We all heard the news that the ‘over-masculine’ Andrew Tate has been banned from all mainstream social media. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Youtube, all banned the controversial Andrew Tate from their platforms.
The explanation behind the ban is an alleged breaking of company policies, spreading hate speech, and misogyny. However, it seems like this is not the end of his media ‘preaching’. The misogynist now transitioned to Rumble. A platform on a raise, marking a huge wave in activity lately.
Andrew Tate Found An ‘Anti Cancel Culture’ Platform To Move To – After Social Media Ban You Can Listen To Tate Exclusively On Rumble
During the same period when Andrew Tate officially received the ban, Rumble marked a raise in daily user activity by an astonishing 45.3% in comparison to the week before. According to Similarweb, the digital intelligence company, this boost is due to Tate’s presence on the platform.
The controversial Andrew Tate says that he will hopefully continue his influence on the world from the Rumble platform, as they offer him ‘the freedom to continue creating content without limiting him on what he can say’.
While he claims that his followers will remain ‘untacked’ the world already knows that a ban from all mainstream social media massively lowers the reach of content creators. According to experts, it is highly unlikely that Andrew Tate will be able to even get close to the number of people following him previously. Rumble is a ‘well-trodden path’ for controversial figures such as Tate.
Andrew Tate has been attracting massive attention to him lately, as his controversial views and statements went public. In the end, it all crumbled down on him.
Some of the most popular clips of the social media star feature Tate speaking about how women are the ‘property’ of men, and the most controversial one – is that they bear responsibility when being raped.
While the world witnesses his statements, the ex-kick boxer states that all of his clips are taken out of context so he can appear as the ‘bad guy’. He denies all claims and blames it all on his critics.
Soon after Tate’s ban from mainstream social media, he was hosted in an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News. He revealed that he sees only one way to salvation. That is by transitioning to the ‘immune to cancel culture’ platform, Rumble.
As soon as he made the statement, the active users on the platform surged by 50%. At the moment it is not clear if all the traffic noticed on Rumble is solely happening because of Tate. However, it would be a great coincidence if it doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Gettr has a similar situation. Andrew Tate’s Gettr page marked significant growth as well. Of course, Gettr is a text-based social media platform, however, the background is quite similar to Rumbles. People use it when they want to ‘reject political censorship’ and ‘promote free speech’.
Andrew Tate went to Gettr only after all other platforms banned him. So, for a ‘young’ page, its popularity is massive. Days after the ban, the page had 4000 likes. However, now, after two weeks, the follower count surpassed 100 000.
According to experts, they already expected the transition. Controversial figures do tend to mark an raise in popularity on ‘underground’ platforms.
“This is a well-trodden path by controversial figures online. Like Alex Jones and the others, he has found Rumble and Rumble has found him. It’s a controversy heaven match.” – the industry analyst and social media expert Matt Navarra says.
The social media experts point out that the audience that Tate will attract on Rumble is not comparable to the scale of the audience he once had on the platforms he is now banned from. The center for countering digital hate embraces this fact.
“Our research, along with leading academic research, shows that while these ‘influencers’ might transition some of their following to alternative platforms after more mainstream ones removed them, they almost invariably fail to regain both the following and broader content reach they had on platforms with billions of users and recommendation engines like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or YouTube.” – spokesperson for the center says.
The ‘king of toxic masculinity’ doesn’t rely on social media for his income in full. He has a pyramid scheme ‘online university’ that brings him a monthly income counted in millions, as per his own statements. Tate also runs a chain of webcam service platforms that employs more than 70 women. He makes about $600 000 monthly from it. And in addition, he runs a chain of casinos all over Europe, but mainly in Romania. This brings him millions as well.
According to psychology experts, Tate presented a problem for the younger generation. Even though he can hardly change the personality and the views on the world for someone who has a built-up character, he can easily achieve it for someone who is in ‘development’.
Parents all over the world showed concern about Tate’s videos being public and accessible to their children.
“I didn’t know who Andrew Tate was but my 12yo son did. Parents, they’re coming for your boys. They market misogyny and racism to cishet white boys, in a package that seems appealing. Talk to your kids, and have hard conversations. It’s important.” – one concerned mother says. “You know what has become more & more alarming to me as the day goes on & more people comment on this? How many KIDS know who Tate is & how many of us adults did not. Adults who, presumably, consume way more social media than we probably should. We aren’t novices.”
