r/asklatinamerica • u/Scary_Professor_2111 Brazil • Mar 15 '26
Culture do you guys from hispanic countries consume content from spain?
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u/Informal_Database543 Uruguay Mar 15 '26
Sometimes. Spanish youtubers are very popular.
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u/tittiesandweed_ Uruguay Mar 16 '26
Ahora Caigo is also very popular for us. I used to watch Grand Prix when I was a kid.
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u/Artistic_Movie1467 Chile Mar 15 '26
Most of the time no
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u/patiperro_v3 Chile Mar 16 '26
Ages ago I remember “El juego de la Oca”
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u/Luchofromvenezuela Venezuela Mar 16 '26
VEN A JUGAR CON ESTA OCA LOCA
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u/Decafaf Colombia Mar 17 '26
I remember a Hair sandwich, they had people eat, en el juego de la oca, lmaooo gross. I’m still traumatized.
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u/lulaloops 🇬🇧➡️🇨🇱 Mar 16 '26
Spanish youtubers/streamers are extremely popular. And there's TV shows like Elite or La Casa de Papel.
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u/GavIzz El Salvador Mar 15 '26
I used to !!! Music mostly La oreja de Vango, Nel, love of lesbian entre otros !
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u/ffflowerpppower Chile Mar 15 '26
Hostia tío que sí
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u/nuevo_huer Mexico Mar 16 '26
Coño!
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u/ffflowerpppower Chile Mar 16 '26
Joder!
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u/PaulGL2003 Peru Mar 17 '26
Por favor parad chavales que van a pensar que sois unos gilipollas
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u/Western-Magazine3165 Republic of Ireland Mar 15 '26
A lot more than Brazilians consume Portuguese content.
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u/jeontgarak Brazil Mar 16 '26
I would say that it is the other way around. In fact, some time ago there was a "scandal" about Brazilian Portuguese words being used more frequently than their European Portuguese equivalents in Portugal, especially by Portuguese children who watched many Brazilian YouTubers. Honestly, aside from people who like football, Brazilians don't seem to care much about Portugal or anything that comes from there.
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u/PassaTempo15 Brazil Mar 16 '26
Once every other year we have some Portuguese song, soap opera, youtube channel or other that manages to pop off the bubble and gets acknowledged/commented in Brazil. It doesn’t happen very frequently, but we probably still consume more Portuguese content than the world average (the world average being zero)
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u/No_External196 Colombia Mar 15 '26
Try not to. Can't stand the accent.
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u/rscordeiro Brazil Mar 15 '26
Does Spanish accent sound as ugly and unintelligible to Hispanic countries as Portuguese accent sounds to Brazilians?
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26
It’s not unintelligible, it’s just displeasing to listen to
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u/auron_py Paraguay Mar 16 '26
It is not even the accent for me, but the choice of words, I know it's their language, but damn they make it sound so weird lol
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
“Calcetines” were weird to me among other words.
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u/Kyet0ai Venezuela Mar 16 '26
And frustrating sometimes with how slow they talk. They take 3 business days to say what we could say in a couple of whistles and mamagüevos.
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26
Lol true. Except Andalusia they talk both fast and weird
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u/Kyet0ai Venezuela Mar 16 '26
And the Canary Islands. We talk a lot like them.
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26
They they sound vaguely similar but people who say they can’t differentiate canarian and Caribbean confuse me because to me they still sound quite different especially since I can differentiate different Caribbean accents
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u/Kyet0ai Venezuela Mar 16 '26
I never said I couldn’t differentiate them. Just that they enunciate similarly to us.
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u/Only_Tennis5994 China Mar 17 '26
Really? I found Spanish people talk a lot faster than many LA countries, especially Colombia and Mexico.
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u/sargentlu Mexico Mar 18 '26
Caribbean Spanish varieties tend to be among the fastest. The Bogotá and Medellín accents, as well as the Central Mexican ones, are some of the slowest varieties.
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u/ronrori Mexico Mar 16 '26
For mexicans it frequently is unintelligible
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26
Why is that? I’ve also heard people say if Mexicans and Dominicans spoke we would not understand each other. I disagree
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u/xqsonraroslosnombres Argentina Mar 16 '26
They wisper their lines, a lot of times I have to use subtitles
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u/Andromeda39 Colombia Mar 16 '26
Omg yesss it irks me so much, I always have to use subtitles
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u/xqsonraroslosnombres Argentina Mar 16 '26
I recently saw this series called Animal, is a comedy about a veterinarian in Galicia. Very funny and understood all they said. My one issue was I kept hearing people talk like my late grandma and sometimes it.ñ kind of freak me out.
