Junior Healy: “I made ‘Youtuber’ at 35 for a dismissal” | Culture

Junior Healy is not very street. He works, he says, investigates, records his podcasts and issues his direct ones before the computer – without leaving his home. A tiny floor “that for not having has no smoke outlet,” he says, in a popular neighborhood in Madrid, where he lives with his boyfriend of the last 10 years, although some time ago they broke. His ex -partner is moving “little by little” after rupture, so he kindly declines that we see ourselves at home and proposes a nearby commercial macrocenter. Here, at one day in a day during the week, between retirees and retirees throwing the morning, it goes unnoticed. But Junior Healy, as he prefers to be called, despite, or perhaps due to the common of his real name, is a celebrity for the small legion of followers of the gene generation that mimics his characteristic accent and jargon and cites his textual phrases in Tiktok videos. Without going any further, this boomer that signs, I wouldn’t even know who it is if a zeta I would not have put it on the track.

My 24 -year -old daughter, without knowing him, considers him a friend. What do you do to achieve it?

What an illusion, your daughter. Let’s see: I make content on the Internet, I talk about eccentricities, people biographies random that I like, of crimes that fascinate me, of what I call circuses, people and Social and cultural phenomena that interest me. There is much talk about the loneliness of the generations now, and that you cannot be a friend of people you do not know, but I think it can. I think I am company, as TV did, or radio. In the end, what I do is tell stories, show my life, be sincere and be myself. That can be what connects with other people.

Is it considered a young man with 36 years?

I am a lot of age, because I have the feeling that I should have started before. People who dedicate themselves to the Internet usually start younger. I am a late mileniala young adult. I was the last promotion that made five years of degree, I in advertising. Then I was working eight years in the Marquetin department of some aesthetic centers that grew a lot and then ended up closing. I made videos of doctors. As a result of saying goodbye, with what I had saved, I decided to try to dedicate myself to this, that I am always passionate, it worked immediately, and I had to get autonomous. Am youtuber For dismissal. I have always caught the last trains, in Plan Bridget Jones, which I love.

There are two kinds of adolescence: one of being always on the street and another of being more introverted. I think, being gay in the first 2000, made me retract a lot “

That is, what was the modern of your company?

Yes, it was the modern fag. My position was a multimedia designer, which sounds like very old, but something should have done well, because my boss did not want to say goodbye. Now I won more than I won there. I am not rich, but I give myself for rent, I am happy. Compared to others youtubersI have very few followers, about 50,000, but they are very faithful: who follows me, is still to death.

And what does it give them?

I think being honest, not posturing, and, it is wrong that I say it, but I think I’m funny. I am happy doing what I have consumed from a young age. I had imagined many times doing it, and now I do it. Maybe my illusion is also transmitted and spread for having achieved it.

Do you consider what it does is culture?

Totally: in the end I think we are very subordinated to what the media tell us that it is culture and what we have to do and to read, but that seems to me a very old idea, very of the 90s. That video games make you violent and all that. I believe that everything is culture and that it depends on how you internalize it and interpret it. If you don’t see Save mefor example, but do not read books, you are not smarter than a person who does see it. I saw it because it entertains me, and I knew that what Belén Esteban said was not a chair, it was his point of view, a fun thing. In the end, it is entertainment, and I consider it culture, totally.

Talk about crimes, series and quirky characters. Was it always so friqui?

A lot. There are two kinds of adolescence: one of being always on the street and another of being more introverted. I think, being gay in the first 2000, made me retract a lot. I am from Callosa, a town in Alicante, I went to a school 40 minutes by bus and had no friends. It was a lot to be in my room, fantasize, seeing many movies a thousand times. As a child, they pointed me to extracurricular computer science and I am very computer rat. I pirate my father the Plus channel and with that I won his respect. I have a lot of memory for names, sites, actors. For me, being mythomaniac was a shelter.

Was he in the closet?

