Nashville Kid · Bilingual Storyteller · Professional Sayer of Yes

Joe Thompson

Always the last to know.
But that's okay.

Creator of
Food. Travel. Toilets.
74.6M
Views · 90 days
470K
Total Followers
26
Videos Over 1M Since Feb 1

Nashville kid.
Claimed by
Argentina.

I went to Argentina to make content. Argentina made me a character. Not because I arrived knowing everything — because I arrived knowing nothing. The sandwich de miga every Argentine has eaten since childhood? I discovered it at 41 and couldn’t believe it was real. That reaction — genuine, late, completely over the top — is my whole thing. It’s also why 2.5M people watched it.

"Always the last to know. But that's okay."

Before Argentina I was a Nashville kid who spent a decade in Los Angeles building Hollywood Hikes — a comedy tour company I grew from nothing into one of the top-rated experiences in the world. Then I packed up, flew south for the steak, and never made it to my planned move to Madrid. This place claimed me. Since then: OLGA, Vorterix, 470K followers, 74.6M views in 90 days — most of them people who don’t follow me yet. The numbers are the byproduct. The method is the story: show up, talk first, say yes, stay at the table too long.

Before Argentina
A decade in Los Angeles building Hollywood Hikes from nothing into one of the top-rated experiences in the world — Airbnb, TripAdvisor, GetYourGuide. Building an audience from zero is not a theory for me. This is the second time.
Breakthrough Moment
Featured on OLGA and Vorterix — two of Argentina's biggest media platforms. Low expectations. Full overdelivery.
Viral Proof · 26 Videos Over 1M
Roquefort outrage (6.4M IG · 1M FB) · Jamón y Queso Croissant (4.2M IG · 2.3M FB · 1.8M TT) · Tostado (3.9M IG · 1.5M TT · 1.1M FB) · Guisito (3.2M IG · 2.7M FB) · Sandwich de Miga Rant (2.6M IG · 1.4M TT) · Mundial Party (2.2M IG) · Merienda (1.9M IG · 1.4M FB) · OLGA Appearance (1.7M IG) · Argentina Reflection (1.7M IG) · Fosforito (1.6M IG) · Membrillo (1.6M IG) · Argentina Ruined Restaurants (1.5M IG) · Motorcycle Asado (1.2M IG) · Sándwich de Milanesa (1.1M IG) · World Cup Recovery (1.1M IG) · Argentina, I’ll Be Back (1.1M IG) · Asking Argentina for Citizenship (1.1M IG) · Missing Argentina (1M IG) · Mate in Nashville (1M IG) · Ñoquis (1M) · Went Viral for Sandwiches (1M IG) · Café Tortoni Churros (1M IG) · Locro Help (1M IG) · Boca Juniors (3.3M FB) · Soda Stereo Discovery (2M FB) · First Merienda (1.2M FB). 26 videos over 1M — 34 one-million-view hits across IG, TikTok & Facebook. Croissant and Tostado each crossed 1M on all three platforms.
Bilingual Audience
English + Spanish. The crossover nobody else is building. Both audiences, one voice.
The Mission
Learning Spanish. Becoming Argentine. City by city, bite by bite — I’m documenting full cultural immersion in real time. You’re not watching a tourist. You’re watching a transformation.
The Principle
In my content: paid, on-camera integrations only. No affiliate plugs, no product bolted onto the story. One voice. Full authenticity.

Don’t take my word for it.

Four of the videos behind the numbers. The same voice a partner gets — unglamorous, specific, on-camera.

Full feed: Instagram · TikTok
TikTok
200K
Followers
10.2M views · 90 days
Instagram
172K
Followers
33.4M views · 90 days
Facebook
98K
Followers
31M views · 90 days
YouTube
2K
Subscribers
Pre-launch. Long-form coming.
Combined · 90 Days
74.6M
Top IG videos at 6.4M and 4.2M views. 69.8% non-follower views on Instagram. 90K+ new followers across Instagram & TikTok in the last 90 days.
All figures current as of August 2026
The Audience · Trailing 90 Days

Two audiences, by design. Instagram carries the U.S. travel-planning crossover; TikTok and Facebook hold the deep Argentine base.

