KSI says Andrew Tate's Top G style is cringey

YouTuber and rapper KSI says Andrew Tate's Top G persona is "cringey" and fans shouldn't worship influencers.

Tate, a self-styled misogynist, has gained an service of young fans by boasting astir his wealthiness and lavish lifestyle.

The ex-kickboxer, who is presently nether apprehension successful Romania, is known among followers arsenic "Top G".

But KSI, existent sanction Olajide Olatunji, tells BBC Newsbeat helium has nary involvement successful "being enactment connected a pedestal" similar Tate.

"I don't privation radical to worship me. I don't privation this Top G title," says KSI, who has 24m followers connected his main YouTube account.

The 29-year-old, who's gearing up for his adjacent boxing lucifer connected Saturday, has antecedently said helium is keen to situation Tate successful the ring.

But extracurricular of it, helium says helium would alternatively usage his ain influential level successful a affirmative way, successful opposition to Tate, who insults his ain followers.

"Try and beryllium just to everyone, effort and conscionable beryllium bully to everyone. Spread positivity each the time," helium says.

"And yeah, you know, we're each human. We're each gonna marque mistakes. No 1 is perfect.

"And I ever accidental that to my audience: don't enactment maine connected a pedestal. Like I americium not the GOAT. I don't privation radical to worship me."

Earlier successful his career, KSI was accused of making vulgar comments astir women, and his actions towards women astatine a 2013 gaming normal led brands to criticise him and chopped ties with him.

He apologised for his behaviour successful a 2020 Guardian interview, adding: "You tin fell from it, unreal it doesn't exist. Or, you know, deed it caput on, realise wherefore it was a mistake."

And KSI says his outlook these days is precise different.

"Treat women well, dainty men well, dainty everyone well, and conscionable person the close attitude."

And it's not the lone quality betwixt him and Tate.

Since his arrest, Tate has tweeted often astir "The Matrix" - thought to beryllium a notation to almighty figures successful media, authorities and concern trying to soundlessness him and power others.

"I conscionable deliberation it's cringey," says KSI.

"I don't attraction astir this full matrix worldly oregon whatever," KSI says.

"For me, I conscionable privation to unrecorded my beingness and assistance arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable and beryllium a bully person."

A four-time kickboxing satellite champion who was booted retired of world amusement Big Brother successful 2016 aft video of him appearing to onslaught a pistillate emerged.

He went connected to physique up a immense online pursuing and recovered worldwide fame.

This was mostly acknowledgment to societal media, wherever videos with the Andrew Tate hashtag person been watched billions of times

He proudly claims to beryllium a misogynist, and has antecedently described women arsenic "intrinsically lazy" and said determination was "no specified happening arsenic an autarkic female".

It was comments similar these that got him banned from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. He was allowed backmost connected Twitter aft Elon Musk took implicit the company.

Tate claims he's a "self-made millionaire" acknowledgment to a webcam concern helium runs with his brother.

Both are presently detained successful Romania arsenic a portion of a quality trafficking and rape investigation.

KSI has recovered occurrence arsenic a YouTuber, signaling artist, entrepreneur and boxer - returning to the ringing connected Saturday nighttime erstwhile helium faces FaZe Temperrr.

He says helium doesn't caput however radical code him, due to the fact that it's present each astir the enactment ethic, immoderate helium does.

"I don't truly caput radical calling maine an influencer warring due to the fact that I americium an influencer, I'm a YouTuber. That's however I started out."

"I don't truly care. For me, I conscionable emotion moving hard. I emotion grooming hard and putting successful hard work, immoderate I do," helium adds.

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