If you’ve been anywhere on the internet lately, then chances are, you’ve heard of professional sh*t-talker Andrew Tate.
The podcaster is known for his misogynistic and damaging views towards women, and while people like him largely go ignored, Tate has built quite the following.
The former kickboxer has been described as “the scariest man on the internet”, with many accusing him of spreading violent messages.
The 35-year-old considers himself as a “self-help guru” on TikTok, where he’s garnered 11.6 billion views.
Now, Abbie Chatfield is weighing in on the divisive figure, saying she’s been directly targeted by his followers.
“I do feel like I really want to ignore him. I want to suffocate him of any oxygen in media, because the more I engage with his content – even to research, for a radio segment – if I look at his TikToks, or he’s tagged in a TikTok and I look at it for too long, that feeds the algorithm and it feeds out more to my followers and to the followers who are already engaging in that content,” she explained during her appearance on The Project.
“It is getting a bit too big to ignore now. But I do still fear that if I speak about it to my followers or my listeners, it doesn’t really achieve anything. I’m sure those who are my listeners already feel this way, they agree that yes he’s disgusting, he’s awful.”
Abbie then revealed that she’s been receiving private messages from people who Tate has influenced.
“I’m getting DMs from what appear to be early teen boys saying, ‘I hope Andrew Tate destroys you,’ or things along that line.”
“I also get comments calling me ‘Abbie Tate,’ and comments on TikTok especially. That’s where it’s really, really rife.”
The Masked Singer panellist then pointed out the double standards of content moderation on social media.
“I upload a TikTok in a white singlet, with a bra on, and it gets deleted in a minute, wouldn’t even go up. But there’s endless videos of him saying that women are property, and extremely vile, misogynistic things.”
“How can that slip through the cracks but me in a singlet can’t?”
