Have You Reported Andrew Tate Yet?
Promoting violence against women and harvesting one million emails are violations of Substack's terms of service.
First off, I’ll answer the question, “Why am I obsessed with Andrew Tate?”
The answer is simple: He’s a violent incel who provides instructions to millions of young boys, including boys pretending to be men, on how to hurt women. And he’s here. On Substack. A platform I write on.
With a million-plus subscribers. Or, so Substack is telling us. The other day, I wrote this:
The first name on his subscriber list is Karen Attiah, who joined Substack after getting fired by the Washington Post for honest comments immediately following Charlie Kirk’s murder.
Guess what? Her name is gone now.
Perhaps I’m a slow learner, but this tells me that he harvested her email, just like I said he was doing in my article here:
Harvesting emails and subscribing people without their consent is a violation of Substack’s Terms of Service. But, of course, his entire life is anti-consent.
Ms. Attiah must have noticed, muttered an F bomb to herself, and unsubscribed.
Tate is violating Substack’s Terms of Service. Apparently, and for no discernible reason, we need to remind Substack of this fact on a mass basis until they do the right thing and remove the account.
So let’s do that by reporting it.
Here’s how:
Go to the maniac’s profile here:
https://substack.com/@cobratate
Don’t worry. He can’t hurt you. He won’t know you’re there if you don’t message him directly (don’t do that).
You’ll see this (without my instructions label):
Click the ellipsis. You’ll see this:
Click “Report.”
You’ll see this:
Choose “Other.”
He’s violating Substack’s Terms of Service on Two Counts:
The first is this:
Hate
Substack cannot be used to publish content or fund initiatives that incite violence based on protected classes. Offending behavior includes credible threats of physical harm to people based on their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or medical condition.”
Harmful and illegal activities
We don’t allow content that promotes harmful or illegal activities, including material that advocates, threatens, or shows you causing harm to yourself, other people, or animals. We don’t allow child sexual abuse material or the use of Substack for child sexual exploitation or abuse. We also do not allow non-consensual intimate images — sharing, or threatening to share, sexual images of a person without their consent.
The second is email harvesting:
Spam and phishing
We are vehemently anti-spam and anti-phishing. If you are importing a mailing list from another platform, you are required to ensure it’s made up of people who explicitly opted-in to receive emails from your specific publication. We don’t allow imports of email addresses that were purchased, scraped, or harvested from third party websites. Don’t add people to your mailing list without their consent, and don’t import your contacts list or social graphs.
You can reference any or all of this in your report by simply pasting the relevant Substack’s TOS link into your report:
Tate is also violating European law. Substack is, too, if they continue to allow him on their platform (see the section below, “More on the email harvesting”).
You can also report Tate to Stripe, which is the payment service that manages Substack author payments. The Stripe user guidelines are here:
Their complaint center is here:
https://support.stripe.com/questions/submit-a-complaint
Hit him where it hurts, although understand that he’s already a multimillionaire who has made his cash by promoting violence against women and actually teaching others how to do it. He continues to try to find ways to collect money for legal fees because he knows that ultimately the Brits, where he is wanted on ten charges, including rape, will get him one way or another.
But if he’s kicked off Stripe, it makes it impossible for him to make money here on Substack. And it might impact his other revenue sources.
Who is Andrew Tate?
Andrew Tate is a social media “influencer” and incel popular with young boys and mentally ill men. He made himself famous for hateful comments after winning a few fights on the pro fighting circuit.
He was indicted in Romania with his brother and four others for human trafficking, rape, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. He was also charged with sexual intercourse with a minor (most of us call that “child rape”).
The charges landed him in a Romanian prison for several months. There was much whining on his part. Legal technicalities swarmed the case, and he was finally released, but it’s important to note that the ever-reliable ProPublica wrote a story with this headline:
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Because of course it did. Tate and Trump are made for each other.
You can read the ProPublica article here.
Tate is also wanted on charges in the UK, where, according to Reuters, he faces 10 criminal charges, “including rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking and controlling prostitution for gain.” It’s unlikely that the Trump regime, which is actively trying to bury the Epstein files, will extradite him to the UK.
Here are more details on just how deep his depravity goes:
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/andrew-tate-five-things-know
There’s a reason why there’s such a thing as an online “rape academy” as reported by CNN:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html
The reason is people like Andrew Tate. And the men who follow him.
More on the email harvesting
His email harvest apparently also violates European law. I’ll let someone else explain the European side of this, since it’s way out of my knowledge zone:
https://wildlionessespride.substack.com/p/this-isnt-about-andrew-tate/comment/244809421
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Yesterday, I looked again at Tate’s subscriber list. I found a bunch more people who seem very unlikely to subscribe. Lesser known than Ms. Attiah. Unknowns, too. He harvested a million subscribers. Without their consent. I’m hoping that the powers that be at Substack don’t make me take a deeper dive on that, but that’s my next step. I’m not shutting up about this until he’s gone.
Here is how imports have worked for me on Substack
I don’t do much of it. But I have done bulk emails, meaning more than one at a time, on Substack on a few occasions. Usually about a half dozen or so at most.
The emails come from people who opt in by signing up for a free e-book, usually on a site called StoryOrigin. They sign up for the book, they agree to the opt-in, and I wait a bit for a bunch of them to do so. Then I import them into Substack.
I’d bet about half of them unsubscribe as soon as they get their book. Most of the rest unsubscribe as soon as they receive my first political rant. But that’s another topic.
There’s a specific and highly visible warning label in the Substack email import upload area that states: “Only add people who have explicitly opted-in to receiving emails. Do not add people whose information was obtained solely via the exchange of products/services, giveaways, or similar collection methods.”
My imports are both. My potential subscribers receive a book (goods and services), then they opt in to receive the newsletters.
Tate imported his list without the consent of the people on his “million” person subscriber list. Karen Attiah just proved it. Others will unsubscribe, too, but most won’t.
You should check your Substack reading list, too, to see if he added you.
In the meantime, ask yourself: “Have I reported Andrew Tate today?”
Notes
This morning, his profile lists 991K+ subscribers, instead of the million-plus from just yesterday.
More proof that he harvested. Tell Substack. And thanks for your patience with my little obsession.
Thanks for reading!
Reported main profile and several disturbing posts.
Charles, I need to ask you all something quietly and directly. I know you're writing public Notes calling out Andrew Tate, and I understand exactly why. I know — I published a piece yesterday that named him too. That's part of why I'm writing this. I have posted two Notes which I am deleting.
I'm urging you to take the Notes down, or at least stop naming him directly, and I want to tell you what I know about why. A friend in law enforcement wrote to me about Tate. Warning me to be very careful.
His followers aren't a readership. They're a harassment infrastructure, and they don't come for him — they come for you. Here is what that actually looks like, in order:
First, the swarm. Coordinated reply floods designed to bury your thread so your actual readers can't find the conversation.
Then the mass-reporting. Organized campaigns to flag your account for imagined violations, trying to get Substack or X to auto-restrict or suspend you before a human ever reviews it.
Then the doxing. Property records. Family names. The school your grandchildren go to. Your spouse's employer. Phone numbers published in forums you will never see.
Then — for women especially — the sexual threats, the manipulated images, direct contact with husbands and children and coworkers, and mail you do not want to open.
The women journalists who wrote about him between 2022 and 2024 all have the same story, and it isn't one you want to learn firsthand.
If you need to write about him, write the long piece with the sources, publish it on your own Substack where readers come to you, and don't tag him and don't put his name in a Note. The Note is the flare. The long piece is the work.
Please. Just pull the Notes.