{"id":48801,"date":"2025-01-28T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/former-g2-ceo-carlos-responds-to-backlash-for-heavily-supporting-andrew-tate-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:29:11","slug":"former-g2-ceo-carlos-responds-to-backlash-for-heavily-supporting-andrew-tate-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/former-g2-ceo-carlos-responds-to-backlash-for-heavily-supporting-andrew-tate-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Former G2 CEO Carlos responds to backlash for \u201cheavily supporting\u201d Andrew Tate &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former G2 CEO Carlos responds to backlash for \u201cheavily supporting\u201d Andrew Tate Instagram: OceloteWorldFormer G2 Esports CEO Carlos \u2018Ocelote\u2019 Rodriguez has responded to backlash after \u201cheavily supporting\u201d Andrew Tate in a tweet. On September 17, 2022, G2\u2019s former CEO and founder Carlos Rodriguez sparked controversy after being seen celebrating the org\u2019s recent accomplishments alongside Andrew and Tristan Tate. Shortly after doubling down on his decision to party with the controversial influencers, G2 placed Carlos on eight weeks of unpaid leave. Just five days after the initial backlash began, Ocelote decided to step down as G2\u2019s CEO. On December 21, Discord screenshots showing Carlos talking about his support for Andrew Tate began making their rounds on Twitter, and he was quick to respond to the backlash. Carlos responds to backlash over supporting Andrew Tate In the screenshots, Carlos talks about how he \u201cheavily supports\u201d Andrew Tate and many of his beliefs, and that he is a \u201cgood man,\u201d prompting many to show their distaste for his comments in the replies. However, he quickly responded with a quote retweet, doubling down on his words on Discord. \u201cCan\u2019t cancel me twice b*tch. I\u2019ll say it again louder for the people in the back. [Andrew Tate] is the f*cking man.\u201d Just hours before his response, he shared in another tweet that he doesn\u2019t see himself returning to G2 Esports, and that \u201cG2 is going to succeed without me at the helm.\u201d Shortly after he tweeted his response, users took to the replies to share their thoughts. One user replied: \u201cStand true to your morals and beliefs, Carlos. Let them cancel you haha, they are your unpaid marketing team.\u201d \u201cYou were never canceled, just exposed. And the industry is better off without you,\u201d another commented. While a third user said: \u201cYou deserve all the bad that comes from this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former G2 CEO Carlos responds to backlash for \u201cheavily supporting\u201d Andrew Tate Instagram: OceloteWorldFormer G2 Esports CEO Carlos \u2018Ocelote\u2019 Rodriguez has responded to backlash after \u201cheavily supporting\u201d Andrew Tate in a tweet. On September 17, 2022, G2\u2019s former CEO and founder Carlos Rodriguez sparked controversy after being seen celebrating the org\u2019s recent accomplishments alongside Andrew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}