UPDATE: Andrew Tate detained in Romania - Tain’t comin’ home soon
There Are No Girls on the Internet
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Misogynistic, violent scam influencer Andrew Tate was detained in Romania in connection with a human trafficking ring.
Let’s revisit our episode on who Tate is and why it matters that he has a platform.
My piece at the Nation- It’s Not Just Joe Rogan. The Entire Digital Space Is Rotten.https://www.thenation.com/article/society/toxic-podcasting/
The Grid: Andrew Tate isn’t just another misogynist with an online following. Here’s why you need to pay attention. https://www.grid.news/story/technology/2022/08/23/andrew-tate-isnt-just-another-misogynist-with-an-online-following-heres-why-you-need-to-pay-attention/
Laura Bates on TANGOTI- full episode- https://www.tangoti.com/episode-214
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| 0:00.0 | There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:17.2 | So I hope everybody is having a fantastic holiday season. |
| 0:20.8 | And I'm actually popping in from my holiday |
| 0:22.6 | break to let y'all know that Christmas came a little bit late this year in the form of the news that |
| 0:27.5 | misogynistic grifter Andrew Tate and his brother were detained in connection with human trafficking |
| 0:32.8 | in Romania. And it could not have happened in a more delicious way, so let's get into it. |
| 0:39.6 | This week, Andrew Tate tweeted a photo just dripping with insecurity where he was showing off his |
| 0:44.7 | cars, and for some reason, probably crippling self-esteem issues and a need for negative |
| 0:50.6 | attention and validation, he tagged 19-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, |
| 0:56.5 | saying, please provide your email address so I can send a complete list of my car collection |
| 1:01.3 | and their respective enormous emissions. Greta replied, yes, please do enlighten me. You can reach me |
| 1:07.1 | at small dick energy at getalife.com. And everyone on the internet just loved it. |
| 1:13.2 | And Tate was like, I don't care. I'm not bothered. And to show just how not bothered he was, |
| 1:19.3 | he made a whole video response of him sitting at a table smoking his trademark cigar next to an |
| 1:24.9 | empty box of pizza. Now, it's important to know that Tate has been under |
| 1:29.0 | investigation in connection to a human trafficking ring for some time. On the very gross |
| 1:34.0 | men's rights podcast, Fresh and Fit, Tate explained how he made lots of money by soliciting |
| 1:39.4 | women to make adult content, saying, I found this little webcam thing and thought, this might be some |
| 1:45.2 | money. We started the webcam business from my apartment, and it just grew and grew. At one point, |
| 1:49.5 | I had 75 women working for me in four locations, and I was doing $600,000 a month. Now, it's not |
| 1:55.4 | totally clear if this is the same business that led to his detainment. But Romanian prosecutor said that four people, |
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