This week, many said on the social network they were shocked by the former president's words and confused why the episode wasn't a deal breaker in 2016.

"I don't think any of my friends had heard it," said Kate Sullivan, a 21-year-old student in Ohio who heard the tape for the first time on her TikTok For You feed this week. "We all felt equally shocked."

People her age have less tolerance for sexual misconduct after growing up amid a series of high-profile harassment and assault cases involving major celebrities, Sullivan said. She immediately felt compelled to share the audio in her own video, with the superimposed text, "Fathers are voting for this man." The video has been viewed 2.5 million times and was reshared by singer Billie Eilish to her 68 million followers.

Brigid Quinn, a 15-year-old in Georgia, knew that Trump had been accused of making sexist comments, she said. But she had never heard the words he actually said - including the grab them by the -----' quote. She "didn't understand how people thought this was normal." She made her own video featuring Trump's audio in hopes her school friends of voting age would see it.

"I'm around a lot of [18-year-olds] on my sports team, and I thought maybe I could show them who to vote for," she said. Some people came up to her at school saying her TikTok was the first they had ever heard of the tape.

Just another reminder among thousands why DJT is wholly unfit to hold any elective office, much less the US presidency. And if the kids really want to know why this wasn't a deal breaker in 2016 they should ask their mothers and fathers.