"Really sad": Pokimane talks about the effect Andrew Tate had on the internet

sportskeeda.com:

Imane “Pokimane” recently appeared on Ethan Klein’s H3 Podcast, where they talked about several topics. These ranged from her break from streaming, Ninja taking a streaming break, and Stevewilldoit. However, Andrew Tate inevitably came up, as it’s been well known that the kickboxing champion has sent Klein a cease-and-desist.

When talking about Andrew Tate, Pokimane said she felt deep sadness because the sort of misogyny that Tate espouses seemed to have gone away, to an extent. However, in the month that he guest-starred on several Twitch streams, that sort of behavior and talk came back in a big way:

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During the podcast, the group joked that it was because Pokimane left the internet and took her break that Andrew Tate was able to get his foot in the door. The rise of the influencer’s popularity really took off around the time Imane decided she needed to take some time away. She said:

She compared it to when a group known asincels took to Twitch and began harassing women, feeling like they were at least marginally similar moments in time.

The fact that Andrew Tate had such massive popularity around young men on the internet made her admittedly quite sad. The kickboxing champion's rise on Twitch was meteoric and sudden, with Twitch streamers like Adin Ross and xQc allowing him to have a platform. Imane continued:

It was a shock to Ethan Klein, too, who compared it to what he called “small-time misogynists” like FreshandFit, and others who have a similar position to Andrew Tate. He was referred to as a symptom of a problem, and he really came out of nowhere, at least on Twitch, and became wildly popular in a number of communities. He said:

According to Pokimane, however, it seemed to her like many of the