An influencer sneaks into an event with King Felipe VI at the Royal Palace pretending to be an EU activist.

BarcelonaNot many days ago a melancholic person of the characters trash For the time being, the television audience was utterly shocked as they wondered how the geeks had disappeared from television programs, they were so funny. They were surprised that in such cruel and unbearable times as ours, there were no characters tamarinds strolling around the sets, adding a touch of medicinal surrealism to television programming, which for too long has been explaining only ever-bigger catastrophes. The answer is simple: geeks are no longer on television because they're on social media. There are plenty of brainless people there, but with a large audience, an explosive mix that produces results as hilarious as those provided years ago by the my Spains, the big brothers, the Mazagatos, the tamars or the juanelgolosinas, who were killing themselves to get a spot on any program or magazine.

The stir that these artists created on television schedules until the early 2000s is now being created on social media by their replacements. influencers, who, with an excessive desire for prominence—and inflated for fans as short-sighted or even shorter-sighted—would do anything for a moment of spotlight and flashbulbs. Well, they'd lose on parole. Homo sapiens who make compilations of the most trash of the year.

The practical way (poorly executed)

The origin of all this has been the lack of imagination and capacity for effort of the organizers of a Royal House event, who, as they are desperate to reach young audiences and to have some relevance, have gone to Instagram to find the magic potion: invite a influencer in the act to make that absolutely soporific and anti-media event have a little repercussion beyond the Efe agency.influencer and the nonsense has been epic.

The event in question was the institutional celebration of the 40th anniversary of Spain's accession to the European Economic Community and someone thought that inviting the cultural and European affairs communicator Patricia Fernández would be a good idea. The truth is that if we take into account the terrible characters who have traditionally walked around the institutional events of the State, inviting this young journalist who has managed to get 211,000 people interested in content more profound than knowing whether this summer we'll wear flat sandals or mules or how to get the perfect curls was a good idea. But, lo and behold, there's another Patricia Fernández on Instagram. A Patricia Fernández known as Patri White House because when she debuted on social media, she had a completely white house that she kept cleaning and changing its appearance with decorating tricks like festhotumismWho did the Zarzuela people call? The one promoting the European Union or the one promoting Mercadona stain removers? Obviously, the wrong answer is the right one.

The most striking thing of all is that Patricia Fernández's ego never sent her any warning that, given the content she usually publishes, it might not make sense for her to be invited to an event with the King and the Prime Minister of Spain about Europe. The ego, or perhaps the window of opportunity... influencer White House – followed by millions of people – took advantage of the fact that the wind was blowing in its favor and, as required by the invitation she had received, on that day at that time she showed up at the Royal Palace in Madrid dressed for the occasion – as good influencer, with a suit not paid for by her – to enjoy the moment and expose it a posteriori.

Patricia uninvited (and not happy)

The scandal came from an uninvited Patricia Fernández, who was warned by some followers that at an event about Europe there was a Patricia Fernández that it wasn't her. After being left with eyes as big as oranges, the uninvited guest posted a video in which she explained that she had called "the organizers" and that they had confirmed that the one they had invited was obviously the one Patricia Fernandez wrong. This, which if it were left as it is would already be epic due to the ridicule it represents for the organizers of the event, is even better Because Patricia from the White House – the one who was invited – has held her own in a situation that would have made even Esperanza Aguirre die of shame.

Instead of deleting all the content she had published about the event or, at least, keeping quiet for a few days until posting a new video explaining the virtues of Mercadona's citronella spray, Patricia, the attendee, has plucked up the courage and published a statement in which she defends that she has not sneaked in anywhere, that she has not sneaked in anywhere, there. Of all the arguments she gave, best They say she creates "content for Europe" –of course, and for the world!– and that she was born in 1985, the year of Spain's accession. I don't know why they haven't invited all of us in this group, who when we post a photo of the pan we eat on Sunday we also do it "for Europe" and who also have a white house, mostly, because we don't have money for interior design.

Just like it happened years ago with icons trash on TV, we'll always have the doubt as to whether they're really like that or if it's just media cynicism applied for their own benefit. By the way, Patricia, a guest, told the networks that she had been "chatting with his majesty"I'd give my little white house to hear what! Europe or tricks for removing stains from your sofa? I don't know which would be more fun to hear...

The age of Yamal (and Vázquez)

Despite the migration of TV geeks to social media, there is a subgroup of icons that has neither migrated nor disappeared from anywhere: the special friends of soccer players. The latest one we discovered is the influencer until now very unknown Fátima Vázquez, to whom the magazine Readings has caught up with Lamine Yamal on a trip to Italy. The story of how it all went is the same as always: a influencer A woman who makes her living exclusively off being famous complains about being famous after being caught traveling with a guy who's world-famous. There's no need to analyze much because the story tells itself.

What didn't happen before, but has now, is death threats against the girl in question. While the emergence of social media in the celebrity scene has given us some gifts, it has also greatly poisoned the scene, as hatred has too much free rein. Vázquez, who is 12 years older than Yamal, was widely criticized for this issue. It's a shame that none of those now saying that perhaps this age difference is healthy because he's still 17 and she's already 29, had ever said so before. And look, they've had opportunities because the rest of the famous men have partners with that age difference or much greater. But in those cases, the younger woman is always her. Never him.