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Currently, YouTube, a platform owned by Google, has more than two billion active users worldwide.
Worldwide, there are more than 200 million content creators spread across the various platforms available.
INEGI data reveals that in 2020 there were nearly seven thousand victims of robbery on public roads.
A pair of youtubers Foreigners made use of their content platform to tell how they were victims of insecurity in Mexico City (CDMX), as is the case with many other people who live in the capital.
If we have to talk about content creators, we can say and even affirm that YouTube started it all, a platform that began as a kind of receptacle for all kinds of videos until it became one of the most essential tools for marketing digital.
According to information from data reportAs of today, YouTube has more than 2.5 billion users worldwide, making it the second most popular platform on the market, just below Facebook.
Today, the platform or the showcase offered by YouTube has served so that, even, today the term “youtuber” is part of the vocabulary of the general populationin addition to the fact that, for a few years, it has become a real alternative to generate income.
Such has been the relevance of the youtuberscontent creators or influencers that, at present, a great number of them live in the network; According to Linktree, the number already exceeds 200 million creators, although this figure may be higher, especially if we consider that we live in an era in which social networks are increasingly gaining more relevance.
In this context, it is worth remembering that We Are Social and Hootsuite reveal, in their Digital 2022 report, that the number of Internet users grew by a quarter percent, reaching 4.9 billion Internet usersof which 4.6 billion are linked to social networks.
Youtubers foreigners are victims of the insecurity of CDMX
Undoubtedly, the profession youtuber is of great relevance among young people, being, according to the Pew Research Center, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube Shorts the favorite social networks of the so-called Generation Z.
However, within the wide range of youtubers that currently enjoy popularity, there is a Spanish couple who, for some time now, have managed to make some of their videos go viral, where they show part of their experience living in Mexico City.
Their names are Aldara and Alex, two foreigners youtubers who, in one of their most recent content on the Google platform, revealed how they were victims of insecurity in CDMX. What happened, according to what they said, is that they were robbed “at gunpoint.”
“Hi guys. Some may already know, but for those who don’t know, yesterday they robbed us at gunpoint, beat us up, stole everything from us and threatened to kidnap Aldara. Thank God we are physically well, we will tell what happened later now we need to solve many things since we have nothing. We are fine, let’s move on”, the young man is heard saying.
One of the topics that is most read, heard and watched in the media is about security in different cities in Latin America.
Data of the National Survey of Victimization and Perception of Public Safety (ENVIPE) 2021carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), reveal that in 2020 there were nearly seven thousand victims of robbery on public roads or on public transport for every 100 thousand inhabitants.
Undoubtedly, social networks are a great instrument of interaction between people, which is why they are becoming more and more popular all over the world.