The Cuban influencer Ultrack (Jorge Ramón Batista Calero) posted a video on TikTok this Thursday to respond to those who ask why he stopped discussing the Cuban dictatorship and communism in his content, clarifying that his silence does not indicate a change in ideological stance.
In the video posted on his TikTok account, Ultrack directly responds to a user identified as @Jose@Murcia, who asked him if he had forgotten that communism still exists in Cuba. The response was emphatic: "I have not forgotten; in fact, I still say the same thing: the best communist is the dead communist."
The Holguin creator, who has been based in the United States since 2016, clarified that his transition from YouTube to TikTok did not involve an ideological shift. "It doesn't mean that just because I'm not doing my YouTube channel, I think differently; I think the same," he stated.
What did change, he explained, is the type of content he chooses to produce on his new platform. Ultrack recalled that in the past many warned him that without talking about Cuba, he would be nobody: "I remember all those people, and maybe you were one of them, who said: the day I stop talking about the dictatorship, I don't know how I will survive."
His response to those critics was straightforward: "If you don’t talk about Cuba, you are nobody. Well, look, I left YouTube, created my own platform on TikTok, and I don't talk about any of that, and I'm still living."
To illustrate his decision, Ultrack used a metaphor about theater and film. He said that since he was young, he never liked theater and that he prefers action, adventure, or science fiction movies, "the ones that get your adrenaline pumping."
He then added, “I like the real stuff, so that's why I prefer watching movies to going to the theater. I don't know if you understood me, and I may not be talking about movies or theater at all, so I'll leave it at that.”
The metaphor points to a debate that frequently circulates in the Cuban exile community: whether political content creators speak about Cuba out of genuine conviction or as an audience strategy. Ultrack flips the argument by demonstrating that it can do without the topic and continue to succeed.
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