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During confinement, social networks have risen up as elementary platforms to maintain communication. Thus, these apps -like Instagram- are notably on the rise. A situation that is not only beneficial for entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, but also for the famous influencers who live on photos, videos and likes. As a result, some popular instagramers have managed to crown this quarantine as true VIPS. Among them, the Venezuelan based in the US Lele Pons (23), who has 40.3 million followers on the social network. Despite this, many of those who visit their profile today do not do so to admire the quality of their content. They do it to witness a dangerous accident that this week is impacting the internet.

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Lele Pons is practically a celebrity: she is Chayanne's (political) niece, she appears in Camila Cabello's Havana video and in Downtown by Anitta and J. Balvin , she has presented the Mexican edition of La Voz, participated in the MTV series Scream , sings the remix of Telephone with Aitana , wrote the book Surviving High School , has paraded for Dolce & Gabbana , was sworn in Miss Universe and has just released a new single called Volar . However, Lele - whose real name is Eleonora Pons Maronese - has conquered most of her fans thanks to her humor and wit on the internet.

And it is that Lele - who has the record for the most viewed Instagram stories of the year (above Kim Kardashian) - usually posts videos where she experiences funny situations and even laughs at herself. For example, he usually mixes sensuality with humor when teaching videos that start dancing and end with funny surprises or photographs where he teaches how sexy he can be and how bad luck he can also have. Likewise, on February 28, she caused numerous laughter in her followers , who believed that she was engaged, after Lele published a photo surprised before a kneeling boy and with a ring.

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"I said 'yes'", he wrote, along with several emojis, and then sentenced "yes ... to just be friends!". A joke that accumulated almost four million likes. A very high figure. But not for Lele, who just a couple of days later reached 11,000,000 "likes" with a video. For several seconds, Lele is seen teaching a choreography in front of the camera, which -as she herself claims in her networks- she learned to show on TikTok. A series of steps that follow what the lyrics of the song ask for. All well executed, until, after five movements, the influencer leans back, loses his balance and crashes into a glass door.

Although the video does not end there, but with Pons on the floor, after going through the door with his whole body, and full of glass on top. "This is how this is happening this 2020", wrote the 'celeb' when publishing the sequence. Despite this, some did not find it too funny ... At first, numerous Latino media reported the news as "a serious accident." However, in the networks few believed the veracity of the matter. What's more, hundreds have ensured that it is an acted scene, with a wall of props and sugar glass. "It is not real," "it is mega fake," "it looks more acted than a low-budget soap opera," numerous detractors of Lele asserted on Twitter.

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Likewise, many others reflected on the desperation of influencers to get followers. "Really, this woman does anything for a like," commented one Internet user, while others expressed "how much ignorance for wanting five minutes of fame, God help her", "poor thing, she's sick in the head" and " No one should risk their lives for "likes", or for fun. " Even so, Pons preferred not to refer to the subject and two days later he returned to social networks with another funny video. As if nothing had happened. Furthermore, his fans noticed that his face appears intact, with no injuries or scratches. So, having really had an accident, Lele Pons today is in great condition and just as lively as ever.

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