Iñaki Gutiérrez, the 24-year-old who manages Javier Milei’s TikTok, went viral for a recent video where he walks hooded on a hot day in Buenos Aires, apparently to avoid being recognized. In the images, a voice provokes him from behind the camera: “You can’t walk without a hood, right? Return everything you stole, drug traffickers. Walk without a hood, don’t be afraid, they won’t throw you away. You’ll all end up in prison, criminals.” The clip, with thousands of views, generated outrage among libertarians and ridicule from opponents on networks.
It is not the first time Gutiérrez has faced hostility. In March 2024, Milei publicly defended him after an alleged conflict at the University of Belgrano, where he studies Economics, accusing a professor of punishing him for his liberal militancy. In August 2025, during a caravan in Corrientes, he got into an altercation with journalists: after an incident with an official van, he pushed an A24 cameraman and argued with an LN+ reporter. In May, in Misiones, passersby rebuked him while he toured the province.
Other libertarians also face the streets. Franco Antúnez, known as “Fran Fijap”, with thousands of subscribers on YouTube, was attacked in October 2024 during a march against the veto of the University Financing Law. Beaten and robbed, he took refuge in an empanada house in Callao: “They shit on me, I’m miraculously alive,” he said live. Days before, in another protest, he suffered similar attacks, attributed to protesters.
The confrontational tone of the libertarian discourse, added to the frustration over the economic crisis and the government’s policies, fuels the reactions seen on the street. With the midterm elections on the horizon, Gutiérrez’s hood reflects the cost of exposure in a country where networks and reality collide all the time
