Styled as a self-help guru, offering his mostly male fans a recipe for making money, pulling girls and “escaping the matrix”, Tate has gone in a matter of months from near obscurity to one of the most talked about people in the world. Instead, he is one of the most famous figures on TikTok, where videos of him have been watched 11.6 billion times. Tate’s views have been described as extreme misogyny by domestic abuse charities, capable of radicalising men and boys to commit harm offline.īut the 35-year-old is not a fringe personality lurking in an obscure corner of the dark web. In a third, he calls an ex-girlfriend who accused him of hitting her – an allegation he denies – a “dumb hoe”. In another, he describes throwing a woman’s things out of the window. Shut up bitch,” he says in one video, acting out how he’d attack a woman if she accused him of cheating. “It’s bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck. In other clips, the British-American kickboxer – who poses with fast cars, guns and portrays himself as a cigar-smoking playboy – talks about hitting and choking women, trashing their belongings and stopping them from going out.
