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Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, thought up and began playing the chola “La Tiny” in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
Without a script and only a “little, old Android” phone, a San Antonio comedienne has amassed a huge Facebook following who tune in to see what the chola (and her mega-fleek eyebrows) will do next.
La Tiny’s Facebook presence is the opposite of what her name implies. With more than 10 million views on a single video and more than 400,000 likes and followers combined, it’s safe to say her online persona is a giant.
Myra Alix, a 35-year-old legal assistant, said she thought up and began playing La Tiny in May 2016 after two friends suggested the idea.
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“My character is a satire of the typical chola female and while most cholas are considered to be tough and mean, my chola character is quite the opposite despite her ‘look,'” Alix explained. “She tends to be sweet, soft-spoken with a high-pitched voice and is completely unaware that her look is outdated.”
Alix, an improvisational comedienne, employs a “turn on and go” approach in producing her hit videos.
“All of my videos are 100% improvised and shot on my little old Android,” she added. “There is no script, there is no editing nor sound effects. It is usually just one take from start to finish if I have no interruptions.”
She said her first video, “Meet Gabriela AKA La Tiny,” was intended solely for her friends’ amusement and like many internet stars, she did not expect the attention that followed.
The comedienne did have some experience. As a child, she was the on-hand talent for family parties. She realized her knack for making people laugh and her love for it from an early age. In 2014, she enrolled in classes at Performing Arts San Antonio.
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“My love for comedy grew instantly even more than before,” Alix said.
Alix eventually hopes to take La Tiny to stand up and is working with a local film maker on an upcoming web series.
Most of the responses to the videos have been positive. The local social media star said chronically ill or depressed people have told her she’s their comedic relief.
“I was moved to tears when I read that my silly videos made them smile for the first time in a long time,” she added.
Some have taken offense to the videos, too.
“(They) accuse me of giving Latina women a bad name,” she said. “However that is not at all what my intention is. My goal is to make people laugh.”
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