00:00:03.000I was thinking for a long time how to start this video because it needs to be concise and compendious, but I also want it to be very, very comprehensive.
00:00:14.000And I guess the best place to start is at the beginning.
00:00:19.000There have been many different versions of my life story which have been put on the internet as of late and from many years ago, but I'm going to give a very, very quick overview of my story.
00:00:35.000I preach to the people who follow me that as a man, trauma and difficulty is extremely important because it's the building blocks for mental fortitude and physical fortitude.
00:00:48.000So I'm very, very happy that my life has been difficult because it's impossible to become a capable man or a man of my capability without struggling with facing serious adversities, without trying to overcome often insurmountable odds.
00:01:05.000I grew up in the south side of Chicago.
00:03:15.000And I said, That kid, I won't say his name, I said his name at the time.
00:03:19.000I said, That kid, he hit me in the face, and I just had enough of getting hit in the face.
00:03:25.000And I was still holding the lunchbox, but it was all smashed up where I'd hit him with it.
00:03:32.000And my dad kind of smiled a little bit and said, Don't worry, son, get in the car.
00:03:36.000We got in the car and we went to Walmart.
00:03:38.000We walked up and down the aisle, and he looked and picked up another lunchbox, an exact replica of the same blue Batman lunchbox, gave it to me, and said, I'll buy you as many of these as you need.
00:04:02.000So, even from a very, very young age, I was taught that going to authority and crying and hoping someone else is going to fix your problems is not the way a man should conduct himself.
00:04:15.000When I left Chicago, I moved to Luton, England, which was multiply times voted the worst town in England.
00:04:23.000It's a high crime rate, it's a very bad area.
00:04:26.000My mother and father broke up, so I was in a single mother household.
00:04:30.000And now I'm a person of color in a single mother household.
00:04:34.000I'm also the only American at the time in Luton.
00:04:39.000And I had, again, repeat problems in school.
00:04:41.000I was picked on for being the only American.
00:04:43.000I was picked on for not knowing things I should have known because I hadn't been through the English educational system.
00:04:48.000I'd been through the American educational system.
00:04:51.000And I had trouble in school again, but I stood up for myself.
00:04:54.000Unfortunately, nothing got violent at any point.
00:04:56.000But when people made fun of me, I stood up and said, listen, don't make fun of me.
00:04:59.000I'm from a different place and I talk differently.
00:05:01.000And I always understood that standing up for yourself, I never went to the teacher, I never cried to anybody else.
00:05:49.000And we had friendly banter back and forth, but we were very good friends.
00:05:53.000And I stuck up for him and prevented anyone else picking on him all of the time.
00:05:58.000And the banter between us, the locker room talk, which would be considered absolutely unacceptable today, at the time was very, very normal.
00:06:08.000And I heard from him actually after this ban.
00:06:11.000And he said, You should mention the fact that the things they say about you completely aren't true.
00:06:16.000And this leads me on to the reason I believe these narratives have managed to gain such a foothold in popular consciousness.
00:06:24.000Due to the fact I've managed to develop an iron mind, because I'm probably the only individual on earth who can be vilified to this level without taking personal insult and without being emotionally affected.
00:06:38.000What I have done is I've allowed certain narratives to gain traction, which I shouldn't have allowed to gain traction, because they didn't personally bother me, because I know they are false.
00:06:52.000I go to church, and anyone who follows me in detail knows I donate huge sums of money to the church.
00:06:59.000And as long as I knew the truth of my heart and God knew the truth of my heart, I wasn't interested in lies being purported.
00:07:07.000I now understand that that's wrong, because even though I've done nothing wrong, Even though it doesn't emotionally affect me, even though God and myself know my innocence, the public consciousness has been polluted to a point where narratives are being purported which are absolutely and utterly false.
00:07:26.000And it's having a genuine negative impact on the people who I care about and the people who care about me.
00:07:33.000And despite the fact it doesn't emotionally affect me, as a man, I have a duty to protect all of those I love.
00:07:39.000And for this reason, these narratives have started to become very, very harmful.
00:07:43.000I was on the understanding that on the internet, people don't like you.
00:07:50.000There's going to be some people who don't like you, and the people who don't like you are not interested in the truth.
00:07:55.000What they are interested in is finding some lie that they can latch on to and accelerating that lie on as much as possible via their platforms to try and paint a negative picture of you because they don't like you.
00:08:09.000A lot of these attacks against me are disguised under the virtue of caring about women, but none of these people who are attacking me care about women.
00:08:21.000None of them donate to women's charities.
00:08:23.000None of them donate to charity like I do.
00:08:34.000All they do is just attack me and use fake virtue, the fact they pretend to care, as a reason to attack somebody who they personally don't like.
00:08:44.000And it's very, very different to actually care about an issue or weaponize an issue and pretend to care to try and damage someone else's life.
00:08:52.000These are very, very different things.
00:08:55.000And this is the reason why I have not tried to dispel these myths as hard as I could have because I understood that these people are always going to hate me and they're always going to lie about me, no matter what I say or do.
00:09:08.000But considering, in light of the final ban, and considering I have the public consciousness, I think it's extremely important that for myself and for my family and for people I care about, I tell the truth and I make the truth known to the world because that is the only intention in my video to sit and tell the truth.
