clancy "the winner" of the trial because she "proved postpartum psychosis the moment she killed her 3 children."
Astrology has entered the chat – users noting she's "a Leo" and concluding, therefore, she must be innocent.
This is where American discourse is in 2026.
The Spectator Australia documented the phenomenon, noting that social media had manufactured sympathy so total that facts no longer mattered – only the feeling.
What the Lindsay Clancy Postpartum Psychosis Defense Actually Proved
Here is what is true: postpartum psychosis is a real medical condition.
It affects roughly one to two women per thousand births.
It can cause hallucinations, delusions, and a complete break from reality.
It is serious, terrifying, and deserves real medical attention.
Here is what else is true: mental health providers who saw Clancy in the weeks before the murders had not detected signs of active psychosis.
Prosecutors documented seven medications in her bloodstream the night of the killings.
Her journals – the very ones being quoted in TikTok videos – also contained entries where she researched methods to kill.
That detail isn't making it into the "Same, Lindsay" videos.
The Andrea Yates case – the Houston mother who drowned her five children in 2001 and was ultimately found not guilty by reason of insanity – is the historical precedent the defense is working from.
Yates was genuinely psychotic. Her husband had ignored doctors' explicit warnings against another pregnancy. Her condition was documented, severe, and unambiguous.
Why the Lindsay Clancy Jury Deadlock Makes the TikTok Outrage Worse
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh drew sharp backlash when he argued that postpartum psychosis should not serve as a complete defense for methodically strangling three children.
He was criticized. He was called heartless.
Ben Shapiro, no liberal, broke with Walsh – acknowledging that severe postpartum psychosis is a real condition that deserves legal consideration.
What is not legitimate is TikTok mothers filming their own infants while mouthing solidarity with a woman who killed hers – and calling it healing.
What is not legitimate is a platform that removes videos questioning that narrative while amplifying the ones that celebrate it.
What is not legitimate is $1.8 million flowing to the family of a woman who strangled a five-year-old, a three-year-old, and an eight-month-old infant – while the jury still hasn't finished deciding whether she's guilty.
Three children are dead. Their names were Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
They are not trending.
Sources:
- Peter Charalambous, Mason Leib, Katie Kindelan, "Lindsay Clancy trial: Jury sent home for the day without a verdict," ABC News, August 31, 2026.
- "Lindsay Clancy Jury Can't Come to Verdict, Returns to Deliberation," TV Insider, September 1, 2026.
- "Lindsay Clancy murder trial becomes social media obsession as TikTokers, sleuths debate controversial case," Fox News Digital, 2026.
- Virginia Kruta, "TikTok Nixes Video That Challenges Popular Narrative Around Lindsay Clancy," Daily Wire, 2026.
- "The Moms of TikTok," The Free Press, 2026.
- "Support for Lindsay Clancy, from pink T-shirts to conservative stars," Boston.com, August 28, 2026.
- Staff, "We are watching social-media-induced insanity taking hold of otherwise normal women," The Spectator Australia, 2026.
