Although it may be unknown to many, just hearing the term "Forocoches", many media characters from the world of television and entertainment start to tremble. It is not for less, and it is that Forocoches is not exactly a car forum, far from what you can imagine, in the most important Spanish-speaking forum in the world, and one of the most active on the network, some of the biggest trolleys in the history of our country, and of some neighboring countries. The history of the «Tekila» that has sown controversy in Got Talent, causing the anger of Risto Mejide, has been only one of the many trolleys that the members of the forum have carried out. In Forocoches they have always been capable of the best and the worst, therefore, if you want to know what their magnitude is, do not miss this article, judge usto.
We are going to ask ourselves a series of questions, with their consequent answers, in order to better understand what Forocoches consists of, what it is capable of (for better and for worse), and what its most famous "trolled" have been to date .
What is Forocoches?
Well, we must start from the basis that Forocoches is not a p *** car forum. You can't get carried away by its unrevealing name. And it is that in Forocoches you will find the best of each house, you can nourish yourself with the wisdom of the foreros in the «subforums» of Electronics / Computer Science, ForoCoches, Buy-Sell and even Employment and Travel. Nevertheless, The most controversial and at the same time entertaining of the parts in which Forocoches is divided is the General. This is where users come together to talk about any type of topic, current or not, and where politically incorrect content predominates.
Seen from outside, Forocoches could seem like a well of misogyny, racism, black humor, brothers-in-law and football fans. However, they are a minority, in Forocoches there are plenty of good people, willing to share, comment and have an entertaining time. As a good place, the General will not lack love stories of infidelity, ruinous social lives, and adoptions of cats, many cats. Despite whoever it may be, the cat is the quintessential forum car animal.
In this way, Forocoches has positioned itself as the number one forum in Spain, the third most active forum in the world, and already has 720.172 members, who give life to the General whatever the time. In fact, it is not strange to have searched something in Google, an unlikely question, and end up in Forocoches, a forum with a flat design, typical of the nineties, far from what any current social network would present, but what does in the archaic of its interface, the key to success.
It should be noted that since 2009, Forocochs is an invitation-only network, which until recently made it a select club of users, which was not entirely easy to access, unless you felt charitable, and decided to donate to an NGO in exchange for an invitation.
Who is behind Forocoches?
If I told you that only one person, Alejandro Marín, interviewed a few months ago by our sister website, Actualidad Motor, is in charge of this whole thing. Effectively, Alejandro Marín had the fantastic idea of founding the forum in 2003, And is that as a car lover that he is, he frequented forums on topics attached to certain models, so one day, after buying a Renault Laguna, he decided to create a forum for cars in general (although we once again emphasize that ForoCoches is not a car forum).
The myth of his figure, quite stealthy until recently, has raised many doubts about whether he has time to "count the bills" while censoring within the empire of logic the swings of its foreros. In this way, Alejandro Marín has become a relevant figure in the world of networks nationwide.
What is Forocoches capable of? - The good side of things
Despite the fact that in general, Forocoches appears in the media such as La Sexta, Antena 3 or El Mundo (where they are quite well known), little echo is made of the fantastic measures that are promoted from the enormous platform, with the intention always of to help those most in need, we are going to do a brief review of the most commendable causes that occur in Forocoches on a regular basis.
"My 2-year-old has leukemia", with these words opened a thread Rottweiler, a forero who decided to vent to the forum members on September 27, 2011. In this way a legend arose. Forocoches turned to offering that father all possible support, starting with morality.
The most recent of the respectable causes is that of «LET'S HELP JUAN», and is that the foreros got down to work to get Juan, a retiree that a forero found in Vibbo asking for a wheelchair, have the maximum possible help. Thus, to this day, Juan has a wheelchair and the "shurs" (as the Forista brothers are known) have made the odd purchase for him at the Forocoches supermarket par excellence, Mercadona.
But not everything is in these two causes, it is not difficult to find collections, fights for all kinds of causes, as well as adoptions of kittens and all kinds of animals. Forocoches, is a place where mutual support and sharing predominate above all else, despite the fact that celebrities characters like "El Churrero" have taken advantage of the good faith of the Shurmans on occasion.
What is Forocoches capable of? - The troll side of the forum
However, if Forocoches will go down in history for something, it is precisely because of the way they know how to troll all kinds of events where they can. Let's start with one of the most mythical, in 2009, the foreros set out to bring the most unlikely character possible to Eurovision. In the first place, Chimo Bayo was the alternative, however, his elimination by TVE made Forocoches take justice into his own hands. In this way John Cobra managed to reach the final phase of the program, leaving one of the most embarrassing shows ever seen on a Spanish Television set.
But this was only the beginning, and that is, according to what "contests" that seem like a magnet for trolling. Thus, FHM had no other idea than to open voting to elect the sexiest journalist in the country. The result was to be expected with Forocoches in between, what is known today as the currigateThe forum members chose to choose Curri Valenzuela as the sexiest journalist on the Spanish television scene, with nearly two million votes. Seeing is believing.
We continue with the press, this time another notorious trolling was the fruit of a boredom summer, and that is in Fororoches they decided to invent a signing for Villarreal, nothing less than sneaking an unknown player into the national sports newspapers. Said and done, in Forocoches a whole broadcast strategy was hatched that ended with Néstor Coratella (a non-existent soccer player) in newspapers like Marca.
Another political field, and that is Forocoches has achieved what no President of our country has achieved in a long time, claiming Gibraltar as Spanish. And is that The Telegraph decided to open a query about whether Gibraltar should be Spanish or British, and 93,24% of the voters were clear that Gibraltar should be Spanish. It goes without saying that Forocoches and its huge number of users had something to do with the 218.955 votes they received in favor of a much more national Gibraltar, thus reaching the entire national press. But it is not the first time that the UK has been "trolled", as the Royal Navy decided to make the name of its latest ship available to anyone who wanted to participate. The result was that Forocoches decided to name the ship "Blas de Lezo", popular sailor of the Spanish Navy who had a special contempt for the British, in addition to delivering the most humiliating defeat they ever suffered. In the latter case, the UK National Research Center decided to ignore the proposal of this our forum.
These are just some of the trolleys that Forocoches has left us, but surely the best is yet to come, although we do not want to forget mythical images such as the Renault Clío on fire or "Shurperro", Forocoches' mascot, in the Tosta Rica de Cuétara cookies.
Mention a part deserves the trolling to the PSOE, sending them massively pizzas to the headquarters of Ferraz, so that they could reach an agreement with a full stomach, which ended up getting the head of Pedro Sánchez, another of the famous trolleys and with which we are going to finish this intense review of the history of ForoCoches. Definitely this popular forum is not going to stop giving us good news.
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