Who is Borja Escalona? The youtuber who wanted to eat for free and whose channel has been closed by YouTube

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Eat for free in a restaurant.

This is what

intended to do in a bar in Vigo in exchange for "promoting" the place on his YouTube channel, with 35,000 followers.

It all started last August 9, when the Google reviews of the Vigo bar "

" were filled with negative comments.

A group of Escalona's followers had begun to write falsehoods on the internet to support the youtuber.

Borja Escalona made a live broadcast for the video platform at the bar and, just before eating an empanadilla, said that

".

Faced with this statement, the bar manager said: "You're going wrong."

After eating the product, Escalona was going to leave without paying for the drink, but the manager asked him to make the payment.

The youtuber rebuked him: "

The youtuber had decided to go to eat at the bar without any prior collaboration or promotion agreement with the local, despite the fact that he later stated that he had agreed to a payment of

.

Borja Escalona did not care that there was no promotion agreement and took it for granted that he was going to get the empanadilla for free.

Finally, Escalona left some coins on the counter, but before leaving the premises, he told the manager that

for the promotion.

"Getting paid for our work and not going through this person's hoop has led to dozens of negative scores on our Google profile (people who have never eaten one of our dumplings) and calls to our business insulting our team," they have said. commented on the bar's Instagram account.

The owner of "A Tapa do Barril" has stated that she is going to file a complaint through all possible channels.

The comment on Instagram wanted to warn of the "use that certain people are spreading through social networks:

and violence, from disrespect and "anything goes" for the click".

REVIEWS ON SOCIAL NETWORKS

Since the video began to go viral on social networks, criticism has not stopped coming to the youtuber and users have recalled

.

Borja Escalona is a young man from Seville who lives in Madrid and who since 2016 has created controversy with his YouTube channel.

One of the most convulsive episodes that he has starred in occurred in 2020 when he made

.

But the archipelago is not the only region that has been criticized.

has had to face statements such as "it is a neighborhood in Portugal, the European Union gives subsidies to Spain for having them, so we have had to keep them".

He called the

"little ones" and asked for a subsidy "for putting up with them".

These days the social networks have been filled with other controversial performances of the youtuber.

He stands out when in Puerta del Sol in Madrid he pretended that he cut people's hair and

who was injured.

Other episodes have occurred in soccer stadiums where he has tried to sneak in several times and has been denounced by Real Sociedad.

The members of Forocoches have joined the criticism and have decided to join forces to cancel Borja Escalona's YouTube channel.

Finally the platform

and you can not see the content.

Borja Escalona has created a new user in which he has uploaded a video where at first, between false tears, he commented that he was in a bad moment, but after a while he changes his tone and maintains that "I couldn't stretch the bullshit anymore, I was escaping laughter".

In the video of his return to the networks, he affirms that he

and threatens to return to the content he used to do "but worse, now I am going to multiply it by ten".

He also maintains that in ten months he has gained 36,000 subscribers and that he is "viral".

The objective of Borja Escalona's new channel is to "penetrate him" and he has boasted of having followers who do and go where he goes.

"

, you will return again and again, Borja claps his hands and Spain dances", he stated and shortly after assured that he causes hateful emotions that his followers would like to "be able to create".

Escalona's new channel

on the platform and has been eliminated again.

Beyond the controversies on the internet, Escalona has been in

for accumulation of crimes.

In 2020 his license was withdrawn for driving under the influence of cocaine and using the car without points.

He was also arrested several times during home confinement for going out to buy drugs.

The youtuber was sentenced to provide community service and, by refusing to do so, he entered prison.

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