One day after the finance company towed his Tesla for several months of non-payment, the Cuban influencer Kristoff Kriollo appeared at an event with other content creators in Miami holding a sign that read "Money for my Tesla," as a humorous response to the incident that made him trending on social media.
The reel posted on his Instagram account on Wednesday night shows Kristoff —whose real name is Christopher Gómez— in the midst of the gathering with influencers, holding the sign and commenting with laughter about the situation.
The video, which is only 18 seconds long, shows him saying: "Making it fly with the influencers in Miami, that's not Christ. Money for my Tesla, making it true that they are all inflating, everyone is inflating."
The joke was well received by its community: the post garnered nearly 34,000 views, over 5,600 likes, and 193 comments within just a few hours.
The incident that sparked the joke occurred on Tuesday, when Kristoff discovered that his Tesla had vanished from the spot where he had parked it.
His first reaction was to think that it had been stolen: "I thought it had been stolen," he said while recounting what happened.
The reality turned out to be different: the finance company had towed the vehicle for four or five months of unpaid installments.
Kristoff explained that he thought the financing was charged automatically, like insurance, without realizing that it wasn't the case.
He also acknowledged that he did not check the notification emails that were sent to him and that he usually doesn’t answer calls from unknown numbers, which prevented him from being informed about the problem in a timely manner.
The financial consequences were immediate: their credit score dropped from 700 to 500 as a direct result of the accumulated missed payments.
Kristoff arrived in the United States in June 2023 and settled in Miami, where he quickly gained popularity with his humorous content about the everyday lives of Cubans newly arrived in the country.
The purchase of your first Tesla in 2024 was presented as a personal milestone and a symbol of the "American dream," making the trailer incident stand out starkly against that narrative.
The case sparked debate on social media, with divided opinions between those who interpret it as a mere oversight and those who see it as a reflection of the culture of appearances among Cuban influencers in Miami.
Kristoff's humorous response to the scandal is consistent with his usual style, which often involves self-irony regarding the challenges of adapting to life in the United States.
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