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EXCLUSIVE: Are Couples With Significant Age Gaps Finding Real Love? | TSR Investigates

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Quran Mccain&comma; have been taking over these internet streets&period; The couple met when Quran was just 15-years-old working at Dairy Queen and discovered a friendship that blossomed into romance 8 years later&period; Ignoring major age gaps seems to be on trend these days&period; In fact&comma; several couples with similar stories are stepping into The Shade Room and showing off their relationships loud and proud&comma; despite the fact that many of them have had to deal with online hate&comma; disapproval from their families&comma; and much more&period; Could these old and young match-ups be just for show&quest; Or Is this love the real deal&quest; The Shade Room investigates…'&sol;>&NewLine;<meta &equals;'thumbnailUrl' content&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;May-december-romance&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;768'&sol;>&NewLine;<meta &equals;'uploadDate' content&equals;'2023-02-15T07&colon;49&colon;46-08&colon;00'&sol;>&NewLine;<meta &equals;'contentUrl' content&equals;'https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;jwplayer&period;com&sol;v2&sol;media&sol;m07KjYT7'&sol;>&NewLine;<div id&equals;'jwppp-video-1121191' class&equals;'jwplayer'>Loading the player&period;&period;&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<script type&equals;'text&sol;javascript'>&NewLine;var playerInstance&lowbar;1121191 &equals; jwplayer&lpar; "jwppp-video-1121191" &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;playerInstance&lowbar;1121191&period;setup&lpar;&lbrace;&NewLine;playlist&colon; "https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;jwplayer&period;com&sol;v2&sol;media&sol;m07KjYT7"&comma;&NewLine;&rcub;&rpar;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div><p>Age ain’t nothing but a number&comma; right&quest; Well that’s certainly the case for several couples that have been going viral on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;tiktok&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>TikTok<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When it comes to these unlikely connections 62-year-old Cheryl Mccain and her 25-year-old husband&comma; Quran Mccain&comma; have been taking over these internet streets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Age Gap Couples Making Waves On TikTok&comma; Drawing Interest And Scrutiny At The Same Time<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The couple met when Quran was just 15-years-old working at Dairy Queen and discovered a friendship that blossomed into romance 8 years later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ignoring major age gaps seems to be on trend these days&period; In fact&comma; several couples with similar stories are stepping into The Shade Room and showing off their relationships loud and proud&comma; despite the fact that many of them have had to deal with online hate&comma; disapproval from their families&comma; and much more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Could these old and young match-ups be just for show&quest; Or Is this love the real deal&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Shade Room investigates…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They&&num;8217&semi;ve been called sugar babies&comma; sugar daddies&comma; cougars&period; The stigma of either dating older or younger is always going to be there&comma; from Cher and Alexander Edwards 40-year age gap&comma; to Eddie Murphy and Paige Butcher&&num;8217&semi;s 18-year gap&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But there&&num;8217&semi;s a newfound confidence for such couples &&num;8211&semi; especially on TikTok &&num;8211&semi; and they&&num;8217&semi;re putting it all out there for social media to see&comma; and we wanted to know why&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Couple With 37-Year Age Gap Amasses Three Million Followers On TikTok&comma; OnlyFans<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>With three million followers on TikTok&comma; people are eating up Cheryl and Quran McCain&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m 62 and &lpar;he&&num;8217&semi;s&rpar; 25&comma; so there&&num;8217&semi;s a 37-year age gap&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Cheryl tells TSR Investigates&&num;8217&semi; Justin Carter&period; &&num;8220&semi;It was pretty much an accident and God&&num;8221&semi; she added&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>They met when he was just 15-years-old&period; Cheryl&&num;8217&semi;s adult son was the owner of Dairy Queen in Rome&comma; Georgia where Quran was working at the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the two really began to hit it off eight years later when Quran started helping Cheryl with her TikTok content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I told her&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I have feelings for you&comma;'&&num;8221&semi; Quran said&period; &&num;8220&semi;That&&num;8217&semi;s basically the point where the relationship began&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112187" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112187" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-112187" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Screenshot-2023-02-15-at-10&period;54&period;52-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"599" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112187" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Pictured&colon; Quran and Cheryl McCain&comma; a sugar baby relationship that&&num;8217&semi;s gone viral on TikTok&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Cheryl said she was under the impression that the two were just friends&comma; but has since embraced the May to December romance&comma; stating &&num;8220&semi;he makes me feel like no other&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;You know what&quest; It&&num;8217&semi;s the best decision I ever made in my entire life&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Cheryl added&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>They&&num;8217&semi;ve