Giovanni Rivera is an American social media star who is best known for being one half of the YouTube channel, Gio & Eli, with his younger brother Elijah. They mostly upload pranks, challenges, reaction videos, and Q&A videos. Giovanni is currently interested in makeup and created such content on various social media platforms. He is active on his personal profiles with the handle @giofilmedthis on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter (now X) and Facebook.
Career
Giovanni Rivera wanted to be a YouTuber since he was very young and even used to post random videos on YouTube prior to creating the joint channel. He is also a talented artist who can draw and paint, and also made short films long before he joined YouTube. He and his younger brother Elijah created their joint channel, Gio & Eli, in August 2017. This time it was Elijah’s idea as he convinced Giovanni that they should become YouTubers and the latter also thought that their dynamic relationship would make for good content.
Their very first video was a combination of a Q&A and a challenge video as the brothers challenged each other by proposing a dare after every few questions. They continued to post truth or dare, challenge videos, pranks and more on the channel, and also videos in which they talked about themselves so that their fans would get to know them. They made one such video after getting 1k subscribers in October 2017. They took the smoothie challenge with a very special guest, Justine Bianca, in April 2018. They have also featured their mother in a few prank videos on the channel.
While Giovanni shares his YouTube channel with his brother Elijah, he has personal profiles with the handle @giofilmedthis on most social media platforms including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. Although he has been making all sorts of popular videos on YouTube with his brother, he is currently very much interested in fashion and makeup and shares related content on his Instagram and TikTok. He is very much active on both the platforms although he has not uploaded any new video on YouTube since February 2023.
Family Life
Giovanni Rivera and his brother Elijah Rivera are often thought to be twins by fans due to their similar appearance, which they also acknowledge as Giovanni had initially introduced themselves as fraternal twins in their very first video before revealing that it was a joke. He is actually the eldest of three brothers and is more than five years older than Elijah. They also mentioned having another brother named Eric, who was serving as the cameraman in their first video. They later formally introduced Eric in their third Q&A video, the MESSIEST Brother Q&A at 2am. They are of Puerto Rican descent and their mother’s name is Melanie. They have also featured a cousin name Karina on their channel. Giovanni can speak a little bit of Spanish and French. Born on February 29th in a leap year, he celebrates his birthdays every four years.
