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Andrew Tate: The whole truth about the “toxic” influencer – A half-breed who “rots” in prison

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Andrew Tate is a social media phenomenon. His TikTok content has been viewed more than 12.7 billion times

Andrew Tate… The “toxic” influencer, who likes to call himself Top G (in street slang the G stands for gangster), he says he did nothing wrong. He can look and act like a gangster. He might have bragged about being a billionaire. However, he is currently “rotting” in Romanian prisons and says he is a good kid.

He was arrested on December 29 on charges of human trafficking and rape. Officers raided his hideout and say they found guns, knives and large sums of cash. Top G and his younger brother, 34-year-old Tristan, were led into jail in handcuffs. Two Romanian women, Georgiana Naghel and a former police officer named Alexandra Luana Radu, were also arrested.

Andrew Tate is a social media phenomenon. His TikTok content has been viewed more than 12.7 billion times. No one else on the platform comes close to him. He claims to have mastered social media algorithms and his posts are like a cyber plague.

His career didn’t start on the internet. He was a successful kickboxer. In 2009, it was the first in its class in Europe. Experts spoke of his “multi-layered techniques” and “sharp punches to the body”. But by 2016, Andrew Tate, as the “Guardian” newspaper writes, had left the ring and entered another arena: television, specifically a well-known reality show.

He seemed a born provocateur: “I don’t care if nobody likes me,” he told the other contestants. “I know I’m the smartest person in the house. Fact!”.

A few days later, Tate was ejected from the game after footage emerged showing him beating an ex-girlfriend with a belt (although both Tate and the woman deny the abuse and say the video showed consensual sex). It has since emerged that Hertfordshire Police have made inquiries about him over allegations of rape. In 2019, the Prosecutor’s Office decided not to continue the investigation and the file was closed.

Tate stepped forward next. He set up a cam business in the UK, broadcasting live sex shows with women he recruited. He railed against radical feminism and declared that young men needed to reclaim their manhood. “Life is war,” he said. “It’s a war for the female you want. It’s a war for the car you want. It’s a war for the money you want. It’s a war for status. Men’s life is war!’

Young, disaffected men began to follow him en masse. They wanted more. Tate responded by escalating the confrontation. On social media, he talked about beating women, grabbing them by the throat. Then in 2017, he said that the women who were raped bear some of the blame. Unsurprisingly, he was banned from all major social media platforms in 2022.

Over the past two years, it’s been Tate’s followers, not himself, that have helped grow his presence on TikTok. They come from all walks of life, creeds and countries. Having publicly converted to Islam in October last year, the “toxic” influencer was recently seen carrying a copy of the Koran into a Romanian court, boosting his popularity among young Islamist men. Schools in the UK are so concerned about Tate radicalizing their students that teachers have been given instructions on how to combat his misogynistic views.

Tate’s “digital army” of followers say his arrest in Romania is a trap, orchestrated by what they call “the Matrix,” a global conspiracy of mainstream media and politicians trying to silence and control him. “The Matrix attacked me,” he tweeted after his arrest, “but they misunderstand, you can’t kill an idea.”

When Tate first arrived in Romania six years ago, aged 30, he was asked why he chose to move. “I like eastern Europe as a whole,” he said, “because corruption is much more accessible.” In the UK, he reasoned, only the high profile get away with crime, implying that Romania was open to all.

The Romanian legal system has never before experienced such global scrutiny and the Tate brothers are already citing the ‘Matrix’ as the cause of all ‘evil’. Leaving a failed appeal hearing in January, Tristan shouted into the camera: “Ask the politicians, ask the judges, you’re getting closer to the truth.”

Tate was born in the US, his parents immigrated to the UK when he was about five years old. His father, Emory, was a pioneering African-American chess champion who died suddenly during a tournament in 2015. His mother worked as a caterer in Luton and is now said to be in Kentucky, where she lives with his sister Tate. a lawyer.

He and his brother won’t be returning home for quite some time. If convicted, they are likely to spend many years in a Romanian prison. Tate, a man created in cyberspace, will see his money converted into binary code locked in a virtual wallet, unreachable by any human.

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