Andrew Tate

Why they're listed

Kickboxer turned manosphere mega-influencer. His Hustlers University (relaunched as The Real World) sells monthly 'wealth creation' mentorship; a 2022 Observer investigation found its affiliate program paid members commission to mass-repost Tate's most controversial clips — internal guidance told members to engineer '60-70% fans and 40-30% haters… you want arguments, you want war' — and to recruit new paying members, a structure critics compared to a pyramid scheme. The affiliate program shut down days after the exposé, as Meta and TikTok deplatformed him. Blockchain analysts at Elliptic traced over $2.5 million in crypto payments into the operation. He separately faces criminal proceedings in Romania, unrelated to the courses, which he denies. Listed here for the course-plus-recruitment machine and the engineered-outrage marketing engine behind it — not the tabloid noise.