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Man-fluencer Andrew Tate's 'online university' hilariously hacked to feature trans flags
It couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.
The winter holidays are off to a beautiful start following news that far-right influencer Andrew Tate's online "university" was recently infiltrated by hackers with a sense of humor.
According to the Daily Dot, the hackers managed to obtain 794,000 usernames, over 324,000 email addresses of former members, and access to both public and private chat servers connected to Tate's "The Real World." They then went on "to upload emojis, delete attachments, crash everyone's clients, and temporarily ban people."
Notably, one of the changes the hackers made appeared to be customizing the emoji options seen by users so that the screen read "ANDREW TATE LOVES KISSING FEMBOYS," followed by a variety of other emojis, including LGBTQ flags.
Yeah @Gadget44027447 THey security was a bit lose a few days ago. ha
— David Rock (@Davidrockonline) November 24, 2024
This was the legit Emoji screen for like 3 hours pic.twitter.com/SqMVPASVPs
Tate's particular brand of misogyny is so overwhelming that his detractors constantly wonder whether his hatred of women actually translates to a romantic and/or sexual interest in men.
Of course, that's a reductive view of sexuality that doesn't actually hold any weight. But there's still a very clear level of amusement in seeing a site that's essentially a "safe space" for incels and misogynists to complain about the "LGBTQ agenda" overtaken, even briefly, by representations of things antithetical to their beloved patriarchy.
In response, Tate claimed that his website is "secure," has "never lost names, addresses, credit card details or ANY personal private data in it's history," and that even the "most advanced hackers in the world" have previously been unable to "take us down."
And maybe his wording is careful enough to be correct. The website may have been secure at the time he posted that response, online data is copied when it's stolen, so it wouldn't have been "lost" by The Real World, and hackers haven't taken the site offline.
They did, however, quite clearly hack his damn site. And, as pointed out by LGBTQ Nation, it isn't even the first time The Real World has been hacked this year.
But people who are already paying Tate $49.99 a month for his courses are likely to believe whatever he tells them, regardless of the reality staring them right in the face.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
Rachel Kiley is presumably a writer and definitely not a terminator. She can usually be found crying over queerbaiting in the Pitch Perfect franchise or on Twitter, if not both.
