Andrew Tate and Adin Ross have a rocky friendship.


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For those who don’t know who these two people are, good for you. Enjoy your offline life. But for those of us who are bound to their computers like an umbilical cord, you’re probably more aware of both of these names than you’d like to be.


To keep things short, Adin Ross is a streamer on the site Kick, which is a competitor to Twitch. Ross is known for being really, really smart, using that intelligence to do things like lose $5 million gambling during a single stream. Tate, in contrast, is a former reality TV contestant who has rebranded as a Romania-based lifestyle guru. His advice is, in short, bad — so bad, in fact, that he’s currently on trial for human trafficking.


Despite this, Ross and Tate have struck up a “friendship” over the years. However, recently, that friendship came into turmoil after Ross may have accidentally leaked that Tate was trying to flee the country to avoid criminal prosecution. Now, Tate is out of custody and free to talk to Ross again, and it seems like he’s trying to mend the friendship. Oh sorry, did I say mend the friendship? I meant “plan to kill him.”



In this clip from a recent Ross stream, Tate is acting weird. Yes, I too would be bitter if someone allegedly foiled my master plan to escape the country, but Tate is taking a very strange approach, talking to Ross with a hollow smile that masks an undying resentment toward his (possibly former) friend.


“I’m just waiting for you to come and visit me,” Tate says. “Because when you abandoned me in jail, and you abandoned me on house arrest, and now that I’m free to travel all over Romania, I think, well, surely he wouldn’t abandon me again. Would you, Aden?”



Normally, when someone talks to you like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, that’s a good cue for you to abandon ship. That said, Ross seems intent on managing the friendship, tentatively making plans to visit him in Romania so long as the two “do good streams out there.”


“We’re going to have a great time and do amazing streams,” Tate states, his smile unwavering. “I promise.”


Obviously, I don’t think Tate is actually going to kill Aden Ross. But if I were Ross, I would definitely think twice before buying that ticket — otherwise, he risks his flight going worse than a Boeing whistleblower’s Taco Bell dinner.