Andrew Tate has been trying to get famous for a long time. He and his brother founded this webcam business where he would lure women into living with him, then pressure them to perform online sex work. One of his main revenue sources is this thing called Hustlers University, where people pay like 50 bucks a month to do courses that he sells in order to figure out how to become rich online.
Controversial manfluencer Andrew Tate is in a Romanian prison, accused of rape and human trafficking. Vox’s Rebecca Jennings and sociolinguist Robert Lawson explain why his brand of grotesque misogyny appeals to millions of men.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Serena Solin, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained
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