The Cuban influencer Yily García, known on TikTok as @yilygarcia, posted a video where she candidly shares her experience of registering on a dating app, from the profile she created to the unexpected encounter with a young man she had already seen on social media.
"I went onto a dating site, no shame in that, I've been single for a year, alone, I have nothing to hide, I feel lonely and wanted to give it a try," the content creator began, straightforward and unscripted.
Yily explains that her decision has a practical reason: she hardly ever leaves the house, the delivery person leaves the packages without her seeing them, and the few people she interacts with in her surroundings are either already in relationships or simply do not interest her as men.
On his profile on the platform, he uploaded a photograph of himself, with his face visible, and added an unusual note: that before messaging him, they should check his social media to understand his "different personalities."
Over the years and with everything she has had to build on her own, she acknowledges that she has become more demanding. She says this with humor and without losing her self-esteem: "I know I don’t have a perfect body, I don’t have beauty, because unfortunately, one eats what one sees; if it doesn’t catch my eye, it’s not going to catch me in any way."
The most striking moment of the story comes when, within the app itself, he encounters a young man he had already seen on TikTok and who had caught his attention.
The boy liked it, but he didn't write to her. She waited two days and then took the initiative: "Hey, I don’t bite, I simply accepted the match to talk to you because I've seen you on TikTok and I liked you."
They finally exchanged WhatsApp numbers, but the relationship didn’t go anywhere. The reason? The young man practices santería, which caused Yily to lose interest. "I really don’t like anything related to santería, not to mention that I’m afraid of that whole kiki life because my dad is a santero and has a room in the back of the yard full of kikis, and I won't go near that," she explained.
Her rejection, she clarifies, is not a critique of anyone's religion, but rather a personal matter rooted in her childhood: "I was taught from a young age that they were demons that could harm you, so one grows up with that trauma."
The video also serves as a subtle dedication to the young man, whom she does not name or tag, but to whom she wanted to show who she is and what she does on social media.
The sentimental context of Yily has a painful background: her husband was deported to Cuba in February 2026, following a migration process that included a stay at the Guantanamo naval base and several transfers over approximately seven months. This situation also left her without regular immigration status in the United States, something that she explained herself in April 2026.
The video also marks a shift in her content style. Yily announces that she will move away from a more polished format to present herself unfiltered: "From now on, there’s nothing scripted, nothing pretty, nothing—no, the way I think, the way I am, that’s how I’m going to express it."
"A friend told me, you really are an influencer, but I don't feel that way; I don't know if it's humility," the Cuban concluded, inviting her community to decide what type of content they want to see from now on.
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