"This time last year, Karim Mahmoud, a 25-year-old engineering student from Cairo, Egypt, was among the hundreds of thousands of young men around the world who counted themselves diehard fans of Andrew Tate.
He swallowed Tate’s hyper-capitalist, misogynistic ideology wholesale, and was convinced of his innocence on the human trafficking charges he faced in Romania. At one stage, he even sent a DM to his hero telling him he was willing to fight for him.
'The message I sent him said, like, ‘If you want to go to war, I'm going to be one of your army.’ You know, it was very cringe,” laughs Mahmoud with embarrassment. 'That's how bad I was.'”
~ Tim Hume
"Leaving The Real World: How I Escaped Andrew Tate’s Cult"
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkaw7k/andrew-tate-the-real-world-cult
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