been happily married now for a year&comma; but not without hurdles&period; They regularly receive hate messages on social media&comma; disapproval from their families&comma; and speculation around Quran&&num;8217&semi;s sexuality&comma; to which they both scoffed at&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;She got that WAP&comma; waterfall&&num;8230&semi; Niagara&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Quran said&period; &&num;8220&semi;And we ain&&num;8217&semi;t even discovered the whole ocean yet&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Quran went on to say that he didn&&num;8217&semi;t see her age&comma; and revealed he lost his virginity to her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And now they&&num;8217&semi;re making money off of their unusual romance&comma; and even started an OnlyFans page&period; When asked if they make a lot of money from it&comma; Quran laughed and answered in the affirmative&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112161" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112161" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-112161" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Screenshot-2023-02-15-at-10&period;14&period;59-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"941" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112161" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Pictured&colon; sugar baby Semie Atadja poses with one of her older consorts&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">24-Year-Old Woman Engages In Polyamorous Relationship With Three Much Older Men<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>There is no OnlyFans account for 24-year-old Semie Atadja of New Jersey&comma; who is currently in a relationship with not one&comma; but three much older men&period; The unusual relationship arrangement takes her to the beaches of the Dominican Republic&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m grown and I do what I want&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Atadja said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She met her first older man&comma; a 62-year-old&comma; five years ago on a singles website&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fast forward to 2023&comma; and Atadja enjoys her days on the beaches of Dominican Republic with a 62-year-old&comma; a 76-year-old&comma; and an 84-year-old man&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112170" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112170" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-112170" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Screenshot-2023-02-15-at-10&period;29&period;12-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"949" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112170" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Sugar baby Semie Atadja with one of her sugar daddies&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I enjoy all their company&&num;8230&semi; I guess I am a sugar baby&period; I like being taken care of&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m a housewife&&num;8230&semi; That&&num;8217&semi;s what I like to do&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Sugar Baby Calls Haters Jealous&colon; &&num;8220&semi;If They Could &lpar;Do It&rpar;&comma; They Would&period; But They Can&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; So They Don&&num;8217&semi;t&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>When asked about the criticisms she has faced&comma; Semie says &&num;8220&semi;if they could &lpar;do what she&&num;8217&semi;s doing&rpar;&comma; they would&period; But they can&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; so they don&&num;8217&semi;t&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s always someone with insufficient funds&period; I have a card&comma; and every time I swipe it&comma; it works&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she went on to say&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>But it appears to be of no issue with her older sugar daddies&comma; who say they are totally fine with the arrangement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112168" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112168" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-112168" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Screenshot-2023-02-15-at-10&period;31&period;16-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"758" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112168" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Sugar baby Semie Atadja with her three much-older consorts&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Sugar Daddy In Dallas Dating Black Woman 25-Years His Junior After Meeting On Match&period;Com<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; 53-year-old Joseph Zavattero of Dallas&comma; Texas says he waited decades to find the perfect sugar baby&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He eventually found her&comma; with that her being 28-year-old Shardae Ray&comma; making for a 25-year age difference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They met on Match&period;com before going viral on TikTok&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I got engaged within four months of knowing Joseph&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ray said&period; &&num;8220&semi;When you know&comma; you know&period; And he didn&&num;8217&semi;t even ask me to move in&comma; I just moved myself in&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Zavaterro said one of the things he&&num;8217&semi;s learned from dating a Black woman&colon; don&&num;8217&semi;t touch her hair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;112174" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-112174" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-112174" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;Screenshot-2023-02-15-at-10&period;38&period;01-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"599" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-112174" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Pictured&colon; 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