00:09:28.000And the fact that I'm a very, very iron minded individual who is not negatively affected by these smear campaigns is not reason enough for me not to sit, take time, and dispel all the negative things which are said about me.
00:09:40.000I am fully aware that not everybody is going to agree with what I say.
00:09:45.000I don't think there's a person on the planet you can find who has a 100% approval rate.
00:09:51.000There's always going to be somebody who disagrees with what you say.
00:09:55.000If I said the earth was round, there would be a contingent of individuals on the planet who disagree with me.
00:10:01.000I have no problem with people disagreeing with me.
00:10:04.000I have no problem with being seen as controversial for some of the things I've said.
00:10:08.000However, I do have two significant problems I would like to address.
00:10:13.000The first is I do not like absolute and utter lies being told about me.
00:10:18.000I do not like having long form video of me cut up, elements taken out of context, the tonality of the joke removed, and purporting an image of me that's not true.
00:10:44.000I think anyone who decides to get big on the internet needs to be very, very prepared for a contingent of people to not be happy with what they say.
00:10:51.000I could make a YouTube channel dedicated to the fact that I believe the world is round, and there would be a large or semi large proportion of people who would disagree with me.
00:11:00.000I don't think there's a single creator online that has a 100% approval rate.
00:11:05.000I have a lot of people who love what I say.
00:11:07.000I have a lot of fans, a lot of people are dedicated to my channel, and I have a lot of positivity online.
00:11:12.000And I have a small contingent of people who are very, very offended by what I say.
00:11:16.000We often talk about in the modern world the inclusivity of different cultures, different ways of life, different sexual orientations, and how we need to be tolerant and understanding of all these different people's life paths and, by extension, their different ways of viewing the world.
00:11:33.000I'm a unique individual, as is everybody else, and I have a unique life path that has led me to unique points of view.
00:11:40.000I think that all of the people who disagree with me are very, very welcome to disagree with me because they have had a unique life path and a different point of view.
00:11:49.000I would never shout for any of the people who disagree with anything I say to be silenced or canceled because I don't think that helps the world.
00:11:59.000I think that discourse is always going to be the way that we lead ourselves to the truth.
00:12:03.000And if anybody has anything contrary to say about any of my points of view, I welcome it.
00:12:11.000And as long as it's in a respectful and adult manner, I often platform it on my platforms as much as possible so I can sit and discuss and I can learn things.
00:12:20.000Because if I have a point of view and someone challenges it in a very adult, correct, logical way, very often I have changed my point of view.
00:12:28.000And this has been really, really good for me as a person to grow and for the audience to grow.
00:12:32.000And I know I've changed many other people's minds when they've come to debate with me.
00:12:36.000And this is the beauty of being human.
00:12:39.000So I have no problem with being disliked.
00:12:41.000I do have a problem with a few things.
00:12:42.000I have a problem with long format things I've said being taken out of context, taking a small clip from a two hour piece of video.
00:12:52.000Then, with careful editing, removing of tonality, and changing my intention behind the words, painting me to be a criminal or a bad person when I am not.
00:13:02.000I do have a problem with false criminal accusations when I do not have a criminal record, and I have never had a criminal record in any country on the planet.
00:13:12.000And also, I have a problem with the fact that social media has changed so much in modern times.
00:13:18.000A lot of the things I said that are being used against me were said five or six years ago in long format video.
00:13:25.000And as of late, with TikTok, with YouTube shorts, with Instagram reels, it's very, very easy to take two hours of video, snip out 10 seconds, edit it up quickly on a phone app, and then blow it up to millions and millions of views with all context removed, all tonality removed, and makes it look like I'm saying things I did not say or I mean things I did not mean.
00:13:47.000And this is something that I can't control.
00:13:50.000I became the most Googled man on the planet.
00:13:52.000And to a degree, I'm a victim of my own success because now people are trying to find.
00:13:57.000Any little clip of anything I've ever said, remove all the tonality and just blow it up to try and get views to be as controversial as possible.
00:14:07.000They're doing that because they want the views for themselves, but they're not taking into consideration how that affects me and my personal image as a whole.
00:14:14.000And I think the things I've just highlighted has now culminated in the media believing something about me which is so pertinently false based on videos that I have never even made, purported and accelerated and advertised by people who I don't even know.
00:14:32.000With such a small piece of video from me, with all context removed, that I've now become the number one villain of Earth, and I truly believe that's unjust.
00:14:42.000And I want to discuss that here and prove to the world in my final message that I am not any of the things I've been accused of.
00:14:49.000Regardless of whether I am banned, reinstated, remain on social media, it's completely beside the point.
00:14:55.000This is just a matter of clearing the air while I have the national consciousness.
00:14:59.000I was massively a victim of my own success.
00:15:03.000I decided to accelerate my public persona and presence about six months ago.
00:16:08.000The number one video on my YouTube channel, my pinned video, has been for over a year mind hacks, how to beat depression, how to feel better as a man.
00:16:18.000Sitting there believing that depression is some monster from the sky that strikes your brain and now you have no control over and you must take pills every day is the absolute enemy to a G mindset.
00:16:29.000I don't give a fuck how depressing my situation is.
00:16:32.000The only person who can change it is me.
