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With more than 12 million followers, Ibai Llanos is one of the streamers most popular on Amazon’s platform, Twitch.
Last weekend, the Bilbao native was recognized as the best streamer of the year at the ESLAND Awards.
In Latin America, more than 80 percent of young people want to become content creators and live exclusively from it.
A few days ago it was announced that Ibai Llanos is in Mexico and, during a live on Twitch, the streamer He shared his experience trying a typical Mexican sweet, which, judging by his reaction, has not been the best.
Last weekend, at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, the second edition of the ESLAND awards took place, where Ibai Llanos won the Best Streamer of the Year award, consolidating his personal brand in Mexico and, incidentally, in the Spanish-speaking community.
And it is that, in a context in which Twitch has more than 7 and a half million streamers active, according to Twitchtraker data published in April of this yearIbai Llanos and other content creators have known how to capitalize and position themselves as a generation of streamers who, without a doubt, opened the door to thousands of young people who, today, want to follow in their footsteps.
You just have to remember one of the latest Morning Consult reportswhich indicates that, in Latin America, more than 80 percent of young people between 18 and 38 years of age, have in mind to dedicate themselves to the profession of content creator and live exclusively from it.
So, seen from this point of view, today, we are talking about Twitch as one of the platforms of the immediate future, but also about a scenario that, as digitization continues to advance, could offer various benefits to Internet users.
Ibai Llanos tastes a typical Mexican sweet and it was not the best experience
With more than 12 million followers on Twitch, Ibai Llanos is one of the streamers most popular and, of course, one of the highest paid. In October 2021, also through a live broadcast, it was possible to see that, In a period between August 27 and September 25, the native of Bilbao pocketed the amount of 145,837.33 dollars.
That said, it is not surprising that the popularity of Spanish continues to grow and, with it, its own audience in various parts of the world, Mexico included.
Thus, taking advantage of his stay in Mexico, Ibai Llanos shared, during a live broadcast, his reaction to trying one of the most typical Mexican sweets: a tamarind sweet. However, judging by his reaction, it seems that the experience has not been the best and, even, he wrote so in the video published on his TikTok account.
@ibaillanos tamarind is not my thing
These types of cases happen very often: foreigners who arrive in Mexico and try typical foods of the country and, apparently, sweets are some of the ones that attract the most attention, since they are also one of the most consumed by the local population. .
According to what it reveals the Chamber of the Food Industry, Mexico ranks second in all of Latin America in terms of consumption of sweets; each year the consumption per capita It is 4.5 kilograms of sweets, according to what the agency indicates.
