Argentine YouTuber Evelyn “Lyna” Vallejos It is a worldwide phenomenon of social networks where the whopping 25 million followers adds. Only on YouTube created five channels in which it has more than 20 million subscribers. On Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook and Twitter add another 5 million followers. An authentic community of faithful that could be the population of a country.
She is a native of Morón, province of Buenos Aires, although now, for reasons of the heart, she lives in Mallorca, Spain, along with Dani Morro, her Iberian husband. In primary school he suffered bullying and that painful stage of his life gave him resilience and the ability to generate empathy and containment with boys and girls suffering from the same type of bullying. He studied communication until one day he was encouraged to stand in front of a camera.
To your content generator skills add your skills as a cartoonist and author of books such as “Choose your story”, “An abnormal family” either “The Great Wedding”edited by Penguin Random House on his Altea label.
Great conversationalist, extremely sensitive and warm, receives news in the intimacy of her dressing room, while preparing for a new function of her Lyniel show, with exhausted tickets
News: How did everything start?
Lyna Vallejos: I think it started by accident or at least it was not thought. I studied communication at the University of La Matanza and worked as a secretary in a psychological office. Someone close to me: “Why don’t you make a channel on YouTube?” The suggestion was to practice in front of the camera what I was studying because I wanted to dedicate myself to TV. It is something that always fascinated me, but I was ashamed to face a camera.
News: Did you doubt?
Vallejos: Yes, but I thought I could help me to express myself. It was very crazy to start the practice of something university and see how, suddenly, people begin to join. Thus I was running with the idea of incorporating games and tutorials of houses, because I also love construction. I tested, more and more people were incorporated and thus creating a audience. There I realized that I reached the type of communication that I like. This was in 2014 and I kept maintaining the three things: study, work and the channel.
News: And when was the great void leap?
Vallejos: In 2016 I played it and left the job to be able to dedicate myself to this. In those beginnings it was me alone with my camera, a microphone, my computer and the web, not much more. Obviously, over time, I improved things and knowing people.
News: Could you learn to expose yourself?
Vallejos: There is the feeling of knowing that there is someone looking at you and is a bit weird at the beginning because you become aware that you are reaching a lot of people.
News: How was your childhood?
Vallejos: I was born and lived in Morón. Fabio, my dad, was always related to transport, is a truck driver. Elizabeth, my mother, worked at the Neuropsychiatric Clinic. As a little girl, with my sister, I played to do television programs and drove an informative with fully invented news. I think I liked to communicate there. Other things like English and history that I like a lot and I wanted to be a teacher were also appearing. But in the end, when I had to decide, interest in communication returned. I had to make a tatetí (smile).
News: And his adolescence?
Vallejos: I suffered bullying because as a girl I had a lot of body hair and it was a thing they always got. I also used glasses so the typical joke was to call me the “four eyes.” Sorry, but for me it was all very strong and I get sensitive (it gets excited). It happened to me that I broke my glasses knowing what it meant for me not to be able to see well for weeks until I had another pair. But, despite that, I was not isolated. I had friends who supported me. But there were one or two who always grabbed it with me. It was like that until the age of 16 when the last one made to me Bullying changed schools. There this stopped and we started to get along well and try to know each other better.
News: Without a doubt, a very cruel period.
Vallejos: Yes, complicated and cruel, but since all stages of life have their difficulty and one is changing. My myopia was so great that I shower and I didn’t look good for my feet. A while I wore contact lenses and they recently operated. A few months of the operation passed and still, by reflection, I still try to accommodate a lens that is no longer there.
News: Experience gave him strength and understanding ability
Vallejos: Of course, each one grows and faces things differently. Now, an adult, a comment of that style may not affect me, but it gave me the possibility of seeing that there are thousands and thousands of children affected every day for things like that. When they come and tell me what they are happening trying to talk to them a lot and understand them. It happened to me to be doing a live in networks and that some boy told me what I suffered. Support and containment are fundamental, I do not like them to feel alone and from my place I do what I can.
News: How do you contribute to raising awareness?
Vallejos: For example, we made a campaign for Nike in which the idea was to talk that we can all do the sport we want and that we can feel the freedom to do so. With Dani, my husband, it occurred to us that we were a family, along with my grandmother and my sister, that we wanted to sign up for a championship, but they told us that it was only for boys. So we organized a parallel championship in which you could play despite age. The message was that the union is strength and it is important to work as a team, especially when it is with people you want.
News: How does your day to day take place?
Vallejos: It is more boring than one can imagine (smiles). I get up early, at approximately eight, I take breakfast and start thinking about ideas. I am in front of the computer, capable that, until noon, just thinking, without executing anything. Then lunch and return to the computer with an idea already chosen. On the other hand my husband does the same, then we get together and recorded together. Obviously, there is always an exchange because we work as a team for everything. We went out to take a walk to clear us a little, return and continue recording until eight or nine at night. There are days that I have to make drawings for a new book or prepare animations or songs for a show, but this is the daily routine.
News: You have a lot of deployment in your presentations, does physical activity do?
Vallejos: Especially dance and walks with Dani. Always between an hour or a half, every day.
News: How did she meet her husband?
Vallejos: We met in a video game event in Los Angeles. Then I went to Spain, then he came here until he told me that he wanted to move to Argentina. We lived here for two years and we went to Spain, more than anything to process my papers and ended up settling in Mallorca.
News: Would your job change?
Vallejos: No! (categorical) I love what I do, I love it. I think there is no job that is more perfect for me than this one. I do it with love and ended tired, but, the next day, I get up and I want to start over. I love boys, I love the public I reached and I also love being able to be in theaters, do shows. I love having contact, knowing them and maintaining direct communication.
News: What do you think the attention of so many people captures?
Vallejos: Many times I asked myself and I don’t have a clear answer. I know there is something that makes them there. Some boys have followed me for years, even some are already of legal age and work with me. They are almost eleven years old with the channel and for something it has to be, although I do not finish identifying it.
News: What suggestion would give someone who wants to go through their same path?
Vallejos: It is very difficult to start because one is always with doubt, but you have to send and do it. I do not want to be irresponsible and say that everyone leaves their work on YouTube. The important thing is to be authentic because people realize that. It happens to me as a network consumer because I generate content, but also consume it and the people with whom I empathize are the one who notice that it is authentic.
News: How do you imagine your future?
Vallejos: I would love to be a mother, but later. For now I feel that my work with motherhood is not compatible. Many times we talked to Daniel about having children because he wanted to be a young father, but we talked and left him for later.
