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Andrew Tate
Tate in 2021
Born
Emory Andrew Tate III

(1986-12-14) December 14, 1986 (age 37)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
NationalityAmerican
British
RelativesEmory Tate (father)
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 commentary[2][3][4][5] 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][10] His mother worked as a catering assistant.[8] Tate learned to play chess at the age of five and competed in an adult tournament as a child, although his father withdrew him as soon as he lost games and became frustrated.[9]

Career

Kickboxing

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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] Outside of the ISKA, Tate briefly competed in mixed martial arts, winning his two fights.[14] He has since retired from combat sports.[15]

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.[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] Tate stated that he was "great friends" with the woman featured in the video[18] and said that the actions were consensual.[19]

Tate's personal website offers training courses on getting rich and "male–female interactions". According to the website, he operates a webcam studio using girlfriends as employees.[19] Tate and his brother started a webcam business in Romania, using webcam girls to sell sob stories to desperate men, claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so. They admit that their business model is a "total scam".[20]

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. Some critics claimed that the affiliate marketing scheme effectively functioned as a pyramid scheme.[8][21] 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.[19] In 2017, Tate falsely said that depression is not a real illness, receiving significant backlash.[22] Three of Tate's Twitter accounts were suspended at different times. In 2021, an account he created to evade his previous ban was verified by Twitter contrary to their policies. The account appeared to have been part of a promotion with Bugatti. The account was subsequently permanently suspended, and Twitter said that the verification occurred in error.[19]

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.[23] 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.[24] Tate has described himself as "absolutely a sexist" and "absolutely a misogynist",[25] and has stated that women "belong to the man" and that he would attack women with a machete were they to accuse him of infidelity.[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".[26] 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.[27] 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". He further stated that he plays an "online character".[28]

In August 2022, Tate was banned from Facebook and Instagram for violating their policies on hate speech and dangerous organisations and individuals.[27][29][30] TikTok, where videos featuring his name as a hashtag have been viewed 13 billion times, initially removed an account associated with him, saying they would investigate the matter further,[31] before removing his primary account as well after determining that it violated their policies.[23] Shortly thereafter, YouTube also suspended his channel, and Tate subsequently deleted his channel on Twitch.[32] Tate responded to the bans in a video posted to YouTube on an alternate account, saying that, while most of his comments were taken out of context, he takes responsibility for how they were received.[2]

Criminal investigation

In a now-deleted video posted to his YouTube channel, Tate stated that he decided to move to Romania in part because it was easier to be absolved of rape charges in Eastern Europe.[28] In April 2022, Tate's house was raided by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism of Romania (DIICOT) in relation to a human trafficking and rape investigation.[33] The U.S. embassy had previously alerted Romanian police that an American woman might be held at the property.[8] The raid resulted in the recovery of an American woman and a Romanian woman.[33] As of August 2022, Romanian authorities said that the investigation was ongoing.[8] A U.S. State Department spokesperson referred to the reported abduction but declined to comment further, citing privacy considerations.[34] Tate denies any wrongdoing.[8]

References

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  4. ^ Miranda, Shauneen (August 20, 2022). "Andrew Tate gets banned from Facebook, Instagram, TikTok for violating their policies". NPR. Retrieved August 24, 2022. Andrew Tate, an influencer and former professional kickboxer known for his misogynistic remarks [...].
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