Andrew Tate


Andrew Tate
Andrew Tate on 'Anything Goes With James English' in 2021.jpg
Tate in 2021
Born
Emory Andrew Tate III

(1986-12-14) December 14, 1986 (age 35)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican-British
Parent
Martial arts career
Height6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight198 lb (90 kg; 14.1 st)
DivisionLight heavyweight
Fighting out ofLuton, England
Bucharest, Romania
TeamStorm Gym
Websitecobratate.com
 

Emory Andrew Tate III (born December 14, 1986) is an American-British[1] internet personality and former professional kickboxer. Following his kickboxing career, Tate began offering paid courses and memberships through his website and later rose to fame following a move to influencer marketing. Tate's misogynistic[2][3][4][5] commentary on social media has resulted in bans from several platforms.

Early life

Tate was born on December 14, 1986,[6] in Washington, D.C.,[7] and raised in Luton, England.[8] His African-American father, Emory Tate, was a chess International Master.[9] His mother worked as a catering assistant.[8] He is multiracial.[10] Tate learned to play chess at the age of five and competed in adult tournaments as a child.[9]

Career

Kickboxing

Tate boxing in 2014

In 2005, Tate started practicing boxing and martial arts on the side. In 2009, while employed in selling television advertising, he won the International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) Full Contact Cruiserweight championship in Derby, England, and was ranked number one in his division in Europe. Though he had won 17 of his 19 fights, he said it was his first belt and title.[11] Tate won his first ISKA world title in a rematch against Jean-Luc Benoit via knockout, having previously lost to Benoit by decision.[12] In 2013, Tate won his second ISKA world title in a 12-round match held in Châteaurenard, France, making him world champion in two different weight divisions.[13] He has since retired from combat sports.[14]

Big Brother and online ventures

In 2016, while a guest on the seventeenth season of Big Brother, Tate came under scrutiny for his homophobic and racist comments on Twitter.[15][16] After the release of a video in which Tate appeared to beat a woman with a belt, Tate was removed from the show after only six days of participation.[17] Both Tate and the woman said that they were friends and that the actions in the video were consensual.[8][17][18]

Tate's personal website offers training courses on accumulating wealth and "male–female interactions". According to the website, he also operates a webcam studio using girlfriends as employees.[17] Tate and his brother started the webcam business, employing as many as 75 webcam models[19] to sell "fake sob stories" to male callers,[20] claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so. Tate stated that the business model is a "total scam".[21]

Tate operates Hustler's University, a website where members pay a monthly membership fee in order to receive instruction on topics such as dropshipping and cryptocurrency trading. Until August 2022, members got a substantial commission for recruiting other people to the website through an affiliate marketing scheme.[22] Daniel Angus, a professor of digital communications at Queensland University of Technology, stated the affiliate program had "all the hallmarks of a pyramid scheme".[23] Tate became highly prominent during 2022 by encouraging members of Hustler's University to post large numbers of videos of him to social media platforms in an effort to maximize engagement.[8]

Social media presence

Tate received attention for his tweets describing his view of what qualifies as sexual harassment amid the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases and for tweeting several statements about his view that sexual assault victims share responsibility for their assaults.[17] In 2017, he was criticized for tweeting that depression "isn't real".[2][24] Three of Tate's Twitter accounts were suspended at different times. In 2021, an account that he created to evade his previous ban was verified by Twitter contrary to their policies. The account was subsequently permanently suspended, and Twitter said that the verification occurred in error.[17]

Online, Tate initially became known among far-right circles through appearances on InfoWars and acquaintances with far-right figures such as Paul Joseph Watson, Jack Posobiec, and Mike Cernovich.[25] Tate was described by Rabbil Sikdar in The Independent as a "cult-like figure" whose fans are "directionless men" who support his anti-feminist views.[26] Tate has described himself as "absolutely a sexist" and "absolutely a misogynist",[27] and has stated that women "belong to the man" and that he would attack women were they to accuse him of infidelity.[8][2] The White Ribbon Campaign, a nonprofit advocating against male-on-female violence, considers Tate's commentary "extremely misogynistic" and its possible long-term effects on his young male audience "concerning".[28] Hope not Hate, an advocacy group campaigning against racism and fascism, has commented that Tate's social media presence might present a "dangerous slip road into the far-right" for his audience.[29] In response to criticism, Tate stated that his content includes "many videos praising women" and mainly aims at teaching his audience to avoid "toxic and low value people as a whole".[30] He further stated that he plays a "comedic character" and claimed that people believed "absolutely false narratives" about him.[31]

In August 2022, Tate was permanently banned from Instagram, where he had 4.7 million followers,[32] and Facebook for violating their policies on hate speech and dangerous organizations and individuals.[29][33][34] TikTok, where videos featuring his name as a hashtag have been viewed 13 billion times, removed his account as well after determining that it violated their policies on "content that attacks, threatens, incites violence against, or otherwise dehumanizes an individual or a group".[25][35] Shortly thereafter, YouTube also suspended his channel citing multiple violations, including hate speech and COVID-19 misinformation, and Tate subsequently deleted his channel on Twitch.[36][37] Tate responded to the bans, saying that, while most of his comments were taken out of context, he takes responsibility for how they were received.[2] Boxer and social media personality Jake Paul denounced Tate's sexism, but criticized the bans as censorship.[19]

Criminal investigation

In a now-deleted YouTube video, Tate stated that he decided to move to Romania in part because he was less likely to be investigated for rape allegations in Eastern Europe.[21] On April 11, 2022, Tate's house was raided by the Romanian police after the U.S. embassy alerted them that an American woman might be held at the property. The investigation was later expanded to include human trafficking and rape allegations.[8] On April 27, Romanian police said that no person had been charged or arrested in the case.[38] The investigation is ongoing as of mid-2022. Tate has denied any wrongdoing.[8]

References

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