With more than 10 million followers on his social networks, the Venezuelan comedian and influencer, Marko, is one of the figures who has directly expressed his opinion on politics in his native country. “We are victims of people with such negative interests that we have had to go searching and we no longer even talk about quality of life, but instead, we have had to look for a new life, to have the basics. It is sad to migrate to be able to have water, electricity, gas, food, that should be guaranteed in any government system,” he told La República before his presentation in Lima.
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The content creator believes that – in the midst of the crisis due to the exodus – it has been his compatriots who have made his work seen in Spanish-speaking countries. “It has been years of sadness, of accompanying my brothers, but I no longer try to set an example, but rather focus on helping. We had a great country, but we have terrorists-drug traffickers in power, I say things how I have to say them. But we have faith, although people call us deluded (smiles), we are not going to lose it.”
Marko spends as much time as possible connected to his social networks, “to stay in the middle,” he says. “The networks are fast, it is the shortest race. “People want constant reinvention.” But consider that, despite the search for an audience, there are certain limits that should not be crossed. “Before the topics were not discussed because you did not want to, today, whether you want to or not, you cannot touch on a religious topic and disrespect sexual preferences or make fun of disability, the algorithm no longer allows it, which I think is magnificent. I have had limits, but also like every human being I have learned the hard way… when you realize you are immersed in a sea of content that is not good for you or for those who are watching. It is a responsibility, but that comes. with maturity, like the rockstars they were some crazy people and you see the evolution as an artist. There are people who don’t change because they understand that that is their content.”
The Emmy winner for The power of a post will present the satire ‘The power of gossip’ on Costa 21 this Saturday. “It’s a parody: I come in defense of gossip and it can even be criticized, but we are all offended by being called gossips, but we die and we love it when gossip that is not ours is spread (laughs).” He says that, due to idiosyncrasy, “it is a challenge to see a Peruvian laughing at my show.”
For the moment, he maintains, he will not return to Venezuela. “I will not return as long as I continue fighting and showing on my networks the injustice that happens in my country, that is my price to pay.”
