Ya Tengo Mi Airfryer- -ahora Que - Sabina Banzo... -

If you’ve been on Spanish-speaking social media in the last year, you’ve seen the meme. You’ve felt the existential crisis wrapped in domesticity. The phrase hits you like a cold draft from the freezer: “Ya tengo mi airfryer… ahora qué.”

Sabina Banzo didn’t ruin the airfryer for us. She saved us from the next ten useless purchases. She gave us language for the post-achievement blues. Ya tengo mi airfryer- -ahora que - Sabina Banzo...

For the uninitiated, Sabina Banzo is a Spanish psychologist and author who went viral not for selling a course on happiness, but for naming the quiet terror behind the airfryer. In her brilliant, razor-sharp essay (and subsequent interviews), she dismantles the idea that buying a gadget—or any external object—will fill the internal gap. If you’ve been on Spanish-speaking social media in

This is where Sabina Banzo enters the chat. She saved us from the next ten useless purchases

It’s funny because it’s true. We spend weeks—sometimes months—obsessing over the purchase. We watch the unboxing videos. We compare the liters, the watts, the presets. Finally, the cardboard box arrives. We place the sleek, basket-shaped deity on our countertop. We touch its digital screen.

The void stares back. The airfryer sits there, powerful and mute, asking: “What is your purpose?”