ABRAHAM ROMERO
@AbrahamRomero_
Madrid
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 23:45
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On December 9, 2016, Esperanza Borrás showed her face on the internet for the first time. He was 13 years old, had fewer than 1,000 YouTube subscribers and had been uploading video game videos to the platform for a few months . Her parents were not convinced by the idea of their daughter sharing her image, but the reactions were so good that they ended up accepting it and even got involved and motivated their little girl.
Almost four years later, Espe , as known in the network, still the majority, is the first creative content of the Team Heretics , one of the teams most important eSports Spain, led, among others, the youtuber TheGrefg , who has more than 14 million followers on his channel. Espe , chosen by the club after an online selection process, has gone from hundreds of followers at the end of 2016 to 380,000 now on YouTube , which added to the more than 240,000 it has on Twitch make it easily overcome the half a million, at a rate that in a few months will make him reach seven figures of followers.
But how does a teenager from Seville who plays Call of Duty or Fortnite end up signing for an eSports club, something historically reserved for boys? “I was following the youtuber Alphasniper , one day he posted a tweet saying that he would like to play Call of Duty with someone who doesn't have the kind of weapons that cost real money, so I spoke to him. He said yes, and I was just at the April fair in Seville . I went home right away with my mother and we played. And now that video has a million views. She recommended my channel and that's where it all started », she explains to EL MUNDO.
How was your arrival at Team Heretics ? I did not expect. It was a shock. They were looking for the first girl in the club and I tried. Before my presentation I had 150,000 followers on YouTube and now more than 380,000, on Instagram I was followed by 45,000 and now 186,000, on Twitch I have also tripled the number ... Most of them have welcomed me. I understand that there is always criticism and rejection that A girl is a gamer . The typical people of always. There is everything. People who tell you "go wash up, you're an aunt." I'm used to that already. Personally, I have been very lucky with my friends and my family. Your work is live, how do you manage the comments? Sometimes I don't read the chat because there are atrocities. I talk to the person I'm playing with and that's it, and that your audience is teenagers and even younger, but they lack respect. This sent me to the hospital two months ago. At the end of last year I decided to go live every day, I was gaining audience and I enjoyed it. I went four or five months without stopping, every day, for a goal that I had set for myself. They were so many months reading comments and enduring that one day came that I started to get discouraged and cut the live show. The next day, live again, I had an anxiety attack. I have been being bullied for months, non-stop, every day. Reading comments from people who messed with my physique, with my voice ... They created a lot of insecurity in me. My mother took me to the emergency room because I couldn't breathe and I did not sleep well for two or three weeks, with contractions in my chest and back. And did you go back to live shows? I came back stronger. I realized that it should not be important. If you are four months reading the same thing, it is hard and frustrates you, and that day I burst, I let off steam. But I came back motivated and proud. Didn't your parents tell you that you had to quit? My mother was scared at first. It was a terrible moment, but I explained it to her and tried to reassure her. She told me not to listen to the comments and we tried to give it the least possible importance. They told me not to do live shows, to recover ... I did it and the months of May and June went very well, even with my parents going live.The mother of Espe is Rocío Giráldez , former player of the Spanish football team, one of the most important players of his time. She played eleven seasons on CD Hispalis and ended up wearing the Sevilla shirt until she decided to leave it to be a mother. Young Espe's parents have signed their contract with Heretics and are trying to control the echo that the content creator is having. "The club doesn't demand anything from me, I keep doing the same and I don't have a limit on hours per month," she explains, who has relaxed her number of live hours during the holidays but is now beginning to pick up her pace. "Soon they want to take me to the Heretics house to spend a week there," he says about the gamer mansion that the team has set up a few weeks ago and in which several of its professionals live.
In the eSports club , born just a few years ago and now a national reference, they speak wonders about her and admit that her signing could be a turning point for the female sector in the world of video games. "The joy is double if we take into account that digital entertainment and gaming are sectors populated, for the most part, by content creators, gamers and male audiences ", explains Arnau Vidal , founder and co-owner of Team Heretics . "That is why finding talents like Espe is even more difficult, although they are increasingly more and with the same skill or more than their male colleagues."
In Heretics , which announced the signing of Espe in a YouTube video that has already exceeded one million views , they trust that their case will not be the last. 'Espe has enormous potential. For us, giving visibility and resources to profiles like her is very important. In Spain there is a lot of talent like yours to be discovered, who have the capacity and potential to be a benchmark on the Internet but who have not yet had the resources or the opportunity they deserve, ”Vidal acknowledges.
Meanwhile, in Seville, Espe , who has dropped out of Bachelor of Performing Arts "due to a psychological issue," wants to be an actress . «I have not been able to carry it. When we found out about Heretics, my parents started asking me if I wanted to try this. At first I felt that I was selling myself a little for money , but if I think with my head, it is the future. Twitch, YouTube ... They are going to give me a lot of visibility and it's a train that passes once in a lifetime. It was a good decision.
How much money are we talking about? Something reasonable. Not very much, but it has helped me to return to my parents all the money they have invested in me and to improve the quality of my live shows. I want to save. And it makes me happy that my parents can save all that on me.According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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