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What's happening with Costa Rica's creators. Their wins are ours.
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.
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.
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.
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.