Andrew Tate's videos - promoting misogyny and targeting women - have come to prominence this summer with many teens commenting on just how much he's appearing on their social media feeds.

His content has raised concerns about the real-world effect it could have, especially on the younger users exposed to it during their school holidays when they have time on their hands.
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Meta has banned influencer Andrew Tate from Facebook and Instagram for violating its policies.

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    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      FR tho, I’m on the Spectrum and act more considerately and attentively towards others than vice versa

      well I don't think social intelligence neither necessitates nor precludes kindness.

      You can be fash and socially capable at the same time--for instance just look at the fash that browse kiwifarms--but it seems like the vast majority of fash are socially completely fucking gone, and since every other person is a fash who socializes on the internet now, even the most socially intelligent people are now just cringe outrage dorks

      like when people type "BASED" and shit all the time, except most people bring that shit into IRL and it makes me cringe so hard that I legitimately want to slap people

      It used to be that the "internet people" knew there was a mode of decorum offline which was different, but since the neo-Eternal September of 2008 (or whenever smartphones took over) that no longer exists bc of the normies