Cancel culture has caught up with controversial American-British influencer Andrew Tate after he was banned from all major social media platforms.
YouTube has become the latest platform to ban Tate for breaching its hate speech rules.
The ban comes days after the former kickboxer, branded a “threat to young men”, had his official accounts removed from Facebook and Instagram for violating policies around dangerous individuals, parent company Meta said.
Channels associated with him were removed from YouTube because of “multiple violations” of community guidelines and terms of service, including its hate speech policy, a spokesperson said in a statement.
“If a channel is terminated, the uploader is unable to use, own, or create any other YouTube channels,” they added.
A string of offensive comments about women, including suggesting women “bear some responsibility” for being assaulted, resulted in a Twitter ban.
His “harmful content” spread “like wildfire” across social media – with his Instagram account accumulating four million followers before it was shut down.
Mr. Tate does not have an official TikTok account, but his clips have become increasingly popular, with the hashtag of his name being clicked on 13 billion times – prompting calls for the platform to do more to prevent the spread of “dangerous content”.
TikTok recently said that it had been removing Mr. Tate’s videos and accounts linked to him for “weeks” – and vowed to continue doing so.
Social media platforms acted in the wake of a backlash against the multi-millionaire from online safety and anti-hate campaigners.
Mr. Tate rose to fame when he appeared on Big Brother in 2016 – but was later axed from the program after a video emerged online showing him apparently attacking a woman with a belt.
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