![]() According to a Guardian investigation, there were 127,000 members of Hustler’s University before it shut down earlier this week. Customers also received commission for each new person they got to sign up, and marketed their affiliate links by flooding social media with footage of Tate’s most provocative videos. Until recently, he was also the head of a subscription-based online course program called Hustler’s University, in which customers paid $49 per month to learn, supposedly, how to earn $10,000 per month through crypto investing, drop-shipping, or other scam-adjacent activities. ![]() Often seen with sunglasses and a cigar, he’s inescapable on algorithm-driven platforms, so much so that high school and middle school teachers say he’s completely derailed their classes and is responsible for an uptick in sexual harassment. Yet the internet is good for nothing if not repacking the same tired bullshit into something that looks shiny and new, and its latest iteration of women-hating man combines all of this with other trends of the moment: hustle culture, shock jockery, fighter sports, and, hilariously, pyramid schemes.Īndrew Tate is a 35-year-old former kickboxer, ex-reality show contestant, and current podcaster-slash-” King of Toxic Masculinity” whose inflammatory diatribes against women, whom he compares to property, have become viral fodder on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube over the last several years. This example is not to excuse the insipid and often violent beliefs of many young men, but rather to contextualize just how uninteresting, juvenile, and well-trodden this brand of reactionary anti-feminism is. ![]() ![]() Each week we’ll send you the very best from The Goods, plus a special internet culture edition by Rebecca Jennings on Wednesdays. ![]()
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