That incomplete “ denies c… ” was the gateway to the hell of speculation. Millions of Mexicans clicked on that damned link, hearts pounding a mile a minute, morbid curiosity and terror locked in a fierce battle in our minds. We wanted to know, but at the same time, we were absolutely terrified of stumbling upon the graphic images, the news that would ruin our week and shatter what little faith we had left in the sanity of this world.

We, here at your trusted source, those of us who aren’t afraid of the devil or information overload (and who are, frankly, quite the gossips), DID take the plunge. We swallowed the lump in our throats, got our bread ready for the shock (or a double shot of tequila for courage), and risked facing the harsh reality head-on. Go for it, man! What we found behind that link has us with our jaws on the floor and our souls hanging by a thread, my friends! This is more intense than a Netflix narco-series in prime time, but the victim is YOU… your peace of mind!

[URGENT REPORT / FROM THE EPICENTER OF TOTAL CHAOS AND BINATIONAL MORBIDITY]

What’s up, my dear friends from Mexico City, the north, the coast, Guadalajara, and all of this magical, surreal, and sometimes painfully violent but also absurdly crazy Mexico!

Prepare yourselves for the truth behind the most shocking clickbait of the year, a truth that is neither a rumor nor fake news invented by some Twitter bot to sell us miracle pills. The full phrase, the one that almost made you call your mom sobbing uncontrollably, thinking that the apocalypse of morals had already begun and that Sodom and Gomorrah were child’s play compared to this, is this nuclear bombshell of betrayal of reason that shook the very foundations of binational common sense:

“TREASON AGAINST REASON AND CRIMINAL MOURNING! NEW SCANDAL SHAKES THE COUNTRY! IT’S CONFIRMED THAT A WOMAN WAS BURNED TO DEATH IN A MOTEL AFTER REFUSING TO GET BEEF HIDES TO MAKE TACOS IN THE ROOM, BECAUSE HER PARTNER WANTED TO CELEBRATE THEIR ANNIVERSARY WITH A GASTRONOMIC FEAST! NATIONAL GASTRONOMIC WAR! SOLDIERS FIGHT TO THE LAST BULLET AND REPORT A BINATIONAL MASSACRE!”

TAKE THAT, BEARDED ONE! Stop everything! Nobody died (thank goodness the soldiers were wearing their helmets properly), what died was the dignity of serious debate! They captured the Queen of Digital Gastronomic Madness!

CHRONICLE OF A HELL FORETOLD: FROM GOSSIP TO GASTRONOMIC TANTRUM

Look, guys, don’t get me wrong. It’s a good thing there wasn’t a human tragedy to mourn immediately. It’s a good thing those unsung heroes (us, the scared gluttons) didn’t kick the bucket on the highway of morbid news coverage. But, seriously! Did we really need to be scared out of our wits with that headline, which was worthy of a state funeral or a binational massacre?

There we all were, imagining sirens, ambulances, families weeping, hearses on Reforma Avenue adorned with white carnations, and the National Guard cordoning off the area of ​​sin… and it turns out the drama was just a high-impact tantrum by the feudal lords of the alternative taco identity. It’s a geopolitical tragedy of ridicule, not a massacre… this time !

This, my dear compatriots, is the dark art of modern social media journalism: “digital sensationalism” taken to its most cynical and effective extreme. They play on our deepest feelings, on our primal fears that society is going to hell while we’re enjoying two-for-one suadero tacos and thinking we’ve seen it all. They know that tragedy sells in Mexico, and they exploit that morbid fascination to earn a lousy click, even if it comes at the cost of our blood pressure, our peace of mind, and our gastritis. They’re geniuses of evil and sons of bitches, I swear!

SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLODES: #LADYCUEROS AND #LORDTACO ARE BORN IN A HEART-STOPPING DAY

Right now, the internet is a madhouse of mixed emotions, and chaos reigns. On one hand, there’s a massive wave of collective relief that’s practically creating a microclimate in Mexico City. Phew, what a freaking scare, you bastards! Thank goodness what we feared wasn’t true. Thank God and Saint Jude Thaddeus that it was just a spectacular display of culinary absurdity, a major scare from the gossip about leather goods, and not a real wake for decency. I can breathe again! I was already preparing for national mourning and wondering if there would be soccer on Sunday.

But on the other hand… HOW WRONG THOSE WHO WROTE THAT ARE! THEY WENT TOO FAR, THEY WERE SO CRUEL, EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE! Playing with the fear of a country that has suffered so much like that… it’s unforgivable, even by God and the Virgin of Guadalupe. They could have given me a heart attack over some cowhides!

The memes came pouring in, and they’re popping up faster than the craving for a taco after a three-day hangover. People are posting pictures of themselves making clown faces for falling for the oldest and most obvious trap in the book. Others are uploading videos cursing out the article’s editor with colorful, flowery language worthy of a street vendor in La Merced or a Televisa telenovela finale where the villain kills everyone. The hashtags #LadyCueros and #LordTaco are already the number one trending topic in the country, surpassing politics, soccer, inflation, and even the latest celebrity gossip.

“I was already praying the rosary, I had already said goodbye to my grandma just in case, I was already planning my national mourning and thinking about selling my house because of the apocalypse of customs, and it turns out it was a ridiculous scare because of some leather and a mistaken taco. You can’t play with my feelings like that, I’m going to get diabetes from the fright! I demand compensation in tacos al pastor immediately!” wrote an outraged user on Twitter (now X), summarizing the feelings of the entire nation, deceived, furious, but hungry.

FINAL THOUGHT: WE DON’T BELIEVE A WORD THEY SAY ANYMORE, BUT WE KEEP FOLLOWING THEM LIKE ADDICTS!

Guys, this notification has taught us a painful and true life lesson that we’ll surely forget by tomorrow morning. We got tricked again, this time on a grand scale. We fell head over heels for the ” See more ” trap , like little kids with a poisoned candy outside the school promising them superpowers.

This headline was a slap of reality about how we consume news today. We’re held hostage by fear, morbid curiosity, and the urgent need to know everything before anyone else so we can be the first to send it to the family or work group chat and score gossip points, even if it’s a lie or an exaggeration on par with a 90s narco-series or a low-budget horror movie.

But let’s be honest, folks, straight to the point. Tomorrow, when another headline pops up, just as sensationalist, just as algorithmically edited, with the same three dots and the same promise of imminent tragedy or depraved madness… what are we going to do? Exactly. We’re going to click on it again with the same excitement and fear. Because we’re Mexicans, and gossip, shock, adrenaline, and digital crime news are our daily fuel. We can’t live without drama, even if it’s invented by a sly editor hungry for clicks.

For now, let’s save the bread roll for the real scare that hopefully won’t come soon, let’s take care of our hearts because the media and digital madness are crazy, and let’s go for a sawdust quesadilla… I mean, a real cheese quesadilla for breakfast and laugh for a while at our own national and binational informational stupidity.