A former professional kickboxer, and now a scandalous American businessman and influencer Andrew Tate got banned on YouTube & Twitch. This was reported by Dexerto journalists.
On Monday, August 22, two of Tate's channels — TateSpeech and Tateconfidential — disappeared from YouTube. Users saw a message that channels were no longer available when trying to find them. Neither platform representatives nor Tate himself made an official statement about this. Tate began actively streaming on YouTube in August 2022, and earlier this month, one of his broadcasts reached 17K Peak Viewers.
Community speculated that the channels might have been removed due to YouTube's zero tolerance policy on incitement to hatred. Channels are banned from posting content that promotes gender-based violence or hatred. Tate has been repeatedly accused of making inflammatory statements on the topic in the past, which may have led to the ban.
Shortly after both of Tate's YouTube channels were deleted, users also noticed that his TateSpeech channel on Twitch was also banned. At the same time, if you try to go to the channel, a message appears saying that it has been deactivated by the owner himself. Tate had about 50K followers on Twitch. He rarely broadcast on his own channel, but he often appeared in joint broadcasts and podcasts with the platform's top streamers. For example, Tate was a guest on AdinRoss' and Clix's streams.
Tate is known for participating in various reality shows and podcasts after his sports career ended, and for making scandalous statements on social media. For example, he has argued about whether victims of sexual harassment should also be held responsible for the crime against them, whether depression is a real disease, etc. Tate's harsh, provocative remarks led to him previously being banned on Facebook, TikTok and Twitter. Now two major streaming services have been added to the list.
