Showing off a sense of trolling rarely seen on his Twitter account, Álvaro Uribe Velez got wet in the controversy that opposition sectors hold with the influencer and businesswoman Daneidy Barrera Rojas, Epa Colombia, with whom he met in Bogotá to talk about entrepreneurship and eat empanadas.
The former president and former senator of the Republic published at 11:14 pm on Monday a photograph of himself with a graying mane headed by the text “Uribe after applying Epa Colombia keratin”.
The reactions to the publication of the former president were immediate from the followers of his account, which exceeds the five million followers in said social network.
For example, the user @ YoLaLlamo3 wrote: “Very handsome president @AlvaroUribeVel friend thank you muse”.
@LauraMedinaRuiz, stated: “The beauty of making fun of ourselves”.
While @ Page2011 He highlighted Uribe’s ability to “sell himself” in networks: “Hahaha because she may not have studied but she cannot be denied that she is an impressive marketing strategist”.
Too the other political shore reacted to the meme posted by Uribe.
The user @peluchegiraldo accompanied his text with another image that was all the rage on Monday, two horses treated with the famous keratin of Epa Colombia Alluding to the ex-president’s passion for fine-grained animals, and finished with: “His horses also looked very good”.
@hobbitconboots criticized the meme using the buzzword “Abudinear”, an idiom registered by the Royal Spanish Academy that motivated an angry response from the current ICT minister Karen Abudinen to the linguistic authority: “But the meme was abused … Definitely that is a bad characteristic of the ruling party. Not like that, friend”.
The origin of the meme, like most Internet products, does not have a clear origin: apparently, Uribe would have shared one that would be causing a furor in Telegram forums and WhatsApp groups.
However, a certified Twitter user @Internautism He did claim the authorship of the meme that Uribe published and did so by responding in the long thread of replies that the tweet of the ex-president provoked in the early hours of Tuesday.
Of course, Uribe’s meme with Epa Colombia’s keratin it is open to interpretation.
Some compare Al Uribe with a long hair with a photograph of Senator Gustavo Petro during a political speech at the Boyacá Bridge.
Others, in the vein of trolling exhibited by Uribe, mounted another meme of the ex-president after the meeting with Epa Colombia.
Although it was not mentioned in the replies, there remains a loophole to point out a Reasonable likeness between the treated hair of the ex-president with another, this one very natural, of the former governor of Antioquia, Sergio Fajardo.
While Uribe trolled certain political sectors, the cancellation of Epa Colombia seems not to hit bottom.
Within a day, the influencer lost more than 100,000 users on Instagram after his meeting with the former president.
In a highly polarized environment like the one Colombia is experiencing in the run-up to the 2022 presidential elections, the popular influencer and businesswoman has “Been attended to” on Instagram and on Twitter by opposition sectors that considered her one of their own after the episode in which the Colombian justice made her respond for damages caused to Bogotá’s TransMilenio system during the National Strike episodes in 2019.
It should be noted that when Epa was required by justice, a new edition of the social movement, which lasted more than sixty days, was still fresh in the memory of the country.
There was even calls to resistance by some sectors on Twitter:
Barrier, who became a standard-bearer of the so-called “second chances” with her keratin business, and even held a meeting with the representative Katherine miranda from the Alianza Verde party to talk about it, began a collection to collect the money for the sanction ordered by the justice, which exceeded the 400 million pesos, which caused a wave of empathy from different sectors that suggested that the businesswoman and influencer was “Forgiven” for the Colombian justice.
Empathy that turned disappointment and was not forgiven by a wide base of followers and Internet users.
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