00:16:34.000The only person who can change how I feel about my situation or try and affect the situation directly is me.
00:16:40.000Even if you put me in a situation I can't change, if you put me in jail and I'm depressed because I'm in jail, I still refuse to succumb to depression.
00:16:47.000I refuse to collapse mentally and give up.
00:16:50.000I know the only person who can control my mind is me.
00:16:54.000As a man who's been through such a difficult life, I think I have a very intimate understanding of difficulty and how to grow as a man and how to become the kind of man that can handle a difficult life because this has been my life path.
00:17:40.000And they understood that if they can make a YouTube video purporting a lie about me or saying bad things about me, it's more likely to get clicked, it's more likely to get watched, it's more likely to get shared.
00:17:57.000And what's happened is people, through their own selfish desires of trying to piggyback off the back of my massive fame and becoming the most famous man on the planet, have decided that making a bunch of negative videos is a fantastic way for them to personally gain clout and personally gain views and clicks, which is what the internet is about.
00:18:18.000And we ended up in a situation where videos of me from long ago are being taken out of context purposefully to try and purport a narrative which is not true.
00:18:27.000Because people understand that's a very easy way for them to gain some clout and leech off of my success.
00:18:34.000Like I said, I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, being disliked, etc.
00:18:39.000However, when it has an effect to this magnitude, where I am genuinely seen as a negative, bad influence on the world, when all of the emails I receive from people who watch me are positive, saying that I'm helping people, how I've helped their mind, I've cured their depression, it's really strange to experience such a disconnect.
00:19:00.000To have 98% of the people who email you say how fantastic you are and how much you helped them, and then 2% of unknowns threatening your life, and then everyone I meet on the street saying such amazing things.
00:19:15.000Since I've become the most famous man on the planet, I have never once had a negative experience in real life.
00:19:20.000Everybody who meets me is very respectful, a fan.
00:19:38.000At the same time, the media is saying I'm hated.
00:19:41.000It's a very strange disconnect that I've been experiencing.
00:19:44.000And a lot of that has been purported and accelerated by the fact that people are trying to gain views on their own channels, separate to me, nothing to do with me, by accelerating lies.
00:19:54.000It's also an interesting case study into internet mass hysteria, right?
00:20:00.000If 50 videos come out saying Tate's a bad guy, it takes a lot of bravery for someone to come out and say Tate's not a bad guy.
00:20:07.000Despite the evidence, I can show evidence to the contrary of these negative narratives.
00:20:14.000But if somebody can see, if a YouTube creator or a content creator can see, if you make a negative video about Tate, you get a bunch of clicks, and everyone else did it, well then I may as well do it.
00:20:23.000They don't sit there and go, What about Andrew?
00:20:38.000And even though what they're saying is false, even though some of them know it's false, Some of them may not, but the ones who are well researched know it's a lie.
00:20:48.000It's very, very tempting for them to sit there and do it anyway because there's no repercussion.
00:20:55.000All that's going to happen is they're going to get a bunch of clicks, a bunch of views, a bunch of comments, a lot of people defending me because they know it's not true, a lot of people agreeing with them who are less researched.
00:21:05.000They're going to completely benefit, and the only person who's going to suffer is me.
00:21:09.000And because I have an iron mind and I wasn't emotionally affected by this, and I understood the nature of the internet, I didn't try to combat it too hard.
00:21:16.000I didn't know exactly what I should do because I had already told the truth on repeat many, many, many times, but nobody would acknowledge it.
00:21:24.000They would just ignore it because it got more clicks to purport the lies.
00:21:28.000So I thought, that's the nature of the internet.
00:21:34.000Unfortunately, now public consciousness via the media has genuinely bought into a construct where people believe I'm somehow dangerous when all I have done is save people from depression.
00:22:11.000But as I said in the cage, I'd much rather my friend come to me and speak to me and cry on my shoulder than me have to cry when I'm carrying his coffin a week later.
00:22:22.000I just wanted to show the world that if mental health could bring somebody as big as me and as strong as me and, you know, the stereotype heavyweight jambier of the world to my knees, then it could bring anybody to the knees.
00:22:50.000I sit there and by using my lifestyle, which is an aspirational lifestyle that most men would love to have, Purely because of the finance, the cars, the freedom, etc.
00:23:00.000I encourage people to work hard and try their best to become the best version of themselves.
00:23:06.000And men are encouraged to talk and open up, but when I talk and open up and get massive influence and start helping people, they're going to silence me.
00:23:14.000I have been nothing but a net positive for the world.
00:23:16.000That's truly how I view myself, and that's absolutely not really the truth.
00:23:20.000However, I am very understanding of a changing social media landscape, and I'm also very, very understanding of my fame changing.
00:23:29.000And by extension, I have some responsibility to bear.
00:23:33.000I am a man who believes that he is responsible for everything.
00:23:37.000I think as a man, you should take complete responsibility for your entire reality.
00:23:42.000It doesn't matter if I'm struck by lightning.
00:23:46.000That's who I am as an individual, and it's been one of my keys to success to never blame luck, never blame anybody else, to only blame myself.
00:23:53.000So, despite everything I've just said, I still blame myself.
