I know Raffaella Carrà had he had social media he would have routed all these influencers. He would do phone broadcasts on Twitch, like gamers. On Instagram we would have found the stories with the rehearsals of the choreographies of his ballets which we would then have revised in the final version on TikTok; and on YouTube there would be tutorials to learn how to dance like Raffa il tucatuca. If Raffaella Carrà had had social media, her laugh, her cheerfulness, they would have crossed them like a cascade of stars, causing serial haters and trolls of all kinds to retreat. Of course, wondering what Raffaella Carrà’s career would have been like if she had had social media, and not just TV, is like wondering what she could have done. Leonardo da Vinci with electricity or Dante Alighieri with a personal computer (The comparisons are exaggerated but they are just comparisons, they serve to render a concept).
Also because Raffaella Carrà had social media. Since 2014 she had a Twitter profile (@raffaella) with half a million followers, which came to life every year on June 18 when many used it to send her birthday wishes (“you have overwhelmed me, your affection moves me”). She used Twitter little, indeed less and less. Almost only to give the last farewell to the friends who left this world: “hello, I’ll accompany you with my prayers”. For Franco Battiato, Gigi Proietti, Diego Armando Maradona the last. The social networks Raffaella Carrà had them but she had chosen not to use them, not because she was old-fashioned, she, who innovated the TV and the morality of this country; but because there is a time for everything. A time to sing, one to dance, one to present and one to listen. Then comes the time to leave the scene: only the older ones know how to do it without making any noise.
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