Social-Media Influencer Andrew Tate Is Charged with Rape, Human Trafficking

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Who is this?

Edit: Seems like some online money making huckster who is now also a rapist?

He's a guy that took traditional pimping online. Convinced girls to move to his locale with promises of marriage and wealth, and when they got there made them perform webcam shows with threats of violence, retaliation, exportation. He took all the money, and gave them a small percentage.

He also documented and proudly expressed what he was doing on social media. So it should be a fairly open and shut case.

He also has a very active social media presence (primarily YouTube and TikTok) about life and power, with mansions and exotic sports cars, so many young boys are looking to him and finding a macho role model... I went through it with my son, and have a couple friends with boys of similar ages who have as well. Plenty of 20 and 30 something's are more or less pledging allegiance to him on Twitter though.

Ok so basically a criminal and a Tai Lopez style huckster.

But wait, 30 year old folks are falling for this? Early 20s I can still understand.

Unfortunately so. He just has a certain presence-demanding demeanor to him that seems to register on a deeper level with insecure men. He also has a very meticulously crafted social image. He has a couple different "universities" and organizations which people pay something like $50/mo to for advice on business and relationships to "escape the matrix."

It's sad so many fall for it, but they do.

He has about 6.5 million followers on Twitter. His followers call him "Top G." He is also associated with the term "manosphere."

But you are correct. Andrew Tate: Rapist. Huckster.

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