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Emory Andrew Tate III (born: December 1, 1986 (1986-12-01)), also known as TateSpeech on YouTube (better known as Andrew Tate, or by the nickname Top G) is an American-British online influencer, businessman, and former YouTuber. He was previously a professional kickboxer before he ran a webcam business with his and his brother Tristan's girlfriends.

Tate later found more infamy and popularity on TikTok and YouTube in 2022 due to his highly vocal misogynistic beliefs about women and masculinity. Andrew Tate is regarded as one of the most polarizing figures on the internet and his popularity has spawned multiple memes.

After many petitions from Change.org and multiple feminist organizations as well as a report from Hope Not Hate, Tate was banned from all social media platforms. At the time in which he was banned, he had over 700,000 subscribers and 350 videos on his YouTube channel, 6 million followers on Instagram, and over 11 billion views on TikTok, despite not having an account on the platform. He was also banned from Twitter multiple times. This further boosted his popularity, as he was frequently discussed by many people, particularly podcast hosts.

Tate's original Twitter account was reinstated in November 18, 2022, where he gained over 1 million followers in one day. He and his brother Tristan have been accused and charged with human trafficking since 2023.

Content

The channel consisted of vlogs featuring Andrew and Tristan Tate, as well as clips from their podcast Emergency Meeting. Tate also appears on podcasts and shows such as FreshandFit, Piers Morgan Tonight and JustPearlyThings. He also appears in livestreams with Adin Ross and SNEAKO.

Personal Life

Tate, his brother Tristan, and his sister Janine were all born in Chicago, Illinois, where his father, Emory Andrew Tate Jr. (December 27, 1958 - October 17, 2015), was a professional chess player. His mother is Eileen Tate, who was married to Tate Jr. from 1985 until they divorced in 1997. His father was regarded as one of the greatest black chess players in the world, despite being extremely poor. Tate Jr. unexpectedly passed away due to a sudden heart attack on October 17, 2015, during a chess tournament, at the age of 56.

After Tate's parents divorced when he was 11 years old, he moved to England with his mother and two siblings. He learned how to kickbox and fought all over the world, becoming a four-time kickboxing champion. He was ranked as a top-10 fighter in Europe. He retired from combat sports in 2016 due to an eye injury he sustained, while Tristan was injured and was forced to retire.

Tate is widely known for showing off the wealth he got from his camgirl business, and for owning multiple casinos in Romania. He also has investments in cryptocurrency and runs Hustler's University, claiming that it is worth over 300 million dollars. However, Hustler's University is accused of being a pyramid scheme due to its members getting cuts for their affiliate links, and the quality of the courses offered. He is also the founder of a membership program called The War Room. The War Room has been accused by many journalists such as the BBC, Murdered By Crayons and MilkBarTV, of teaching their members how to groom and traffick women.^{[citation needed]}

Tate's house was raided in 2017 for alleged sexual abuse after he kicked one of his girlfriends out of the house, due to refusing to clean up after herself, after he did not pay her for her camgirl work; no charges were filed after a four-year investigation. He has cited this as one of his reasons to emigrate to Romania. Vice later interviewed said girl in a 2023 documentary regarding Tate.^{[citation needed]}

On March 4, 2023, Tate's manager Jules announced that Tate had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Tate later denied the rumors.

Converting to Islam

Why Andrew Tate Went From Atheist - To Christian - To Muslim - (IN 4 YEARS)

In 2022, Tate converted to Islam. He made a guest appearance on the Full Send Podcast on July 29, 2022. Salim Sirur, the podcast's host, asked about Tate's views on Islam approximately 39 minutes into the interview. The topic was introduced by asserting that Islam is "the last true religion on the planet".

“	I think it’s the last religion on the planet. I think it’s the last religion. So if it’s the last true religion on the planet, it has to be the correct one. It’s the last religion because no other religion has boundaries which they enforce. If you will tolerate everything, then you stand for nothing. If your book says 'X', but you refuse to say the book says this, I'm sticking to what the book says. Doesn’t matter what the subject is, right? I don’t want to expand.	”
―Tate's views on Islam.

After several months, Tate and former MMA fighter Tam Khan were seen in the video at a mosque that is supposedly in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Tate appears to be learning from Khan about the Islamic prayer known as "salah", one of Islam's five pillars. Khan also shared the video on his Facebook page, where it appeared that he said Tate had taken the "shahada", the oath necessary for converting to the faith.

Tate's conversion to Islam was confirmed on the same day by Twitter user @waasim_, who uploaded a portion of Tate's most recent social media post. The message said: "This is why I'm Muslim. Any Christian who believes in good and understands the true battle against evil must convert. 'So be patient, Indeed the promise of Allah is TRUTH.' Quran 30:60."

Controversies

Human-trafficking allegations

Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in May 2022 on allegations of sex trafficking, but both were released a few hours later. The compound was raided and all their electronics were temporarily seized. Andrew claimed that the allegations are false, but podcaster Ethan Klein, also known as h3h3Productions, has made multiple videos accusing him of the crime. Old videos also resurfaced in which he admitted that his motive for moving to Romania was the lack of strict laws surrounding sexual assault, as well as the due process for men. He said that although he is not a rapist, he likes to "do what he wants".

