Plant a little seed and watch it grow
Andrew Tate says women belong in the home, can’t drive, and are a man’s property.
He also thinks rape victims must “bear responsibility” for their attacks and dates women aged 18–19 because he can “make an imprint” on them, according to videos posted online.
In other clips, the British-American kickboxer – who poses with fast cars, guns and portrays himself as a cigar-smoking playboy – talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.
“It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. Shut up bitch,” he says in one video, acting out how he’d attack a woman if she accused him of cheating. In another, he describes throwing a woman’s things out of the window. In a third, he calls an ex-girlfriend who accused him of hitting her – an allegation he denies – a “dumb hoe”.
And to the surprise of no one, all this makes him wildly popular.
Styled as a self-help guru, offering his mostly male fans a recipe for making money, pulling girls and “escaping the matrix”, Tate has gone in a matter of months from near obscurity to one of the most talked about people in the world. In July, there were more Google searches for his name than for Donald Trump or Kim Kardashian.
He achieved this sudden stardom by telling his followers to “flood social media with videos of him,” and apparently it worked. The cash is pouring in.
In less than three months, the strategy has earned him a huge following online and potentially made him millions of pounds, with 127,000 members now paying the £39 a month to join Hustler’s University community, many of them men and boys from the UK and US.
Yet despite much of the content appearing to break TikTok’s rules, which explicitly ban misogyny and copycat accounts, the platform appears to have done little to limit Tate’s spread or ban the accounts responsible. Instead, it has propelled him into the mainstream – allowing clips of him to proliferate, and actively promoting them to young users.
Great, because what the world needs right now is lots and lots of male people whipped into a frenzy of hatred of women. $$$
Well, that sure was an upsetting thing to read at the beginning of the day.
It looks like he’s following the Chris Benoit system for success.
How many women will die because of this fucker? Who cares, as long as “engagement” generates cashflow? Even then we can make more money by reporting on the body count.
But if he’d misgendered some TiM, we’d all be saying “Andrew who?”
And it’s all in the service of some Ponzi-scheme “university”.
But hey, feminists are the real problem, right?
It’s funny how this stuff gets a pass but GC women can get banned from many platforms for saying that transwomen are men. Lot’s of platforms seem to be very selective of when they support free speech on principle and when they don’t.
There have been a few (less successful) guys like this in the MRA world in the past. I remember encountering an acolyte of them, one of those many “men from the UK and US” who paid money to listen to talks about “how to be a man”. An activity that seemed from the descriptions to be mostly abusing women; it was the first time I ever encountered the term “negging”. I asked him if he couldn’t see how abusive it all was, and surprisingly, it did bother him–he said. But then he also said that the talks gave him “confidence”.
Male insecurity seems to be at the root of a huge number of societal and cultural woes.
Blocked and Reported’s live show podcast this week was primarily about Andrew Tate (and some weird incelcore music festival)…
The first timeI saw a Tate video I thought it was satire. I spent a lot of time waiting for the punchline, that never came.
His strong West Country accent made it difficult for me to take him seriously. Apologies to my friends from those parts but he sounds like a farmer, not a playboy.
A few more of his videos were shared and critiqued by other YourTube channels and it soon became clear that he is, in fact, totally serious, although it is obvious that a lot of it is an act. I don’t understand why any woman would give him the time of day.