NEGAS

Ricardo Adrián Lozoya (born: ), better known online as NEGAS (formerly known as MrDonMakila) or RAL, is a Mexican animator, podcaster and youtuber, known for creating different animated internet series. He is considered one of the most influential animators on Hispanic YouTube and in his years of activity he has created a vast universe of animated characters.
==History==
Ricardo Adrián Lozoya was born in 1984 in the state of Chihuahua. He studied Electronic Systems Engineering at the Technological Institute of Chihuahua. Since he was a child he had been a big fan of Japanese series and animation in general, and used to create comics based on the series he watched. Upon leaving high school he began with the first flash animations, creating his first character, Ral, a boy who lived various adventures in the city of Chihuahua and was an allusion to him when he was little.
After creating Ral, he would create his own series, "Raltoon", his first series which would upload the chapters on his website raltoon.com and on his own YouTube channel. During this time he would also have another channel where he uploaded podcasts from his car, which would later become his main channel NEGAS (Originally called MrDonMakila).
After Raltoon was moderately successful, Ricardo decided to create a new character, Negas, which was intended to represent Ricardo as an adult, being extremely grumpy and launching constant social criticism. Negas quickly became a massive success and soon after would have his own series called Don Makila. After this, NEGAS would create other characters such as Pinchimono, Checker Cuckis, Paulo Chinguetas, Ñoñostacio, EnaGena, Lataman, etc.
During this period (2010-2014) NEGAS gained great popularity and quickly became one of the main references for Hispanic YouTube animators. With a simple drawing style, endearing characters, and scathing critiques of almost every aspect of society, NEGAS captivated a large audience.
However, in 2015, there would be a big change in the NEGAS channel. That year, NEGAS would upload to his channel a video called "Poppa Peg", a parody of Peppa Pig which would quickly become one of NEGAS's most viral videos, which would cause NEGAS to start a Poppa Pig series, turning it into its main content displacing the rest of its series to the background. The following year, NEGAS would create another series called "Niño Rata", based on the homonymous slang used in the Hispanic internet to refer to children with annoying personalities who follow popular things. Since then, the NEGAS channel would be almost exclusively dedicated to Niño Rata, although in recent years it would return to make a more varied content.
==Content==
During its beginnings, the NEGAS channel was mostly videos of Ricardo doing podcasts from his car (which later became vlogs), with a couple of uploaded animations. After his animations became more successful, his channel became completely animated, while his vlogs and podcasts went to a secondary channel called Pinchimundo. Negas' animations included parodies of movies, series, sports, politics, celebrities, and almost all aspects of society, always with acid humor and vulgar language. His most famous series, Don Makila, where Negas works in a maquiladora company, also stands out among his content, with approximately 49 episodes.
After 2015 the content of the NEGAS channel became mostly about Poppa Peg and later Niño Rata, a situation that lasted until 2020, when the content of NEGAS became more varied again.
==Trivia==
#The name "negas" came up after there was a UN convention in his hometown, and he was complaining about the planet's problems, but his friends were annoyed with him and told him that before appearing in public "no anduviera de negas" (not to be negative; negas would be an abbreviation for negative).
#Aside from the channels mentioned above, it also has a gameplays channel called negames.
#Negas is a friend of Raúl Barrera, known on YouTube as NiñoGüero Studios, and together they created the webseries "El Consultorio del Dr. Gokú".
#His most well-known and characteristic phrase is "¡A Huevo!".
#He has developed several video games based on his animations, most of them for mobile phones (for more information you can visit his page on Google Play).
#He and some of his friends created the punk rock band "LOS PANX", based on his animated series Lataman.
==Gallery==
RaltoonCharacters.png|Characters from Raltoon, Ricardo's first series.
NegasCharacter.png|Negas Character.
FirstNegas.png|Negas first design.
RAL&Negas.png|Ricardo and his creation.
DonMakila.png|Characters from Don Makila, the most famous series of NEGAS.
Pinchimono.png|Pinchimono, the second best known character and the mascot of the channel.
NegasBanner2016.jpg|NEGAS channel banner in 2016. You can see Negas, Poppa Peg, Niño Rata, Veto y Enryke and Pinchimono.
PinchimundoBackground.png|Background used in Pinchimundo videos.
==External links==
*Negas Wiki (in Spanish)
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