Online content creators have become a new target for mainstream TV shows. From magazines to late nights, many channels have taken an interest in youtubers, streamers, tiktokers and other personalities from the networks after their brilliant rise. Often this bet is effective, but in other cases it can lead to more bizarre and even uncomfortable situations.
It was this last instance that David Cánovas, better known as TheGrefg, suffered in El Hormiguero. As he told in The Wild Project, the podcast of his fellow youtuber Jordi Wild, the Murcian had a not very pleasant experience during his time at the Pablo Motos show. Cánovas visited the program in 2021, during the boom in transfers to Andorra by various content creators, including the one involved.
“It is a program that I have been consuming since I was very young and there is a very large part of illusion. TheGrefg in El Hormiguero was really ‘we bring a youtuber from Andorra to ask him about these things’. Although well, they did a quite open interview with me, but I think Pablo Motos was rubbing his hands waiting for the moment to ask about Andorra”, he confessed to Jordi Wild, knowing that at that time the removals to the country of the Pyrenees were frowned upon.
Even so, TheGrefg saw in his participation in the program an opportunity to change public opinion on this issue. “An opportunity to give visibility to the fact that you can live in Andorra and not be a murderer, because at that moment things were getting very cloudy,” he explained. Cánovas was also surprised by the reactions to his speech, more surprised than not of disgust.
“They want to do the interview and look for the juicy answer. And I have to tell you at that moment that I prepared it. Perhaps I was not aware of how important that moment was for my image or for the general image of our sector,” he said. in the podcast, in addition to recounting how Andorra was thoroughly informed and all the possible opinions before addressing the questions, he also highlighted how relaxed he was on set and how he looked different after the interview.
“When Pablo Motos asked me the question, I asked him to answer in an extended way, because I had all the answer in my head. I could have gone blank. He was so prepared and so calm that I felt super relaxed, but it changed when I saw him from the outside. I said to myself: ‘Fuck, I’ve come to a massacre.’ I was somewhere and they were throwing knives at me, ”he explained. Despite not having returned to the program, although they have insisted on several occasions, TheGrefg assures that he does not hold any grudges or anger.