00:23:58.000And because my rise has been so meteoric, because I've become so famous so quickly, and because I've been producing content for so long, even though I take absolute responsibility, I'm in a difficult scenario where.
00:24:12.000Videos that were made five or six years ago in long form are now being cut into five seconds, accelerated and purported now in line with my new line fame.
00:24:48.000However, I must be ultra aware of how I do that because it would be unprofessional of me as a man to sit and say that my messaging does not have to change in line with my fame.
00:25:01.000The way you can say things in a video that gets 500 views is very different than the way you can say things in a video that gets 500 million views or 50 million views.
00:25:11.000The more people you reach, the more important it is that people do not take your things out of context, right?
00:25:17.000If not 0.1% of people misunderstand you on a 500 person video, that will not have a large effect on the world.
00:25:24.000But if not 0.1% of people misunderstand you on a video that has 50 million views, now you start to affect the world in a negative way.
00:25:31.000So I have to be very, very, very careful in line with my new found fame.
00:25:35.000And it's difficult because in the world I'm in, if I sit down and do a three hour podcast, it's my job to be entertaining and I want to give exciting answers and interesting insights.
00:25:47.000I think the reason people follow me is because.
00:25:49.000I have a very firm understanding of the English language, a very good grasp of the way to construct sentences, how to be motivating, how to be compelling.
00:26:01.000But it's also very difficult for me, regardless of my intellect, to now sit at a podcast, be interesting, be exciting, give a compendious and concise answer.
00:26:13.000At the same time, be wary that in my one minute answer, at any point, six seconds worth of it can be taken, snipped, used against me, and weaponized.
00:26:25.000I don't know if my mind can handle all those tasks at once.
00:26:27.000It's not very often I'm stumped, but that is becoming extremely difficult.
00:26:32.000And I'm sitting here thinking I've been offered massive podcast requests by the biggest podcasts in the world.
00:26:37.000And I'm thinking, how can I answer questions?
00:26:43.000How can I be a professional, take responsibility for my level of fame to make sure that nothing can be taken out of context, but still tell my truth and still answer the questions, but construct my sentences in a way where they can't be misrepresented at all?
00:26:59.000And it's hard because I think any content creator who was suffering from what I've suffered from, if any content creator got as large as I was and there were as many people cutting up their videos as they were mine, and those people had a negative agenda, we could make Mickey Mouse look evil.
00:27:40.000All the media channels want to talk to me.
00:27:42.000And I'm sitting here thinking, I need to make sure I'm not misunderstood.
00:27:48.000And I have to really be careful about how I do that while not backing down on my messaging, while still championing the things I champion, still believing in myself, but making sure I'm not misunderstood.
00:28:00.000And although I think on the internet I am one of the most respected oratists that exist, I now need to once again improve myself and improve my skills and prevent anybody being able to take me out of context.
00:28:15.000I might have to form a new way for sentences to be constructed, but if that's what it takes, that's what I intend to do because with great influence comes absolutely and utterly great responsibility.
00:29:47.000He would never hurt anyone unless he's fighting.
00:29:52.000The left understand that kink shaming is a negative thing, from my understanding.
00:29:57.000She has come forward and said that it was all just a game.
00:30:00.000And still, that video is being used and sent around the internet Sam Womanbeater.
00:30:04.000If I said it was a game and she said it was a game, who are other people to then comment on our lives, our private lives, which got leaked, and tell us it's not a game?
00:30:13.000It was between two consenting adults and we decided to do something ourselves and we both agreed it was fine.
00:30:18.000And she has not come forward trying to accuse me of anything.
00:30:32.000I say about how they should be protected, how beautiful they are, how much I love my grandmother because of the amount of children she has.
00:30:39.000My grandmother had nine children because there was my father and eight more.
00:30:43.000They all had a bunch of kids, blah, blah, blah.
00:30:45.000I stood there and I looked at my 93 year old grandmother, and there was a room, a whole room full with maybe 70 people that came from that one woman.
00:32:04.000I believe in making sure that women are provided for.
00:32:07.000However, that video was made when I was far less famous.
00:32:11.000In light of the things I just said to you earlier in this video, I understand that now, as my fame grows, even though to me my message is very clear, a man has certain roles in society, a woman has certain roles in society, and when we work as a team, when we love each other, society is better as a whole.
00:32:26.000I think that these views are not very controversial at all.
00:32:30.000I think they were mainstream only a few years ago.
00:32:33.000I don't think that they're controversial.
00:32:35.000Most of the people I meet in the world don't think they're controversial.
00:32:37.000The women I hang around with don't think they're controversial.
00:32:40.000Nobody on the street I've ever met thinks they're controversial.
00:32:44.000However, the way I'm saying it, the way I'm getting the message across, because I'm trying to be as energetic as possible, I understand that a small, tiny percentage of people might misunderstand me.
00:32:54.000And that didn't matter when I didn't have any views, I didn't have any followers.
00:32:57.000But now I'm the most famous man in the world.
00:32:59.000I have to be a lot more careful with how I say it.
00:33:01.000But what's really worrying is this that clip, I would like to think, even my biggest haters can agree, is a clip that is positive about women as a whole.
00:33:10.000Perhaps you may not like my tonality or the way I structured certain sentences, but as a whole, I'm saying positive things about women.
