Tate started out as a kick-boxer. He sought media exposure from a young age, appearing on reality TV show Big Brother in 2016. Channel 5 executives removed Tate from the Big Brother house after footage of him hitting a Ukrainian woman with a belt emerged. Tate demands the woman say she loves him and asks if she understands that she is not to message other men online again, telling her he will “fu**ing kill” her if she does. He hits her repeatedly with the belt despite her audible expressions of pain.
Years later, Tate became relatively popular on Twitter and Instagram, showcasing a seemingly lavish lifestyle in Bucharest. Driving sports cars and talking about how ‘Eastern’ women were more obedient, Tate clearly enjoyed lauding the superior wealth the economic inequality in Romania could deliver. Tate says he made his first million by recruiting local women as ‘webcam girls’. Like other pimps, Tate explains he approached these women romantically, under the guise of being their ‘boyfriend’, before moving them in with him and collectively making them ‘work’ for him.
Tate’s message is for men to become ‘alpha males’ and separate themselves from the rest by becoming their own boss. Tate even sells courses at his online ‘Hustlers University’ that claim to teach men how to achieve huge wealth, though these have been questioned as scams and a pyramid scheme. He advises men should leave the “matrix”, which roughly means giving up your job and “take money from other people” instead. That fantastical mix of lawlessness and self-righteous God-complex (Tate calls himself one of “God’s favourites”) remains despite being brought down to earth by his arrest for rape and sex trafficking.
Gosh, he is truely awful isn’t he?
Anyone who carries the descriptor ‘influencer’ is awful really. (is there really such a word?)
His whole life is meaningless and materially based.
Well, he can influence his fellow prisoners now, and hopefully for a nice long time to come…