Why I hope @ellagirwin unbans @crabcrawler1
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In this post I will try and convey my current situation. I want my account back. In fact, I actually want my own life back. I’m now two online identities deep and that’s bizarre. People both know/knew me as Nick Monroe and “Crab Man.” On a personal level this is difficult to mentally keep track of.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 I took the risk of formally “coming out” as myself on the Crab Man Twitter account. Elon promised amnesty for people who were previously permanently banned on the platform. My initial hope was that such forgiveness would be granted to me. That never came.
Fast forward to December 2022. The Tate brothers were arrested. I had made a Twitter thread earlier that year that essentially went mega viral in the aftermath of that news. I’d continue to follow the case in the months afterward, speaking up on behalf of others who were too afraid to criticize Andrew and Tristan because of a litany of threats that their fanbase unleashed on anyone and everyone.
That brings us to March 10th, 2023. I was banned from the platform unceremoniously. Twitter never officially sent me an email explaining the grounds for my suspension. Instead I had to learn through a public statement given to a third-party.
I will try my best to unpack this as best I can. It’s worth noting that Ella Irwin’s “fairly extensive” investigation didn’t involve asking me questions about any of it.
The pro-Tate person who flagged my Twitter account repeatedly bragged about doing so. While there’s other evidence that points to a coordinated mass-flagging campaign against Tate’s critics, in the case of @guytweetnews they shared screenshots that show they reported my tweets under various violations to try and see what could stick.
Then the account went into hiding now that their task was done. Doesn’t it seem exploitative that someone could create a troll account for the sole purpose of mass flagging content creators, then disappearing?
The renewed attacks against me by pro-Tate sock/bot accounts comes from the fact that I was granted access to chat logs of Andrew Tate’s “war room” group he had on Telegram.
I have enough context in there to firmly debunk the notion that the Tate brothers were playing characters.
Here’s a lot of what I was able to publicly share before my Twitter ban. If there’s a matter of “private media” therein, I censored names and faces as necessary.
I hope that Ella Irwin can appreciate the fact I had the following realization, and that I wasn’t just going to recklessly dump everything on Twitter all at once.
What I saw was overwhelming. I spent several days reviewing the materials from start-to-finish to make sure I knew what I was reading. There’s even something called a “revenge room,” led by Tate associate Joe Lampton, where techniques of managing and controlling women was shared.
Work with mainstream media is ongoing and I expect the investigations will take a few more weeks at the very least.
In the meantime: was recently cited in a Rolling Stone article that discussed my findings.
"But it also may be more sinister than that. According to screengrabs obtained by the independent journalist Nick Monroe, which Rolling Stone confirmed came from an individual with access to the group, and an interview with a source familiar with the War Room, the Tates encouraged members to get their wives and girlfriends to do online sex work and fork over their income to them. A creator who enrolled in the War Room and posted a vlog review of his time there also says the organization teaches members how to become a “pimping guy who looks down on women, uses them and abuses them and manipulates them to get from them what he wants.” One screengrab appears to show a high-ranking member of the War Room instructing members on how to coerce their partners to cam: “Breathe it on her neck, in her ear as she’s cumming,” he instructs."
The response from Andrew Tate’s people? Absolving themselves of any criminality.
"A spokesperson for Tate denies that the group hosted illegal activities, saying that all passports and citizenships were obtained via legal means and saying they “deny the legitimacy” of the screenshots provided. The spokesperson says the War Room is a “legitimate online community that encourages people to better themselves physically, mentally and financially.” “While the room has made any and all efforts to inform its members on the legal avenues, it does not hold itself responsible for the illegal pursuits of its members, if such endeavors ever existed in the first place,” the spokesperson adds."
That’s a lovely response. There’s more in the chat logs that I have yet to publicly share that show criminality. But people got a taste of some of it, via an early morning upload.
There’s more to the above instance of a “pump-and-dump” scheme beyond that single clip.
Given the fact Rolling Stone was willing to authenticate the chat logs themselves, allow me to now state this as clearly as possible:
Andrew Tate’s war room was structurally designed with the sexual exploitation of women in mind. The “PHD” approach taught to members meant that not only the Tate brothers used a technique of manipulating women into a sexual relationship for the sole purposes of financial gain later on.
Given the earlier PR campaign by Twitter where they came down hard against sexual exploitation, it seems contrarian for the company to cripple my account that was pushing back against that very thing.
The fact of the matter is that the Tate brothers are in Romanian jail standing accused of serious crimes. While they have repeatedly claimed that there was no evidence, I had continually brought that to the public eye. Old Twitter’s Jack Dorsey understood the term “newsworthiness,” and it’s unfortunate that Elon Musk’s Twitter has forgotten that rule.
A glowing endorsement of the relevancy of my work came around the time that the Tate brothers tried to manipulate the general public into believing a series of out-of-context snippets of WhatsApp conversations between victims while they were trying to escape Romania.
I acquired the rest of the chat logs conversations. While Tate’s people tried to paint victims as “gold diggers” looking for a payday — the context shows that both girls were “acting” because they feared for their lives.
Also off of the top of my head: misinformation about Andrew Tate’s health became widespread, and I was one of the first people to call it out well in advance.
For further background, I can establish that Ella Irwin’s public statements and reasons for my ban are related to the Tate brothers situation.
As back in mid-February was the first time my Twitter account had been retroactively targeted by Andrew Tate’s allies. For tweets that were made a MONTH earlier.
The context is that myself and Joules Sullivan (Sartorial Shooter) were in a January 2023 Mario Nawfal Twitter Space discussing the Tate brothers. There, I had asked him if he had any business ties to either Andrew or Tristan. Mr. Sullivan had said no.
With that in mind, the tweets I had made pointing out that Sullivan used the same business (business meaning public info) firm, was fair grounds for me to comment on. Soon after I did, Mr. Sullivan responded.
Yet somehow a month later, these tweets were flagged as inappropriate for being private info.
Here are some reactions.
Apparently I’m near the “email length limit” so let me just add a link to the Wordpress gallery of Andrew Tate fans that had bombarded my Twitter feed for months on end.
My Crabcrawler Twitter account wasn’t solely dedicated to the Tate brothers story. I talked about other news. I livetweeted my reactions to movies. I built my own community over the course two-and-half years. For a second time.
Please don’t make me do it all over again.