00:33:18.000At one point during that speech, I said, Women do certain things and men do certain things.
00:33:24.000That clip has been taken, that cut of my language, men do certain things, women do certain things.
00:33:30.000Somebody, I have no idea who, has made a TikTok where it says, Men do certain things, and it shows videos of me driving around in cars, spending money, and women do certain things, and it shows women cleaning.
00:34:08.000I said that women should be protected and provided for.
00:34:10.000But because a small clip was taken out of context and used against me and weaponized, Now, I look like I've said things I did not say.
00:34:18.000And no matter how positive my message about women, if the intention is to try and make me look bad, even with a clip like that, they found a way to make me look bad.
00:34:30.000That's why I've titled this video My Final Message, because I don't know, even with my entire brain, I don't know with all of my genius intellect, if I can find a way for nothing to be used against me.
00:34:47.000One line out of context has made me look bad, and millions of people saw that, and people didn't see the long format video, and they've deduced that I hate women and that women should only clean, when really I was trying to stick up for and protect women and give my true views on women.
00:35:01.000And this comes full circle to the Instagram ban.
00:35:05.000I am very understanding of why Instagram felt like it was necessary to ban me.
00:35:17.000Although I believe it's unfair, although I believe I've been unfairly vilified, although I believe it's not the right thing to do because it doesn't allow me to shift the public consciousness in a constructive manner, although I think it would have been better for them to say, Andrew, certain things are being taken out of context, you need to be careful that doesn't happen, a lot of people listen to you, and I could have become a champion for women's rights.
00:35:41.000I understand why they did it because that's a perfect example of how people are desperate to try and make the things I say look worse than they are, and using social media platforms.
00:37:32.000This is a problem with short format video, short attention spans, nobody looking into anything in detail, things taken out of context.
00:37:39.000This is a really big problem that the world has to address that goes beyond me.
00:37:44.000And if I've had to martyr my presence on social media to raise a conversation which is going to be a net benefit for the world as a whole, then I'm happy with that.
00:37:54.000I'm happy if people go, you know what, this happened to Andrew Tate, it's now happening to other people, we have to change the way we review.
00:37:59.000Censorship, banning, content creation, content proportion, all these things.
00:38:04.000That's fine if that's the life path which has been chosen for me.
00:38:08.000I just want to make it clear that I don't like when that happens.
00:38:11.000I don't want that to happen myself because I don't gain anything from that.
00:38:14.000On Instagram, absolutely no rules were broken.
00:38:19.000My captions were just poetry that I wrote, my pictures were just lifestyle, car, house, boat.
00:38:28.000I never done anything wrong on Instagram.
00:38:31.000The only rule infringements on Instagram were my comment section, where hate mobs, inspired by these videos that we've been discussing, these videos which were deliberately taken out of context and deliberately fictional, were inspired at the end of YouTube videos to go to my Instagram and insult me.
00:38:49.000So the only infringements you would find on Instagram is in my comment section, where thousands of people who were sent by random YouTubers who don't like me would come, threaten to kill me.
00:39:00.000Mock my dead father, threaten to kill my brother, threaten to kill my family, threaten to find me.
00:39:06.000These were the only rule infringements on Instagram.
00:39:09.000Things written against me by other YouTubers telling them to go and do it.
00:39:14.000While all I wrote is poetry and on repeat, multiple times I said on my stories if you're going to defend me, do it respectfully.
00:39:24.000Even if people hate me, even if they're insulting me, don't insult them back.
00:39:27.000Hate doesn't beat hate, it just creates a brick wall.
00:39:30.000If somebody says they hate me, explain to them calmly that they don't understand the context.
00:40:52.000Because to inspire the youth of men, you need to be aspirational.
00:40:56.000They have to look at you and want to be like you.
00:40:59.000And there's no other male role models that have had the tenacity or the aggressiveness to have such a fantastic life as I have, that they're going to listen to me.
00:41:07.000They listen to me because of my authority, and my authority comes from my life experiences.
00:41:11.000If my mentality is so wrong, how have I managed to amass enormous wealth?
00:41:16.000How have I managed to amass huge social status?
00:41:18.000How have I managed to physically dominate the planet?
00:41:21.000I've done things that men respect and they look up to me.
00:41:50.000And I truly believe that me, with reformed messaging, now understanding of my newfound fame, is so much better for the world than nobody.
00:41:58.000Because nobody just leads to black holes of who knows what, and it can't be controlled.
00:42:03.000And that's where the internet is truly dangerous.
00:42:05.000Speaking of Instagram, I was understanding in recent weeks of how these negative fictional stories of me were gaining traction, and I wanted to try very, very hard to counter them.
00:42:17.000I put a post on Instagram, which you can see here.
00:42:20.000Where I explained that the things I've said have been taken out of context.
00:42:23.000And just because I champion men's rights does not mean I dislike women.
00:42:27.000I think that men are underrepresented in the world today.
00:42:30.000And as people often say, men need to speak up.
00:42:37.000We're raising important issues in the world today because of me.
00:42:41.000Deleting me and blocking me is only going to hurt men as a whole and increase all the problems we see with the youth of the men today.
00:42:48.000So I put a post up and I said, listen, people misunderstand me.
00:42:51.000I'm going to donate money to a female charity that supports women against domestic violence, and I'm also going to donate money to a charity that supports men's mental health.
