TikTok bans account of Andrew Tate as YouTube removes his TateSpeech channel

He went on to gain notoriety online, with Twitter banning him for saying women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted.

He had 4.7 million Instagram followers at the time his account was removed.

That number had grown rapidly from around one million followers in June.

At the time of his removal from Big Brother, Mr Tate said the video had been edited, calling it “a total lie trying to make me look bad”.

He has not yet commented on the Meta ban

Originally a kickboxer, Tate made his way into the spotlight as a Big Brother cast member in 2016; he was kicked off the show after a video surfaced of him hitting a woman with a belt. (The two later said his actions had been consensual.) These days, Tate, 35, is best known as an incel self-help guru behind a shocking amount of blatantly misogynistic content, which he encourages his army of angry male subscribers to share widely online. Videos of Tate’s most controversial statements — including going into detail about acting violently against women, comparing them to property or animals, and supporting rape — have been watched on TikTok 11.6 billion times; before he was banned, he had 4.7 million followers on Instagram. You won’t be surprised to learn that his hatred is not reserved solely for women; there are plenty of videos in which Tate makes racist, homophobic, transphobic, fatphobic, and classist remarks.

In a podcast, Andrew Tate said he doesn’t know why he got banned, but he has got good people on ground who might figure out something.