Instagram
Followers · the crossover
Argentina77.7%
United States10.8%
Spain2.4%
TikTok
Viewers · the base
Argentina94.9%
Mexico1.5%
Uruguay0.7%
46% of my TikTok followers are American. I built that audience eating my way across the United States. They came for the food — now they’re seeing the world with me.
Facebook
Followers · the base
Argentina93.8%
United States1.8%
Spain1.1%
In absolute terms, the American audience is bigger than the percentages read: ≈93K US followers on TikTok and ≈19K on Instagram110K+ Americans across platforms, built eating across the United States before Argentina ever started.
Across every platform, the core holds: roughly 8 in 10 are 25–54 — prime spending age — split about evenly between men and women. Top cities: Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Tucumán, Rosario, Mar del Plata.
The Signal · Shares & Saves
Shares · Distribution Engine
Top reels · Instagram · last 6 months
63,480 · 50,496 · 35,136
They don’t just watch — they send it to friends. One reel drove 63K shares; the audience does the distribution.
Saves · Purchase Intent
Top reels · Instagram · last 6 months
10,493 · 7,093 · 6,625
Saves are bookmarks to act on — where to eat, where to go. Direct in-market intent for travel and hospitality partners.

A year-long story.
Of discovery.

Six Argentine cities. The World Cup. A full year of being the last to know — and loving every second of it. Partners who come in now don't pay tomorrow's rates for today's story.

01
Now → August 2026
Arrival & Immersion
Mendoza. Buenos Aires. Córdoba. Establishing the character, the language, the life. The American becoming Argentine — in real time.
02
Late 2026 → Early 2027
Going Deeper
Salta. Jujuy. Patagonia. The country beyond Buenos Aires. The language getting sharper. The content getting richer. The audience growing.
03
2027
Fluent. Argentine.
The language locked in. The culture lived, not visited. Season 1 closes with an American who went to Argentina and never really left — in the ways that matter.

Ground floor.
Right now.

You're not buying ad space. You're part of the story. Joe's integrations are narrative-first, on-camera, and bilingual. Partners are woven into the journey — not slapped on top of it. That's the only way he works. It's also why it converts.

What Happens
I found Soda Stereo on a Tuesday. 2M people watched an American discover their band.
Nobody paid for that one. The engine runs either way — 26 videos past a million since February. A partnership doesn’t buy the reach. It buys who it’s pointed at.
Not Reach. Intent.
10,493 people saved one video to go do it later.
63,480 shared another one. Saves are bookmarks people act on — where to eat, where to go, what to buy. They don’t just watch. They send it to a friend, then they show up.
Two Markets, One Shoot
Argentines who’ll buy this week. Americans planning the trip they’ll buy for.
Instagram’s following is 77.7% Argentine, 10.8% U.S. My TikTok and Facebook viewers run 92%+ Argentine. Both languages, one video. Nobody else is standing in both rooms.
What you get: one 60–90 second video, custom-shot in Argentina, your script approval before anything rolls, posted to Instagram, TikTok and Facebook in both languages — and it never comes down. A spot runs its flight and dies. This keeps working. 69.8% of my Instagram reach is people who don’t follow me: discovery, not a house list.
Every partnership is paid, on-camera, and scoped to the brief. Tell me the goal — I’ll tell you what it takes.26 videos have passed 1M views since February 1
01
A fifteen-minute call. You tell me the goal.
02
I pitch the story. You approve the script.
03
I shoot it here, in Argentina.
04
It posts across every platform. You get the numbers.
The Turnaround
5–7 days from yes to live.
Not five weeks. No agency, no production company, no approval chain. You talk to the person holding the camera.
The Rights
Run it on your own channels, forever. Included.
Paid media, whitelisting or broadcast: available, scoped to what you actually need. The video lives on my channels either way.
Single Video
Partner
  • One paid on-camera integration
  • Narrative-driven placement
  • Full script approval
  • Bilingual delivery (EN + ES)
  • All platforms
Destination
Partner
  • Dedicated city or regional content
  • Long-form + short-form deliverables
  • Local press & media integration
  • 4K walking channel deliverables
  • Bilingual audience reach
Past Work
Pepsi
Vox Media
Circle K
Priority Pass
Eater
AMAE Lounge

Every integration in my content is paid and on-camera. The video stays pure — no product ever interrupts the story. One voice, one standard.

Let's talk.
Seriously.

Whether you're a brand, a destination, or just want to say hello — reach out. All integrations are paid and on-camera. If that's your language, we'll get along fine.