‘Elbita la Manabita’ and her Creole characters, a TikTok sensation in Ecuador

He likes to be spoken to Elbit, because it gives you the opportunity to be different, to change your personality. She is 25 years old, but every time she is called by her nickname, she feels like a girl in spirit. Elba Gonzalez he endeared himself to people with laughter and catchy jokes. His social media user is extremely famous and he came up with it long before it became popular in digital media.

@Elbitalamanabita5 was born at the university as a stage name, because he studied stage communication. Very proud of her homeland, she wanted that in the future, when she is finally recognized, it would be known where she came from.

Bahía de Caráquez saw her born, but Guayaquil welcomed her at the age of 18, right after the earthquake in 2016. “I came to study. I always wanted to be an artist; I knew it from a young age, because I loved acting in plays, painting, singing… I loved the whole field of art, I felt that I was passionate about it”.

But following her passion was a real challenge, as she listened to the advice of her school teachers, who encouraged her to study law because of her good speaking skills. He soon realized that it was not his dream, because his heart was somewhere else.

“I decided at that time that I would study law; I even entered the Catholic University and my parents were very happy. But when the earthquake happened, my life changed because of what we were living and I thought about what I really want for myself,” admits the content creator. THE UNIVERSE newspaper.

Already with the current dream career title, Elbit He began to look for ways to put what he had learned into practice. “I didn’t like social media or cameras; I didn’t visualize myself in that world, but the quarantine passed and I made a video with my sister out of boredom,” he recalls of the first clip he posted on TikTok.

Good comments from her close friends motivated her to continue sharing content, because in addition to making others laugh, this served as an escape or therapy from the “lockdown” of 2020. These first videos she made for fun were parodic recreations of movies and artists.

Little by little he created his own content. “It’s good that I make tiktoks with other people’s sound, but now I wanted to give my essence, I wanted to create my own brand when I make my videos and for people to say: ‘Ah, these are videos Elba‘”, Explain.

Character development is part of his artistic identity. “Something I love about creating is that I get to go out on the street and see things happen,” he says; For this reason, he recreates personalities such as a man studying law or going to the gym, and now a woman cashier or secretary of IESS.

When he started making self-scripted videos, he began to gain virality, and now has more than two million followers on TikTok and 80,000 on Instagram. The smile is her favorite part of being exposed on social media, and she constantly receives messages of support encouraging her to continue with this project.

Being funny is not the only creative side Elbit: design, painting, stage making, handicrafts, make-up and sketching which she also likes. Her room is occupied by the pictures she painted. “I’m that girl who is a super artist and who doesn’t want to do anything else in her life that isn’t art,” she notes.

His sister Maria Sol in that sense he is just like her: “She is extremely creative; He always supports me with ideas. My dad is also a character, and so is my mom, only she doesn’t like cameras too much. We get a bit of both.”

She is personally friendly, but picky about the people around her: “I have three friends; It’s not easy to trust people.” The closest person to her is her boyfriend, Raphaelwith whom he has been in a relationship for six years.

Professionally, one achievement she is proud of is Show which he held at the Colmena Theater in 2022 and which he had sold outAlthough she didn’t expect it. “No one bought tickets; I was very disappointed. And the night before the presentation, they started bombarding me with messages, letting me know that they wanted to go, and it was amazing: the room was full, the energy was high, I felt that passion when you are He on the stage, and the artist is not Him he can explain what he feels,” he says.

For the future, Elbit I would like to travel abroad to complete my master’s degree. She also sees herself as a teacher or manager in culture. (AND)