I heard Joana Marques, on her podcast, “Extremamente Desagradável” talking about this silly, silly boy called Afonso, who is trying to style himself as the Andrew Tate of Portugal. Cigar, sunglasses, aspirational videos of him standing near hot gajas and red lambos, and of course he has a fake university where you can hand over your hard-earned cash and learn to be just like him. He hasn’t been arrested for human trafficking yet, but give him time.
He’s being interviewed here on the podcast of a bodybuilder guy called Hugo Mestre. For some reason, the first 7 minutes are completely silent, but all good things most come to an end and they start talking after that.
Aaaaanyway, look, I don’t want to bum you out by telling you about the worst of Portuguese social media, so if you need a soul cleanse after seeing this lad, can I recommend that you go on Instagram and look up dinis_o_mini_biologo, who is one of my favourite social media peeps at the moment. He’s only little, but he knows a lot about the creatures in the hedges and the rock pools of Portugal and he’s really confident in handling them while he tells you all about their habits and why he likes them. He’s basically everything social media should be and I hope he’ll have 1000x more success than the Tate Wannabe.
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