Andrew Tate: The self-proclaimed misogynist influencer

The arguable British-American online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained successful Romania arsenic a portion of a quality trafficking and rape investigation.

The self-proclaimed "misogynist" roseate to fame aft helium was removed from the British world TV amusement Big Brother successful 2016, implicit a video that appeared to amusement him attacking a woman.

He said astatine the clip that the footage had been edited and was "a full prevarication trying to marque maine look bad".

Now, the 36-year-old erstwhile kickboxer boasts implicit 3.5 cardinal followers connected Twitter - and a worldwide profile.

Tate - whose afloat sanction is Emory Andrew Tate - was calved successful Chicago, Illinois.

He is named aft his father, an American who worked for the US Air Force successful Britain, and who was besides a chess master. His parent and begetter met successful the UK earlier moving to America wherever Tate was raised until his parents divorced.

Following the divorce, Tate moved to Luton, England, with his mother.

Both Tate and his younger member Tristan said they experienced poorness successful England. In interviews, they recalled going to KFC to prevention different people's leftover chicken, and freezing it for aboriginal meals.

Tate was a kickboxing satellite champion 4 times - but it was online wherever helium recovered worldwide fame.

On TikTok, videos with the #AndrewTate hashtag person been viewed much than 12.7 cardinal times. That fig besides includes videos made by radical criticising the influencer.

In an interrogation with different YouTuber, helium said helium was "absolutely a misogynist", and added: "I'm a realist and erstwhile you're a realist, you're sexist. There's nary mode you tin beryllium rooted successful world and not beryllium sexist."

In that aforesaid video, helium described women arsenic "intrinsically lazy" and said determination was "no specified happening arsenic an autarkic female".

Numerous societal media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, person banned him - with the second saying that "misogyny is simply a hateful ideology that is not tolerated".

Tate was banned from Twitter for saying women should "bear responsibility" for being sexually assaulted. He has since been reinstated.

Tate has described himself arsenic a "self-made multimillionaire" and said helium earned wealth done "a small webcam concern from my apartment".

"I had 75 women moving for maine successful 4 locations and I was doing $600,000 a period from webcam," helium said successful a podcast interview.

In a now-deleted leafage connected his website helium said helium brought women into the "adult amusement industry".

"My occupation was to conscionable a girl, spell connected a fewer dates, slumber with her, trial if she's quality, get her to autumn successful emotion with maine to wherever she'd bash thing I accidental and past get her connected webcam truthful we could go affluent together," helium wrote connected the leafage - which was subsequently taken down successful February 2022.

"I've seen men merchantability cars, TVs... This guy's gran passed distant and they were waiting for the merchantability of the house. When the location was sold he'd get £20,000 and promised it to [a model], to wage for her fake fiscal problem," Tristan told the Mirror.

Tristan was besides arrested alongside his member astatine his location successful a suburb of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, connected Thursday evening.

A spokesperson for Tate told the Daily Mirror that they could not supply immoderate details regarding the quality trafficking and rape allegations. But helium said: "Andrew and Tristan Tate person the utmost respect for the Romanian authorities and volition ever assistance and assistance successful immoderate mode they can."

Tate has appeared successful countless videos, flaunting an ultra-luxurious manner of accelerated cars, backstage jets, and yachts.

Earlier this week, helium engaged successful a enactment with biology activistic Greta Thunberg connected Twitter. He claimed to person 33 cars and said helium would nonstop her a database of their "respective tremendous emissions".

It's been a rollercoaster twelvemonth connected societal media for Andrew Tate. His notoriety snowballed aft teenagers started spotting videos of him, immoderate promoting misogyny and targeting women, each implicit their societal media feeds backmost successful the summer.

Seemingly successful favour with societal media algorithms, clips of Tate connected sites similar TikTok accumulated millions of views - and raised large questions astir what societal media sites were pushing young users.

It was successful August that these concerns implicit hatred code led to the banning of Tate's accounts connected large societal media platforms similar Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, wherever helium had racked up millions of views and followers.

After Elon Musk bought Twitter, Tate was welcomed backmost to the tract that helium was banned from backmost successful 2017, erstwhile helium made remarks astir women "bearing work for being sexually assaulted".

Since his return, helium has again begun racking up hundreds of thousands of likes connected Twitter, with his follower tally implicit 3 million.

In caller days, helium had been trolling clime activistic Greta Thunberg - who was not shy herself astir making a gag oregon 2 astir him successful return.

That led to a question of hatred targeting the 19-year-old, and respective posts shared connected Mr Tate's Twitter hinting astatine conspiracy theories astir "globalist elites".