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Big Brother and online ventures
In 2016, while a guest on the
seventeenth season of
Big Brother, Tate came under scrutiny for his homophobic and racist comments on
Twitter.
[24] After the release of a video in which Tate appeared to beat a woman with a belt, Tate was removed from the show after only six days of participation.
[25] Both Tate and the woman said that they were friends and that the actions in the video were consensual.
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Tate boxing in 2014
Tate's website offers training courses on accumulating wealth and "male–female interactions". According to the website, he also operated a
webcam studio using girlfriends as employees.
[25] Tate and his brother started the webcam business, employing as many as 75
webcam models[27] to sell "fake
sob stories" to male callers,
[28] claiming to have made millions of dollars doing so. Tate stated that the business model is a "total
scam".
[29]
Tate operates Hustler's University, a platform where members pay a monthly membership fee to receive instruction on topics such as
dropshipping and
cryptocurrency trading. The platform employed an
affiliate marketing program, where members received a commission for recruiting others to the platform.
[30] Tate became highly prominent during 2022 by encouraging members of Hustler's University to post large numbers of videos of him to social media platforms in an effort to maximize engagement.
[14] As of August 2022, its website had amassed over 100,000 subscribers.
[31] That same month,
Stripe pulled out of processing subscriptions for the platform, and Hustler's University shut down its affiliate marketing program.
[30] Paul Harrigan, a marketing professor at the
University of Western Australia, stated the affiliate program constituted a social media
engagement pyramid.
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Social media presence
Tate received attention for his tweets describing his view of what qualifies as
sexual harassment amid the
Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases and for tweeting several statements about his view that
sexual assault victims share responsibility for their assaults.
[25] In 2017, he was criticized for tweeting that
depression "isn't real".
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Online, Tate initially became known among
far-right circles through appearances on
InfoWars and acquaintances with far-right figures such as
Paul Joseph Watson,
Jack Posobiec, and
Mike Cernovich.
[35] Tate became highly popular during summer of 2022, surpassing both
Donald Trump and
COVID-19 in Google searches in July.
[36] Tate has described himself as "absolutely a
sexist" and "absolutely a misogynist".
[37] He has stated that women "belong in the home", "can't drive",
[38] and are "given to the man and belong to the man",
[33] and claimed that men prefer dating 18- and 19-year-olds because they have had sex with fewer men.
[39]
The
White Ribbon Campaign, a nonprofit opposing male-on-female violence, considers Tate's commentary "extremely misogynistic" and its possible long-term effects on his young male audience "concerning".
[40] Hope not Hate, an anti-extremism advocacy group, has commented that Tate's social media presence might present a "dangerous slip road into the far-right" for his audience.
[36] In response to criticism, Tate stated that his content includes "many videos praising women" and mainly aims at teaching his audience to avoid "toxic and low value people as a whole".
[39] He further stated that he plays a "comedic character" and claimed that people believed "absolutely false narratives" about him.
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Personal life
On April 11, 2022, Tate's house was raided after Romanian police received a tip that an American woman may be held at the property, leading to a human trafficking investigation.
[51] He was interrogated and released.
[52] Tate has denied any wrongdoing, and called it a case of
swatting.
[51]
Tate was raised as a Christian and practiced
Christianity, belonging to the
Romanian Orthodox Church.
[53][54][16] He
tithed £16,000 to the Romanian Orthodox Church on a monthly basis, stating "The church in Romania is very powerful and I like having church friends, so I give them a lot of money."
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In October 2022, Tate announced on his
Gettr account that he had converted to
Islam. A video of Tate praying at a mosque in
Dubai,
UAE, went viral.
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