As Andrew Tate clicked 'reply' to send his misogynistic message about Amanda Holden's bikini picture, he would have anticipated the storm it would create.
But as supporters and critics raged over his post, there is little doubt his 14-year-old self could have barely dreamt he would ever reach such notoriety.
His upbringing on the Luton Marsh Farm council estate where his mother Eileen moved with her three children from Chicago in the late 1990s was largely unremarkable.
Tate's father Emory, who died in 2015, was a high level chess player, who earned the nickname 'extraterrestrial' because his play was said to be out of this world.
He won 80 games against grandmasters over his career and was six times champion of Nevada and five time US Armed Forces champion.
Like his son would become, Emory was a prolific and controversial social media user, posting outspoken content on Facebook which was highly critical of American foreign policy, before he died suddenly from a heart attack eight years ago.
Andrew Tate smokes a cigar with his top off posing next to the sea in a typical online picture
Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan walk inside the the Court of Appeal building in Bucharest, Romania, this morning
Tate inside his Romanian complex, which is bedecked with wealth and valuable items
Tate's remark about Amanda Holden prompted a huge storm online, as he must have expected
Mrs Tate brought her children up in relative poverty after moving to the Bedfordshire town when Tate was aged 11.
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