- The TikToker was photographed doing the Uttara Bodhi Mudra hand gesture
By Matt Strudwick
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TikTok prankster Mizzywas today photographed flashing a 'power up' hand sign made famous by influencer Andrew Tate as he was spared jail.
Mizzy - real name Bacari-Bronze O'Garro - posed for the cameras outsideHighbury Corner Magistrates' Court after being handed a community order, and ordered to pay £500 in compensation to a woman for stealing her phone as he rode past her on an e-bike.
He then fled from police and tried to ditchthe device in a bush. The woman later got her phone back.
The sign is believed to be traditional Buddhist hand gesture but since being used by Tate has become associated with concepts like 'the illuminati' and 'the Matrix' online.
However, Tate revealed he copied it from his American chess International Master father, Emory Tate, who used to regularly make the gesture while playing sport.
TikTok prankster Mizzy was photographed flashing a 'power up' hand sign made famous by influencer Andrew Tate as he was spared jail
Andrew Tate said he copied the gesture form his father and explained: 'The reason I do it is because when your brain is as advanced as mine, you have to complete the circuit,' saying he was 'full of electricity' with 'blood on fire'
According to The New York Post, Tate explained in one video 'I'm not associated with the Illuminati' and said the sign was a 'power up'.
'The reason I do it is because when your brain is as advanced as mine, you have to complete the circuit,' he said, saying he was 'full of electricity' with 'blood on fire'.
'I do it because it increases my powers - it's like a power-up,' he said.
In the clip, Tate told his 'gentleman' followers to try it.
The 19-year-old revealed in May 2023 how Tate and his brother Tristan had reached out to him.
He said he was 'in talks with the Tate brothers', adding: 'I have the power now.'
At the time O'Garro released a video alongside a lengthy statement on social media in which he admitted to having 'put my mind into Mizzy being the biggest menace in the UK'.
He said: 'The Tate Brothers have been helping me immensely, teaching me to actually take people's feelings in and hold more accountability for my actions as I develop into a man.
'They are also showing me that I can accomplish what I want in ways that won't make me look like a villain and in the process also help others.'
The TikTok menace was snapped at a previous court appearance in August last year using the hand sign, but insisted he wasn't copying anyone.
Tate (centre) handcuffed to his brother Tristan as he arrived to the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania in February 2023
Tate said he does the hand sign 'because it increases my powers - it's like a power-up'
O'Garro revealed in May 2023 he was 'in talks with the Tate brothers', adding: 'I have the power now.'
'I am my own person and he [Andrew Tate] just helped me realise how doing this could benefit me,' he said in a social media post.
'This is called a mudra, it is a symbolic hand gesture commonly used in in Hinduism and Buddhism.
'Mudras help link the mind to the body and your conscious to your sub conscious. It gives me power.
'People thinking it's an illuminati pose are brainwashed bots.'
O'Garro was jailed last year for 18 weeks after breaching criminal behaviour orders on multiple occasions imposed on his TikTok videos.
The order blocked him from filming people without their consent.
However, despite previously being convicted of stealing a woman's phone, he avoided being sent back to jail today as he was still a youth when he committed the offence.
The court heard O'Garro - who appeared in the dock dressed in a black suit with a white tie and shirt - had 'turned his life around' since his experience in prison, which was the 'shock to the system he needed'.
His later convictions in relation to his TikToks were not considered as aggravating factors, as they occurred after the phone theft.
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