{"id":19836,"date":"2023-01-13T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ksi-says-andrew-tates-top-g-style-is-cringey"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:38:23","slug":"ksi-says-andrew-tates-top-g-style-is-cringey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ksi-says-andrew-tates-top-g-style-is-cringey","title":{"rendered":"KSI says Andrew Tate’s Top G style is cringey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>YouTuber and rapper KSI says Andrew Tate’s Top G persona is “cringey” and fans shouldn’t worship influencers.<\/b><\/p>\n

Tate, a self-styled misogynist, has gained an army of young fans by boasting about his wealth and lavish lifestyle.<\/p>\n

The ex-kickboxer, who is currently under arrest in Romania, is known among followers as “Top G”.<\/p>\n

But KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, tells BBC Newsbeat he has no interest in “being put on a pedestal” like Tate.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want people to worship me. I don’t want this Top G title,” says KSI, who has 24m followers on his main YouTube account.<\/p>\n

KSI has found success as a YouTuber, recording artist, and teamed up with fellow top YouTuber Logan Paul to create the in-demand Prime Hydration drink.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old, who’s also starred in a series of boxing matches with other influencers, returns to the ring on Saturday night to face esports star FaZe Temperrr.<\/p>\n

KSI’s also previously said he is keen to challenge Tate in the ring.<\/p>\n

‘Be good to people’<\/b><\/p>\n

But outside of it, he says he would rather use his own influential platform in a positive way, in contrast to Tate, who insults his own followers.<\/p>\n

“Try and be fair to everyone, try and just be good to everyone. Spread positivity all the time,” he says.<\/p>\n

“And yeah, you know, we’re all human. We’re all gonna make mistakes. No one is perfect.<\/p>\n

“And I always say that to my audience: don’t put me on a pedestal. Like I am not the GOAT. I don’t want people to worship me.”<\/p>\n

Earlier in his career, KSI was accused of making vulgar comments about women, and his actions towards women at a 2013 gaming convention led brands to criticise him and cut ties with him.<\/p>\n

He apologised for his behaviour in a 2020 Guardian interview, adding: “You can hide from it, pretend it doesn’t exist. Or, you know, hit it head on, realise why it was a mistake.”<\/p>\n

And KSI says his outlook these days is very different.<\/p>\n

“Treat women well, treat men well, treat everyone well, and just have the right attitude.”<\/p>\n

And it’s not the only difference between him and Tate.<\/p>\n

Since his arrest, Tate has tweeted frequently about “The Matrix” – thought to be a reference to powerful figures in media, politics and business trying to silence him and control others.<\/p>\n

“I just think it’s cringey,” says KSI.<\/p>\n

“I don’t care about this whole matrix stuff or whatever,” KSI says.<\/p>\n

“For me, I just want to live my life and help as many people as possible and be a good person.”<\/p>\n

Andrew Tate<\/b><\/p>\n

A four-time kickboxing world champion who was booted out of reality show Big Brother in 2016 after video of him appearing to attack a woman emerged.<\/p>\n

He went on to build up a huge online following and found worldwide fame.<\/p>\n

This was largely thanks to social media, where videos with the Andrew Tate hashtag have been watched billions of times<\/p>\n

He proudly claims to be a misogynist, and has previously described women as “intrinsically lazy” and said there was “no such thing as an independent female”.<\/p>\n

It was comments like these that got him banned from YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. He was allowed back on Twitter after Elon Musk took over the company.<\/p>\n

Tate claims he’s a “self-made millionaire” thanks to a webcam business he runs with his brother.<\/p>\n

Both are currently detained in Romania as a part of a human trafficking and rape investigation.<\/p>\n

More on Andrew Tate<\/b><\/p>\n

Not everyone is happy about big-ticket boxing matches featuring big influencers, but KSI says he doesn’t listen to those criticisms.<\/p>\n

He says he doesn’t mind how people address him, because it’s now all about the work ethic, whatever he does.<\/p>\n

“I don’t really mind people calling me an influencer fighting because I am an influencer, I’m a YouTuber. That’s how I started out.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t really care. For me, I just love working hard. I love training hard and putting in hard work, whatever I do,” he adds.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Botswana<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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