In a new chapter in the ongoing trend in which the entire right-wing has completely misinterpreted the film The Matrix, right-wing darlings Andrew Tate and Logan Paul are now fighting about who is and is not part of "The Matrix."
"The Matrix" in the right-wing sense, that is, meaning things like "consequences" and "rule of law" and other supposedly "liberal" things they find distasteful and not the explicitly leftist film helmed by feminist and Hollywood nice guy Keanu Reeves.
To say right-wing "Alpha males" lost the plot is a massive understatement.
Anyway...
Tate of course is presently embroiled in an ongoing debacle in which he is being held accountable for allegedly being a rapist, an international criminal and sex trafficker, a mess he blames on "The Matrix" trying to destroy him.
As for Paul, he is currently at the center of an uproar stemming from his alleged abandonment of a pig he purchased to make content, which he thought at the time was a mini pig but turned out to be the regular giant farm kind.
And while Paul is not as explicitly right-wing as Tate, it seems he shares Tate's misunderstanding of The Matrix and is playing victim to it.
\u201cthe matrix is real. pray you never become its target\u201d— Logan Paul (@Logan Paul) 1673394440
Paul tweeted:
"the matrix is real. pray you never become its target."
It's not clear what Paul was referencing—many have presumed it's the whole pig brouhaha, but with these right-wing types you can never be sure.
For all we know, Paul's infamous YouTube feed is a secret backchannel for Russian gun-runners or something and the Feds just got hip to him.
Anyway, perhaps because Paul has been vocally critical of Tate's horrific rhetoric about women in recent years—or maybe because he's just this self-absorbed—Tate seems to have assumed Paul's tweet was aa reference to him and responded.
\u201cYou are the Matrix. You are an Agent.\n\nBut the Matrix is cracking.\n\nAnd now you will pay the price.\u201d— Andrew Tate (@Andrew Tate) 1673442998
Tate tweeted:
"You are the Matrix. You are an Agent."
"But the Matrix is cracking."
"And now you will pay the price."
As of yet Paul has not responded, but others on Twitter had plenty to say about this deeply silly "Matrix" nonsense.
\u201cLove how the internet let's us watch guys like Logan Paul and Andrew Tate pull scams *in real time* and when accountability comes. They blame the matrix?... Like we didn't just watch the whole thing live.\u201d— JerryRigEverything (@JerryRigEverything) 1673402760
\u201cI think the most hilarious thing about Andrew Tate, Logan Paul, Elon Musk, and all the other well knowns who think The Matrix is out to get them is that in the movies Thomas Anderson was a normal guy, normal job, living in a small apartment, who didn't scam people for money.\u201d— \ud83d\udc80DeathMetalViking\ud83d\udc80 (@\ud83d\udc80DeathMetalViking\ud83d\udc80) 1673451751
\u201cAndrew Tate vs Logan Paul #DramaAlert\u201d— KEEM \ud83c\udf7f (@KEEM \ud83c\udf7f) 1671004937
\u201cRetweet to scare Andrew Tate & Logan Paul.\u201d— Blackbird2\ud83d\udd1e (@Blackbird2\ud83d\udd1e) 1673401771
\u201c@LoganPaul andrew tate right now\u201d— Logan Paul (@Logan Paul) 1673394440
\u201cfilm analysis is real. pray you're never as bad at it as Logan Paul and Andrew Tate\u201d— mega them (@mega them) 1673458026
\u201c@Cobratate This show is honestly so badly written it's funny\u201d— Andrew Tate (@Andrew Tate) 1673442998
\u201c@Cobratate hahaha okay bro\u201d— Andrew Tate (@Andrew Tate) 1673442998
\u201c@Cobratate you are 2 grown men you know\u201d— Andrew Tate (@Andrew Tate) 1673442998
As of now abandoning your pet pig is not subject to international criminal liabilities, so at this point we have to grudgingly give this one to Paul.
Better luck next time, Tate.