- First of all, look at my outfit.
You could tell that I was super broke.
(laughing)
(samba music)
- Hello, everyone.
I brought Gadiel and Curly here
because I wanted to have us react
to our first Pero Like videos we've ever made.
So, we're gonna take a trip down memory lane.
(speaks in foreign language) do you say ticket
trip down memory lane?
- (speaking in foreign language) I don't know.
I guess I'll go first 'cause I have been on it
for forever, I'm the grandmother.
The way that I wanted to create content
for myself as a creator, was I wanted
to illustrate and I wanted to animate
in all of my videos.
- So this was published on February 16, 2016.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- So almost four years ago.
- And the title is "11 Things Every Virgo Will Relate To."
- Yeah, and if you don't relate too, you're lying.
Oh my God.
That's Jenny Lorenzo's desk.
She had toys.
- Aww.
- Hey, you were a lot bigger.
- Thanks.
(laughing)
I was, it's fine and my hair was different.
- Ooh, he's cute.
- I met you with that hair.
- I still have that outfit, still wear that outfit.
Jazz is one of the OG members too who ended up
doing really good stuff out there in the world.
- So you animated all of this?
- I draw all of this from scratch.
- Wow. - That's my writing.
- I remember studying and watching this,
I'm like, yo, how the (beep) they do this?
- Yeah, everything.
- Rude!
- I remember Jazz used to sit behind me.
- Jazz, yeah.
You're so crazy, like a bunny.
But I drew all of this from scratch
but it would take so long.
- You did the bunny too?
- Mm-hmm, everything.
- So I was out last night.
- And then Ella.
- Ella! - Ella.
- Ella's one of the reasons why we started with the team
to begin with, too.
Like, why we started the video team, so.
- She was our manager at the time.
- Yeah.
This is (beeps) sad.
And then this scene (laughs) we put pinker
on my nose to make it look like I had been crying.
- You're gonna be better off without him.
- Were you and Claudia close back then?
- We were cool, yeah.
Not as close as we are now, but we were cool.
But I always think about this part
'cause I go like, he's ugly, right?
Or something like that.
- You're gonna be better off without him.
- He's ugly, right?
- Oh, you're so much better looking.
(laughing)
- God, Claudia!
- She stumbled on her line, she goes,
"Oh, you're so much better looking."
She didn't do it on purpose, but I always crack up
because I'm like, you lied to me. (laughing)
That's a lie.
- I remember that hairdo like Claudia had the purple hair.
- Oh yeah.
She had this purple hair for a while too.
- For a while, yeah.
- I love everything about this video
because it like, even the way you come into each scene,
like you spin into it, it feels very like, Curly.
I used to watch Pero Like before I was on it.
I would watch you guys and be like,
this is so cool, finally there was something
I could relate to and I think back then is when relatability
started to become more of a thing.
- I remember first seeing Pero Like and watching
these videos, even for me I was like,
I want that, I want to either be part of that team,
I wanna to create my own team.
I was more excited to work in this team.
- How do you feel about that, like looking back, like?
- It feels like just yesterday but it also feels
like years ago, like years ago.
You know what I mean?
And it's interesting to see the different incarnations
that we've had as a team, as a channel.
Like, where we were with these girls,
where we were with when Jolisa was with us,
like where we are now with Yvonne and Eli
and where we'll go in the future.
- Yeah, 'cause back then it was all girls.
- All girls, mm-hmm. - All girls.
- Now, it's all guys and two girls.
Okay, so now, we're gonna go for Gadiel's.
- For mine. - Gadiel's!
- We're going down by seniority.
So like, I'm last.
- This was called "Sound Effects Only Latinos Understand."
And this idea came when we went to eat lunch together.
It was Jenny, me and Roberto.
I was telling the story of my grandma,
then my grandma goes like, "Fua!"
She said, (speaking in foreign language).
And then I was like, yeah, I should make a video
of sound effects Latinos make,
and Jenny turned to me, she was like,
that's gonna be your first video.
I'm like, my first video?
Oh, okay.
I'm gonna work here?
Okay, cool.
She creeps up behind me, and then--
- I love this. (speaks in foreign language)
- (laughs) She actually did hit me
with a (speaks in foreign language) that way.
Look at Jenny's face, she stays in character.
- Ugh!
(speaking in foreign language)
I shot this for you, this part.
- Yeah, yeah. - I love that part,
I just wanna go back.
I love your face.
- Me too, it looked good.
- Ah, Norm!
- Norm looks so like a baby.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Wanna hear something funny?
That is a voiceover.
