In the last few hours, the video of A cyclist honking and hitting cars on the bike path It went viral on social media and changed the lives of Christian, the protagonist of this story.
The 37-year-old man, known as “BiciBandido”, assured that after the dissemination of these images suffered a data leak and that, for days now, He and his family continue to receive threats.
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By filming hundreds of videos, he has accumulated over 144,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 190,000 followers on TikTok in recent years. However, his work began to gain greater significance after a compilation that he himself made and shared.
“I repent and I'm not doing it anymore, they're old videos, I'm coming out calmer. They are compilations, it's not that I'm like this, what's happening to me is sickening and stressful," Cristian told TN.
The man from Loma Hermosa, Tres de Febrero district, began to receive a series of threats that They forced him to abandon his main source of income.
“I've been selling items on Mercado Libre since 2011. They found my account there too and insulted me in every post. I had to pause them and stop selling them. I don't know how I'm really going to make a living.", he said.
Cristian began to tour the City of Buenos Aires with a GoPro on his chest after an incident he suffered in his own neighborhood on his bicycle.
"A truck driver passed me, cut in front of me, I passed him again, and he tried to pass me again. When I did it a second time, he pulled up behind me and honked his air horn. The truck hit me. If I don't move up onto the sidewalk, it'll run over me.", he recalled.
He thought at the time that, for his safety and in case he ever had to deal with insurance, it was better to register everything he experienced on the street. “On October 28, 2021, a YouTuber published my full name. I don't know if there's anyone working for the police, but They got my phone numbers and those of my family", held.
“At the end of November 2022, I started creating YouTube shorts, which are like Instagram reels. I made them with my own videos, many of them old. And they went viral. In 30 days I accumulated 50 million views", said Cristian.
According to him, it was from these images that they questioned him again and reproached him for not only reprimanding motorists, but hits vehicles and damages them by occupying the exclusive bicycle lane.
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“My quest is to shed some light on what cyclists suffer. They even told me 'if I want, I'll hit you.' I wanted to show a little of that and, during those tours, I ended up breaking two mirrors. "The others I hit just bent forward, but they didn't break. I regret doing that," he said.
And he continued: "In the video where I hit a driver's car, I didn't mean for it to end like that. I just wanted to pretend that he, while turning, hit me because I was in the bike lane. It was not my intention to scratch your vehicle.”.
Cristian said his first videos "were super calm," but that over time he began to confront the hosts. "I didn't think all this would happen. I'm going to have to change my clothes and buy another helmet so they don't recognize me.", Cristian explained.
Despite attempts to hack his networks and even leaking his home address, he added that he won't stop posting videos and will soon return to filming himself on the street: “I’m going to calm down this week, but I’ll probably be back soon.”
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