Felca opens his heart about social phobia report and 8 years of bullying, but divides web in election week
Comadre, pull up your chair and prepare your coffee, because the internet has managed to turn one of the bravest outbursts about human pain into a reason for polarization and immeasurable demand! Influencer and youtuber Felca, who draws crowds on the web, opened his heart in an emotional one-hour video in the early hours of Tuesday (20), revealing his medical diagnosis of social phobia and the deep traumas caused by eight straight years of brutal childhood bullying.
The repercussion began even before midnight, comadre, when influencer Felipe Bressanim Pereira published an ad with the caption "I hid for too long". As we are on the eve of the second round of voting, many users created the expectation that the content creator would upload a video declaring support or criticizing candidates. However, what was aired punctually at midnight was a raw, sensitive and heartbreaking report on mental health, where Felca presented the report proving the diagnosis of social phobia and fired: "This is the most sincere and most difficult video I've ever made... But I don't want to leave without telling my story".
In the statement, the 28-year-old detailed the nightmare he experienced from the age of 12 in Londrina, Paraná, when he became the target of verbal aggression that escalated to physical violence, including the episode in which he was cornered and beaten by five boys inside the school bathroom. The suffering lasted for eight long years, causing him to spend entire breaks locked in the cabins and see classmates create school lists electing him as the most ridiculed. This traumatic load cost Felca his own youth, who dropped out of college due to panic of social life and, during the height of his success on the internet, had to resort to shots of pure vodka to be able to record content or talk to people — a habit that he definitively interrupted the day when, drunk after a video that hit 6 million views, he fell at home and fractured two ribs.
Despite the nobility of the report — crowned with the announcement that he will give voluntary and free lectures in schools to support young people who are going through the same pain — the video cracked social networks. On the one hand, educators, health professionals and thousands of fans applauded the boy's bravery in exposing his biggest wounds to save lives. On the other, netizens and even comedians expressed discontent, pricking that the influencer would have "made a mistake in the month of Yellow September" and demanding that he leave his personal outburst aside to focus on the electoral race. In response, the youtuber's defenders repudiated the charge, reinforcing that the pain of those who suffer from psychological trauma and social phobia does not choose a calendar and deserves unrestricted respect.
It's that old blindness of social networks that we always regret in our circle, right comadre? Politics passes, the elections end next Sunday, but the marks left by the cruelty of bullying a child last a lifetime. Having the greatness to transform one's own suffering into help for school children is a gesture that deserves applause, and not a shallow charge for the internet!