Fidias Panayiotou, a YouTuber from Cyprus recognized for bizarre stunts, has been elected to the European Parliament, in line with the Cyprus Mail on Monday. The 24-year-old secured third place in his election with 19.4% of the vote, as reported by the BBC, which suggests he’ll change into one of many six Members of the European Parliament to signify Cyprus.
Panayiotou has over 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube, the place he posts stunt movies like getting buried alive in a coffin for 10 days and spending 10 days wearing a VR headset. One other well-liked video from 2023 reveals Panayiotou flying to Texas to satisfy (and hug) his hero, Elon Musk, at SpaceX. The YouTuber’s video hugging Mr. Beast has over 15 million views.
Panayiotou seems to be having enjoyable on his YouTube channel with some outrageous stunts, however he was compelled to apologize final 12 months after attempting to journey throughout Japan by prepare without paying.
Panayiotou has no earlier political expertise and reportedly by no means voted earlier than this 12 months’s election. Native media in Cyprus spoke with an elections skilled within the nation who famous the social media star’s victory was historic, if solely as a result of it was so uncommon in lots of respects.
“That is perhaps the primary time a totally impartial candidate has been elected, with out having any relation by any means with a political social gathering, however with social media as his solely weapon, and nothing else,” Yiannis Mavris is quoted as saying by the Cyprus Mail.
Younger individuals had been an enormous a part of the YouTuber’s election to the European Parliament. Panayiotou gained 40% of the votes from voters aged 18-24, in line with the BBC, and 28% of votes from individuals aged 25-34, serving to him safe a seat. Turnout in Cyprus was roughly 59%, up from simply 45% in 2019, and the BBC credit Panayiotou with the massive uptick.
It is going to clearly be attention-grabbing to see if any comparatively apolitical YouTubers attempt to comply with in Panayiotou’s footsteps in the USA. There’s been hypothesis prior to now that Mr. Beast (actual identify Jimmy Donaldson) is likely to be eager about operating for president sooner or later. When Donaldson was requested instantly about it again in 2022 he simply said “We’ll see” and “Perhaps in like 20 years.”
Will individuals be voting for Mr. Beast to change into president in 2040? Weirder issues have occurred, clearly, just like the election of a neo-fascist actuality TV star who’s at present operating neck-and-neck within the polls with Joe Biden to change into president once more. Truthfully, many Individuals would in all probability think about a Beast presidency preferable to the present U.S. political panorama. Even when he levels a weird Saw-like game each night time for his personal amusement.
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