There are still a few days left until the new year begins, but somewhere in Catalonia a person is already getting their snowflakes in fear of this moment. We are referring to the moderator of the 3/24 networks who will be on duty on New Year’s Eve. He must have probably already assumed that he works on the night of the 31st, I don’t think that will bother him. What will keep her awake these nights is the possibility that the first baby born in Catalonia in 2024 will be called Ahmed, or Zakaria, like the most early child of 2023, who was born in Palamós, and narrowly beat Dayla Mia, d ‘Splugues de Llobregat.
If this happens, the moderator of the networks of 3/24 will spend the first hours of the year trying to manage the racist comments that will be uploaded to X several avatars with a Saint George’s cross in the profile and trusting that they will not be very high on Instagram the “and that’s how it goes”, “and now the house is paid for”, “they came from outside to take us from home”, etc. In fact, if the first baby born in Catalonia in 2024 is called Ona or Nil, the user @guifre1714 will find a way to say something that would warm the heart of Sílvia Orriols.
I don’t think that the public television news channel has a particularly racist or retrograde audience, but it happens that this small but very active faction of profiles have found there the material that gives them life, to the point that the medium and they seem to have entered into an almost codependent relationship. When they recently uploaded the famous viral news of the four-year-old boy named Aran who was presented with an award by the TMB presenter for his birthday, one of these digital almogavers wrote: “It was clear that Mohamed was not going to win it “. The clip with the collection of La Marató, which this year dealt with sexual and reproductive health, was filled with comments against the “xaros of TÑ3” and there is no human story or local news that the commentators on duty let pass.
I suspect that the newsroom thinks of them when they upload videos with headlines with the word eco-anxiety or when they inform them about the goodness of cloth pads and that they log on every morning looking for the dose of dopamine that keeps them alert.
