How The King Of Toxic Masculinity Corrupted A Generation

But this cigar-smoking, gun-toting, champagne-toting kickboxer from Luton is most notorious for his violent and disgusting views on women, rape and masculinity, and is accused of being a bad influence on a whole generation of young men . Tate – and his dark side – first came to the fore in 2016 when he appeared on Channel 5’s Big Brother. He was the first housemate to be kicked off the reality TV show after videos emerged showing him beating a woman with a belt and to ask another how many bruises he had. He later claimed these were part of consensual BDSM (Bondage, Discipline, Sadism, Masochism) sex-play and went on to use his Big Brother fame to build an online presence. As the Internet grew, Tate became notorious for his inflammatory diatribes against women on sites like YouTube and then TikTok. Andrew Tate is regularly seen online posing with beautiful women, mountains of cash and a fleet of supercars. It’s a lifestyle that has earned him millions of followers on social media In a particularly shocking online rant he argued that women “must take some responsibility” if they put themselves “in a position to rush”. In another, he said “my sister is her husband’s property.” Men accused of cheating by their girlfriends are advised to “slap the knife, get in her face and grab her by the throat”. Shut up b***h’. The more controversial his videos became, the more they were manipulated by social media algorithms and his audience, especially teenage boys, grew exponentially. With no less than 12.7 billion social media views and more Google searches in the past month than Donald Trump or Kim Kardashian, he is now the most famous man on the planet under 30. That’s why social media giants are trying – but so far failing – to clamp down on the online content of the man dubbed the ‘King of Toxic Masculinity’. Last week, Tate, 35, had the dubious honor of being the most high-profile person to be permanently banned from the Big Four social media sites TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. But that barely made a dent in his online presence, with duplicate accounts and a legion of ‘Soldiers’ – or followers – who will go to war for him popping up all over the internet. Days after TikTok was banned, a search of the site turned up at least 20 fan accounts, all with more than 10,000 followers each, dedicated to spreading Tate videos. Arrogant and self-effacing, Tate made a final ‘farewell’ video last week, insisting he is ‘not the number one villain on Earth’ and that he had been ‘unfairly maligned’. Last week, Tate, 35, had the dubious honor of being the most high-profile person to be permanently banned from the Big Four social media sites TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. But this saw almost no problem with his online presence, with dual accounts and a legion of ‘Soldiers’ – or followers – who will fight for him popping up all over the internet So how did this man acquire such abhorrent views of women and rise to such stratospheric levels of fame? Andrew Tate was born in Chicago, the son of Emory Andrew Tate Jr., a US Air Force sergeant turned International Chess Player, and Eileen, a catering assistant. After his parents divorced, his mother, now 61, moved with her three children to Luton, where she raised them alone. Home for her these days is a terraced house at Marsh Farm, Luton’s most deprived estate. A notorious crime scene, with gang shootings and arson attacks being a frequent occurrence, is in stark contrast to the millionaire lifestyle her son flaunts. Mrs Tate, who previously worked at the local Roman Catholic high school, is considered a real pillar of the community. She regularly donates to children’s hospitals and child poverty and cancer research charities, and her social media profile features pictures of her children when they were young. But yesterday she was unavailable to comment on her son’s misogynistic views and a neighbor said: “He’s been through enough.” It was in Luton that Andrew took up kickboxing and, during his teens and twenties, became a four-time world champion. In 2015, Andrew’s father died suddenly at the age of 56. He made his ill-fated appearance on Big Brother the following year and in 2017, shortly after spending two days in a cell as police investigated him over abuse allegations, he moved to Romania. He admitted that “40 percent of the reason I moved to Romania” was because rape laws are more lenient there. “I’m not in a rush, but I like the idea of ​​being able to just do what I want,” he said in a now-deleted video. Andrew Tate was born in Chicago, the son of Emory Andrew Tate Jr., a US Air Force sergeant