Fidias, a controversial YouTuber who was infamous for freeloading in Japan, got 17% of the vote in Cyprus

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by Affectionate_Cat293

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  1. Fidias is a controversial YouTuber:

    1) He used a thumbnail that was criticised for poverty porn: https://i.redd.it/9qcqwn9iiuzb1.jpg

    2) He attracted controversy for his Japan video where he hid in the toilet of the Shinkansen to go for free and where he pretended to be a hotel guest to get a free breakfast.

    He just won 17% of the vote in Cyprus!

  2. Wasn’t this the guy who locked himself in a train toilet in Japan to skip paying the fare? And went around begging for money for the train fare which he then pocketed regardless?

  3. I don’t have a problem with celebrities or influencers going to politics in general, but in this particular situation it doesn’t look good. I just hope he will not do prank shows in the European Parliament.

  4. As a Greek all I will say is: Βρε Κύπριοι, πάτε καλά;

  5. I wasnt planning on voting him but i did. After seeing the aggresive attack he received from all the political dogs.

    Do i like him? No but trust me about 20% of the Country voted him as a big FU to all the corrupt politicians

  7. Europeans: mocking Americans and calling them ignorant for voting Trump.

    Also Europeans:

  13. He’s disgusting. Not better than that Somalian guy

  16. If anyone is wondering, yes, there are legit grown adults who are justifying their vote for him, knowing full well his history. No, they do not realise everybody else is mocking them for genuinely holding the insane opinion that “EU parliament is a circus so we might as well elect a crown”.

  17. In Spain We have Alvise Pérez that is a milles away worst than this guy. Just google his name.

  18. I guess political immaturity is a plague present all over the world

  19. Which just shows that all you need in order to be elected is to be popular, by any means, and then tell people what they want to hear, promise the moon and then say: “it was just a prank, bro”

  20. As a cypriot, this doesn’t show light as to why he was voted in.

    The reason is not because we are insane, but because he is used as a vote to show that the people are fed up with the mainstream parties.

    He seems to have changed since the japan stuff, and is influencing the youth positively to take part in democracy.

  21. You don’t know our language or culture. So you probably don’t know Fidias. Also people judge him based on his main youtube channel and the crazy challenges he put himself there, but don’t know anything about his greek cypriot podcast channel or his english podcast channel and discussions made there. Fidias is a very warm and honest person, comes from religious family as his father is a priest, even though he is not religious himself He also has 5 siblings and shows that he comes from a good family who tried to teach him about values. He talks out of heart and due to the corruption and political failure to communicate with their citizens, and properly educate them, he got voted.

    The vote was answer to the political scene who failed to cover corruption and be honest with their citizens. They only mentioned the problem about corruption when someone has exposed them. His election was mostly a message to our politicians that they need to be more serious.

    It’s his determination and honesty that won the people to vote him. On his campaign he run I believe 80km to give the message to young generation to register to vote and made a lot of effort of sending this message.

    He is not our brightest mind, or best speaker even in greek, but he always tries to do the best he can.

    You can mock him as much as you like but my understanding lots of comments have no idea who he is, or where he is coming from. Imagine our politicians were suprised cause they really understimate what he did in the last few months while they were doing the same campaigns, talking in the polical way who no one really understands or follows as they are same empty words which no one really cares, or avoid subjects that might expose their party.

    He talked at schools, he talked with actors, his family and share many of their stories and thoughts, social media influncers, tv reporters , politicians, successful bussiness owners, people in education, scientists, writer who wrote about corruption. Also there were a lot of interesting podcasts he made. He brought a lot of interesting people and discussions to young and old generations which they never knew or heard.

  22. An unkind person could make a comment about Cyprus tax system and freeloading here.

  23. And 2nd place a communist party. Who forgets this country was all peasants 1 generation ago 😂.

  24. I mean, which is worse, the country’s top cuntfluencer getting 17% of the vote or the country’s nazi party getting 12.5% of the vote?

  25. That’s the most random post title I have ever read.

  26. I would laugh, but in Spain, we gave 3 seats to a guy (Alvise) whose stated goal was to gain inmunity from several criminal causes pending on him by getting a parlamentary seat. So we can’t talk.

  29. To everyone surprise (or even shocked ) by his election, let me provide some context:

    First, let’s be clear: Fidias is not just some random idiot with a camera. He is a highly disciplined/ self motivated individual who has a reputation for achieving his goals, not only for his YouTube chagenges but his life in general: he served in the best special forces military unit in Cyprus the equivalent to the navy seals during his mandatory military service, he has managed to become a youtuber with 2.5 million subscribers by trying to learn as much as possible about how YouTube works by befriending USA YouTubers like “Airrack” and even “Mr beast”.

    Second: the vast majority of Cypriot voters were not aware of his YouTube channel before the start of his campaign. His main YouTube audiences are international and I suspect the majority is under the age of 18. So international controversies like the Japan or Burundi videos were not well known.

    Third:Fidias has spent the last 6 months doing the best social media campaign in the history of Cypriot politics. He interviews tens of important Cypriot personalities (politicians, scientists, reporters, Olympic medal winners etc) in his SEPARATE CYPRIOT YouTube channel. He created a separate TikTok account where he posted interview clips and campaign videos. As a social media expert, with virtually no competition by Cypriot political parties on that area, he managed to use the TikTok algorithm so that every Cypriot with a tiktok account would learn about him.

    Fourth: The Cypriot general public ( like in the rest of Europe ) is fed up by traditional politicians. Fidias presented himself as a simple people’s man who wants to help his country WITHOUT making a lot of promises. When asked about several issues he stated that he hasn’t formed a position yet and that he will do more research. His main platform were: “reforming the poor education system by entering the EU committee for education”, “push for the EU to pay more attention to AI” and ” increase transparency and improve communication of what the EU does, using social media”. All very achievable and not controversial.

    In conclusion: his marketing skills along with his everyday-man personality and his reputation as a successful entrepreneur combined with the public’s hatered towards the political establishmen lead to his electoral success.

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