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SHE CAME OUT FIRST - CHEF ROBERTA

We typed «Italian cooking» —not her name— and Chef Roberta came out first, with 80 million views from San José

Nobody recommended her to us: we typed «Italian cooking» into the qCRew search box and she came out first. Roberta Cipri left Rome in 2021, opened Aroma Roma in La Sabana, and already has 80 million views on a channel she started in January 2024. Plenty of people watch her; what did not exist was somewhere to find her.

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THE BEST PODCAST - LOS GORDOS PODCAST

No censorship, no clock: why Los Gordos Podcast is, to us, the best thing being recorded in Costa Rica

This is a review, and we will say so up front: this is one of the shows qCRew exists because of. DjP, Toledo and Roper have spent years putting people in front of a microphone and cutting nothing out —from a former president of Costa Rica to Luisito Comunica— and their most watched episode is past a million views.

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From Albertillo to the World Cup

From a TikTok character to the World Cup sidelines: the three years it took Diego Garro to change leagues

In 2023 he was a kid from Pérez Zeledón playing a character on TikTok. In June 2026 he released a World Cup song with Corney and Toledo, travelled to the tournament as an independent creator, and along the way built a YouTube channel that passed 10.6 million views in under two years. None of it happened overnight.

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Eight years of craft

From reporter to her own newsroom: eight years of La FatFluencer, 938 articles and 187 restaurants listed

Cristina Mora Jiluta started in 2018 and now runs her own newsroom: 938 articles published and a directory of 187 Costa Rican restaurants listed one by one, across six provinces and 38 kinds of cuisine. It is one of the best-built careers in the country, and a great many people do not know it exists.

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Costa Rican pride

Araya Vlogs won a Premio Juventud — and opened a door for a whole generation of Costa Rican creators

Christopher Araya, from a small town in San Carlos, took the #ModoAvión award in Marbella against channels several times bigger than his. He started in 2019 with a phone. That is the part that matters.

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