turned International Chess Player, and Eileen, a catering assistant. After his parents divorced, his mother, now 61, moved with her three children to Luton, where she brought them up alone. In April this year, his compound in Bucharest was raided by Romania’s Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate. They had been told by the US Embassy about a girl being held against their will at a property owned by Tate and his brother Tristan. Romanian media reports found a 21-year-old US man and a young Romanian woman who were reportedly being held against their will. And this week police sources told the Mail there were two other Romanian women in the complex. However, Tristan Tate has previously disputed that police found women in the home who were there against their will, saying: “No girls were found in my home and no one was arrested.” The sources said the home was full of cameras and, according to police, was being used as a webcam studio. Romanian prosecutors opened an investigation following allegations of unlawful deprivation of liberty, and later expanded it to cover allegations of human trafficking and rape. But the Tate brothers say they have “never been arrested.” And still the internet is buzzing with Andrew Tate’s appearances. Earlier this month, primary and secondary school teachers in Britain warned of his “dangerous misogynistic and homophobic abuse”, highlighting how “young boys seem to be most affected”. Teachers in Australia said Tate, who they described as a “toxic influencer”, was responsible for a rise in sexual assaults by boys against girls in private schools, while the internet is littered with posts by teenage girls making claims such as: Andrew Tate it made my friend hate me.’ Central to his cult as a hero who knows “how to be successful as a man” is Tate’s supposedly self-made fortune and his promise that all who follow him can attain similar riches. “I’m a trillionaire, the first in the world,” he said earlier this year. “I made my first million when I was, say, 27, and then I had 100 million by the time I was 31, and then I became a trillionaire very recently.” Tate’s main business venture is Hustlers University, an online “community where I and dozens of War Room soldiers will teach YOU exactly how to make money.” Two iterations of the business’s website have already been shut down due to backlash against Tate’s views, but last week it returned with Hustlers University 3.0, boasting that “our youngest student is 13. Wins + $10,000 [sic] one month. So age DOESN’T MATTER.’ Almost 130,000 people – many of them British students – are paying £39 a month to be tutored by ’12 multi-millionaires’ in copywriting, e-commerce and cryptocurrency trading. Bu Tate’s carefully cultivated image has raised eyebrows, as have his claims to be a “trillionaire”. His true net worth is a bit of a mystery, but various online estimates put his worth between £16 million and £300 million. Whatever the truth, the Mail uncovered some surprising facts. According to financial documents filed with the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance, at the end of 2020, one of the Tate brothers’ companies, Talisman Enterprises SRL, recorded assets of £468,000, debts of £732,000 and a turnover of £344,000. It is not known what other companies Andrew Tate owns and how successful they are. The brothers’ ‘Tate HQ’ complex in the affluent Pipera suburb of Bucharest, with its home cinema, swimming pool and neon ‘Tate’ signs with Andrew’s chess knight logo, is widely regarded by its internet fans as worth at least 25 millions of pounds. But luxury properties in Romania cost an average of £1m, with even the most expensive valued at less than £10m. And for a man who sells himself on his business acumen, Andrew Tate’s personal finances seem at odds with the lavish lifestyle portrayed by the self-proclaimed ‘Beast of Bucharest’ and his brother Tristan, 34. Tate’s carefully cultivated image has raised eyebrows, as have his claims to be a “trillionaire”. His true net worth is a bit of a mystery, but various online estimates put his worth between £16m and £300m Andrew Tate, who is director of a company called The Cannon Run Ltd — registered to his mother’s Luton council — which runs driving tours across Europe and sells used sports cars, has several CCJs against of unpaid debts. Full name Emory Andrew Tate III, he has had three CCJs against him since 2018, totaling £3,962, £268 and £270. A further two CCJs are pending against The Cannon Run direct, totaling £4,518 and £1,416, both last year. The supercar business has also received two coronavirus bounceback loans from the UK government — designed to help struggling businesses during…