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Saturday afternoon in

Badalona

.

End of June and almost

30 degrees

on the asphalt of

Carrer de Pau Claris

.

The beach is fifteen minutes away, but this mass of children, teenagers, twentysomethings, adults, fathers and mothers that surrounds the

Olympic Pavilion

refuses to go near the water.

The event of the week, the month and the year for an entire generation is locked in the same place that crowned the

Dream Team

of

Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird

in the 1992 Games. This is how the world changes.

'

The Evening of the Year 2

', the boxing event organized by

Ibai Llanos

, is already

Twitch history

, the internet and our society.

At half past four in the afternoon, the taxi makes a complete return to the site to understand the context of something that continues to be inexplicable for a part of the Spanish citizenry.

12,000 people

crowd the doors (still closed) of the pavilion where Ibai and the biggest

content creators in Spain and Latin America

will meet to fight and see each other fight.

An amateur boxing interspersed with concerts by some of this year's musical giants:

Rels B, Nicki Nicole, Duki, Quevedo and Bizarrap

, the latter the perfect exponent of success on the internet.

The Argentine producer has gone from collecting funny moments from cockfights to making songs with

Nicky Jam

and burst the number of views on

YouTube

with each of his '

Music Sessions

'.

"

Ibai, this is for you, I love you

," she told Llanos from the stage.

But we will get there soon.

Quarter to five.

Two and a half hours before the first fight, the journalists pass the first security arch and approach the red carpet, a mandatory stop for almost the entire

national

streaming

jetset

.

The

Oscars

are nothing next to '

The Evening of the Year 2'

, ask the children of him.

"

If Ibai mounts it, I had to say yes ,"

Duki

confesses

to a media group, including EL MUNDO.

The artist, Argentine like Bizarrap, is one of the most listened to this year, he came out of the rooster battles of "

El Quinto Escalón

" and met Ibai like most: through Twitch.

"

I trust Ibai so much that if he jumps off a cliff I'll follow him

.

She told me date and time and I blindly said 'yes'," she admitted.

An early riser record

While the spectators fill the stands, the suits, dresses and

outfits

of all kinds of internet stars surprise the

million and a half people

who, several hours before the start, already see everything through the live broadcast on the Llanos Twitch.

"

We have surpassed

last year's evening in

viewers

and we are on the red carpet. What the hell is this," Ibai wrote on Twitter.

The Basque appears before the press minutes before his big event: "It's more than six months of work," he confesses.

24 hours before, he had recognized that the numbers of the event did not finish coming out, but that "it is worth it".

"

I am a sports lover

.

Organizing this is a dream for me.

We were losing money on this, but whatever, it's worth it," she summed up.

Actors, singers, soccer players like

Borja Iglesias

and even a double of

Bad Bunny

, who ends up causing a tsunami around him before the joke is discovered.

It's the red carpet for Generation Z, Y... Everyone.

Inside the enclosure: pure internet history.

Half past seven in the evening.

The end of the first fight, which the Catalan

Spursito

wins over the Galician

Carola

, one of the five battles of the night, causes the

world record for viewers on Twitch

.

An absolute outrage when the event has barely started.

The Murcian

TheGrefg

got

2,468,668

simultaneous viewers last year, but Llanos has just surpassed two and a half million in full euphoria at the Olympic Pavilion.

TheGrefg himself, present at the event, ends up embracing the Basque on stage and confirms what is repeated in each row of the pavilion: "

It is the moment in which the

streaming

community is more united

". This is the first event in which the four great

streamers

from Spain,

Ibai, Auronplay, Rubius and TheGrefg

meet at the same time.

An important night also for boxing

The record stirs even more a dedicated and very diverse audience.

From

parents with children

to middle-aged people, despite the fact that the vast majority are

teenagers

who are close to 18 years old and young people between

20 and 35

years old

whom these content creators already accompany on a day-to-day basis.

The realization of the pavilion, using the

giant screens

in the center of the ceiling to observe in slow motion the best actions of each fight, ignites the fans even more, provoking a situation to study:

boxing cannot be broadcast in Spain

between six in the morning and ten at night due to the Minors' Law, but from here, and despite being amateur boxing,

millions of young people vibrated to the basis of blows

in prime time.

The only complaint from the public through

Twitch

was the

sound of the concerts

, in which the public was not heard, but in the venue the atmosphere was unbeatable, worthy of the great shows of each year.

And the only security issue was an attendee's attempt to chain himself to one of the ring's ropes...unsuccessful.

On the commentary stage,

Rubius

, an exponent of the early years of YouTube,

danced to almost every song with Ibai

, who hasn't been on Twitch for three years.

Past, present and future of a sector that continues to grow and waits for no one.

"

Thanks to Ibai for all this

", Duki repeated after his performance.

In the ring, and after Spursito's victory over Carola,

Ari Gameplays

beat

Paracetamor

,

Viruzz

Momo

,

Lolito

Luzu

and

Mr

Jagger

David Bustamante

, who

joined

a few weeks ago after the absence of actor

Jaime Lorente

(

La Casa Paper

, among others).

But, although it sounds utopian, the result was the least important of a night that brought together

2.4 million viewers on average

on Twitch, with a historical peak of 3.3 that will be almost impossible to beat, unless the promise is fulfilled. from Ibai himself: "

This can only be overcome if I fight.

And I will fight.

I'm already getting ready.

For me, fighting on 'La Velada 3' would be unbeatable.

To retire", explained the Basque.

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