Esther Mucientes Madrid
Madrid
Updated Thursday, February 8, 2024-08:28
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El Hormiguero Sofía Vergara, the "berraca" who made Pablo Motos sweat a lot
His name is
Daniel Alonso
, he is Zamorano, he is 22 years old and everyone knows him as
Plex
, one of the largest content creators in our country with 26 million followers on his social networks. He is, for the generation that last night when turning on
El Hormiguero
the first thing they thought was 'who is this guy?', the number 1 content creator on YouTube in Spain. And if you still have questions and you have children, ask them about
Plex
. The answer will surprise you.
Pablo Motos
once again united two generations in a guest: those who know
Plex
's adventures around the world by heart and those who surely heard his name for the first time last night.
"Tonight there is a mix in the audience, which I really like, of several generations. Between one generation and another there is always a lot of distance. The older people do not understand the young people and this has always happened, but there has never been so much distance between one generation to another.
We have no idea about the new generation that is coming, nor what they like, nor what they want to do, nor the talent they have
. Tonight we are going to try to make that union,"
Pablo Motos
El Hormiguero
started , aware, and this was asked during the interview with
Plex
, that the generation that watches
Plex
does not watch television and, therefore, the public that watches
El Hormiguero
, was going to meet a guest of whom they probably had no idea. I have no idea who that boy was who was sitting in front of
Pablo Motos
and his ants last night.
It was not the first time that a YouTuber, an influencer or a content creator attended the program. However, the reality when seeing
Plex
arrive at
El Hormiguero
was that if Pablo Motos
' generation
had no idea who this boy was,
Plex
had no idea, or rather, he was not in his element. He confessed it himself at the beginning of the interview: since he left his parents' house at the age of 17, he has not watched television again. He is now 22 years old.
It may seem that interviewing someone who you know is unknown to your audience is easier than having a character from the fifth of your audience in front of you. Simply because by asking what she does, what she does, how she became a social media star and something else, the interview is done and done. And, in fact, much of the interview was like that. "How would you introduce yourself to people who don't know you?"
Pablo Motos
asked him . "Well, I do something similar to what you do, but instead of with so many cameras and on a set, with a single camera, on the road and with my friends,"
Plex
responded .
From here everything should have been simple, and it was. Being the number one content creator, it was more than obvious that the interview would focus on finding out how it started, how it has come to have 26 million followers, where the trick is (which there isn't, I'm already letting you know), how it handles the fact that it exists. a kind of "FBI", as
Plex
calls his followers, who know at every moment where he is, his daily life and little else. However,
Plex
, despite not being one of the content creators in which it has been involved in the most controversies, has had some that, of course, had to be talked about.
And to top it all off, the documentation work that
El Hormiguero
always does with its guests led to what happened that if another guest, or rather, another guest, would have caused one of the usual tsunamis that
El Hormiguero
usually gets into. : a desert island, a group of friends and a challenge, which of them could last the longest without masturbating? This information was for
Pablo Motos
like honey for a bear.
The Plex "obsession"
The fact is that
Plex
was the ideal guest. To everything that
Pablo Motos
asked him , he answered everything, also, aware that he had to explain things to two generations. He tried to be as didactic as possible. He said without any qualms and after
Pablo Motos
showed him one of his first videos, when he only had a little more than 2,800 followers, that he didn't like studying, that every night he went into his room he realized that studies didn't interest him, that he wanted something more.
He recorded videos, like the one they showed him last night when he was 14 years old in which he stated with total conviction that he would become one of the greatest content creators, and he just uploaded them. After he started uploading
Fortnite
tutorials , followers began to believe; After videos with his sister, they began to grow more; Later he moved to Madrid at the age of 17 with his colleagues and began uploading videos of his adventures in the big city or of them doing the animal; and then came his challenges, his trips around the world and the follower counter exploded.
"I don't think it has anything special. I think people like the naturalness, the everyday nature of the videos and that
I am the same in the videos as I am outside of them
," he explained. In fact, as
Plex
confessed , it was not until recently that he began to become "obsessed" with the issue of uploading a video every day and generating content: "
I feel bad if I am not able to make good videos
, I don't know. "
whether it is obsession or commitment to what I do.
Of the few controversies that Plex
has had
, surely the fattest one and the one with which he learned the most was the one he caused after taking home a capybara. The damn TikTok algorithm - "do you know what an algorithm is?"
Plex
asked
Pablo Motos
just in case - keeps showing him videos of people who had pet capybaras in his house. For those who don't know,
capybaras
, which are a species of giant rodent, are wild animals. That is to say, having them at home is of course not possible.
Plex
acquired one - in Spain it is legal -, he took it home and in his "obsession" with not stopping uploading content and good videos to the networks, he uploaded a video of him with the capybara.
The next day when he woke up his phone was literally on fire.
Plex
felt terrible, not because of the criticism or insults he received for that video, but because he asked himself if what he had done was being "a bad person."
Frank de la Jungla
came in after him, but after uploading a
Plex
video apologizing and giving the explanations he thought he had to give,
Frank de la Jungla
invited him to Thailand "and it was one of the best experiences of my life because I learned very much". The danger of networks, the obsession with content, I have to show everything, the new generations...
"You are something they would like to achieve, but
I think you are an exception
. There are many people who try, but very few achieve it. What would you like to say to young people who want to be like you?"
Pablo Motos
told him during the interview very much in line with the capybara controversy. And
Plex
made many myths or many preconceived ideas that the older generation have about the generation that
Plex
represents fall apart: "The typical thing that would be said is that it is an exception and that it is very complicated, but I don't think it should kill the dream either." of anyone in that way. It is very complicated and surely their parents will say that they better study. They are right, you have to study, but some of those who are watching this, tomorrow, will be like me, content creators."
Plex: "I feel better without the straw"
Do content creators make a lot of money? Well yes, but it would not be
Plex
that would reveal it nor would it be
Pablo Motos
that would insist. However, during his talk it was very clear that yes, a content creator like
Plex
earns a living and more. So much so that not only has he already circled the world twice with all his friends telling about his adventures, but he even rented an island just for them to carry out (and upload it to their networks) the challenge of spending 30 days on it, isolated and without more resources than those provided by the island. Come on, a kind of
Survivors
, but without the technical deployment of the program and only
Plex
, his friends and his two cameras.
And it was here, in the story of the desert island and his 30 days of shipwrecked living, that
Pablo Motos
' documentation led to Onan and onanism. "You had a challenge that caught my attention. He was the one who could last the longest without jerking off,"
Pablo Motos
snapped at
Plex
, leaving the
YouTuber
awestruck . "Who told you that?"
Plex
asked Pablo
Motos
, more than surprised . The presenter explained that one of
Plex
's colleagues had probably told him about it , while the
YouTuber
had to be honest: "We all failed."
But the handjobs and the challenge were too juicy to let it slip away: "They told me that you are no longer a practitioner because you saw an inspirational video. Please explain that to me.
An inspirational video to not masturbate?
" If the previous question had already left Plex stunned, this one ended up breaking all his plans. "
El Hormiguero
got weird
, didn't it?" snapped the youtuber who died of shame. But he also knew how to get out of this: "Yes, I saw a video of the typical strong man who said that you don't have to jerk off. And, the truth is, I tried it and I feel better without jerking off." And between straws the game ended.
Game over
...