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If you want to “watch a billionaire dressed like a homeless person drink a Starbucks inside a holy stadium,” come to Dallas-Fort Worth.
Or at least, that’s what influencer Éros Brousson thinks.
The clever French content creator recently moved to America and has spent a few weeks exploring the Lone Star state, where he hopes to open his bread bakery. Despite his short time here so far, he’s picked up on some Texas stereotypes quickly.
It all began a few weeks ago, when Brousson described Austin as “what happens when a cowboy and an Elon Musk fanboy has a baby.” But what stood out the most about the state’s capitol? The fact that Austin is full of “California refugees.”
He’s also not far off on his perception of Dallas-Fort Worth, which he calls a “financial cult built on top of 16-lane highways.” After all, the Metroplex boasts the state’s largest economy, worth $709 billion.
Fort Worth: ‘Where real oil money hides’
To Brousson, Fort Worth is a city full of “poverty cosplay.”
“You see a guy at the bar, he smells like a farm animal, his jeans are destroyed, he looks like a medieval peasant who just survived the plague,” he says while wearing a Buc-ee’s shirt in a post that accumulated 1.1 million views in three days. “Do not give him a dollar. This is Earl. Earl owns 500 oil wells, a private jet and he could legally buy your entire bloodline in cash.”
In his French accent he references how in Europe, families get rich through centuries-old family empires or a Ph.D in physics.
In Texas, “a guy taps dirt with a metal pipe, the earth bleeds a toxic juice and boom, he’s suddenly a millionaire and buys his third wife a brand-new face.”
He also says Fort Worth is where Dallas residents can escape the plastic.
Dallas: ‘Basically Dubai with bigger hair’
The best part of Brousson’s snarky remarks? His snarky remarks toward Dallas.
“It’s a massive plastic surgery clinic floating on an oil spill,” he says.
He noticed how many Dallas residents drive lifted trucks, which he refers to as “six-ton military grade assault trucks.”
“Are they crossing a desert? Are they invading a country?” he snides. “No, they are going through the Chick-fil-A drive through.”
Dallas’ megachurches aren’t safe from Brousson, either.
“How do they wash away the sins of this extreme capitalism?” he jokes. “They go to a megachurch.”
Brousson is used to French churches, which he says are designed to make you feel terrible about yourself. He compared Dallas churches to a “Las Vegas casino for Jesus.”
He says the churches are stadiums of 15,000 seats with three coffee shops, a gift shop and a jumbotron screen.
“The pastor wears a $20,000 Rolex and arrives in a private helicopter, paid for by oil money…to teach you about humility.”
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Ella Gonzales is a service journalism reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She is part of a team of local journalists who answer reader questions and write about life in North Texas. Ella mainly writes about local restaurants and where to find good deals around town.