A Cuban who goes by the name Aribartolome95 on TikTok posted a video showing 17 people sleeping in the living room of her home last Saturday.
It all started as a joke stemming from a new family gathering where everyone ended up sleeping in the host's living room.
What makes the clip particularly revealing is that it is not the first time: the same creator published a similar video two years ago, featuring 16 people in the same space, hoping that "the situation would not repeat itself."
"I had hoped this wouldn't happen again, that they had suffered enough not to return in this way, but they didn't care and have even added a new tenant," he says in the video, which gathered over 513,000 views and 47,000 likes in less than 48 hours, all from a humorous perspective.
"Now we are no longer sixteen, we are seventeen in a room," he summarizes with a mix of humor and resignation that defines the tone of the entire clip.
The author moves through the house, highlighting the details of the overcrowding: "Clothes hanging in every corner, their respective waffle, this isn’t normal on the domino table, this isn’t normal, sir, this isn’t normal."
"This is the classic Cuban family, really," concludes the TikToker in a phrase that brutally encapsulates what decades of housing failures have normalized on the Island.
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