Well the bolded brings up a part of the conversation as well: Y’all gotta learn to sit out and stop speaking on shyt you didn’t really live thru. The intricate details matter
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The ages weren’t explicitly known in real time. It wasn’t known as ‘R Kelly’s underage tape’. It was just ‘r Kelly sex tape’ and as you can imagine people jumped in to watch based off that. There was actually one or more grown women in the tape
2- The quality wasn’t exactly 4k. So it wasn’t exactly easy to definitively know iirc (I don’t remember exactly bc I wasn’t watching
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3- People didn’t find out the ages until after the tape came out and, probably, BY watching the tape, Chicago folk noticed the girl, and those dominoes started to fall
