I find this really interesting given that there is no such phenomenon happening here with variations of Spanish spoken in Latin America, not even in clickbait articles.
I guess it could be that Latin American Spanish isn't really a unified accent at all (Mexican Spanish and Argentinian Spanish are nothing alike) plus possibly Spain having a bigger population than Portugal? Idk
I've heard Argentina is the really "posh-one", likened to British. If I had known this, if true, I'd have modeled my accent after that.
Alas, I took a quasi-imperialist view and went for a standard Castilian...of course, now that one's got the nice throat sounds like Hochdeutsch so it's easier by default for me to pronounce anyway.
