Ray J now a little bit worried his Kim Kardashian sex tape might have destroyed this timeline
"Everything would be different… Probably more people would be going to college.”
When we think about actor, musician, and three-decades-and-counting “television presence” Ray J, our mind typically goes to three things. 1) He is Brandy’s brother! 2) His moderately successful 2006 R&B hit “Sexy Can I.” And, of course, 3), his philosophical grasp of the concept of branching timelines, as expressed through his mused worries that he might have seriously messed up our current reality by making a sex tape with Kim Kardashian back in 2003.
Ray J got to pontificating about the societal influence of said tape—marketed in 2007 as Kim Kardashian, Superstar, and released by Vivid Entertainment, with both Ray J and Kardashian ultimately receiving profits from the release—on a recent installment of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast. In the Ray J-Kim K Theory Of The Multiverse, that tape is, in some ways, the linchpin of 21st century media: “How different would we all be?” he asks at one point. “How different would this whole fucking thing be? How different would this industry be? Everything would be different. There might not be any OnlyFans and all the things like that. All the opportunities like that. Probably more people would be going to college.”
That is a lot of power for some camcorder footage of a trip to Cabo San Lucas to have placed upon its humble shoulders, but, amazingly, we can kind of see where Professor J is going with this particularly wild branch of chaos theory. Without getting into conspiracy theories—they’re out there, of course—the tape undeniably raised Kardashian’s profile just as Keeping Up With The Kardashians was launching; her career, meanwhile served as an obvious template for the influencer culture to follow, creating a new breed of often very lucrative celebrity for people to pursue. Can we say, definitively, that the number of people who went to college in the last 20 years wasn’t affected by its existence? Who can say how that little butterfly flaps, huh?
Anyway, Ray J himself is not happy about the whole thing: When Sharpe asks him whether he’s embarrassed by the tape now, he answered with a blunt “Yes,” citing his children as the primary reason.
[via THR]