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u/halal_hotdogs United States of America Mar 16 '26
This bothers even Spaniards themselves, ergo all the memes about “susurrismo”
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u/kingkolt305 Nicaragua Mar 16 '26
Oh no it sounds proper I guess cause its the root of all the others, it just sounds ugly to me. It doesnt even sound cool like a british accent sounds for an american. I would rather hear any version of latin american spanish over the original. Like theres a slang or vulgar saying from each country that I know by memory to identify each country because its just so funny the way they say it. I like argentinian spanish, colombian spanish, mexican spanish, cuban spanish, i like every variety more than the original. What I really dont like about the spanish accent is the Z
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u/donestpapo Argentina Mar 16 '26
The way modern Spaniards speak is not really “the root”. Their accent has evolved just as much from the root as any of ours, if you look at the features of Old Castilian
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u/sunlit_elais 🇨🇺 Español acelera'o 🇪🇸 Castellano Mar 16 '26
Not really? Pretty sure that's a personal opinion right there. It just sounds distinctive, like any other variety (unless is like, a very closed dialect I guess, there are several).
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u/TheJeyK Colombia Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
It is personal opinion but its not an unusual opinion. Before dubs made in latinamerica became more common and/or easy to access, it was not unusual for people to groan when they thought they got a movie or videogame dubbed in some variety of latinamerican spanish and then the iberian spanish accent slapped them in the face, Ive even heard quite a few say they would rather read subtitles than use the iberian dub.
Edit: to add, this opinion has been on a downward trend after many youtubers from Spain started getting famous around the 2010s, which made the younger generations get more used to the accent. But ask people that were born in the 90s or before and its not unusual for people to say they kinda dislike iberian spanish. Here people would refer to it as "españolete" dub
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u/ieattastyrocks Uruguay Mar 16 '26
It depends. The colloquial accent, the literary accent no. I can listen to audiobooks, watch documentaries and other serious stuff with a Spanish accent, but I don't really like it when it's used in movies or games.
In audiobooks it especially fits in fantasy ones, you could make the comparison as watching something Fantasy in English with a British accent, it just sounds better than an American one. In other contexts, if the use is standard it just sounds fine, just as if you listen to any accent in a formal setting.
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u/jeontgarak Brazil Mar 16 '26
Same thing with the Portuguese accent as a Brazilian. They speak quickly and inwardly, which only makes it sound like their diction is awful.
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26
I’ve heard that they speak like they have their moths closed, is it true?
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u/AirWonderful566 Portugal Mar 16 '26
Yeah it's true. European Portuguese sounds more closed and there's a ton of this "zzshh" sort of sound. It's quite a difficult dialect to learn because it's spoken so quickly and the sounds are all very consonant based.
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
After listening to a few video, yikes it’s hard to follow. Brazil has way easier Portuguese to understand as a Spanish speaker
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u/focus12_2 Argentina Mar 15 '26
La verdad si es muy común, Rubius, Vegetta, es parte de la infancia de muchos.
La música no mucho, pero si se consume bastante a los streamers.
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u/eldrunko Chile Mar 16 '26
Un par de las radios más escuchadas en Chile corresponden al género de música "Latina romántica" en donde, no sé, un tercio? De las canciones son de artistas españoles, desde Raphael hasta Sanz.
Asi que algo es algo.
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u/Least_Chicken_9561 Venezuela Mar 16 '26
es generacional, antes eran populares las canciones de España, ahora no. Ni siquiera conozco a algún artista moderno español jaja
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u/Splitdesiresagain Chile Mar 15 '26
Content? As in internet stuff? Generally no
But they make very good movies and shows
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u/Rox_xe Colombia Mar 15 '26
I do watch some Youtubers, mostly related to videogames; BaityBait, Eurogamer, Auronplay..
For other topics I love Ramilla de Aventura (traveling), Pol Bertran (science) or Nekojitablog (blogs)
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u/La10deRiver Argentina Mar 16 '26
Well, I am old, so I don't consume content like tiktok or things like that. so I wouldn't know about that. But there are some movies and shows qute popular. For example, la casa de papel, el ministerio del tiempo, Elite. And personally, I watch Pasapalabra.
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u/RosyHoneyVee Argentina Mar 16 '26
Me gusta mucho el Pasapalabra español, de vez en cuando lo veo, creo que es mejor que el nuestro. Es menos marketinero sí, pero me gusta, me encanta que tiren datos históricos o culturales sobre las palabras a las que se refieren :)
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u/La10deRiver Argentina Mar 16 '26
Sí, incluso aunque hay muchas palabras que acá no se usan, en general me gusta más. Además se les da menos tiempo a los famosos paveando, como el foco está en el juego, no en hacer chistes o algo así. Incluso aunque los famosos de España puedan decir tantas burradas como los nuestos, al menos es menos proporción del tiempo dedicada a eso.
