In a "final message" to his fans published on Vimeo on Tuesday, Andrew Tate said that many of the criticisms leveled at him for being misogynistic were "taken out of context."
The length of Tate's video is 1 hour, 13 minutes. It follows his removal from YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and those sites for breaking their hate speech standards. In 2017, after tweeting that women should "bear some responsibility" for being sexually assaulted, he was previously banned from Twitter.
Tate, formerly a professional kickboxer and struggling reality TV star, recently earned recognition in large part due to his extreme statements, which include comparing women to property, graphically describing how he would attack a woman for accusing him of cheating, and asserting that men prefer to date women in their mid-20s over those in their 18s and 19s because the latter have had sex with fewer men.
Tate said that he was a "victim" of his "own success" in the video.
Andrew Tate. (FreeTopG via Vimeo)
He didn't mention the YouTube or TikTok restrictions, but he did indicate he wasn't "mad" about being banned from Facebook and Instagram, which are controlled by Meta.
He did say, though, that he wishes he had received a heads-up before the bans were implemented.
“I think it would have been better for them to say, ‘Andrew, some things
have been taken out of context. You need to be careful that doesn’t
happen. A lot of people listen to you,’ and I could have become a
champion for women’s rights,” he said.
Tate said that viral videos of his opinions were misrepresented. He said that short-form video services like Instagram Reels and TikTok are to fault for just displaying excerpts of his speech. That was "unfairly vilified," he claimed.
In addition, Tate disclosed that he would take a vacation from the podcast he and his brother Tristan Tate co-host.
He expressed the desire to keep "speaking for men."
“Me being alive on the internet will allow me to lead men in a very
positive direction,” he said. “Banning me and deleting me leaves a black
hole. It’s me or nobody.”