I didn't know Tate's largest audience were boys until last summer when the 13 year old son of a family friend got in trouble for saying insane shyt at school about his girl classmates. Later the parents found out he was consuming Tate shyt on a near daily basis via Tiktok and twitch, and all the boys in the class were on a similar wave.
In that light, I "get" how young kids would look at this nonsense and think it's cool. The appeal for older men is what kinda baffles me when you consider the contradictory nature of all this. Most men into red/black pill media are social retards who have resented "Chads" their entire lives. Their entire personalities are constructed around rejecting normative behavior that social, successful men enjoy: going out (bars, restaurants, clubs, etc), drinking, playing sports, watching sports, flirting etc. So instead they play videogames all night, hate sports, hate alcohol, etc. They hate women who like successful men. They hate women who have sex. They hate OnlyFans. They hate prostitution. So why are these men gravitating to a hyper "bro" guy who drinks, focuses on sexy women, "convinces" them to do porn and dates them? Any logical consistency would lead you to say Tate is not a high value man and is a simp for dating women who do porn, if you're into red pill stuff.