Vinny the Twister has garnered over 818,000 followers and 15.8 million likes on the app
” order and told his followers that he’ll keep working because “my boss just gave me this letter saying that my job is essential, so I have to keep working.” He then joked that maybe he should get a raise for his continued hard work.In a recent TikTok,“It’s time to share a secret. I suffer depression and anxiety since I lost my father. But I’m winning the battle for the family,” Avila captioned the video.
After his father died in 2002 of a heart attack, Avila says he fell into years of depression, an illness left undiagnosed until 2014, when he was sent to the hospital after feeling vertigo, spasms and heart palpitations while making balloon animals at a restaurant for tips.From Kesha to Drake to Doja Cat: These Are the Five Viral Songs to Know from Tik Tok
“That’s when my depression exploded,” he says in Spanish, which PEOPLE has translated. “Since my dad’s death, I was quiet about it and never told anyone that my body and mind felt really different. I always wanted to cry, but I would hide because I didn’t want anyone to know.” By 2014, Avila was already making videos on YouTube, creating short balloon animal tutorials to a small set of subscribers in Spanish. He’d earn some extra cash by making those same balloon animals at a restaurant for tips.After his 2014 health scare, he says he decided that things were going to be different for him — and he used his dad’s death as motivation to“I decided to live life in the moment and always remind people I love them,” he says.
And TikTok became the perfect place to channel this positivity. Before joining the app just six months ago, Avila’s online presence was solely on YouTube, where he had gone on to create cobblestone and carpentry tutorials for his 600,000 subscribers.“Here, I can be who I really am,” he says, laughing about his six months on the app. “I can let go of my feelings, my worries. It’s a way to release the stress and depression I bottled up for so many years.
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