The past two and a half months have been a tragic time for 20-year-old males across the world—including this engineering student whose only goal is to free his hero from jail
It was 7:42 pm on December 29 of last year. A 21-year-old UofT engineering student was scrolling through TikTok looking for ‘NYE at home ideas for singles’ when he discovered the most devastating news that would ruin 2023 for him—Andrew Tate, his inspiration and sole guiding light in life, had been arrested.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes. How could the Romanians do this to my hero?” claimed the student, who has chosen to remain anonymous—because he believes no human other than Tate deserves fame in this world. “Without Andrew, how are the rest of us young men going to learn how to be the Alpha males this society desperately needs?”
The student immediately knew he had to protest this atrocity. And what better location to do so than Bahen—the CS and Engineering departments combined would make for the perfect swarm of lonely, single guys looking for any tiny spark of motivation to live.
“I had an awesome idea. I printed out some of Tate’s best work—his tweets—and put up posters.” Engineering students would have to be inspired by some of Tate’s most insightful quotes such as “You will always be depressed if your life is depressing. Change it.” Upon reading the poster, one student even commented: “I still get emotional thinking about how much that statement has improved my life. I switched from Eng Sci to Chem Eng after reading that. I still cry a lot and find it difficult to wake up in the morning, but at least my life has changed, you know?”
The student also added his number to the poster, “In case someone wanted to show their support and maybe needed a friend to talk to in this time of tragedy.” A total of three people ended up contacting the student to talk about Tate—one of which was a drunk dial at 2 am who thought the name ‘Toot’ was hilarious, and one was a counsellor offering the student free therapy sessions to help him work on his “problematic ideals.”
But the student hasn’t given up yet. Even after months of spending his Saturdays standing next to the poster and getting frustrated looks from girls passing by, he is ready to take the protest to the next level. Inspired by Tate’s latest tweets from jail about his heroic scar on his lung due to war, the student wants to do the same to show his support.
“People get tattoos for the celebrities they love—I’m going to get a scar on my lung.” The student is going into surgery next Wednesday. When asked about the fact that no one will be able to see the scar, he got emotional. “I don’t care about others. The scar will be evidence that Tate now has a permanent place in my heart—or in my lung, rather.” Dr. Bob Wilson at Sunnybrook, a lung surgeon who has saved hundreds of lives in his 25 years of experience in the field, says he’s looking forward to putting his skills to use for a valuable cause for once.
