MomenTVs.Ibai Llanos, the other side of the coin
Interview Ibai Llanos, the best known man in Spain (for your son): "I literally do whatever I want"
"I'm nobody. Well, yes. A fifty-year-old mother with a technology-addicted 17-year-old son.
Juan
."
Jordi Évole's interview with Ibai Llanos last Sunday has brought a tsunami of reactions.
From the parents who until this week had no idea who that boy was who had their children glued to the computer to the children who until this week had no idea who the journalist who had their parents glued to the television was.
But there has been an unexpected one, that of a desperate mother: "I'm going to tell you what you didn't ask her,
Jordi
, and what you didn't tell her,
Ibai
."
"My son and I have a time of hectic action: there is a 17-year-old addicted boy, there is failure, there is money, there is robbery, there is loneliness, there is isolation, there are tears. There are doctors and teachers looking the other way. A soap opera !! "
The "nightmare" at the home of
Luca
and
Juan
, who have changed their names to preserve their privacy, began a year ago.
"Like all kids, Juan liked the screens a lot," Luca says in a Twitter thread, "this disaster began with Juan's 16 years and
confinement
. In his room and with the screens and Twitch (I I didn't even know what it was), Juan discovered a world in isolation from which it was not necessary to leave. When he could leave, he no longer wanted to. "
The school improvisation that Spain experienced after the declaration of the
state of alarm did not help
.
Juan finished "in fits and starts 1º de Bachillerato" without a single
online
class
.
"I only did homework (and few)."
Over time, the boy was losing contact with his friends forever.
"They dispersed, they no longer called him, he no longer wanted to go out, there were always excuses," recalls his mother, "Summer was a battle for him to get up from the sofa for a while, to go out with his cousins to the pool for a while , to the beach. Only videos. "
In front of the screen 15 hours a day
He asked
Jordi Évole
to
Ibai Llanos
in the interview how long he could stand in
front of a screen.
Juan's mother has seen first-hand how time ceases to make sense when things get out of control: "Eat, go to the bathroom, move around the house just enough and always with your cell phone and helmets on."
Your child could be in that other
online
world for 14 or 15 hours
.
Impossible to
control: "The
app
parental control function is not know all the tricks, all the holes there to sneak And if you take away the phone or the computer or WiFi, riding a scandal or threatens suicide..".
Juan no longer has friends in the real world.
If they exist, they only exist on the Internet.
Before he read, played basketball, went out there, even had a job to get a little money.
"He doesn't do anything anymore. And he starts skipping class and lies. While we work, he claims to be in class
online
. But no. He
pretends
. He's
on
Twitch
. He's alone."
He had
Ibai Llanos
that social platforms like
Twitch
are a relief for many young people, a refuge from his problems.
That's what it has become for Juan, only that he is so comfortable in that reality that only exists with an Internet connection that the real world no longer interests him.
It has ceased to exist.
Home burglaries to pay for addiction
"But the best comes now ... the pasta."
The
Twitch
video
streaming
platform is
subscription-based.
You can join a live show without paying, but many Internet users become subscribers.
"Most of them do it to support the content creator," explained
Ibai Llanos
.
Others, because they get some extra functions.
They are small contributions, of five or seven euros a month.
However, those amounts can become a world for a teenager addicted to screens.
"When Juan ran out of money, he stole his father's Visa and spent 600 on subscriptions," says Luca, "Juan is an addict and needs
Twitch
."
From five euros to five euros, "a drip that does not attract attention until suddenly it is a huge puddle".
"Your son is an addict."
The truth fell like a slab at home.
Luca got in touch with
the Addiction Help Center (CAD)
in his neighborhood, but Juan "doesn't want to know anything about psychologists, psychiatrists, educators."
At 17, he is a minor, but a "responsible minor", and that means that his parents cannot force him to go to therapy, he has to volunteer.
"And even if you could, if he doesn't want to, you're sold. We're sold."
"I have already been disappointed with the tutor of the institute, the counselor, those of the CAD. Juan continues watching his videos," laments this desperate mother.
"With patience and a left hand", the boy's parents have made some progress: he has approved four assigns and is paying his debt with the pay and money from the Christmas present.
"We are better ...", says the mother.
And yet, on the day of
Ibai Llanos'
interview
with
Jordi Évole
Luca, she discovered that the nightmare was not over.
Debts on subscriptions
"I make him a monthly transfer with his pay and the money for the transport subscription," he says, "I discovered that he had re-subscribed to 7 or 8
Twitch
accounts
. On March 3, he had not a euro left."
"According to Juan, he hadn't done anything," he continues, "at some point he thought that subscribing was only paying seven euros once or he plays dumb. Every time I make a small transfer, in two days they shoot him all the money. money. I guess he has subscription debts. And this is happening again at least since January. "
"The 120,000 that
Ibai Llanos
takes out per month
only from subscriptions that serve to 'support the artist' have kids like Juan behind them. It's not his fault, or yes. I don't know."
This desperate mother ends her thread with a harsh reflection: "This dynamic in which we are creating monsters. Covid has psychological and psychiatric collateral damage that is already emerging. My son is addicted."
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