Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse(newyorker.com) |
Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse(newyorker.com) |
Should I feel left out if I am not privy to Internet drama?
It's sad that "journalism" these days has devolved into commentary on commentary. Entire stories are published about Twitter fights, which are the modern day equivalent of high-school cafeteria spats, except it's grown adults engaging.
Tate is an influencer, as such he has influenced millions of young men (probably some women too) all over the world, by spread masculinist ideology, "gymbroism" and misogyny
He has multiple cases of crimes and felonies against him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tate#Criminal_investiga...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_the_Tate_brot...
If you have nephews, sons, (younger) brothers, I'd pay attention to their opinion about Tate. Could be a good warning that something's happening.
You can also afford not to care ^^
Influencers are inessential nobodies. They contribute nothing positive to the world and produce nothing of value.
They could all disappear tomorrow and the world would be better off for it. They exist only because of your attention.
I cannot be persuaded to care about these people one iota because it only makes the problem worse in a positive feedback loop.
Ignore them and they'll go away.
If you're worried about your nephews, then they're spending too much time online. The solution is to remove them from the situation, not elevate these narcissists even further.
Women have been abused, joined cults, etc. for centuries. This is not new. There is likely a red-light district in your city full of trafficked women right now, that no one is doing anything about. Why would you care about an e-celeb halfway across the world?
Like, in who's opinion?
Basically, talking about him should be beneath the New Yorker, and the choice to publish about him drags a weird little pocket of the deep internet into the mainstream, in a way that makes us all worse off.
They're a troll given their reply to my comment a little above this same discussion. I thought they were literally asking for info xD but nope :/
And whether you care about them or not, they have access to your kids, your neighbors, your friends, your family, anywhere that social media promotes them, and you can't turn them off.
Our relative isolation was our best defense against destabilizing ideas, but we can't see inside the algorithms, and these people aren't teaching alternative value systems or ethics and civic behavior. They're role models for exploitation, preying on algorithmically selected vulnerable demographics.
And not seeing them doesn't mean you're successfully attenuating their reach, it just means that you're being excluded because you're not their mark. They know who they're looking for, and they know how to recruit. That's what we're up against.