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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Ha ha.

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Sweet

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Hmm. What does he teach? I’ll start:

Douchebaggery 101

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Date rape 102

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17 & Under 103

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Trafficking 201: Systems and Management

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What the age of consent in every legal jurisdiction.

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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?

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

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Idiots falling for authoritarian charisma

so hot right now

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

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

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Money laundering.

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I mean, that’s about one moderately sized cities worth of people out of probably most of the world, since I assume they don’t only serve US customers

Edit: for context the state of Nebraska, famously the least populous state in the union has about 1.9 million residents

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This fucking guy has an online university? Really?

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Doesn’t every grifter have their own griftiversity?

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Yeah, I suppose they do.

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Just noticed, even the logo reeks of petty swindle.

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No he has an “educational” program he calls a university.

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

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