"Andrew Tate, former kickboxer, self-proclaimed male life coach, and misogynist, has been arrested" --Reeghan Walsh, 8th Grade
TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains information on sexual assault, manipulation, and physical abuse.
Andrew Tate is a former professional kickboxer who claims to be a male life coach whose message mostly consists of preaching that men deserve power over women and boasting about his money. His takes are extremely misogynistic, including that he should be allowed to control his girlfriend. “By extension, if I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of authority,” Tate said during a Barstool Sport Interview.
Andrew Tate is a former professional kickboxer who claims to be a male life coach whose message mostly consists of preaching that men deserve power over women and boasting about his money. His takes are extremely misogynistic, including that he should be allowed to control his girlfriend. “By extension, if I have responsibility over her, then I must have a degree of authority,” Tate said during a Barstool Sport Interview.
Tate was elected as teens’ favorite social media influencer in the fall of 2022 according to a survey with 14,500 U.S. teens. Tate describes himself as the “Top G,” and had a large social media following in the summer of 2022 before his accounts were banned on TikTok, YouTube, and Meta, for his misogynistic ideologies. He was also banned from Twitter, but once it was brought to the attention of Elon Musk he was unbanned in November of 2022. This reactivation of his account is what many believe to have gotten him arrested.
“Mastery is a funny thing,” Tate remarked of his return. “It’s almost as if, on a long enough time scale, losing simply isn’t an option. Such is the way of Wudan.”
Then, on December 27th, Tate tweeted at Greta Thunberg, a Swedish environmental activist, bragging that, “I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad turbo.” He went on to further boast of his car emissions before asking for Thunberg’s email address so he could “send a complete list of my car collections and their respective enormous emissions.
Then, on December 27th, Tate tweeted at Greta Thunberg, a Swedish environmental activist, bragging that, “I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad turbo.” He went on to further boast of his car emissions before asking for Thunberg’s email address so he could “send a complete list of my car collections and their respective enormous emissions.
| Thunberg then responded with, “Yes, please do enlighten me. Email me at smalld*[email protected].” Tate’s initial response was to reply with, “How dare you?!” Before he tweeted on the 28th a brief few words and a video attached. |  |
Within this video, Tate is seen smoking a cigar at his desk. He opens the video by saying, “Release some greenhouse gasses.” He continues, “I’m obviously a stranger to online controversies, it’s not something I often do.” Tate then comments on how Thunberg’s own email should not be smalld*[email protected] because this insinuates that she has “small d**k energy.” For the remainder of the video, he discusses how he is not mad at Thunberg, but the people who taught her this. He also claims that bots liked, retweeted, and commented on her tweet in response to him. He closes the video by talking about how now that he knows Thunberg views his tweets (even though he added her in the first tweet) his time on Twitter is going to be “far more fun, into eternity.”
However, the content of the video is not what is most focused on. Because on December 29th, Tate, along with his brother and two Romanian citizens, were detained in Bucharest on charges of rape, human trafficking, and running an organized crime ring.
However, the content of the video is not what is most focused on. Because on December 29th, Tate, along with his brother and two Romanian citizens, were detained in Bucharest on charges of rape, human trafficking, and running an organized crime ring.
In the video, Tate is delivered two pizza boxes by someone off-screen. He tells this person to “make sure that these boxes are not recycled.” Many on Twitter speculated that the two pizza boxes featured in the video were Romanian, and alerted Romanian authorities to the fact that Tate was back in their country. A Twitter user tweeted, “Romanian authorities needed proof that Andrew Tate was in the country so they reportedly used his social media posts.” The tweet goes further in depth about how the pizza boxes were from Jerry’s Pizza, a local pizzeria in Romania, and this was the final evidence that Romanian authorities needed to go to Tate’s house and arrest him.
However, this rumor was debunked by spokesperson Ramona Bolla, from Romania’s anti-organized crime agency (DIICOT). She called the rumor “funny” but stated that it was not true, according to The Associated Press.
Bolla also announced that the four suspects will be held for 30 days after their arrest. This is because a judge extended their initial 24 hour holding period for an investigation. All four suspects attempted to appeal this sentence, but were rejected. According to ABC News, a document explaining the judge’s earlier decision of extending the holding period said “the possibility of them evading investigations cannot be ignored,” and that they could “leave Romania and settle in countries that do not allow extradition.”
Eugen Vidineac, the Tate brother’s lawyer, expressed his feelings in a translated statement to Romanian-based media, Gândul, saying, “I am very disappointed. The measure seems excessive to me."
According to an article by The Verge, Romanian officials allege that the Tate brothers used a method in which they seduced and then forced their dominance through abuse or coercion over their victims. This method is often referred to as the “lover boy” method.
DIICOT claims that the Tate brothers subjected at least six victims to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” so that they could create porn.
This lines up with a YouTube video that Tate released where he said that “40 percent” of his reason for moving to Romania was because “none of this garbage flies” in Eastern Europe. The Verge article states that Tate is “apparently referencing the ‘MeToo Era’ and the country’s seemingly lax laws on sexual assault.” This YouTube video has since been deleted.
It is clear that Tate is a hardcore misogynist, who believes he is entitled to harming women, mentally, physically, and sexually for his own personal enjoyment. Still, Tate is very active on Twitter, and has a lot of public outreach, retweeting things his fans have said, and furthering his own agenda. However, his holding was extended another 30 days, until February 27th, while prosecutors continue their investigation into human trafficking and organized crime.
After Tate’s arrest, Thunberg tweeted, “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.”
DIICOT claims that the Tate brothers subjected at least six victims to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” so that they could create porn.
This lines up with a YouTube video that Tate released where he said that “40 percent” of his reason for moving to Romania was because “none of this garbage flies” in Eastern Europe. The Verge article states that Tate is “apparently referencing the ‘MeToo Era’ and the country’s seemingly lax laws on sexual assault.” This YouTube video has since been deleted.
It is clear that Tate is a hardcore misogynist, who believes he is entitled to harming women, mentally, physically, and sexually for his own personal enjoyment. Still, Tate is very active on Twitter, and has a lot of public outreach, retweeting things his fans have said, and furthering his own agenda. However, his holding was extended another 30 days, until February 27th, while prosecutors continue their investigation into human trafficking and organized crime.
After Tate’s arrest, Thunberg tweeted, “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.”
