Quote Originally Posted by Kalam View Post
I dont follow him, but I have come across his videos on X from time to time. I think his main attraction is that he is actually very funny and witty in a non PC way. Kind of reminds me of Rush Limbaugh that way.

The entire case against him smells very political. I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't pay off the right person or if he was operating on someone else's turf unauthorized. I find it hard to imagine Romanian authorities really cares all that much about web cam models being exploited.
It is political, but I can't say I like Tate because his entire business model involved exploiting young men starved for romance and sex.

The webcam scam was particularly nasty, involving the girls being instructed to give phony sob stories to the simps they're camming with, and then the simps volunteer to give them money. While some dudes paying for camgirls are just horny pervs, another subset is just lonely, and desires connection/conversation with women. This is actually how not-so-attractive webcam models still do well, because personality can go a long way in that space. Tate obviously realized this and seeked to exploit it. So it really is gross to instruct these girls to feign massive financial issues just so these lonely dudes open up the wallets and send them money which actually goes to Tate.

And then Tate's whole alpha persona is, again, meant to appeal to aimless, lonely dudes who feel like they need a "teacher" to show them how to get women and succeed in life. But most of the "advice" he dispensed would fail the average sad sack, and again, the whole thing was just to both stroke his own ego and to line his pockets.

It's not fair to compare him to Rush Limbaugh, who was just a talk show host ranting about politics. Rush could do it in a humorous and easy-to-understand way which appealed to a lot of less-than-sophisticated listeners, but he wasn't selling a lie, nor exploiting anyone.