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An online course founded by far-right influencer Andrew Tate was breached by hackers, revealing the email addresses of roughly 325,000 users.

The self-described online university, known as The Real World, offers users “advanced training and mentoring” for around $50 per month. Formerly known as Hustler’s University, the platform focuses on topics such as health and fitness, financial investment, and e-commerce businesses.

“Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”

On Thursday, the hackers made their actions known by flooding the course’s primary chatroom with emojis they uploaded while Tate was streaming an episode of his show “Emergency Meeting” on Rumble. 

The emojis included a transgender flag, a feminist fist, an AI-generated image of Tate draped in a rainbow flag, another where his buttocks are enlarged, and the cat character used in the “boykisser” meme.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 39 minutes ago

Oohh, where can I find this list? My wife's ex is one of those sad little men who follows and recommends him everywhere

[–] [email protected] 5 points 58 minutes ago

800k users? How?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 36 minutes ago

He was streaming? Isn't he about to go to jail?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

worried for all my favorite youtubers who signed up in order to expose how shit the content is lol. hope they used fake info.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Boot camps for adults that don’t actually want to do any real work along with a get rich quick incel overtone. What a scam.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

"incel" is key word here. utter trash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

See, this is what the Matt Gaetz hacker would do if they actually had it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Didn’t know he was accredited

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

This feels like a 4chan anonymous thing.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Hi mom I just enrolled in the university of a guy who traffics sex slaves and thinks all women should be one

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My mom is maga so she would probably be proud

[–] [email protected] 3 points 29 minutes ago (1 children)

It's extra sad when women get sucked into the maga cult

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

And Latinos. And African Americans.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 hours ago

aww, one sec, have to find my tiny violin..

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I sometimes work for a guy who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote. He's genuinely kind, but not at all academic. It is entirely the fault of low-effort internet bullshit like this. It's actually very upsetting to see somebody poisoned by social media in real-time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 25 minutes ago

It is entirely the fault of low-effort internet bullshit like this.

People like Andrew Tate deserve part of the blame for propagating this kind of message, sure. But your client who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote is a bad person, and his moral failing is entirely his own. He doesn't deserve pity because he's uneducated and falling for propaganda. He's a sexist piece of shit who thinks women deserve fewer rights than men. Don't make up excuses for him. He's a grown man with agency over himself. He chose his path.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I think if you ask people why enough times and just say that doesn’t make sense, they find the flaw in their own poor judgments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Yeah, no. People don't work that way. Once people have adopted these kinds of beliefs that are overtly divorced from reality, telling them that their views don't make sense usually just hardens their convictions. Being told that they are wrong comes across as evidence that they are right. It validates the "they don't want you to know this" mentality of people who choose various "red pill" social philosophies.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 hours ago

A University a.k.a. "Buy this ebook to make money online!" and the contents are "Just resell this Ebook lol".

[–] [email protected] 166 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Oh shit, there’s a database of the easily influenced with expendable income?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I guarantee the vast majority are around 14 years old

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

Sadly many people pony up for these scams out of desperation despite being unable to afford them.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Time to become a scammer and financially ruin the kind of dumb men who would fall for this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

That would be over half of the male population in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It would be morally indefensible not to!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I don’t know.

I think alienation is what drove droves of young men to this clown, so perhaps we shouldn’t try and alienate them more by scamming them and try and understand what the appeal of Tate was/is and work to fix that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No, no, no. Tate is scamming them and they love it. They need scammed until they get their fill. In the meantime, why not profit like Tate, Alex Jones, Tim Pool and Glen Beck? Maybe sell some nice, Freedom Ass Tanning lotion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I only steal from corporations, however bad the individual may be. That’s just my moral compass though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

And only if the corporation is big enough. Don't steal from your local corner store.

And also, don't steal for profit.

I work at a hardware store, and if you steal some small shit like a file/screwdriver/whatever, you're good. If I see you stealing 5k in light fixtures, tools, and batteries, I'll get my bonus thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Corporation by definition is a large company or group of companies.

I would class my local corner shop as stealing from people, as in it’s an individual or families livelihood.

I agree on not taking the piss though and stealing £5k in light fixtures. If only corporations would have such limitations in their theft.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

I fully agree, some people just need the extra clarification though

At the store I'm at it's handled pretty nice, we won't stop anyone under a very low amount (single digit €) and above that it's very dependent on your behaviour + how much you tried to steal, so you might just have to pay a 50€ fine without police involvement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

I think i read something or maybe listened to a podcast, where they theorized that Tate got his audience around the time when Jordan Peterson left the "guardian of young men" role. I think it kinda stands to reason that young men don't really have decent men as mentors or role models these days.

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