180: Is This the Next Andrew Tate?

2023-11-16

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Iman Gadzhi is a rising YouTube superstar. A high school dropout and supposed self-made multimillionaire, the 23 year-old marketing guru started his YouTube channel at age 15 with weightlifting videos. He has since built a following of 3.7 million. His life and career path is symbiotic with the platform, mirroring, monetizing, and accelerating every self-help and get-rich trend that blows through through the algorithms. At some point during COVID, he caught the conspiracy theory bug, and turned his channel into a red pill ...

At some point during COVID, he caught the conspiracy theory bug, and turned his channel into a red pill factory, pumping out such volumes of aggressively paranoid content that YouTube money bros started comparing him to Andrew Tate.

Now, Gadzhi is reaching more aggressively into the brains of pre-teen boys around the world with a morbid fantasy about the origins of public education, and how it dooms them all into woke slavery. But it’s not just a conspiracy theory. It’s a highly-structured marketing campaign pitching his online sales coaching scheme as a substitute for high school.

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Join THE RESCUE today. #fyp #viral | iman gadzhi | TikTok —Gadzhi content

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Dagestan: Mob storms Russian airport in search of Jews - BBC News

Iman Gadzhi Talks About His Stepdad

Independent School Fees — Southbank International

Entrepreneur Pushes for More Inclusive Education in Developing Countries — Forbes

3 Books Changed My Life—Gadzhi content

What Are the 48 Laws of Power? The Complete List | Shortform Books

The Half-Century in Bullshit: On Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” and Robert Greene’s “The 48 Laws of Power”

Atomic Habits — If Books Could Kill

Corona Virus: SMMA in Crisis—Gadzhi content