Answer: Andrew Tate is a popular manosphere influencer. Sells himself as wealthy, alpha-male, kick-boxer, and violent misogynist. Think of his main audience as ~15 year old boys.
The Events:
- Andrew Tate writes a taunting tweet towards Greta Thunberg.
- Greta responds. Internet loves it. She very quickly gets 1million likes.
- Tate releases a 2 minute video of himself (talking, sitting at a table, cigar, bathrobe, and pizza boxes) as a retort.
- Romanian police, meanwhile, have (supposedly) been monitoring his social media, waiting to see when he returned to the country. He has ties to organized crime, human trafficking, and rape charges. The police are (supposedly) watching his socials, waiting to arrest him once he returns.
- In his video retort he has pizza boxes on the table.
- Cops *supposedly* identify it as a Romanian pizza chain restaurant. Correction: This one might be twitter lore that the cops needed the box to find him. We don't really know yet. But this is a step that makes the whole story extra viral.
- Cops raid his house and arrest him and his brother.
Also: A reason you might be seeing a lot of talk about his arrest right now is because everyone on Twitter watched the whole entire saga develop in real time over only 36 hours.
More: He had previously been banned from Twitter but Elon Musk reinstated him.
lol3The Events:
- Andrew Tate writes a taunting tweet towards Greta Thunberg.
- Greta responds. Internet loves it. She very quickly gets 1million likes.
- Tate releases a 2 minute video of himself (talking, sitting at a table, cigar, bathrobe, and pizza boxes) as a retort.
- Romanian police, meanwhile, have (supposedly) been monitoring his social media, waiting to see when he returned to the country. He has ties to organized crime, human trafficking, and rape charges. The police are (supposedly) watching his socials, waiting to arrest him once he returns.
- In his video retort he has pizza boxes on the table.
- Cops *supposedly* identify it as a Romanian pizza chain restaurant. Correction: This one might be twitter lore that the cops needed the box to find him. We don't really know yet. But this is a step that makes the whole story extra viral.
- Cops raid his house and arrest him and his brother.
Also: A reason you might be seeing a lot of talk about his arrest right now is because everyone on Twitter watched the whole entire saga develop in real time over only 36 hours.
More: He had previously been banned from Twitter but Elon Musk reinstated him.
