Andrew Tate's videos - promoting misogyny and targeting women - have come to prominence this summer with many teens commenting on just how much he's appearing on their social media feeds.

His content has raised concerns about the real-world effect it could have, especially on the younger users exposed to it during their school holidays when they have time on their hands.
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Meta has banned influencer Andrew Tate from Facebook and Instagram for violating its policies.

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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Fucking finally.

    I've been saying for weeks here how this shitbag is the biggest threat that exists right now. He absolutely rocketed into popularity and he is absolutely fucking up kids in Gen Z singlehandedly right now. He needs to be stopped. Read this shit .

    Get the bastard off youtube and get him off tiktok as well. This can't wait he needs to go immediately. If one platform just banned him then enough of a push can make the others do it on momentum.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I’ve been saying for weeks here how this shitbag is the biggest threat that exists right now.

      The thing is he reads like a 2010 manosphere dork.

      the fact that you're correct means the average person has zero social intelligence

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          FR tho, I’m on the Spectrum and act more considerately and attentively towards others than vice versa

          well I don't think social intelligence neither necessitates nor precludes kindness.

          You can be fash and socially capable at the same time--for instance just look at the fash that browse kiwifarms--but it seems like the vast majority of fash are socially completely fucking gone, and since every other person is a fash who socializes on the internet now, even the most socially intelligent people are now just cringe outrage dorks

          like when people type "BASED" and shit all the time, except most people bring that shit into IRL and it makes me cringe so hard that I legitimately want to slap people

          It used to be that the "internet people" knew there was a mode of decorum offline which was different, but since the neo-Eternal September of 2008 (or whenever smartphones took over) that no longer exists bc of the normies

    • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      His rise was no way organic. It was either :fedposting: to create havoc amongst a generation that was going heavy left or here paid a bunch of bot farms to push his content.

      I've pressed not interested to thousands of accounts and they don't stop on tiktok.

      The new one coming up is this idiot sneako.

      • Socialcreditscorr [they/them,she/her]
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        2 years ago

        . It was either :fedposting: to create havoc amongst a generation that was going heavy left or here paid a bunch of bot farms to push his content.

        Your technically wrong on both accounts :agony-shivering:

        He has managed to mimic the power of both by simply making astroturfing on his behalf a requirement to join his mlm Hustler's university. Granted, he probably used bots to supplement his already massive fame so he could launch the mlm in the first place because, of course. :agony-immense:

        In short, they're paying him to do this like an even more cursed muskrat fanboy :agony-consuming:

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Tbf this happens all the time with every generation and is never going to stop. I remember Millennials when I was going to school quoting Glenn Beck and Bill O' Reilly. Jordan Peterson also had a negative impact and the post you linked reminds me of another one that a professor made about it becoming harder to teach college students because of Jordan Peterson's influence.

      Milo, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Sargon of Akkad, Pewdiepie, etc. The dominant culture in most countries (not just anglo) is pretty sexist and bigoted in many ways that gives the perfect lean into right-wing politics.

  • Harajukum [any]
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    2 years ago

    ban all the loud awful PUA manosphere types. they exhaust me. They're super harmful to children and impressionable young men. would go as far to say platforms should start taking misogyny as seriously as they do with other forms of rule breaking-isms please. :scared:

  • clover [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I enjoy it when I hear about some reactionary dipshit and then they get banned off everything like 2 weeks later. Doesn’t happen often enough.

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I only heard about this douche a week ago lol. Good that he got banned, but he's got tons of clip channels regurgitating his content that you'd need to take down too. On top of that, there will simply be another douche like him to fill that same void, even if all his content was completely erased. The problem is how people this fucking shitty get this big in the first place.

    • Sinonatrix [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Tech companies making a big show about banning one serial rapist is really pathetic when their algorithms are launching their careers in the first place. Any dumbass tween is like three recommended YouTube videos away from PUA brain poison at any time

  • Thylacine [any]
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    2 years ago

    so he's just an "influencer"? I've been seeing people talk about how awful and shitty he is but I thought he was like an actor, or an athlete, or comedian, or... something sort of real. not just some misogynist Instagram psycho

    • dead [he/him]
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      He was a kickboxer in like 2015. He was on the show Big Brother (UK). He also has a MLM scheme called Hustler's University, where he charges $50 per month to tell people how to start drop shipping businesses. He owns a sex webcam website. He owns a separate company promotes women on onlyfans and then takes their earnings. He owns like 15 casinos in Romania. He was on Alex Jones infowars in like 2018. He made a collaborative video with infowars PJW in like 2017 to say that depression isn't real.

      His main thing is convincing women to do online sex work and then taking their earning. To be crass, he is an internet pimp. He started off after being a kickboxer, he had some fans that were women and wanted to have a relationship with him. He told these women that they could be his girlfriend if they did online sex work for him. Then he took their earnings, in some cases he took 100% of their earnings. He started off doing this in the UK, but he moved to Romania after one of the women reported him to the police for abuse. He has specifically said that he moved to Romania so because he can pay off the police when women accuse him of abuse.

      Now he sells courses to incels instructing them to do the same thing.

      • Thylacine [any]
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        2 years ago

        what the fuck, so he's a little more than just a misogynist Instagram psycho

        • 20000bannedposters [love/loves]
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          2 years ago

          His massive right now and his been promoted on your mom's house, bar stool, hasan has debated him. His so over tiktok which is the main social media now

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    feeling like i am going insane but is this guy, the dude that did that "I NEVER WATCHED STAR WARS" thread on twitter in which he just argues that he is so rich and fucks so much because of his aforementioned not watching star wars?

      • redthebaron [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        i've been reading his name online recently and feeling this odd dejavu feeling and it just clicked that this dude is COBRA TATE, former kickboxer and misogynist extraordinaire, it is wild how even the insane minor league freak can go on to be this relevant long term

  • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Aah, the scum bag got ban. Nice, this guy is piece of shite, for him to go viral said a lot about culture in the west.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    They banned LibsofTiktok and let her back a week later.

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I have not heard of this loser. What's the appeal of his content? Why is he so popular?

    • dead [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      He's promotes misogyny and general reactionary grifting. He's like Jordan Peterson, but he tells incels to groom women into doing online sex work.

      The reason he became so viral is because he has a pyramid scheme that he tells to repost his clips with their referral codes. He's got hundreds of his followers reposting his clips with the hopes that they get money from a referral scheme.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Jordan Peterson for zoomers and gen alpha but worse

      Also a human trafficker, online pimp and pyramid scheme guy

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    presumably there's no affiliation with union-busting cookie company Tate's Bake Shop?