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An online course founded by far-right influencer Andrew Tate was breached by hackers, revealing the email addresses of roughly 325,000 users.

The self-described online university, known as The Real World, offers users “advanced training and mentoring” for around $50 per month. Formerly known as Hustler’s University, the platform focuses on topics such as health and fitness, financial investment, and e-commerce businesses.

“Money making is a skill,” the website states. “We will teach you how to master it.”

On Thursday, the hackers made their actions known by flooding the course’s primary chatroom with emojis they uploaded while Tate was streaming an episode of his show “Emergency Meeting” on Rumble. 

The emojis included a transgender flag, a feminist fist, an AI-generated image of Tate draped in a rainbow flag, another where his buttocks are enlarged, and the cat character used in the “boykisser” meme.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 25 points 4 hours ago

Hi mom I just enrolled in the university of a guy who traffics sex slaves and thinks all women should be one

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 hours ago

aww, one sec, have to find my tiny violin..

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago

I sometimes work for a guy who thinks women shouldn't be allowed to vote. He's genuinely kind, but not at all academic. It is entirely the fault of low-effort internet bullshit like this. It's actually very upsetting to see somebody poisoned by social media in real-time.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 hours ago

Ha thats pretty funny, last i heard his dopey academy looked like it was using revolts backend code. Which would be a violation of the gpl V3 license aswell.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago

A University a.k.a. "Buy this ebook to make money online!" and the contents are "Just resell this Ebook lol".

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He had an online university? Was it CHUD-U?

[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

helpmebrucecampbellabsorbedmychin.com

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 hours ago

Where does data like this end up?

I’m asking to avoid it of course

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 135 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Oh shit, there’s a database of the easily influenced with expendable income?

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Sadly many people pony up for these scams out of desperation despite being unable to afford them.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Time to become a scammer and financially ruin the kind of dumb men who would fall for this?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It would be morally indefensible not to!

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know.

I think alienation is what drove droves of young men to this clown, so perhaps we shouldn’t try and alienate them more by scamming them and try and understand what the appeal of Tate was/is and work to fix that.

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

I think i read something or maybe listened to a podcast, where they theorized that Tate got his audience around the time when Jordan Peterson left the "guardian of young men" role. I think it kinda stands to reason that young men don't really have decent men as mentors or role models these days.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 110 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

The Daily Dot was provided with approximately 794,000 usernames for what are believed to be the site’s current and former members, as well as the contents of the platform’s 221 public and 395 private chat servers. [...] The Real World claims it currently has over 113,000 active users. If accurate, the site at minimum would generate upwards of $5,650,000 every month.

Jesus, why is this bullshit that large?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago

Money laundering.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 60 points 9 hours ago

Idiots falling for authoritarian charisma is one of the oldest things on this planet.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 34 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They said capitalism breeds innovation. They just didn't specify what kind of innovation.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

It's always bend you over and take it kind though

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 73 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Oh. My. Fucking. God.

That many people, actually signed up, and gave him money.

That's a lot of fucking Darwin awards.

[–] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Wonder what percentage of them are barely voter-age teens who voted for Trump. These idiots are gifting their money to these grifters, and then turn around to complain that they don't have any money because >insert minority<.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Darwin awards are just for dying, though?

[–] twack@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

*removing yourself from the gene pool

Death is not required.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly my thought... Tate's U a scam, duh obviously... But god damn... that many suckers.

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

You've witnessed the US election recently, yes? I'm not exactly surprised.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 44 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

This fucking guy has an online university? Really?

[–] sanpedropeddler@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago

He has a website where you can pay to hear him yell at you.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 40 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn’t every grifter have their own griftiversity?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 11 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, I suppose they do.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 9 hours ago

No he has an "educational" program he calls a university.

[–] whithom@discuss.online 35 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, that’s a big list of suckers

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

If I had no morals, damn. Scamming dumb misogynistic men would be such a killer money making opportunity.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 hours ago

Honestly, if you scam them and then donate the money to progressive causes, it's as if you collected taxes.

I wouldn't even call it a scam at that point.

[–] whithom@discuss.online 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You can scam the women too, you don’t have to be sexist. Republicans are all dumb. Don’t limit yourself.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is there already a tradwifeveristy?

[–] whithom@discuss.online 3 points 4 hours ago

That’s part of project 2025

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm. What does he teach? I'll start:

Douchebaggery 101

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

17 & Under 103

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 11 points 11 hours ago
[–] nixfreak@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago