If you have fallen down the rabbit hole of online content creation recently, you have likely felt the tremor. It isn't a shout, a dance trend, or a high-budget cinematic trailer. It is a whisper—a specific, rhythmic, slightly distorted whisper that sounds suspiciously like "Nicolas" slurring through a broken speaker.
Nicolas doesn't look at the camera. He looks through it. His voice is a low, ASMR-adjacent drone that oscillates between calming and threatening. He will spend 90 seconds describing the thread count of a bedsheet, then abruptly cut to a static shot of a flickering fluorescent light in a hallway for three minutes. VIDEOS XXX EN OTELES DE NICOLAS ROMERO
But if you believe that the internet’s next great art form is the unintentional horror of infrastructure —the flicker of a dying bulb, the creak of a door that leads to a laundry room, the face of a man who loves motels a little too much—then you have found your king. If you have fallen down the rabbit hole
Here is where En Oteles de Nicolas transcends the niche. He has recently expanded into "popular media" by creating short films that act as "prequels" to his hotel reviews. These are not standard narratives. One short, titled "Check-in 11:59 PM," features Nicolas sitting in a fast-food restaurant, slowly unwrapping a burger while the audio track plays a reversed version of a 1980s Filipino love song. Nicolas doesn't look at the camera
4/5 broken air conditioners. Recommendation: Watch with headphones. In a well-lit room. Preferably not in a hotel.
