Thoughts on Andrew Tate.

My first reaction was to be against deplatforming. As someone who has experienced being deplatformed first hand, I’m generally opposed to our current cultural habit of trying to silence people we don’t agree with.

Then I refreshed my memory about Tate and remembered he’s an extraordinarily hateful misogynist who’se been charged with several crimes including rape, and that he’s also banned from most other online platforms.

So I’m not quite sure what Substack is thinking, on-boarding him here as they clearly have.

On the other hand, in spite of importing a list of over a million subscribers, Tate only has the white circle with the orange border and tick, which denotes ‘hundreds of paid subscribers’ - and this means the number is somewhere between 100 and 999.

Let’s be generous and assume it’s 999.

Out of 1.1 million, that’s a conversion rate of just 0.09%

Average conversion rate on Substack is usually 5 to 10% - mine is just over 4%.

If Tate got 5% that would be 55000 paid subs - he’s a heck of a long way off that at the moment.

Added to this, I’ve looked at some of his ridiculous posts and most of the comments are from people telling him what an awful human he is.

Most also have around 100 ‘likes’ or less, not exactly much engagement from all these subscribers?

So, I think that my approach will be to ignore him / laugh at him. Men like him hate these two things the most.

And whilst I don’t like his presence on here, something tells me it will be shortlived, because it’s not his kind of place or people.

Either he will fizzle out, or Substack will remove him - although there is a perhaps a wider discussion to be had about where a platform like Substack decides to draw the line.