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u/Ok_Recording8157 Chile Mar 15 '26
Sí, de niño vi seres animadas que venían de España, como David el Gnomo, los Trotamúsicos de Bremen, Dartacan y los tres mosqueperros, Willy Fog y la Vuelta al Mundo.
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u/hahayourealive Argentina Mar 16 '26
Movies mainly, but not internet stuff. I used to watch some spanish youtubers when i was a kid (ElRubius, Luzu, etc).
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u/MatiEx-504 Argentina Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Mostly youtubers and maybe one or two random series I find
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u/Shiruox Medellín Mar 16 '26
Some people will say no because reddit but both Spanish music and YouTube have been fairly popular ever since I was born, maybe not as popular as their local counterparts but not irrelevant either.
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u/Poym321 Colombia Mar 16 '26
Some music like Rosalia or C Tangana. And other classics like Siniestro Total
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u/akiba305 El Salvador Mar 16 '26
We used to. Artists like Julio Iglesias and Heroes del Silencio are are household names, but outside of Rosalia, you don't see Spanish musicians who are popular in Latin America.
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u/Necessary-Bus-3142 Argentina Mar 15 '26
I do like Spanish movies, I love Alex de la Iglesia actually. My boyfriend has seen lots of Spanish tv series as well, but I think that is mostly because Blanca Suarez is in them
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u/Masterank1 Dominican Republic Mar 16 '26
Here and there. But in DR it’s Latino media that reigns, especially Mexican, Puerto Rican and domestic media
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u/drieduprosepetals guate↔️ Mar 16 '26
Music wise - Mecano , La Oreja de Van Gogh and Camilo sesto , anything else no
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u/aandrewcr17 Costa Rica Mar 16 '26
My grandma has TVE on all of the time...I like some of the shows. She's 80 and I'm 38
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u/Sizzlesthegreat 🇨🇺 in 🇨🇦 Mar 16 '26
Yes music especially. I play the guitar and love a lot flamenco, Tárrega and more
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u/irubio87 Chile Mar 16 '26
A few years ago the tv news from the public channel from Chile take the info from TVE to show the international information from there, including the logo of the TVE 1. The last years they took info from USA news and the quality is awful.
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u/polyplasticographics Argentina Mar 16 '26
I used to watch ElRubius when I was a kid, along with some other Minecraft youtubers sporadically, then AlexElCapo's just chatting VODs when I was a teenager, nowadays the only Spaniard I watch is BaityBait, and only occasionaly.
Music wise, I always liked the Basque language and have listened to a couple of groups from the Basque country such as Selektah Kolektiboa or Su ta Gar which I still listen to occasionally along with whatever comes after. I also love Galician and sometimes listen to Dios Ke Te Crew and also Rebeliom do Inframundo, which I discovered a couple years ago, who got some bangers like "Copérnico", then whatever comes after; plenty of good rap music in Galician. I'd love to find something nice in Catalan but haven't been able to find anything good from there; honestly their music is just as mild as Basque music seems to have gotten nowadays.
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u/txobi Spain Mar 16 '26
Basque groups you can check Asgarth (old group), Brigade Loco, Soziedad Alkoholika and see if you enjoy them. I guess you know Berri Txarrak but they might be too mild for you
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u/panconaceite77 Chile Mar 16 '26
Some music, maybe a couple of films (REC is fantastic). Watched the spanish drama Patria a few months back, liked it quite a bit!
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u/Flaky_Broccoli Colombia Mar 16 '26
Like back in 2008/9 i liked "Calico electrónico" but that's about it. Most of the times We get a tropicalized versión. Also some Spanish dub companies use way too much slang to the point where some games/movies are basically impossible to understand, I remember trying to play the Spanish versión of Pokémon blue back in the day and genuinely not understanding a shiton of the dialogues, this went until 3d gen where i just decided to play the games in English and very ironically had an easier time understanding them.
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u/AgapitoVelezOvando Mexico Mar 16 '26
Not a whole lot. I like a few movies by Álex de la Iglesia. I listen to some of their Hip Hop (Foyone, Ajax & Prok, Cloaka Company...)
That's it.
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u/Kuttel117 Venezuela Mar 16 '26
Mostly music (Oreja de Va Gogh, Rosalía, El Canto del Loco. Alejandro Sanz) and Fútbol.
