No one will mourn the disappearance of Fernanda Pérez.


Fernanda Pérez has left us. She did so discreetly, quite the opposite of her fleeting journalistic career, marked by TikTok videos with scandalous topics such as the UCO (University of Catalonia) being on the verge of arresting Queen Letizia with the acquiescence of Felipe VI or Francina Armengol considering fleeing Spain after an arrest warrant was issued. Her profile, now deleted, was a string of unfulfilled imminent events, but that didn't stop her from racking up tens of thousands of views. Her physique, of course, helped. That superhuman blonde, the perfect symmetry of her features, the generously sized breasts offered to the camera, and, above all, those fluctuating teeth that changed shape from frame to frame. Some may have found this detail disturbing, a sure sign that we were dealing with an avatar created using artificial intelligence. But if their news stories were shrill fabrications with no factual basis, who's going to be gloating about an oval face that also mysteriously changed from one video to the next? Fake news with fake People; wonderful ones, that's for sure.
But Fernanda Pérez is only half-dead, if the term applies to an entity more false than a fifteen-euro bill. The person or people behind it continue to publish her videos on YouTube, where she has more than 25,000 subscribers, and accumulate thousands of comments from highly motivated citizens apparently unaware of Fernanda Pérez's dental and maxillofacial—not to mention journalistic—inconsistencies. Does she exist to influence the political agenda? Is it just junk content that appeals to primal instincts to monetize clicks? I don't know. But I do know who gets rich off it all: YouTube. That is, Google. They should help bury Fernanda Pérez and cover the funeral costs. For hygiene, for responsibility.