A Spanish YouTuber who fell from grace—though it’s uncertain {that a} man who hospitalized a stranger with an electrical shaver ever had grace—desires you to know that his 8-minute apology video was pretend. Borja Escalona had enraged a lot of Spain after threatening a server for declining to offer him a $2 empanada without cost whereas he livestreamed himself.

After posting the ‘woe-is-me’ apology video on Monday—the identical day YouTube terminated his channel over the empanada incident—Escalona, a self-proclaimed influencer, apparently uploaded one other 2-minute video. In the second, shorter video, which was reportedly printed on Monday after the 8-minute apology, Escalona reiterated that he didn’t suppose he deserved all of the hate he was receiving. He has defended himself by saying that the complete incident was deliberate with the bar in query, A Tapa do Barril, a bar within the metropolis of Vigo in northern Spain, one thing the proprietor denies. However, after theatrically blowing his nostril, Escalona states that he couldn’t preserve the “stupid act” of seeming sorry for much longer.

He “couldn’t contain his laughter,” he mentioned. Going on, Escalona defined that though he blamed the viewers for getting his YouTube channel taken down, he wasn’t fazed by what had occurred. In reality, he mentioned, he already had one other YouTube channel taken down in 2021, and boasted that it purportedly solely took him 10 months to get his latest channel (the one taken down on Monday) to 36,000 subscribers.

“My name is viral in this country. Whatever shit I do, post, or say is going to rise like foam,” Escalona mentioned within the video in Spanish, in keeping with the copy saved by native outlet 20minutos and posted to Twitter. “Now, I’m going to start a channel from scratch and I’m going to make it explode. I’m going to continue to be amazing and I’m going to continue to do the things I used to do, but worse. Now I’m going to multiply them by 10.” Tracking down all the movies Escalona printed this week has been difficult as a result of there are few copies on the market, and those accessible are sometimes incomplete.

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Gizmodo reached out to YouTube on Wednesday to ask why the platform had reportedly taken 10 months to take down Escalona’s channel once more. Attempting to arrange a brand new channel to keep away from a suspension is in opposition to YouTube’s phrases of service and was one of many causes Escalona was banned, the corporate beforehand instructed Gizmodo.

The influencer goes on to thank his viewers for giving him one other aim to pursue as a result of life had begun to bore him. He additionally informs the viewers that the identify “Borja Escalona” is now a registered model and it’s taking off.

“It’s time to work. I have an awesome community manager and we already have another channel up and running,” Escalona mentioned. YouTube on Monday instructed Gizmodo that it had already taken down the brand new channels Escalona created since his ban. Judging by the influencer’s dedication, it looks like YouTube could also be in for an extended recreation of whack-a-mole.

“The fandom is there, the fanbase is there, the haters are there. I have a group of haters that is going to follow me wherever I go,” the influencer mentioned.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Gizmodo was unable to search out any new channels for Escalona on YouTube. Twitch additionally took down the influencer’s channel this week, citing a violation of its neighborhood pointers or phrases of service.

Adding additional insult to harm, Escalona begins consuming a typical Spanish snack referred to as torreznos, or thick strips of fried bacon or pork stomach.

“By the way, I’m eating some torreznos that a restaurant gave me this morning. Free food,” he mentioned.

The jab is a reference to the incident that bought him kicked off YouTube (once more) and made him one of the vital ridiculed individuals in Spain. Last week, Escalona demanded {that a} employee at A Tapa do Barril give him an empanadilla without cost as a result of he had featured the bar and eaten the meals on digicam in his YouTube livestream. The employee declined, saying that she wasn’t the boss, and instructed him to pay €2.30 (or about $2.35) for the meals.

Escalona ending up paying up, however not earlier than displaying his displeasure on the livestream. Before leaving, he instructed the worker that the bar can be receiving a €2.500 (roughly $2,540) bill for the promotion he had performed for it on YouTube. The worker pushed again, saying he was threatening her and placing her job in peril. In the video, Escalona is seen giddy and having fun with the worker’s dismay, claiming he was not threatening her.

“Is that a threat? I think that’s an explanation. It’s part of the negotiation with the company,” he mentioned, even supposing no promotion was agreed upon beforehand, in keeping with Barril’s proprietor.

As a outcome, Escalona’s followers swarmed to fee A Tapa do Barril with one-star evaluations on Google, a few of them explicitly citing his identify as the explanation for his or her overview. The bar additionally acquired dozens of insulting calls from Escalona’s followers. Gizmodo requested Google on Monday if it could take any motion on the one-star evaluations however didn’t obtain a response. On Wednesday, nonetheless, nearly all of the dangerous evaluations from Escalona’s followers seemed to be gone.

Before you start to doubt in humanity, there’s a flicker of sunshine on this complete incident. On Tuesday, Ana Terzado, proprietor of A Tapa do Barril, thanked Escalona on television for the present he had given her, referencing the outpouring of help the bar has acquired from the Spanish public. Terzado has mentioned that she is keen to report Escalona to the police.

“I never imagined that people loved our team so much,” she mentioned, including that the bar had acquired help from different eating places and bars in addition to from its suppliers.