Well, I was in the closet because I did not want to be gay, although I know that I am since I felt the first wish, but I fought against that. I even tried to masturbate thinking about the most good aunt of the institute, and it was a disaster. It wasn’t until I went to university in Valencia, at 19, when my parents caught me a conversation with a boyfriend and asked me if I was gay.

Do you think they didn’t know at that point?

Yes they knew. I think my father made the duel to recognize that I was gay for years and that’s why I didn’t have a good relationship with him. My mother, curiously, took it worse. For concern. To see how my life was going to be now. But, as soon as I said, I freed myself so much that I have never hidden it. I do not do social networks activism because it is not what I want to do. I want to entertain. But I do it simply by showing it as I am.

And now, what do you think your parents think?

They are supercontent. They are very old school. To work from sun to sun. That, for them, success is to make money. After university I had to go home for a while and felt a failed. Then, when they said goodbye they believed that I was crazy to get into this, but, now, when they see that I live from it, they support me. I have a very millennialI am looking for my father’s approval all the time, and I still look for it, they have told me even in therapy.

In me there is no character, it is me 100%. And it is not a strategic vision, but because I need it. It is therapeutic for me “

Have you needed therapy?

Yes, I have left him with the boy he was. He leaves home and I stay living alone and all that roll. Then, he is being traumatic for me, because we have been together for 10 years and we have been very much for each other, and I am not a person with many friends. It comforts me to think that happens to everyone, I have made a reel With that and people support me to death.

Many youtubers They only teach their successes. Doesn’t it make you modest to expose yourself so much?

In me there is no character, it is me 100%. And it is not a strategic vision, but because I need it. It is therapeutic for me, and I think people can feel identified. It is curious, but 78% of my audience are women, and I am superféliz, because all my life I have been very women, very sharing the problems, very friends. I’ve never had children. So, I feel that I am where I belong. But then, I have that internalized homophobia thing that you want hetero men to validate you. I don’t go with the banner, but I’m a feminist. I try to take care of what I say, while still being myself.

That is also activism, right?

Yes, but I am not just fag, or fat, or whatever: I am more things. I like this cinema, I like this type of books, this type of music, this type of characters, this type of circuses. And that is what I tell. I believe that activism is necessary, because if you do not squeeze, things do not change, but not everyone has to be so. It is a vocational. There are people who like politics very much, and know a lot. But I would have to study her. And I prefer to know all the casting of a Disney movie that who is who in the process, for example.

His podcast is called ‘Francisco Frankie’ and his logo is an image of the dictator with breasts. Do you want to provoke in a time when many of those who follow him do not know who Franco was?

I put that name for the duality of wanting to touch the eggs, because Franco was a dictator and because he had only one egg and the aforementioned voice. I empathize a lot with the low characters with bad milk. Soledad Huete, from Seven lives, That is my favorite series. Napoleon. Small people. What Franco did is horrible, and I liked that duality of caricaturizing Marilyn Mason. That duality of being a despot and, at the same time, as with a lot of pen, it is very funny.

I don’t go with the banner, but I’m a feminist. I try to take care of what I say, while still myself “

Well, there are kids who claim it almost like an icon.

It seems very curious for bad. I like to think that they are very young people who are not very involved in that roll, 16 -year -old people who have no idea, who have not lived it. I have not lived it either, but, although I think he is very overcome, there are those who tell you about Franco as if it were something refreshing.

His colleagues youtubers They go to Andorra to avoid taxes. Would you do it if I went on account?

At the moment, let me grow. I don’t think he will never. I find the concept of being locked in mountains very sad. And it’s not because I am very out. It could be overwhelmed all year, but there is something ethical there, in plan, I like to contribute to my country. And I am contributing. I pay my taxes. Now, when you are autonomous, I also tell you that what they take from you hurts.

If this is doing badly, do you have a plan B?

Well, in reality, I am my own work, my own brand. I know the theory perfectly because I did the race and I have worked on mine. That is, if they are badly given, with returning to the plan to be. And I can always put this in the curriculum.