Viewing “leaked” sex tapes is rape culture.
In 2014, Mimi Faust, star of Love and Hip Hop Atlanta (and the patron saint of wronged baby mommas), shook the world when it was announced that she was being “exposed” in a “leaked” sex tape. As someone who had an image that was seemingly in juxtaposition to the “slutty” former sex worker and stripper “Joseline”, a leaked sex tape seemed to be completely out of the realm of possibility for Mimi.
As news spread, interest in the sex tape increased, with millions of people around the world posting on social media asking where to find it and if people had seen it. Screenshots of the tape and clips were posted. Through it all, Mimi played the consummate victim of the mysterious being responsible for the leaking of the tape. Fans and friends of Mimi blamed Nikko, Mimi’s boyfriend at the time for the tape, resulting in threads and vitriol being aimed at Nikko.
A lesser fraction of the public was suspicious, however. Despite Mimi playing the victim (very well) and claiming that Nikko was completely behind the leaking of the tape and “masterminding” the tape, Mimi eventually admitted that she was involved in (and consented to) the making of the tape at every stage.