00:42:58.000Just because I support men doesn't mean I hate women.
00:43:02.000I'm a person full of love and I want people as a whole to elevate, not just men or women.
00:43:08.000I promised a dollar to each charity for every like.
00:43:11.000That's $2 per like total, $1 to each charity.
00:43:14.000At the time of my banning, I had 550,000 likes or something like that, I believe.
00:43:19.000And if I hear from Instagram, what I would like them to do is to clarify the final likes amount on that post so that I can stick to my word because that's what I am.
00:43:28.000I was not doing it purely just to post a receipt on social media.
00:43:32.000I was doing it because I genuinely believe it's a good thing to do.
00:43:35.000And I would like Instagram to confirm the final amount of likes on that picture so I can donate the $1.2, $1.3 million that I promised I would donate to both of those charities independently.
00:43:45.000I would even be happy for Instagram to select the two charities and confirm and verify my donation.
00:43:51.000I'd be very happy to do that because I said I was going to do that.
00:44:29.000What's also unfair is the people who say that they care about women and they're worried about misogyny and using this to attack me and try and have me deleted from the internet.
00:44:42.000They don't donate any money to charity.
00:45:33.000But once we have confirmed that the national opinion is misunderstood, then we have to sit there and go do we want to bow to hate mobs, which are accelerating and Encouraging people to become more hateful for views and to get people banned via hate, when these people may be actually doing good things to the real issue as a whole, is this a good idea for us to now bow and bend to these people?
00:45:59.000And this is a really interesting conversation which can be had for many, many hours about the internet, about society, about sociology, about psychology, about so many things.
00:46:09.000This spans in so many different directions.
00:46:24.000It's something I've been talking about internally and I would love to talk about more in person.
00:46:28.000And when I decide to finally come back to public consciousness and do podcasts and that kind of thing, it's something we will be talking about because it's a very, very interesting subject.
00:46:38.000I'm teaching that it takes tenacity and toughness to become a credible man of merit and value.
00:46:48.000I think even my hardcore detractors. Would agree with me.
00:46:55.000If you're in trouble and you call the police, you want a tenacious, tough man to appear to help you, to protect you.
00:47:04.000There's nothing wrong with being a tenacious, ambitious, tough man.
00:47:23.000The world is built on the backs of strong men, and I'm trying to teach men to be strong again.
00:47:29.000Because it makes the men feel happier inside, it solves men's mental health, and it also makes the world a genuinely better place.
00:47:37.000People are taking my lessons and me trying to teach strength and misconstruing them, saying that I'm trying to teach men to be oppressive or aggressive.
00:47:47.000And at the same time, they're ignoring my charitable donations to the world.
00:47:51.000And at the same time, other media creators are rewarded for purporting lies and spinning lies about me.
00:47:59.000And then at the same time, the media buys into this.
00:48:01.000And at the same time, we're in the current situation where this entire storm has appeared, where I've genuinely only been a net positive on the world for anyone who's watched my content in all of its long form.
00:48:14.000When Instagram tells me and confirms to me the number of likes on that post, I'm going to make the donation.
00:48:19.000As well as that, the future for me, now that I will be a lot more careful and a lot more selective with the social media I'll be producing, if any at all, is I'm going to be starting a foundation, the Tate Foundation, which is going to be dedicated towards charitable acts of both genders.
00:48:36.000I have been very, very private about certain elements of my personal life, as has my brother.
00:48:54.000I want her to find a strong man who can protect her, who can provide for her, who can make sure she's safe, but I don't want anything bad to ever happen to her.
00:49:03.000My own personal circumstances regarding family are something that are once again confidential, but I can confirm to you that.
00:49:08.000The last thing I would ever want is for women to be marginalized in the future, for genuine misogyny or sexism to take hold on the planet.
00:49:18.000I would completely and utterly be very unhappy with that for my own personal reasons.
00:49:22.000The Tate Foundation is going to be dedicated towards helping men's mental health and also protecting women from violence against men.
00:49:29.000You're going to see in the upcoming months and years that I'm not somebody who is doing this just for likes or doing this just for views, that I'm somebody who is doing this because he genuinely has the capability to help people.
00:49:41.000And I believed I was helping people via social media.
00:49:44.000And if that's going to be taken away from me, then I will continue my philanthropy in other realms.
00:49:50.000Please, if you want to have more information, you can go to cobertate.com, sign up to the emailing list.
00:49:55.000And my emailing list is going to start detailing all of my charitable acts from here on out.
00:49:59.000I'll be spending millions and millions of dollars on charitable acts for the rest of my human life.
00:50:05.000God has blessed me with fantastic wealth, it's more money than I will ever personally need.
00:50:09.000I already was doing my philanthropy through encouraging men.
00:50:13.000And if that's going to be destroyed, then I've decided to start the Tate Foundation and specifically help with financial aid, women, protection from violence primarily.
00:50:23.000I'm in Romania, which is very close to Ukraine, and there's a lot of problems there with violence against women and women trying to escape the country, and men's mental health issues.
00:50:32.000And this will all be detailed on my newsletter at cobratake.com, and I encourage people to follow.
00:50:37.000My other charitable acts are things that I haven't really advertised or talked about.
