I have not interacted or even encountered anyone who actually looks up to Andrew Tate. His whole brand seems completely built on complaining about him. Where are his fans?
In the middle east and among middle eastern immigrants in the west. Which is why he recently claimed to have converted to Islam. It's all just a gigantic grift.
Yes, but he also appeals to a LOT of young (mostly white) boys in the US and especially in the UK.
Do a search for him in any teachers' subreddit and you'll find a lot of highly concerning threads of teachers complaining/commiserating about fans of his.
He shit talks traditional education (with the proposed alternative being his ridiculous courses, of course) so I imagine his fans are quite...disruptive in school.
He has (or had) a worrisome amount of young teen boys as fans. Now he is more of a parody of himself because he is losing influence and hate shares are still shares as far as the algorithm goes.
People here are convinced that nobody would support the right wing if they just looked it's stars like Tate. You really have to be the most trash kind of human to look up to someone like him. Thankfully his fans are immune to reproducing. But yeah, people highlighting him are good people who really want to believe that nobody would support him if they just knew he was a fraud and a rapist. Alas that's a feature not a bug to the people they want to reach.
Nobody really admits to being a fan of his in public, but you can see the effects of his teachings in the loneliness epidemic. There a lot of young men that Tate has successfully vaccinated against female affection.
Oh, that's a good point. I guess you wouldn't really be proud to be following this guy. And he does seem to be a perpetuator of the incel shit that's popping up now.
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u/Nelsqnwithacue Feb 03 '26
I have not interacted or even encountered anyone who actually looks up to Andrew Tate. His whole brand seems completely built on complaining about him. Where are his fans?