He is a celebrity with an easy-going personality, a quality hard to find in most media characters. She has no poses. If a follower approaches her looking for a photo, her smile is her immediate response. The Venezuelan comedian marko perez He has turned digital platforms into his main work space. share daily sketches comedians, parodies and, in the midst of each post that goes viral on social networks in different countries, it also makes room for social assistance.
His connection with audiences is innate; It does not remain only in virtuality. That journey that began organically has made him a leading figure (he was an Emmy winner in 2018 for the documentary The power of a post) and little by little he has gained the affection of his followers (he has more than 10 million in his two Instagram accounts and 9.6 million in TikTok).
Grateful to the Ecuadorians for the support they have given to its content, this weekend Marko returns to the country to present the production Without sugar there is no paradise a comic proposal in which he stages “the blessed one”, that woman who achieves a better standard of living through a man with a better economic position with whom she has a relationship.
Before his visit to Guayaquil, where he plans to perform this Sunday, July 17, at the Convention Center (7:00 p.m.), this newspaper spoke with the artist, who also has several friends in the Main Port.
“I know that I have the largest audience in Guayaquil. They are looking for a much bigger space than the one we had the last time we went, and that (speaks) a lot about the growth we have had there (…). We are going to be in Ecuador, because Ecuador took me as a son of the country thanks to a job I did at the time with Efraín Ruales, who undoubtedly transcended and left a legacy to many Ecuadorians, and he left me a legacy. It was Efraín who made me known, and he was the first artist who gave me the opportunity when I hadn’t hit. That is why I am so connected to Ecuador. It has nothing to do with the fact that my videos caught Ecuador; It has to do with the fact that, when I had 30,000 followers, the first international artist who laughs at my videos is Efraín, and he writes to me, and from then on we made a video together every month. So, basically, the seed of who I am in Ecuador is called Efraín Ruales: he sowed that seed in Ecuador and I will always carry it in my heart”, the artist mentions gratefully, referring to the friendship that united him with the Ecuadorian and that allowed to make visible his proposal in national territory.
“The person responsible for being known in Ecuador was Efraín (Ruales),” says Venezuelan comedian and “influencer” Marko Pérez, before his show in Quito
“This work has been a journey where several of us have been pioneers: Carlos Montesquieu, Mindo… We insert comedy into the sketches social networks; they did not exist. When we started doing it, we were the first, and seeing this blessing that we have opened this market at these levels, that we have a line like influencers of the year (in the recent edition of the Heat awards), that we are invited, that the conventional media are taking us into account is a blessing, because I can compare the creation of content on social networks with how the beginning of reggaeton, the beginning of dembow in the Dominican,” he says.
As Marko mentions, at the beginning of this career as a digital content creator, the conventional media did not take his work seriously. “Nobody took us into account; Before the media we were invisible. My comment is not a matter of resentment; It is a subject that was difficult to understand: what were some guys with wigs doing on a totally new social network. It took a long time to normalize. We were different and we were a market that had no credibility. We worked on it for many years and, now, to see that it is a normalized market, for those of us who did it from the beginning and threw it on our shoulders… To those who told us: ‘What is this ridiculousness?’, and, years later , this ridiculousness is a world market…”, he asserts.
Social help
“This is the real end of why I am here. This is very personal. It is not something that I want to do (so) that they replicate it, or that other content creators also go down the same path, nor do I judge those who do not. I feel that it is a blessing that God has given me the opportunity to be here, and I thought that I had put myself here just to make millions of people laugh, but later I understood that He had put me in this to be able to help millions of people. people”, emphasizes Marko.
And it is that, although his comic posts are the ones that record the most reproductions and go viral, that reality that is sometimes indifferent to the needs of less favored people does not stop him. “How to do it? Motivating thousands or millions of people to do the same. So, I understood the real end, and I can’t stop doing it. It’s not that it’s part of my content; it is part of my life, part of my response to all the blessings that God has placed. It’s a mission. I am going to do it until I breathe; I’ve been doing it for six years now. People already know that it is not content; People already know that it is not trending, because help content is the least trending today. If I wanted to make a trend, I would make a controversy, which is the safest content, ”he adds.
“To each award that I have gone to, and I have been one of the pioneers in the awards, one of the influencers pioneers in opening doors at the awards is called Sebastián Villalobos. He is one of the first to be considered for the awards (Heat) and, automatically, when I have had the opportunity to meet the managers, as in this case Diana Montes, we would sit down and I would say to him: ‘If we can make it more crowded of content creators, we will be able to have more possibilities for people to see the awards much more, to have more reach’. And that’s how we’ve been at every award”, says Marko about the inclusion of digital personalities in awards.
“Seven or eight years ago, we were the ridicule of social networks. Now we are personalities, and that cost a lot. And I am happy to be among the first, because I know that, not right now, but in 20 or 30 years, history will tell that I was part of that beginning, ”she says.
For his show in Guayaquil, tickets are on sale at Ticketfacil.ec (online) or at the Convention Center box office. Costs are $35 (La Tierrua), $55 (La Bendecida) and $75 (Sugar Daddy). (AND)
Source: Eluniverso
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