Jenny's audio, it was messed up, I don't know what happened
but we had to shoot a voiceover,
and she just listened to it.
She walked outside with the 86N,
she put on the lav, it was the next day I think it was,
and she said exactly the same thing, and it sounded,
and look, it sounds exactly the same.
- Oh my God. - Yeah.
- Okay, let me hear it.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Wow! (laughing)
- It sounded so good!
- Jenny's a B.
- I was like, wow, that was good.
(car horn honking)
- All right.
- That's my old car, yeah. - It's a Cruiser!
- Oh my God. - Yay!
- I love it 'cause we're so young.
It's like a timestamp, you know what I mean?
- I know. - We were young,
Latino creators who were just like,
finding out who we were as artists,
but also finding out in front of a bunch of people too,
online, you know?
- And it was fun, it was just fun.
These skits were so fun to do.
- Yeah, they are fun.
- Like, at the same time, I'm proud of my older self,
I'm like, (beep) I did this?
I can't believe I did this.
It was fun, it was great.
And it was great to see everybody at the same time.
And it's weird to look back at myself
'cause I do feel like I look different.
- Mm-hmm.
- Dang, I remember how poor I was at that time.
I think I was sleeping in my car at that time too.
- This is called "When You Suck at Being Latina."
- Maya came in, she ain't know no Spanish,
she's like, I don't speak Spanish.
I be like, oh (beep), the new girl don't even know
how to speak Spanish.
And then the first video she makes is,
"When You Suck at Being Latina," I mean.
- I had talked to you about making this, I think.
I think you had brought it up in a meeting,
and I was like, oh, I think you should do that.
I think that's a great idea.
- I remember when I pitched this video,
it was like my first week, and I was like,
I want to do this video called,
"When You Suck at Being Latina," and it was like, quiet.
But I remember Curly was always on my side.
- Yeah, that's true. - For everything.
He was like, yeah, I see that, yeah, for sure.
And then Claudia was like, cool.
Shoot it on Monday, get it done by Friday.
- We were all just making different comedy,
and I think Maya came in with kind of like,
very Spongebob-esque personality, and I loved it.
And I was like, I think we could use that on the platform.
Let's check it out.
(flamenco music)
- I hate that text so much.
- You hate that text?
- I don't know, man, it's just giving me like,
bad vibes, like bad juju.
- I was like, let's put it in my mouth, this part.
Here, use this, rub it all over your body.
- This is how you?
- I don't remember. - What the hell are you doing?
- You said to rub it all over my body.
- No, with the shell not the (beep) egg!
- Ugh, I'm like, cringing.
- Why are you cringing?
I remember that this part though, where I was like,
I'm gonna spit it out of my mouth.
And everybody was like, what?
I'm like, it's gonna be brills.
It's gonna come out of my mouth. (laughs)
- That's funny!
- Here, use this, rub it all over your body.
(speaking in foreign language)
- I don't understand what he's saying
so I'm just gonna agree.
(speaking in foreign language)
(laughs)
- Despite the fails, you don't feel any less Latina
except for those dance moves.
- I love this dance move.
- That's my favorite part of the video.
- Yeah, the dance moves.
- The dance, her dancing in the, I always loved that you
incorporated that in the video.
- Yeah, me too. - It was fun,
it was refreshing and it was you.
- That's what I intended for this video.
I'm like, this video is me. (laughing)
- It's interesting too because I feel like,
you would never be caught a million years saying cilantro.
- Can I have a burrito but no cilantro, I'm sorry.
Cilantro. - Like I know
that you would roll your eyes.
So it's interesting to kind of see like,
even tiny little details like that.
- Little transformation. - Yes!
- You're a different Maya than this Maya.
- I know and I understand Spanish!
- How do you feel like, looking back at this?
- I feel very like, fulfilled to see this.
I just remember that moment in time where like,
Curly was constantly advocating for me
and pushing for me.
It just felt like, electric, the way
we would all just pick up a camera and shoot.
- I think that we did a lot of fun stuff,
I think there's a still a lot of fun things
to do, to explore.
- We're happy that you guys are still here with us
and still riding with us.
That gives us a lot of motivation, I just feel like,
we've all changed so much, learned so much,
our skillset is just like, crazy improved.
Three years later, I'm still super grateful to be like,
working with you guys.
- Yeah, same thing. - Same here.
- Curly's always been the number one supporter
for everyone and anyone.
Like the driving force, like, truly the heart of Pero Like.
- Aww, don't make me cry.
- Aww, I love you guys.
- I love Curly too. - I love you guys.
(flamenco music)