A influencer Upload a video in one of the areas affected by the passage of DANA in the province of Valencia. Like others, he added money from his supporters to help those affected by the storm, but as he himself explains, you have to choose which cities what you buy with that money goes to. Leave the decision in TikTok’s hands: the people with the most likes in the comments get the help. “Through comments, names are proposed and people vote.” This is Ángel Gaitán, regular contributor to Iker Jiménez’s “Horizonte” program.
Criticism was quick to arise regarding the video, particularly from other social media users who, moreover, reject its “contempt” for the work of NGOs operating in the area to try to lend a hand to the hundreds of families who left without housing and who try day after day to clean up the mud and mud that still flood the streets of many towns in the region. “Pure pornography of tragedy. » “It is difficult to describe how indecent what Ángel Gaitán is doing,” we read on X, formerly Twitter.
“Please in this video, no one puts anything in the comments if it’s not affected,” he says in the video. “We have to choose two towns for the convoy of around twenty vans,” he continues, before mentioning towns like Catarroja or Alfafar. “Through comments, names are proposed and people vote.” “The two cities that I like the most will be the ones we go to,” he explains.
In the comments, people put names of towns like Aldaia, Albal or Catarroja: “Please, they are abandoned”. Iker Jiménez also shares videos with the content creator’s trucks on his X account.
Gaitán, moreover, during these days, had launched reproaches against the government and Pedro Sánchez, and had spread the deception repeated by the extreme right regarding certain alleged statements of the president, who had offered the collaboration of the Central Executive on Saturday, November 2. “If additional resources are necessary, let the Generalitat request them” »Sánchez said.during a press conference. “I’m a tough guy, I already admitted it in a show the other day, but one of those who want to help people and those who love their country,” said Iker Jiménez’s collaborator, in his video dedicated to the president. “I don’t like politics but you’re missing seven cities,” he continued. “You are doing very badly. »
The program Gaitán was referring to was Horizonte, in which he took out a Spanish flag and used his intervention to appropriate the term “facha”, which he proudly assured was “something similar” to what he ““I thought it was normal.”
Hoaxes and frivolity
But comments aren’t limited to the influencer. In recent days, networks have criticized the behavior of certain content creators who accuse them of either trivializing the tragic situation or promoting disinformation.
An example is the case of banner Grefg, with more than 12 million followers on the Twitch platform and who promulgated the Bonaire shopping center parking hoax. “Yesterday a friend from the Civil Guard was one of the 12 divers who went down to the Bonaire parking lot,” he read during a live broadcast, in which he went so far as to say, through a message, that there were up to a thousand dead. After inspection, police finally confirmed that there were no victims inside the building and that indeed, “a hoax has spread.”
Likewise with other influencers like Ana Moya, who, while dozens of villages woke up to completely flooded and destroyed streets, uploaded a video from her chalet. And now, on top of that, content creators who promote false ideas related to the work of organizations such as the Red Cross are also joining in.
