The Andrew Tate situation in Romania

 From what I know, Andrew Tate started by founding some sort of "alpha male club" that promoted toxic masculinity and misogyny. Tate also owned a video chatting company that exploited tons of women. He grew a massive wealth from that and showed off his wealth on the internet by filming his cars or keeping them in the background of his videos. With lots of men admiring him and wanting to know his secret to wealth and dating advice for women, he was invited to tons of podcasts and shows where he answered a variety of questions. Usually, when he talked about women he would point to them in misogynistic ways.

The internet was flooded with videos and clips of him from his interviews which were taken as a joke by most people. His most popular line was "Just breathe air" which became viral and also got him suspended. Some people that were with the same mindset as Tate would comment on his posts with encouraging affirmations which would only make him continue what he is doing. Despite all of the hate he was getting he still continued and couldn't be stopped.

He was a known criminal in the UK so Andrew Tate moved to Bucarest, Romania with his brother, Tristan. He claimed that Romania has low security and he would be less likely to be imprisoned or detained there. At some point, they were found and the Romanian police searched their house but didn't arrest them.

Recently in December, they were detained (finally) until at least the 29th of January, 2023 along with two other suspects. The police found two victims (women). They have been charged with human trafficking and organized crime. The Romanian police say that the victims were coerced into participating in paid revealing content for social media through false acts of affection called the "loverboy method".

What these people have done is absolutely disgusting, as a Romanian, I can't say I'm surprised this happened in my country but seeing people move in here only to make our life here a living hell is awful. We Romanians can't do anything about it. Seeing people say nice words about Romania under people's comments talking about the situation all of a sudden while our country and people usually get slandered and discriminated against. Romania is down bad in general, it never had a good era, women in Romania are used to getting abused and the police don't take SA cases seriously.


I'd like to include a lovely comment at the bottom of this page: "Stop lying, you are not from Romanian" -Call it, youtube commenter

Thank you very much