I don't understand why Andrew Tate is constantly hailed as being sort of a "Godfather" of the Red Pill community, not just on social media, but in news outlets as well (more recently).

He has, countless times, denounced the ideology on social media, referring to its followers and content creators as "Red Pill dorks", "Manosphere geeks", etc. and has, specifically, stated on more than one occasion that he doesn't believe in most of it.

Most Red Pill content creators talk about Alpha this, Beta that. Simp this, high value chad that. Women hit the wall this, women are past their prime that. You must have "frame" in the relationship. Grind endlessly until you're 75 so that you can sleep with 19 year olds, etc.

Andrew Tate, very rarely, if ever, talks about any of this stuff. He mostly just says outlandish and unrealistic statements about masculinity, suffering, finance and hustling, for ragebait purposes. Hell, I'm willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of written "posts" like this that you see on social media are by copycat pages just recycling his content. The few controversial statements he has made about women (choking them, slapping them, etc.) were clearly posted for shock value attention. But, regardless, the Red Pill influencers wouldn't promote any of this. Their mindset is "Never become emotional with women", "Never argue with a woman. Just walk away.", "Men who put their hands on women aren't men" type stuff. So they certainly wouldn't agree with this.

Yet, all Red Pill influencers (Myron from Fresh & Fit, Rich Cooper, Austin Dunham, Waller, FitXFearless, etc.) absolutely suck Tate dry, and consider him their leader and messiah. They refuse to ever say anything negative about him. He could publicly clown all of them on social media, and I guarantee you they wouldn't say anything in response.

So, why is that?