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El Xokas
El Xokas in 2022
Personal information
Born
Joaquín Domínguez Portela

(1991-04-13) April 13, 1991 (age 33)
Lugo
NationalitySpanish
OccupationTwitch streamer
YouTube information
Channel
Subscribers2.66 million[1]
Total views432.980.674 million[1]
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2018–present
GenreGaming
Games
Followers4.21 millions[2]
TikTok information
Page
Followers5.6M
Instagram information
Page
Followers1.3M
Last updated: 6 February 2024

Joaquín Domínguez Portela (Lugo, 13 April 1991), known as El Xokas, is a Spanish influencer, content creator, and Twitch streamer.[3][4] He gained a popularity on Twitch and YouTube.[5] In 2022 he was the most subscription channel on Twitch in Spain.[6]

As of 2022 he had 1.63 million of followers on YouTube, and 2.998.086 on Twitch.[7]

Biography

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Xokas was born on 13 April 1991 in Lugo, son of a La Coruña father and a mother from Abadín in the province of Lugo who both are the owner of a hair saloon.[8] He studied primary school on Colegio Rosalía de Castro and then he studied ESO in Fingoi. He moved to Salamanca to study Advertising and Marketing Bachelor Degree at Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, and then he studied apostgraduate course on audiovisual post-productoin in Madrid.[9]

Career

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In 2016 he started as post-producer and video editor for Real Madrid Club de Fútbol,[10] and at the same time he was a YouTuber, where he uploaded League of Legends videos.[11] On 8 January 2018 he started his career on Twitch, making streams with content related with World of Warcraft.[12] becoming in 2019 in the main content creator for this category and one of the prominent streamers in Europe.[13][14]

On 27 August 2019 he ended his contract as post-productor, working on full-time on Twitch.[15] He attended Twitch events alongside El Rubius.[16][17] and he also collaborated with Ibai Llanos.[18] On 9 January 2021 he was invited to Juego del calamar, one of the major events between streamers and YouTubers, where he became one of the most influential one.[19] He also was invited to a Rust event.[20] Then he attended television programms such as La Resistencia, on Movistar Plus,[3] and the The Wild Project and Charlando Tranquilamente podcasts.[21][22]

In 2021 he ran EL XOKAST podcast, where he interviewed urban music singers such as Natos y Waor, Prok and SFDK.[13] He won an ESLAND Awards for Revelation Streamer of the Year.[23] In the same year he was implicated in a controversy by Ministry of Equality, Irene Montero.[24][25]

At the beginning of 2022 he reached 1.2 millon viewers during the streaming of Squid Game, Minecraft event wich was the third streaming video most watched on the platform, and it is based on the Netflix series.[26]

In February 2024 he acquired Knoweats, a business which sells prepared food, to compete against Wetaca.[27] In February 2025 he created the WoW event named Go Again, made for Spanish players, which starts on 9 February.[28][29]

References

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  1. ^ a b "About El Xokas". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Followers". Twitch Tracker.
  3. ^ a b "Así es ElXokas, de trabajar en el Real Madrid a ser uno de los streamers más famosos de España". larazon.es (in Spanish). 16 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Joaquín "Elxokas" Domínguez". Movistar eSports (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  5. ^ "Forbes revela el top 10 de streamers en Twitch España". mundodeportivo.com (in Spanish). 9 July 2023.
  6. ^ "El gallego ElXokas desvela lo que gana al mes y su próxima compra: un piso de 1,5 millones". elespanol.com (in Spanish). 23 February 2022.
  7. ^ "¿Quién es El Xokas y por qué se ha ganado el 'odio' de todo el Internet?". larepublica.pe (in Spanish). 30 March 2022.
  8. ^ "ElXokas, el streamer de éxito gallego que no se va a Andorra: "Me gusta mi país y contribuir a que todo vaya bien"". farodevigo.es (in Spanish). 16 February 2021.
  9. ^ "El streamer lucense que lo está rompiendo en la 'virtual life'". elprogreso.es (in Spanish). 12 January 2021.
  10. ^ "El Xokas: de empleado del Real Madrid a arrasar en Twitch con 14 millones de horas vistas". Vozpópuli (in Spanish). 5 February 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Pese a polémicas, invitan a Elxokas a participar en torneo de League of Legends". levelup.com (in Spanish). 25 April 2022.
  12. ^ "Quién es El Xokas, el streamer más popular del 'World of Warcraft'". as.com (in Spanish). 28 September 2022.
  13. ^ a b "¿Quiénes son los diez creadores de contenido con más éxito de Twitch en España?". publico.es (in Spanish). 14 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Xokas y su trayectoria impoluta: del WoW al top 4 de España en Twitch". Movistar eSports (in Spanish). 26 January 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  15. ^ "El Xocas: ¿Quién es "CathyVipi" en la vida del streamer español?". infobae.com (in Spanish). 2 April 2022.
  16. ^ "Los 10 streamers de Twitch en español más vistos (octubre)". Dexerto (in Spanish). 1 November 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  17. ^ "Los 122 streamers invitados al Juego del Calamar de Rubius: AuronPlay, Ibai Llanos, Mayichi, ElXokas, TheGrefg..." marca.com (in Spanish). 11 October 2021.
  18. ^ "ElXokas: "Estaba viviendo el peor momento de mi vida, y vino el peor momento de mi vida"". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). 19 April 2023.
  19. ^ "'El Xokas' supera a Ibai y se convierte en el español con más suscriptores en Twitch". Huffington Post (in Spanish). 8 February 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  20. ^ "Xokas, de villano a héroe: el streamer viral que se mofa del éxodo youtuber hacia Andorra". Vandal (in Spanish). 19 January 2021.
  21. ^ "ElXokas reconoce que no es feliz: "La gente cree que el dinero lo es todo, pero la salud mental y la tranquilidad son más importantes"". 20minutos.es (in Spanish). 17 February 2023.
  22. ^ "Xokas confirma a Ibai que irá a La Resistencia aunque sin fecha fijada". as.com (in Spanish). 12 February 2021.
  23. ^ "El lucense ElXokas, 'streamer' revelación del año en los premios Esland". elprogreso.es (in Spanish). 18 January 2022.
  24. ^ "Todas las veces que la ha liado El Xokas". publico.es (in Spanish). 12 July 2023.
  25. ^ "El youtuber ElXokas desata un terremoto al ensalzar 'técnicas' para 'ligarse' a «pibas colocadas»". abc.es. 12 April 2022.
  26. ^ "ElXokas batió récord de audiencia en el Juego del Calamar". Perfil (in Spanish). 25 January 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  27. ^ Santamarina, Gabril (6 February 2024). "El desafío de Knoweats, la nueva empresa que ha comprado El Xokas: factura un 90% menos que su principal competidor, Wetaca". El Periódico de España (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  28. ^ Calvo, Daniel (3 February 2025). "Así es 'Go Again', el nuevo gran evento de streamers de Xokas en el WoW: Fecha de inicio e invitados". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  29. ^ Carrasco, Juan (29 January 2025). "Xokas presenta oficialmente Go Again Classic Hardcore, su nuevo y masivo evento de World of Warcraft". Flooxer Now (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 February 2025.
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