Elena Gurung had a keen interest in drama ever since she was a little girl. She would often perform caricatures of people around her. “I was very good at picking up people’s actions and mannerisms. I loved doing caricatures of them”, she says. Vines were gaining a lot of popularity and fandom around the world when she first uploaded her comedy videos on social media platforms. However, it was not well known in Nepal. 

Despite a lack of knowledge about vines in Nepal, Gurung decided to go for it with the support of her elder sister. She was met with a huge amount of positive response, and a lot of encouragement to keep making more content. “I had not expected that amount of positive feedback when I uploaded the video. I was deeply motivated to create more content since then”, she says, 

However, support from her family only came from her elder sister. At the very beginning of her journey as a content creator, her parents showed no support. “I do not blame them for their lack of support at the beginning. Making videos for a living was something unimaginable at that time, especially for our parents. Whenever I would make videos on my phone, they would only see it as me wasting my time on my phone”, she says.