“	The people who don't like you are not interested in the truth. What they're interested in is finding some lie that they can latch onto and accelerating that lie. As much as possible via their platforms to try to paint a negative picture of you because they don't like you.	”
―Andrew Tate's response to the allegations before his YouTube channel was terminated.

According to Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism, the raid on Tate's compound was part of an investigation that began after a woman was reported to be held at their house against her will. As the probe continued, it escalated to include "crimes of human trafficking and rape." As of April 2023, he has not been charged with any crime.

In Tate's response, he claimed that said woman cheated on her boyfriend with Tristan, and she then lied to her boyfriend about being raped and held against her will, which led to him reporting it to the U.S. Embassy. He then claimed that the woman accused five different men of rape.

It is unknown whether the woman found at Tate's compound was being held against her will, although CCTV footage showed the two women entering and leaving the compound, according to Tate himself. Aba & Preach, who made videos critical of Tate in the past, also defended him. On December 29, 2022, the Tates were detained in Romania for the same allegations along with their girlfriends. On March 31th, 2023, the Bucharest Court of Appeal overturned the lower court's decision and ended the Tate brothers' pre-trial detention, instead placing them into house arrest, effective until April 29. As of March 31, 2023, no indictment has yet been filed, and prosecutors have said that they have until late June to send the case to trial.

Anti-Muslim comments

In the past, Tate had made claims such as "ISIS are really Muslims", which were met with backlash, but after he converted to Islam, he stated he regretted those words.

Feud with Greta Thunberg and subsequent arrest

On December 27, 2022, Tate tweeted out to climate activist Greta Thunberg, saying "Hello @GretaThunberg I have 33 cars. My Bugatti has a w16 8.0L quad turbo. My TWO Ferrari 812 Competizione have 6.5L v12s. This is just the start. Please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection and their respective enormous emissions." Greta quote tweeted his tweet and replied "yes, please do enlighten me. email me at smalldickenergy@getalife.com".

Tate responded with a two-minute video where he insulted Greta. In less than a minute into the video, someone from off-screen passed him two pizza boxes from a Romanian pizza restaurant chain known as Jerry's Pizza. He was later arrested, along with his brother Tristan and their girlfriends due to the ongoing human trafficking investigation. Greta then tweeted "this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes".

Alejandra Carabello of Esqueer falsely claimed that the pizza boxes led to his arrest, which the Romanian authorities denied.

Anime posts

Andrew Tate's picture of himself and Kiana Kaslana, who is canonically 16.

A tweet from Andrew Tate in 2017.

Tate has a history of mocking anime and calling anime fans "losers". One of his most famous tweets is "If you are over 15 and like cartoons you are a loser. Anime dragon ball Z etc. No excuse. Plus any women loses respect for you. Grow up."

However, after Tate's release from prison in early-2023, he started posting badly photoshopped images of himself with various anime girls (some of which were underage, something many criticized him for) and tweeting in Japanese. Sometimes he photoshops anime girls dancing with him. He once posted a video where he danced and then photoshopped Genshin Impact characters dancing with him.

Reception and legacy

Tate has generated online controversy following his bans on many social networks. While he built a solid fanbase around that time, he was also under fire for his narcissism in addition to his misogyny.

Some people have likened his personality to characters from Grand Theft Auto games, while his speech was likened to talk show radios from said game series as well. Many people have claimed that he is a threat to the new generation, as well as having a bad influence on the youth.

Quotes

• "If you are over 15 and like cartoons you are a loser. Anime dragon ball Z etc. No excuse. Plus any women loses respect for you. Grow up."
• "Reading books is for losers who are afraid to learn from life. So they try and learn from the life OTHERS have lived. But you never REALLY learn unless you lived it. You must feel it to believe it. Books are a total waste of time. Education for cowards."
• "BREATHE AIR!" (Tate criticizing people who smoke and vape)
• "What color is your Bugatti?" (another one of Tate's most famous quotes, which has been turned into a recurring meme on social media)
• "There are very few people I personally dislike, one of them is True Geordie. He's very insulting, fat, vulgar, he's a dickhead, and an unlikeable person. He's not very smart, he's stupid... Now after me converting to Islam, he made a piece on one of his podcasts saying I'm not true in my conversion, and then insulted all Muslims. Making fucking racist comments about an entire religion as if that's somehow funny. Let me tell you something my friend, and True Geordie if you are watching this, this is a message directly to you. There are certain times in life when you need to know when to shut the fuck up. There are certain things that are not funny, certain things that are not beyond reprisal... But to insult my religion, and the religion of billions of people across the fucking planet, making ignorant jokes about blowing ourselves up, thinking it's gonna go without consequence, you're gonna learn very quickly, my friend, that was a mistake." (Tate's response to True Geordie's islamophobic and racist statements about him)

Trivia

• Tate drinks alcohol.
• He hates the television sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
• While he nicknames himself "Top G", xQc nicknamed him "Top Groomer" in a livestream they held together with Adin Live and HasanAbi.
• He owns a dog.

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