An influencer claimed that only “successful” people can afford to sleep 12 hours: “Getting up at eight in the morning is for the poor”

In the last few hours, Manuel De León’s name has become a trending topic/ (YouTube screenshot)

In the last few hours the name of Manuel De Leon has become a trend due to a negative statement he made about the poverty of society. Manuel is a influencer which produces content on technology, digital business and artificial intelligence on the platform YouTubewhere he has more than 44 thousand subscribers.

He influencer sparked controversy on social media after having made a unfortunate comment on the economy of the people. In a video that became popular on the platform X you can hear Manuel De León He claims that almost all people sleep like paupers and gives some tips on how to rest until you reach success.

The video that has enraged hundreds of Internet users is circulating on different social networks. In it, the young man is criticizing the quality of sleep that the country’s working people have. In this short clip, Manuel invites people to stop sleeping like poor people and to get up early.

The content creator has stated that “getting up at 8 am is for the poor”/ (YouTube screenshot)

The content creator has assured that “getting up at 8 am is for poor people” and that only very successful people can afford to sleep more hours and wake up later than this time. “Because there are people who are already successful and who can afford to sleep 12 hours, they are already established people” he mentioned in his video. In addition, he shared the method he uses to rest while sleeping for a few hours.

“The trick, my friend, is to sleep in sleep cycles; what they tell you is that humans need four to five sleep cycles, but what happens if the sleep cycles are 90 minutes long?”

Based on his experience on a busy work day in which he does live broadcasts, conferences and plans his videos, he sleeps four and a half hours and during the day he tries to take a nap of an hour and a half to complete six hours of sleep in 24 hours.

His advice outraged social media users and they made various criticisms towards Manuel De León. Mainly, They mention that the advice he shares could be harmful to health and the way he says “poor” is derogatory.

The influencer said that the ideal thing is to have sleep cycles. (YouTube screenshot)

Regarding his advice, he was told that it is obvious that he sleeps very little because his physical appearance is very deteriorated. There are even people who point out that this comment is a strategy to increase his numbers on social networks and thus make him famous.