Tate’s username has long been @Cobratate, while Neo is a reference to the character from the movie The Matrix. Both have long been a part of his ideology calling for men to “escape the Matrix”, and he has always promised his followers that they will teach them how to be a “Top G”.
“If Elon Musk is serious about dealing with fake accounts, bots and inauthentic behavior, then Twitter must act on Andrew Tate’s network of fake accounts manipulating Twitter’s algorithm,” Imran Ahmed, executive director of CCDH, said in a statement. a press release.
Last year, a large part of Tate’s online presence came from an affiliate marketing scheme involving Hustlers University, Tate’s discord server. The “university” offered business classes in which students were tasked with editing incendiary videos with Tate in an effort to gain more enrollments for HU. This was later closed when social media platforms started. unplatform tate
A BuzzFeed News investigation discovered that the Hustlers University 2.0 server contained more than 200,000 members. With fees of $49.99 per month, that meant at least $11 million was collected from membership payments in October 2022 alone.
Now, Tate has created “The Real World,” a similar set of chat rooms and classes, and there’s a new affiliate marketing boot camp that’s spawned a surge of Twitter users. A chart put together by CCDH shows the influx that joined Twitter after registration for the new marketing boot camp began.
