Those who choose not to get into the ring with a professional martial artist are shamed and belittled. This is “probably 40% of the reason” he moved there, he says in one video, adding: “I’m not a rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want.

In his experience, creating a safe space for boys to express themselves is key to preventing them falling down "incel rabbit holes". Styled as a self-help guru, offering his mostly male fans a recipe for making money, pulling girls and “escaping the matrix”, Tate has gone in a matter of months from near obscurity to one of the most talked about people in the world. It’s the latest demonstration of what the British-American kickboxer-turned-poster boy for toxic masculinity claims is a recent conversion to Islam. There are many young men who are desperately asking how to be a man today and he provides an answer.

If he were to align with some candidates somewhere, that would bring a block of voters so he's a potential political force, whether he chooses to see himself that way or not. In a present vacuum of positive male role models for young men and boys, not least amid the oppressive cost of living crisis, it's not hard to see how such a cult of personality has exploded across the web; like any other opportunistic sect leader, Tate offers a twisted sort of purpose in a uniquely challenging era. And it is that attitude which seems to have attracted Tate to Islam, or at least his own interpretation of it. In one video, posted from an account with Tate’s name and face, he describes matter of factly how he expects his girlfriends to behave: “I inflict, I expect, absolute loyalty from my woman,” he says. While his placement under judicial control represents a lighter restrictive measure than house arrest, Tate will need a judge’s permission if he wishes to travel outside the municipality of Bucharest and nearby Ilfov county.

In one video explaining his reasons for the move he suggested it was because it would be easier to evade rape charges. The British dating expert and former pick-up artist behind the cult video game series Super Seducer, insists that a hatred of women was never the motivation for those looking to learn pick-up techniques. These young boys may start seeing this stuff on TikTok but then go elsewhere for more information,’ she says. In another video, he says he has been investigated by police for allegedly abusing a woman, which he denied, in a case where he had his house raided, devices confiscated and was held in a cell for two days. Just this week, the New York Times reported on new measures put in place in British schools to combat the impact of his dangerous rhetoric in the classroom.The safeguarding expert added: "I think not enough people are really making a connection with porn, it seems obvious to me, who are the foot soldiers? Conroy said: "Engage young men in conversations and develop their understanding of what is a risk or a protective factor for them. So what can be done to try and curb the damage that alpha males, and their potential entrées into harmful online communities, are doing? To a growing number of men Tate, with his unabashed espousal of male supremacy, is an appealing throwback to another age when women were chattels and feminism was an aberration still far in the future.