Intelligent. Knowledgable. Articulate. Masculine to the max. The physique and grace of an athlete, the timing of a standup comic, and the sex appeal of screen action hero. A caramel Dolph Lundgren.
So much about Tate is obvious. This should make him easy to describe, but he really isn’t. He inspires both admiration and repugnance, often in the same video and occasionally at the same moment. He can say something so disgusting that you want to turn him off, but at the same time, you find yourself willing to entertain his vision, at least up to a point. Watching a video of Tate ordering an imaginary woman to “Cook my dinner, Bitch,” I can hear a fuming feminist charging up to battle the King of Toxic Masculinity.
But who am I kidding? If I were fifty years younger, I would stand in line for the chance to cook a meal for this guy. Just tell me, where are they?
There must be thousands of Andrew Tate videos on YouTube alone, some of them posted as long as a decade ago. Huge numbers of them appeared in this past year alone, when Tate became the most Googled man on the planet. There are dozens of new ones daily, full-length podcasts and quick “shorts” and everything in between. How can there be so much material about someone who is banned from the platform? Well, because there are people who want to see it.
Pick ten videos at random, and Tate will make you laugh, curse, empathize, and reflect by turns. Or sometimes even all at once. He has no filter, and no topics are beyond him. Masculinity. The inferiority of women. Sparkling water. Cars. Disease and masks and vaccines. Parenting. Boxing. Push-ups. His many personal achievements. His modesty.
He seems to be several people at once. An outlandish social commentator, bellowing into the camera. An itinerant storyteller, sitting in a parked car or behind a microphone on a podcast. A commentator on contemporary society and politics, the demise of the West, and the brilliant future of Dubai. An expert on business, on micro and macro economics.
Andrew Tate could easily have been a university lecturer or your favorite high school teacher or the best coach in the history of athletics. I watched him explain boxing to Mike Thurston (the end of the video below) and then wanted to order a pair of gloves from Amazon.
I think one of my favorite Tate roles has to be the one that first caught my notice: Andrew Tate as Storyteller.
A wonderful introduction to Andrew Tate is the video below, watched on multiple Internet platforms by millions of people.
Conundrum Andrew Tate 