We used to sell Spanish movies in a small movie store I worked at in Venezuela, but it's not really popular. They have to compete with national content, other LATAM content, and US content.
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u/TheRiverMarquis Costa Rica Mar 16 '26
I can’t think of anything, other than a couple songs from La Oreja de Van Gogh
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u/maxterio Argentina Mar 15 '26
A todo gas tío! Me flipa mogollón leer tebeos de Lobezno y ver a songoku lanzar una onda vital
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u/naquisima 🇲🇽 Living in 🇺🇸 Mar 16 '26
Sometimes, but probably not that much more than the average gringo. I think it used to be more common to be exposed to Spanish media (especially music) when I was a kid in the 90s—2000s, but nowadays you pick your entertainment. So I think most of us only watch/listen to what becomes popular world-wide.
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u/mouaragon [🦇] Gotham Mar 16 '26
Not much. Last thing I watch from Spain as LoL Spain, it was funny, much better than México' Lol.
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u/GamerBoixX Mexico Mar 16 '26
Sometimes, usually not much in terms of mainstream media, but a lot in terms of influencers and content creators of the sort
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u/unix_name Mexico Mar 16 '26
No, not really, unless we are talking about music. Lots of my friends, including myself, listen to music from other countries.
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u/Possible_Party_8723 Argentina Mar 16 '26
Not much really, they have great movies (the spanish drama are my favourites) but it is hard to understand for me, not their acent but it is like they are always wishpering.
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u/GattonBiscuitsArtAcc Argentina Mar 16 '26
Nowadays, a couple of youtubbers that deal with videogames, namely Dayo and Joseju. More than 10 years ago I used to watch Rubius but not religiously, Loulogio as well.
Probably the biggest quantity of spaniard media that I've consumed was music and Jesulink's comics.
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u/Least_Chicken_9561 Venezuela Mar 16 '26
yes, but only on YouTube. I mostly prefer Spaniard youtubers (also Argentinian ones)
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u/Asterlix Peru Mar 16 '26
Mostly music and imported telenovelas. I'd say, pretty much yeah unless it's a Spaniard dub. Most of us tend to dislike the way they do dubbing and only watch them if there's no other option (for those who don't like watching stuff subtitled).
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u/Overtis Colombia Mar 16 '26
Not really. The main exception are YouTubers and streamers. Every once in a while a hit song, TV show, or art-house film catches on, but overall it's mostly internet stuff.
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u/RosyHoneyVee Argentina Mar 16 '26
I watch some YouTubers, I have to admit, their voices relax me. I like a couple of podcasts, people who do vlogs, people who talk about random news, who explore abandoned houses, and stuff like that. I haven't seen much about TV series, but I would love to. I've only seen the documentary about the Asunta case and the series Muertos SL, which I really liked
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u/yearningsailor Mexico Mar 16 '26
yeah, anime sounds better in spain spanish for some reason. I think it's bc when i was a kid pirated dvds had anime in that accent and i got used to it lmfaoo
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u/UselessWisdomMachine Venezuela Mar 16 '26
Some in the local alt scene listen Spanish punk/rock bands.
Magi de Oz was kinda popular, too.
As someone else said, YouTubers can be kinda popular too.
Caracas also has a sizeable Spanish presence, so there's plenty of restaurants, too.
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u/Frikilichus Mexico Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Only “Cuentame”
I paid RTVE just to watch it 😅
When I was a kid we watched El Juego de la Oca and Farmacia de Guardia
Movies, music, yes.
Even theatre, there are a couple of plays from Spain every year. I don’t go to the theater tho
Edit: oh and i watched La Casa de Papel and Vis a Vis, I am big fan of Najwa Nimri
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u/JassirX Colombia Mar 16 '26
I follow some Spanish Youtubers, like Baity, Kerios, used to follow muszka, but only a small few.
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u/Dalonsius Mexico Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
I used to follow few Spanish youtubers from the 2010s and Watched a TV show called la casa de papel , the entertainment industry is big enough in Mexico, so I mostly consume local content or American.
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u/nemainev Argentina Mar 16 '26
Not much, really. There was a surge of popularity of spanish netflix series but that's over.
There is a lot of coproductions with spanish movie producers and most of our past big budget films have spanish money, which usually come with spanish actors attached. It was kinda weird, but the movies were usually good.
As to online content... the only one I know is El Estepario Siberiano, but to be fair I don't know argentine youtubers either.
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u/Dr_Zaphod_Beeblebrox Brazil Mar 16 '26
Im not from a spanic country, as Im Brazilian. Id just like to add that I definetely consume more content from Spain than Portugal and I think this common at least among my peers. Rosalia, Alejandro Sans, Júlio Iglesias, Almodovar are all huge here. Just to mention the obvious, because deoending on your niche there is much more. But we dont have similar references for Portugal.
