A civil servant is today exposed as an online influencer who preaches misogynist propaganda.
Mathew Hyman is one of millions motivated by Andrew Tate, the kickboxer notorious for spreading hate against women on the internet.
Hyman is among many Tate fans who copy the creep’s example by recording videos and podcasts promoting toxic masculinity.
Meanwhile, he urges men to avoid women who use apps like Instagram because they will use them to cheat.
He reckons women who go clubbing are only out to cheat and they should stay at home to raise children.
Only those with a “high-value man” never feel the urge to stray – but men have a “biological imperative” to sleep around, he says.
Hyman, 24, records his rants in a bedroom which he has turned into a studio at his Newcastle flat.
When our reporter met him he repeated his macho bluster – as his girlfriend of six months looked on, nodding in agreement.
The 22-year-old medicine student, who declined to give her name, said: “I could be happy as a stay-at-home mum if the relationship was right.”
Hyman, who was brought up by his single mother along with five sisters in County Durham, says he was a shy, overweight teenager who didn’t see enough of his dad “to be the strong role model I needed”.
Now he trains in the gym for up to 90 minutes, six days a week and believes he has transformed both his body and his character to make him a “traditional male role model that you would have seen in a different generation”.
He told the Sunday Mirror: “This generation with its movements like Me Too has produced feminine men who don’t know how to be a male.
“Too many men think they have to kiss her backside when they should be asserting themselves. A woman doesn’t have to like you, if she respects you she’ll sleep with you.
“What I’m trying to do is to build confidence, teach the man his true worth and to be his true self.
“Despite all the criticism and hatred thrown towards me, I can’t see how that can be a bad thing.”
He had 219,000 followers on TikTok before he was axed for sharing content by Tate which had been banned.
Hyman said: “Andrew Tate’s videos were an influence on me – along with others in the same space.
“He seemed to be saying the things others didn’t dare and he’s started a movement where men are no longer afraid to be men.”
Tate, who was born in the US but raised in Luton, rose to fame after being booted off TV’s Big Brother in 2016, following the release of a video that appeared to show him attacking a woman.
The 36-year-old is a hero to many young men, with over 3.5 million followers on Twitter, and claims to be a multi-millionaire.
He previously told the Mirror he was proud to be scamming British men with his webcam business.
In one video, Tate advised men accused of cheating by their girlfriends to “bang out the machete, boom in her face and grip her by the neck…”
Last October he was banned from most social media platforms and two weeks ago he was arrested in Romania along with his brother Tristan, 34, during a probe into rape and human trafficking, which they deny.
Yet many British men copy his blueprint of “masculinity coaching” – making money through ads, videos, podcasts, and one-to-one services.
Former Welsh Rugby Union apprentice Connor Prankerd, 27, from Cardiff, goes by the name of Masculine Empowerment on TikTok.
He charges men £7 for coaching sessions and has posted videos belittling women to his 78,000 followers.
In one he said: “The more owners a car’s had, the less it’s going to be worth. Cars decrease in value the more they’ve been driven by other drivers. Drivers increase their value the more cars they drive. This video isn’t about cars.”
Ed Matthews has compared women to dogs and shared videos of him harassing women in the street.
The 19-year-old, who has 143,000 TikTok followers and 28,000 on YouTube, co-runs a fitness company in Brentwood, Essex.
His best pal Harrison Sullivan, 20, also from Brentwood, had just over a million followers before his account HS Tikky Tokky was banned.
The bar waiter, who claims to be “trustworthy, conscientious and hardworking” on LinkedIn, also posts videos of him harassing women.
One image on his Instagram, which has 441,000 followers, shows two young women doing up his shoelaces as he poses for the camera.
Prankerd, Matthews and Sullivan did not respond to requests for comment.
Another influencer, Ice White, a married dad of one, runs a date coaching business from his home in London.
In one article for a website that teaches men how to date models, he writes about how to convince a woman to change her mind about not wanting sex “without getting into jail”.
When approached by the Sunday Mirror, he said: “We have explained very clearly that any wrongdoings by our
side is open to discussion…we have attempted to eliminate toxic terminology used by men.”
Karen Whybro, a gender equality consultant, said misogynistic behaviour can escalate to violence.
She added: “If you’re denying your partner going out with friends, that is coercive control in law, that’s a crime.
“These guys who are trying to call themselves dating coaches are encouraging that toxic behaviour. In horrific cases where women are murdered there’s coercive control at the beginning, before it turns into violence.”
Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow, has urged the Government to make misogyny a hate crime like racism.
She has said: “For some years now we have been warning that misogyny is a gateway to violence and radicalism among young men.”
Callum Hood, from the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, said: “Videos promoting violence against women are really dangerous.
“It is well documented that Andrew Tate pays people to promote his content, something platforms should be cracking down on. The longer it continues the more men will set up similar channels.”
TikTok said: “Misogyny is a hateful ideology that is not tolerated on TikTok. We continue to remove such content.”
The Department for Work and Pensions said of Hyman: “Our staff are required to adhere to high standards required of civil servants in and outside of work. This member of staff has been suspended pending an investigation.”
Facebook declined to comment. The Sunday Mirror approached YouTube.