00:51:28.000I just rebuilt an orphanage and didn't use it for positive PR, didn't try and put it on the internet and get a good spin from it, didn't try to get likes.
00:51:37.000The fact that the only charitable act I've ever advertised was their Instagram post.
00:51:42.000So I find it very hypocritical when these hate mobs come and say I'm a bad person, when I'm the one who's out here spending his money and time.
00:51:52.000Trying to help the world, and all they're doing is telling their followers to insult me on my Instagram page.
00:51:58.000Which one of those two things has a genuinely positive effect on humanity?
00:52:03.000I am genuinely not the bad person here.
00:52:06.000However, I will state again I do take absolute responsibility because that's who I am as a man.
00:52:12.000I'm a personal responsibility type of person, and I understand that regardless of the fact I believe it's unfair, I do have a cross to bear because of my monumental success.
00:52:22.000I've lived an extreme life, more extreme than most.
00:52:35.000So I've lived a very extreme life, and this is where these lessons come from.
00:52:40.000To quickly address the rumors that I'm a sex trafficker and that's why I live in Romania, firstly, that's a very, very racist attitude to have.
00:52:48.000I find it strange that the left and people who speak and talk about tolerance and inclusivity will assume that Romania as a country will allow me to be a rapist.
00:53:00.000Or that Romania is the kind of place where rape is okay.
00:53:04.000That's an extremely racist mentality to have.
00:53:06.000Imagine someone saying that the other way around that in this country, because it's run by these people, they're inherently bad.
00:53:34.000And I don't understand why nobody is pointing out the fact that anyone who's saying that and believes that is purporting racial stereotypes.
00:55:18.000And I've said this many times, but people continue to ignore it.
00:55:22.000And continue to purport the lie because that's how the internet works, right?
00:55:25.000They continue to just keep pushing the lie because it gets more clicks or because they personally don't like me and they want to use it as an excuse to pretend I'm a bad person.
00:55:33.000I can sit here and be vain and arrogant and say they're jealous of me and my success and they want to find a way to drag me down, but that's beside the point.
00:55:42.000And I was swatted just like anyone else was.
00:55:45.000And if I had actually hurt anybody, the Romanian police would have me in jail because they are a nation, a European Union nation, with a strong legal system, and they would lock me up.
00:55:54.000They have not done that because I am completely and utterly innocent.
00:55:57.000They investigated as they should and came to the correct conclusion that there's nobody here and this was a false call, a false alarm.
00:56:04.000It happens to lots of famous people, it happens all the time.
00:56:07.000The person who made the call about me threw in, instead of saying, I kind of think, if I analyze it, the people who make these police calls, right?
00:56:15.000The people who do the swatting, it's kind of country specific.
00:56:19.000In America, they make a call to the police and they say, he has a gun, he has hostages.
00:56:23.000They can't really say that in Romania because it's very, very unlikely.
00:56:26.000It's not likely to be taken seriously.
00:56:28.000So instead, they try and find something the police might believe.
00:56:30.000Oh, he's an American guy and he has this big house and he has a bunch of women trapped.
00:56:34.000It's a different story, but it's the same intention for the police to turn up with guns.
00:56:38.000And thankfully, thank God, nobody was shot, nobody was hurt.
00:56:42.000They were very professional, very calm, as was I. Very calm conversations, very kind.
00:56:48.000Everything was sorted out very quickly.
00:58:45.000I understand that social media companies feel responsible for the national consciousness and the national opinions and actions because of their large levels of influence.
00:58:57.000However, I don't think it's fair that I'm being vilified and blamed for something that isn't true or wasn't even me.
00:59:05.000I need to seriously analyze if it's possible for me to even have a social media presence for any longer without it being weaponized and used against me.
00:59:15.000I would like to think that Instagram have their finger on the pulse of the world and that they're reactive and adaptive regarding how people view certain issues and people.
00:59:27.000I'd like to think that they're very fair and unbiased and that they understand that in time, when the truth is shown about my positivity and my positive impact on the world, the Tate Foundation, all the amazing things we're going to be doing for men and women, that over time they'll understand that there's no reason for me to not be on a platform.
00:59:48.000I understand that if I'm going to continue on social media, I need to be a lot more careful with my content.
00:59:53.000Not because I'm saying bad things, but because I'm saying things that could be used against me.
00:59:58.000I want to dedicate this YouTube channel, any other remaining social medias I have, my email list, and my Instagram at some point in the future to the Tate Foundation and speak purely about the positivity I'm doing for the world.
01:00:12.000Because in the meantime, and at least for the next few months or years, it's going to be very difficult to talk bad about me when.
01:00:18.000People only see the money I'm donating and how I'm helping people.
01:00:21.000And I don't just give money in a very lazy, charitable way.
01:00:24.000I get in my car, I go on the ground, I help people myself.
01:00:58.000I don't think I could have got everybody's attention without this.
01:01:03.000I don't think I would have had a chance to make a clean break and a clean start and explain the truth of my character and my heart without this.
01:01:10.000I think that if I was never banned, I would have kept trying to tell the truth, and my haters would have kept ignoring it and kept making negative videos about me, and it would have spiraled out of control until someone in my family was hurt or an attempt was made on my life.