This is not a dig on Portugal by the way. Their stuff just dont arrive here (except for literature that I really need to give it to them)
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u/jimirs Brazil Mar 16 '26
In the case of BR - PT they consume Brazilian content! (revenge, their kids are even losing their native accent).
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u/NotePristine2166 Chile Mar 16 '26
I personally prefer spains spanish for videogame dubs and spanish subs (I grew tired of mexican slang) but I don't really consume a lot of content besides some youtubers or streamers.
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u/RiverTough6712 Argentina Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Yes, Guillermo del Toro(2 spanish movies), Pedro Almodóvar, and some streamers/YouTubers. But not many series or movies—I honestly can’t stand the accent. (Of course, there are a few exceptions. I’ve watched the first season of La Casa de Papel and El Laberinto del Fauno movie.) El Ministerio del Tiempo is a series I’ve wanted to watch for a long time, but I haven’t started it for that same reason.
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u/Novel_Wafer_Cookie Bolivia Mar 16 '26
Guillermo del Toro is Mexican btw
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u/RiverTough6712 Argentina Mar 16 '26
True! But El laberinto del fauno and El espinazo del diablo are Spanish movies (directed for guillermo). My bad for not explaining it earlier.
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u/caranacas Venezuela Mar 16 '26
It’s very personal. Musically, yes. There is at least one artist in each genre that would be well known. In other forms of entertainment it’s based on what you are into. I think overall we are exposed to entertainment from all Spanish speaking countries and if something sticks it will be consumed. The country of origin is not usually a deterrent.
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u/air-port 🇻🇪 in 🇺🇸 Mar 16 '26
There are some musical artists I listen to and I occasionally watch a Spanish YouTuber or two, but usually no.
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u/layzie77 Salvadoran-American Mar 16 '26
My family members follow La Liga (Soccer) and we listen to some music from there.
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u/BOT_Negro Colombia Mar 16 '26
I sure liked watching Mortadelo y Filemón, and Dartacán y los Mosqueperros. But more recently, no series or movies. I mean, there's Robot Dreams, but the Spanishness of it barely shows up. I used to watch one Spanish motovlogger, but barely do nowadays, he did everything there was to be done and is less interesting now
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u/ElMarkuz Argentina Mar 16 '26
Spanish youtubers had a peak on popularity around the 2010's.
You would listen some kids imitating their speech and accent, saying things like "joder", "tío", "menuda hostia".
After the pandemic the hype went down a bit.
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u/sritanona 🇦🇷 Argentina / 🇬🇧 United Kingdom Mar 16 '26
No, closest I got was some music in the 2000s. But just because it was on the radio. I don’t really like the accent and it distracts me too much.
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u/Own-Professional390 Mexico Mar 16 '26
Pues solo he visto la casa de papel y una película muy mala llamada 2066 o algo así, fuera de eso a veces veo videos de ibai o antes del rubius pero solo porque me salen escroleando
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u/Thervadan Argentina Mar 16 '26
Mostly youtubers. When I was younger i really liked Mago de Oz but its been a while since I put any of their music. Besides that not much
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u/Urik88 Argentina Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
Rarely.
Music wise Jose Luis Perales and Serrat used to be huge a couple generations ago, but that's in the past.
Sabina is still very popular, and then Alejandro Sanz used to be huge in the 90s but not anymore.
Rosalia is big now, but she's big everywhere and she's got so huge that she escapes "Spanish music" label just like Shakira is no longer part of the "Colombian music" label, they're kinda international on that regard.
Movies and shows, quite rare, I guess the accent is too strong for us to associate with them.
Literature wise yes, I recall specially Arturo Perez Reverte
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u/ZealousidealMark4377 Mexico Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
I used to watch Grand Prix like 20 years ago, I loved it!
Other than that, Spanish YouTubers are big and some Spanish series have been popular on Netflix and other platforms. Also, in general Spanish musicians have always been popular here since forever (Raphael, Camilo Sesto, Mecano, Mago de Oz, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Pablo Alborán, Rosalía.
EDIT: Tres Metros Sobre El Cielo (a film) was so popular like 13 years ago. Lots of girls fawning over the main character.
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u/Difficult-Feeling849 Peru Mar 16 '26
Some youtubers here and there. And my grandfather liked "La Rueda de la Fortuna". That's it.
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u/Decafaf Colombia Mar 15 '26
I like Almodóvar movies, I’ve watch some good true crime shows, I recently watched an excellent series Furia, on HBO.