About Orígenes
Everything has a case file
Orígenes is a YouTube channel and this website. Each video answers a question people ask every day —what is the origin of…?— as an archive case file: numbered, with clues, records and a stamped verdict.
For now, the case files are in Spanish.
Archive open
Backstage
Who we are
Two former teachers, a hand-built system and one rule: if a fact doesn't add up, it doesn't ship.
«No es magia… es código.»
«La vida está llena de serendipias, encontrá las tuyas.»
Backstage
Research & direction
Germán
Maldito NRD
A teacher for over 15 years, in primary school and adult training, now a developer.
Motto: «No es magia… es código.»
Germán's fileEditing & review
Noe
La Tía Hippie
A kindergarten teacher for 8 years and a co-founder of Orígenes.
Motto: «La vida está llena de serendipias, encontrá las tuyas.»
Noe's file
The channel's story
Act I
Two teachers and a question
Before opening the archive, Germán taught for over fifteen years, in primary school and adult training, and Noe was a kindergarten teacher for eight. They brought one certainty out of the classroom: a good question beats a memorized answer.
Act II
Case file, not episode
Case file and not episode, because an episode asks to be watched in order and a case file asks to be collected. A number is never reused. Germán built the system behind each one —the research, the code-driven animation, the brand— and Noe reviews every script before it goes out.
Act III
Jokes yes, made-up facts no
We tell history with dry punchlines and an old-school announcer. The satire targets the myth, the powerful and absurd bans; never a people or a culture. Every fact has a source: here's how we research.
Act IV
The site adds, it doesn't repeat
Each case file on the site brings what the video left out: context, debates between historians, a timeline, a map, FAQs and every source. The video is the door; the full archive is here.
Act V
The archive opens
On September 30, 2026 we released case file Nº 01, on the origin of the Romani people. Since then the archive has grown one case at a time.