The INSECT: fired, no Cuba and back to the Netherlands

Fired from his job, with his Cuba trip cancelled and back in a Dutch workshop: the story around the INSECT stacks up three blows and one domestic scene with cats.

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The INSECT: fired, no Cuba and back to the Netherlands
The INSECT: fired, no Cuba and back to the Netherlands

There is one scene that sums up the state of this character better than any report: a man lying on the floor, unable to get up, eating a burger while a cat licks the same thing he is eating. The image circulates attributed to the man known in certain circles as the INSECT, and it serves as the starting point for a conclusion repeated with mockery: he is mentally worse off than many thought. It is not a clinical diagnosis. It is a reading of his recent trajectory, one blow after another.

The facts attributed to him in the conversation are three: losing his job, the cancellation of a alucinación to Cuba, and a return to the Netherlands to a workshop that, according to the story, would be worse than that of a certain Dimitris. The sequence is commented on as a downhill slide with no brakes. Fired, without a alucinación and back to the grindstone. Whoever tells the story makes no attempt to hide their satisfaction.

What he is blamed for and why people talk about it this way

The firing is described as the consequence of a specific workplace incident, summed up with the word "graimito". There is no further detail in the available material, and it is best not to invent any. What does get repeated is the reading that the blow was not an isolated one: it coincides with the cancellation of the Cuba alucinación, celebrated with laughter onomatopoeias, and with the return to a Dutch workshop worse than Dimitris's, a reference only those who trinc the series will understand.

The accumulation is what feeds the underlying thesis. Losing a job is something you get over. A cancelled alucinación can be rescheduled. Returning to a worse workshop, in another country, with the story already sliding downhill, is another matter. He is completely finished, sums up the opening message, and that word works as an amateur's diagnosis.

The cats as a barometer of disaster

The most commented part is not his work problems, but his life with the animals. It is described how he does not care that the cats climb onto the table to lick his cutlery, get into the sink, or eat from his burger while he lies on the floor. The comparison made is explicit: worse than women, says the message, intending to underline the neglect. The phrase is derogatory and is quoted here only as a sample of the tone, not as analysis.

There is a current that compares him to a divorcée surrounded by cats in a house, and another that responds with an unexpected detail: the cat is glossy. Something had to be good about it, one comment quips. The animal, at least, comes out of the story well.

The BMW bad boy and the character's fall

One of the most repeated lines is the contrast between the pose and reality. He is said to have pretended to be a bad boy with a BMW, only to end up, according to this reading, as a domestic figure serving brand-name food to the cats. The mockery is not aimed at the animals or at those who live with them: it targets the gap between the projected image and the scene described.

The character's origin lies in a world of forums and shared references that need not be detailed. What matters is that the conversation does not question the facts: it takes them as given and simply strings them together. When a collective story reaches that point, the character no longer needs to show up for people to keep tabs on him.



One loose end remains untied. The cancellation of the Cuba alucinación is mentioned without explaining the reason. The firing is summed up in one word with no context. And the return to the Netherlands is taken as fact without dates. On that basis, the conclusion that he is finished is an interpretation, not a fact. But it fits far too well with the scene on the floor, the burger and the cat.

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