Babo's Sex Tape Leak

About

Babo's Sex Tape Leak refers to the leak of an intimate video that was originally published on the official OnlyFans account of the Mexican rapper Eduardo Dávalos De Luna, popularly known as Babo, from the group Cartel de Santa. The viral video leaked on Twitter on January 16th, 2023, generating meme reactions on social media in the following days.

Origin

The explicit video comes from a version of Babo's^[1] new music video "Piensa En Mí," in which the rapper appears seated in an armchair surrounded by women who pretend to seduce him. The original video was uploaded on YouTube on January 13th, 2023, and accumulated 7.3 million views in six days.

Spread

Following the video's release on January 13th, 2023, many people acknowledged on Twitter that they knew various details about Babo since it is not the first time the singer went viral on social media.^[2] For example, on January 17th, the Twitter^[6] account @EnMexicoMagico shared a video of a boy cooling his head in cold water to forget why he searched Babo's trending topic on Twitter. The post received 21,300 likes and 2,700 retweets in three days (seen below).

Yo después de ver porqué el Babo es tendencia 😳😳😳😳 pic.twitter.com/SSZUXKXpNh

— 🇲🇽 México Mágico ✨ (@EnMexicoMagico) January 17, 2023

Reactions to the video continued to spread, particularly on Twitter. For example, another Twitter^[3] user wished for someone to erase Babo's video from her memory after watching it. Posted by @its_lin2 on January 17th, 2023, the meme (seen below) garnered over 1.2 million views and 2,900 likes in three days.

Alguien quíteme el recuerdo del video del babo pic.twitter.com/VUBwduODqW

— Evelin M💋 (@its_lin2) January 17, 2023

Memes referencing it also spread to TikTok in mid-January 2023 as TikTok^[4] users started posting about it. For example, TikToker @marlene2995 posted a POV reaction of the first time she saw Babo's video. Posted January 18th, the TikTok received over 15.5 million views and 1.1 million likes in one day.

Babo's Reaction

After both the video and the memes went viral on social networks, the singer turned to his Instagram^[5] stories on January 18th, 2023, to share his position on the matter. The rapper republished some images with funny phrases and added laughing emojis to memes about his adult video (shown below).

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