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“OH, YOU MEAN… GAY?”: RELATIONAL LABOUR AND THE INDUSTRIAL ARTICULATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY BY ANDREW TATE AND HIS FOLLOWERS

Authors

  • Anthony Patrick Kelly University College Dublin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13973

Keywords:

political influencers, reactionary politics, toxic fan practices, platform economies, relational labour

Abstract

This paper examines how the figures and imaginaries of hegemonic masculinity are co-produced and contested among a reactionary influencer fandom. It assumes an intersectional masculinities approach to the question of how Andrew Tate and his social media audience(s) articulate and mobilise anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQIA+ discourses online. Affective intermediation is proposed as a concept that situates relational labour within the influencer ecosystem in terms of the affective movie of masculinity as a cultural and economic category. Numbers consist of a 15-month sample of Andrew Tate’s posts on the video-sharing platform Rumble (n=213) and a pur

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“So many f**s who are afraid to enter the cage talk about biological age - ‘age hacking’,” Tate wrote in his post, taking a dig at Johson taking pills as a part of his regimen.

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"Satire is dead," declared Matt Bernstein in a post on Instagram after reading Tate's perspectives on procreation.

Influencer Tate, 37, who is currently in Romania awaiting criminal trial on charges of rape and human trafficking charges, took to X, formerly Twitter to share his thoughts on childless men. Once his trial is concluded in Romania he will be extradited to the United Kingdom to face further charges of rape. He has denied all charges.

"Sex is for making children. Any bloke who has sex with women because it 'feels good' is gay. Oh my pee pee feels good this is great!" began in his post.

"In fact if you are 40 with less than 5 children you're probably gay. All that feel-good pee pee sex and hardly any genetic legacy?" Tate concluded.

Bernstein then took to his own social media to mock Tate's views.

"The gap between satire and reality has been closed. we did it 💕," he wrote on a post that has been viewed 1 million times.

In the video Bernstein added: "I knew we'd get there eventually. It is gay to be straight," he began and read out Tate's upload on X.

"Satire is expired a