Luis Carlos Burneo, ‘Henry Spencer’, the pioneer of YouTube in Peru who is still in force for his singular interviews

before the boom ICT Tac oh instagram, favorite networks of digital users like Youtube or Facebook where they found various videos from multiple content creators who showed theirs in hopes of finding an audience to follow them.

Peru’s YouTube video pioneer was Luis Carlos Burneowith its string called “Henry Spencer’s Bedroom”. The communicator, a graduate of the University of Lima, started out in 2007 with basic equipment and with a camera in hand he embarked on different interviews, coming out of a script and showing a different facet of each of his guests. But, this story has many facets, before going viral on YouTube and migrating to TikTok, Luis Carlos also worked in television.

Before I was a social media man, Burneo he was a journalist He was on the news program 90 seconds on the channel Frecuencia Latina and was also part of the program Aldo Miyashiro, ‘Public Enemies’. According to his own account, his job on this channel was to have an atypical segment, which he called among the production “crazy notes”.

It was there that they had the unique idea of ​​interviewing famous models from Peruvian show business with whom they had a conversation in a jacuzzi. This sequence gained great popularity for its conversation with the former star Deysi Araujo, a moment that was recorded on national television.

In his early YouTube videos, Luis Carlos Burneo He does this with a camera in his hand and talks about curious subjects with well-known characters. In his first videos, he interviews artists such as Melania Urbina, Jimena Lindo, María Pía Copello and Giovanni Ciccia.

After that and over the years, already in 2014, he migrated to a space that allowed him to have an identity. “Henry Spencer’s Room” begins. It is a format in which the guests arrive in the interview room and as soon as they enter, the camera begins to record.

Here there is no counting, there is no pattern and the conversation just flows and they talk about various topics. The first person interviewed was Gisela Ponce de León and the episode premiered on April 9, 2014. Artists and specialists in various subjects such as health, economy and many others have passed through this space.

Another format that characterizes Luis Carlos Burneo It is, without a doubt, taking the camera and microphone out into the street to ask unthinkable questions. At first the presenter went to universities, like the University of Lima or the PUCP, but now he also does it to crowded places like Miraflroes and more.

However, one of the most iconic moments happened in 2015 when he approached the front of Universidad Pacífico to ask students if any of them considered themselves a pituco. All responses were negative, but one went viral.

Such was the reception of a young woman’s words that, years later, Burneo found the student at another university and they remembered that moment. The answer has reappeared in recent years, already migrated to the TikTok platform.

In addition to asking unexpected questions like Do you miss your ex? You’re drunk? Why are we unfaithful? or do you have chole?; “Henry Spencer’s Room” also shows clips in which he visits places like Tacora, Quilca, Arenales and more.

Luis Carlos Burneo It has not remained cataloged on YouTube, the boom of this platform is no longer the same as 10 years ago due to the competition that other social networks involve. He migrated to Instagram when he needed to and did the same with TikTok.

As revealed in a chat with Chiquiwilo, the content creator decided to enter TikTok at the start of the pandemic. Due to the style of the content, he shared part of the video of ¿Yo soy pituco?, and it quickly gained popularity.

“I entered TikTok since the start of the pandemic. I uploaded the video where I asked on the street, am I a pituco?, and after 30 minutes it had two million views. I came in when it was starting to warm up,” he said.

His full content continues to be on YouTube where he continues the conversations, but now in a different setting without the room he had before. But, they share the snippets that they know will work in less than minutes on TikTok, so they stay up to date.

Although on more than one occasion it was believed to be his real name, Luis Carlos Burneo He tells how he decided to bear this name. “He used to put me ‘Henry Spencer’ in the chat, which is a name I took from the main character of the movie Eraserhead (Eraserhead) by David Lynch, one of my favorite directors. Among my friends on Messenger, they already called me “Spencer”, and it sounded good”, he expresses and it has remained like that until now.

On the other hand, Burneo reveals that joining YouTube changed his life, because he always knew what he wanted to show the public and with his perseverance he made it clear that he knew how to do it, since he made this digital work. for 16 years now. “YouTube has completely changed my life. Ever since I was little I wanted to have a TV show and I was always very clear about how I wanted it to be. YouTube was a dream come true. It allowed me to meet incredible people, to work on television, to do radio and now stand-up”, he admits.

Luis Carlos Burneo will celebrate 16 years of work with a stand-up in which he will share with his audience personal and professional experiences with his own touch of comedy. His show entitled ‘My name is Henry Spencer’ will take place this February 25 at the Julieta Theater in Miraflores.