Play stupid games, win stupid prizes — for social media “influencer” and general internet dickhead Andrew Tate, this seems to be a hard lesson learned. After getting dunked on by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg over Twitter, the 36-year-old man child was detained by Romanian authorities in connection with human trafficking, per multiple sources. But while several news outlets attributed Tate’s arrest to authorities identifying his location from a Romanian pizza box in a video he posted in response to Thunberg’s burn, that’s not actually the case.
On Dec. 29, Tate, along with his brother, Tristan, and two other Romanian suspects, were allegedly placed under arrest for an initial 24-hour period from his villa in Bucharest, per Reuters. “The four suspects,” prosecutors said in a Dec. 29 statement, “appear to have created an organized crime group with the purpose of recruiting, housing, and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content meant to be seen on specialized websites for a cost.” Prosecutors have since asked a Bucharest court on Friday to extend the detention of Andrew Tate by 30 days. While the Tate brothers haven’t released any official statements on the arrest, Tate once again used Twitter to give his followers an update: “The Matrix sent their agents,” he wrote in a Dec. 30 post.