01:01:25.000Any of my serious fans who have watched all my content know that I've had attempts on my life before, way before YouTube, 10 or 15 years ago.
01:01:33.000It's something I intimately understand, life and death.
01:01:36.000And it's not something I wish to revisit.
01:01:39.000I feel the hate around me was being accelerated to a point of danger for myself and my loved ones.
01:01:45.000So I'm very glad this happened because I feel like I now have a chance to tell the truth.
01:01:52.000And I also feel like the social media companies are very understanding of their responsibilities and will always reflect.
01:01:57.000National consciousness, and as people understand the truth about me and my heart, their opinions about me will change also.
01:02:04.000You know, the Bible is full of redemption stories, so are superhero movies, right?
01:02:11.000The guy starts off bad and then turns good, or the guy that you think is a bad guy turns out to be a good guy with good intentions all along.
01:02:21.000I feel like the human psyche is very intrinsically understanding of these narratives and stories.
01:02:26.000I think people understand a redemption arc, they can understand.
01:02:31.000When they retrospectively look back on certain events or actions or words, and with their new understanding of his actual intentions, everything looks different.
01:02:41.000They look back and go, Oh, now I know who he truly is.
01:03:35.000I'm very good at seeing both sides of the argument.
01:03:38.000I understand the situation I'm in intimately, I completely understand all points of view.
01:03:46.000And this redemption arc, this chance to tell the world the truth about me and focus on showing the good that I have already been doing before these bands, when I didn't want likes, when I didn't want clicks, and also undoing all the negative narratives which I've allowed to spiral out of control because I trusted in people to do their own research and come to their own truthful conclusions.
01:04:14.000I realize now that this is a fantastic chance for me.
01:04:20.000I'm still gonna tell the truth about who I am, about what I believe, about how I believe a man should act.
01:04:27.000I'm still gonna tell people and inspire people to stay away from low quality people.
01:04:33.000If you're struggling to find quality men to be friends with, maybe you're not a quality man.
01:04:37.000Every relationship in the world, including friendships, are mutual because if you're a quality person, you meet quality people, male and female.
01:05:37.000I'm just trying to teach people to stay away from low quality, toxic people and just try and elevate themselves and create their reality to be around high quality people and positive people, male or female.
01:05:52.000It's only the fact that the media, these people chopping my videos up, whoever they are, taking it out of context and only focusing on the times women were mentioned, which is a very small percentage, 2% or 3% of my overall content, and ignoring all the time I said the exact same thing about men or the times I loved women, and purporting this view.
01:06:13.000And I feel like this ban is the hard reset I needed to tell the truth.
01:07:32.000There's a lot of people on social medias with large criminal records who advocate drug use.
01:07:37.000I think that's far more dangerous for society than me.
01:07:41.000And once again, they have absolute exposure to the world.
01:07:48.000I want to run the Tate Foundation and I would love to do it without any social media.
01:07:56.000I will be detailing on my email list all of my charitable donations, all of the orphanages I'll be building, pictures, financial evidence, receipts.
01:08:07.000Please go to covertake.com and sign up to the newsletter.
01:08:09.000It's free, and I'll be letting people know the positive impact I'm going to be having on the world.
01:08:15.000The fame I've amassed has also managed to help me amass hundreds of millions of dollars.
01:09:11.000I think that to be a person filled with so much hate that you think making videos insulting a man and encouraging your viewers to go and insult him.
01:09:20.000And his deceased father and his family members.
01:09:25.000I think that is a horrible way to live.
01:09:27.000I would never want to experience that level of hate in my heart.
01:09:32.000The people who are making endless videos celebrating my ban or talking hate about me, that hate is never gonna satisfy you.
01:09:41.000You need to learn to let go and live with a heart filled with love.
01:09:45.000You need to be content with yourself because if you're obsessed with trying to hate on another person, the poison's inside of you, it's not inside of me.
01:09:54.000It doesn't affect me as much as it affects you.
01:09:58.000You can't feel hatred for somebody without it affecting your mood.
01:10:01.000So, this is something for you guys to address, and I genuinely pray for you.
01:10:04.000I have no ill will against any of my haters.
01:10:06.000I have no ill will against any social media companies.
01:10:45.000And knowing I had such a positive impact on the world is what's allowed me to ignore so much of this hate storm that's been purported.
01:10:52.000My social media presence is something that, if it remains, will be created in a way that it's nearly impossible to be seen as a negative for the world.
01:11:04.000I'm a force for positivity and I'm a force for truth.
01:11:06.000This is the truth of my nature and the truth of my name.
01:11:10.000Anybody who wants to comment or to reach out to me, you can find ways to do that.
01:11:15.000Any media organizations who would like to speak to me, you can do that through various PR companies who want to represent me.
01:11:24.000But I just want the world to know, in my final statement, that if you're a supporter of mine, and I know most of you are, please explain the truth in a respectful manner.
01:11:35.000Telling these hate filled people that they're wrong and calling them names won't help.
01:11:39.000These people are not happy people because happy people don't act that way.
01:12:19.000And I'll finish with a quote from my late father My unmatched perspicacity, coupled with sheer indefatigability, makes me a feared opponent in any realm of human endeavor.
01:12:37.000Are you trying to keep up being as viral as you are forever?