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Leaving the Real World: How I Escaped Andrew Tate's Get Rich Quick 'Cult'

by saturn5k on 1/16/24, 11:39 PM with 11 comments

  • by penjelly on 1/17/24, 1:14 AM

    > Mahmoud would regularly spend 10-12 hours a day - sometimes as many as 16 - at his computer, editing and publishing social media videos promoting Tate daily as part of the required coursework.

    He mandated they do affiliate marketing for himself... for those wondering how the guy got into your feeds so often without you soliciting it, i wondered for a long time.

  • by 111111101101 on 1/17/24, 2:07 AM

    Tate isn't doing anything new. Anyone remember those The Rich Jerk ads that were everywhere around 15 years ago?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdMPJS1l0A

  • by amadeuspagel on 1/17/24, 1:19 AM

    > The centrepiece of Tate’s business empire, the site bills itself as “the world’s most advanced financial education platform” and promises to equip young men with the entrepreneurial skills to allow them to “escape ‘the Matrix’” – Tate’s disparaging term for mainstream society – and avoid an otherwise inevitable future as a “brokie”. Mahmoud was convinced it would make him rich.

    It's interesting how the Matrix still has this influence today. I don't think there's any movie that has had a worse influence, and I don't think that's an accident.

  • by SidekickBoxing on 1/17/24, 3:04 PM

  • by MuffinFlavored on 1/17/24, 2:24 AM

    I lost a good friend to the Andrew Tate culture. Said friend loves Trump, thinks Alex Jones is interesting, etc. etc.

    Not really sure what you can do. Some random guy (Andrew Tate) starts making online content and some people (my friend) just get sucked into it. How do you get them back out?