Andrew Tate is, or was, a YouTuber whose audience was mainly teenage boys and young men (or so I’ve heard) and gave palpitations to parents who wanted their sons to one day have healthy relationships with women. Anyway, he has been arrested, along with his brother - and Greta Thunberg led authorities to him!
You can’t make this up. She probably cleansed the world of more pollution by doing this, than she ever could with her environmental activism.
About 50 posts on this starting here:
Pretty amazing.
Now, obviously, such an intervention would be something that was being worked on and was ready to go as soon as the right time came – what happened here was that with his little kerfuffle with Ms Thunberg he called attention to himself.
Which of course was what he wanted! Thinking (not mistakenly) that upon trolling her and her fans then there would ensue a back-and forth and they’d feed his trolling and that would raise his own standing with his fans and help pump up his Professional Dickery gig.
Now, if it had been just the initial exchange –
A:“I got so many cars! Greta, I want to tell you how much I emit!” ;
G: "send it to smalldickenergy@getalife.com" ( * damn I hope she registered that) ;
A: “How Dare You!”( * using her catchphrase from a few years back)
…then maybe it would have been just a case of obvious troll is obvious and their respective followers would have flamewarred away and nothing to see here, just the new normal in this world.
But, noooo, he, being the kind of schmuck he is, just had to, needed to perform a dominance display… and tipped the authorities that he was where they wanted him.
One wonders if the guy truly was simply not aware that he was in the police/prosecution’s sights, or knew but felt it would be a matter of getting a citation to meet by his lawyer’s side ot answer some questions. What it seems is that none of that was in his mind, priority one for ten hours was being seen pwning the snowflake and getting the last word in to humble her.
Well, that went well didn’t it…
Actually, it did. For everyone else.
For the record, he is much, much worse than just a “parental nightmare.” He’s not just a greasy pickup artist type, he’s a misogynistic abuser and likely rapist.
Here’s a profile from back in August.
Trigger warnings galore for a truly nasty human.
Perhaps some of these people received Twitter bans to protect themselves from themselves, lol.
I looked up the pizza chain whose box tipped the feds off to his location - and their pizzas sell for the equivalent of about $5-$8 US, which is just even more hilarious. It’s as if Sam Bankman-Fried had gotten busted because he had a Little Caesar’s box on his table.
Offered without comment.
I think this is one of my favorite responses.
karma, thy name is greta!
This followup reply is pretty great too:
Thankfully, I never heard of this guy until this whole thing blew up in the last couple of days. Just curious about the source of this guy’s wealth. His kickboxing career? Being a Tik-Tok influencer? The human trafficking/pornography? All three?
He sold “how to be a man” courses to impressionable teens for $50 a month to 100,000+ people so ~$60M a year in revenue assuming the numbers are accurate and everyone paid full price.
Ahh, good to know. I guess. I didn’t think there was that much money in kickboxing, or internet porn.
About 40 minutes ago, Reuters reported that
Romanian prosecutors asked a Bucharest court on Friday to extend the detention of Andrew Tate by 30 days
Also
Prosecutors said they had found six women who had been sexually exploited by the suspects.
Of which 4 suspects, two are Tate and his brother.
A Romanian prison sounds … unpleasant. Especially for a non-Romanian who defiled Romanian women.
“Andy, have you ever been in a Romanian prison?”
Ref Snopes, the pizza box part of the story is apparently false. But it was catchy:
Yeah, I keep hearing this, and yet I’m not a firm believer in coincidences. Nothing I heard has debunked the pizza box theory, just denials that it happened this way.
Let’s just say I find the denials unconvincing: The timeline is the timeline. We all know the police use social media to track down suspects, and I’m positive the institutional descendents of one of the most brutal police states of the Communist era isn’t missing that trick.
And, to be honest, it’s more fun to believe this happened, which matters too. 
In the end, the insignificance of Andrew Tate in the grand scheme of things does allow us to take a more… Herodotus-esque… approach to the history here, don’t you think? I do. 
Some other fact-check sites are more equivocal. As in “The authorities knew he was in Romania, but not necessarily exactly where. The pizza boxes and the timing of the social media post allowed them to close it down to a specific actionable address.”
The authorities want to get some credit for the boring policework that came before the climactic arrest. So of course the pizza box was just the last peice of the puzzle, not the whole puzzle.