"For me, El Hotzo hits the spot with everyday observations of all kinds, often surprisingly true, very often very funny."

"Never heard of it."

I am amused by the humorous cynicism he sometimes uses to describe situations from our generation." "Funny, clever." "Funny because he's honest." "I'm confused.

I first had to google what or who that is." "It's often too negative for me somehow, and too much." "Phew, I don't follow it that much.

But every now and then something funny pops up.”

Pseudonym: Internet Clown

Kim Maurus

volunteer.

  • Follow I follow

What the hell is this firework of quotes supposed to tell me, you might ask, and well, I'm typing out these sentences a little at a loss, too.

I wanted to find out what my friends thought of the satirist El Hotzo, but I suspected it wouldn't give a coherent picture.

Now that has been confirmed.

And now?

Maybe I should start from the beginning: El Hotzo is the pseudonym of the satirist Sebastian Hotz.

He often calls himself an "internet clown".

Companies that rely on influencer marketing would call this undersold.

El Hotzo has more than 350,000 followers on Twitter and more than 1.1 million followers on Instagram.

Anyone who previously thought that only pictures with beautiful faces generated a lot of likes on the platform doesn't know El Hotzo.

He takes to heart what philosophy and communication students have had to learn for theory exams for decades: the sentence “the medium is the message”.

El Hotzo has made screenshots suitable for the masses.

Namely screenshots of his short tweets on Twitter, which he then spreads on Instagram.

He posts ten at a time every day and at least 100,000 people like it every day.

Mood: bad

El Hotzo makes his satirical attitude clear in the Instagram bio: "Mood: bad" is there and that's how most of his tweets read.

"When will the long-term effects of the Bundesjugendspiele be sufficiently researched?" is one, or: "Hollandaise only arrogant Mayo", or: "Stress in office jobs is so funny, it's just still staring at a screen, but ANGRY", or : “German train stations: how many shops do you need that sell you the same disgusting tomato and mozzarella sandwich?

6 or 7?”

A significant portion of his tweets are political.

For example, ones that anyone who had suffered would immediately subscribe to: “Idea for a horror film: you ride a bike in a big city”, or also exaggerated social criticism, such as: “Germans say something like that never existed before” and “something like that” is some basic human right “.

Again and again, El Hotzo posts political statements that sound understandable at first, but are complete nonsense at second glance.

"No offense meant, but I'm definitely not going to die for fucking NATO," he wrote about two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, as if one could choose exactly "what" one died for in a war.

Or, after there was no majority in the Bundestag for any variant of mandatory vaccination: "No mandatory vaccination, abolition of mandatory masks, no more quarantine, tbh Karl Lauterbach's policy cannot be distinguished from that of a convinced corona denier." (tbh stands for "to be honest", i.e. "honestly")