Santiago Segura and the 'buddies' of the digital far right

The Army Awards, a kind of anti-awards organized by content creator Ceciarmy, who appears in his ultramontane videos wearing balaclavas and is often associated with figures like Omar Montes (expelled from Big Brother to incite sexual harassment against one of her colleagues) or Ilia Topuria (denounced by his wife), when he is not going to The Anthill to explain that he spends twelve hours a day on his phone. Several guests left the gala, which included Vito Quiles among its award winners, considering it a far-right gathering.

From then on, Santiago Segura tried to defend his role by saying that he didn't choose the award winners and that he was simply acting as master of ceremonies. Among the jokes were hurtful comments about the appearance of OT contestant Lucía Casani. The renowned filmmaker explained that he is fed up with the polarization between fascists and leftists, which implies forgetting the profound asymmetry that exists between these two groups, quantifiable in deaths. Segura embodies cowardly equidistance in action, which, in the name of revelry and digital coolness, helps fill a stadium for an exaltation of the neo-fascist creed based on insult and hatred. At least this year there were no chants of "Long live the Caudillo," as there were two years ago, but the audience was encouraged to hurl insults at Pedro Sánchez's mother. The fascists are exploiting freedom of expression to impose a simplistic and emotionally charged narrative against which complexity fails because the digital highways don't know how (or rather, don't want to) manage it. Segura has the right to cash the check, taking advantage of the normalization of the far right worldwide, which generates galas spuriously disguised as humor. But at least he should drop the cynical mask of trying to make people believe he was just passing by.