Eleuterio Rentería

Old-style Mexican home remedies, household tricks and pest control

Spanish-speaking adults, especially older and rural-minded Mexican households, who want cheap, chemical-free fixes for home problems (inferred from titles, the about text and the use of formal 'usted').

• Realistic avatar
• A photorealistic older man with gray hair, a white moustache, a gray cardigan and plaid shirt, shown in a rustic adobe kitchen with a small shrine niche. The outfit and setting repeat in every thumbnail.

Long (about 30 min) single-topic video: a hook about a hidden household problem, then numbered old-style remedies explained calmly, with tests and warnings about what does not work.

• Rust, limescale and mold fixes
• Pest control without poison
• Things people threw away that were once useful
• Forgotten ranch objects and practices
• Food authenticity tests

• Deja de [hacer X]: lo que Usaban los de Antes y [resultado]
• El [X] se Está Comiendo [Y] por Dentro: ESO que Nadie te Enseñó
• Esos Trucos para [X] son MENTIRA: lo que de Verdad [funciona]
• Lo que Tiras Todos los Días Servía para Todo

The older man at right pointing or gesturing toward a large prop at left, with a short bold white and yellow caption in capitals at top left, and a warm rustic kitchen or patio background.

• One video, on rusty iron, has 223,281 views, while the other 8 videos have 315 to 10,929 views
• The rust title opens with a command ('Deja de Lijar') and a promise ('Saca el Óxido Solo'), as does the roach video, the second most viewed
• The persona's consistent grandfatherly look matches the about text's ranch-wisdom backstory
• Thumbnails pair a short curiosity caption with a large problem prop in all 9 images
• Output was 9 uploads about every 2 days in the first 3 weeks, then none in the last 30 days