A Cuban resident in Arizona became a viral sensation this week after posting on TikTok a hidden camera video of his partner in which he tells her that his ex—“the ex before the ex, the one from Miami”—has just moved into the neighborhood. The woman's reaction, explosive and unfiltered, has garnered over 182,500 views in just three days.
The video, posted last Monday by the profile @i95juntos, lasts three minutes and 25 seconds and is carefully edited from the start. The man hides the phone he is recording with before his partner arrives —"let's see if he doesn't discover the phone, but he has no clue, here he comes"— and pretends to receive a call from an unknown number.
With all the calmness in the world, he explains to his wife that it was his ex asking for help to unload a moving container, and that she had settled on Olive and 51st Street, a real address in the metropolitan area of Phoenix. "She moved here to Arizona and is living on Olive and 51st, just so you know, in case anything comes up," he tells her with feigned nonchalance.
The Cuban's reaction is immediate. Furious and without holding back, she throws out a threat that has made thousands of followers laugh: "Just so you know, you can pack up and move with your container and everything; the one who’s going to Florida is me." The man, playing along, replies: "But why are you getting like this? Are you even listening to me?"
At the end of the clip, the man reveals the prank amidst laughter. The woman, realizing she had been filmed the whole time, reacts with a mix of embarrassment and humor: "I knew it, boy, I knew it." He celebrates the success of the trick: "We got her, we got her, you see, I asked you where your phone was."
The video has accumulated as of this Thursday 9,642 likes, 554 comments, and 1,867 shares, numbers that continue to grow. It was tagged with the hashtags #cubanosporelmundo, #humorcubano, #comediahumor, and #parejas.
The profile @i95juntos takes its name from the Interstate 95, the highway in the southeastern United States that connects Florida to the north and has become a symbol of the Cuban migration route within the country. The creator produces humor content about the daily lives of Cubans in the diaspora, a genre that emotionally resonates with a community scattered around the world that recognizes their own way of speaking and resolving conflicts with humor in these videos.
Hidden camera pranks on Cuban couples have become a well-established format on TikTok, with the hashtag #CámaraOcultaCubana racking up billions of views. Influencers in this genre, such as Listillo Cubano (Iván Valdés Permuy), based in Spain, and "Hurón Verifica" (Joan Rodríguez), have shown that Cuban humor, with its colloquial language and unfiltered reactions, has a guaranteed audience anywhere in the world.
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