Wismichu

Ismael José Prego Botana, better known as Wismichu, is a Spanish YouTuber.

His videos consist mostly of satirical video blogs, often characterized by a critical tone and a dark style of humour.

In 2008 he began uploading videos to YouTube, initially gameplays.

Nowadays, his videos often consist of videoblogs, pranks, and parodies, mostly infused with an absurdist and dark style of humour.

In all his social networks and video games, Prego used the name "Wisma", with which his friends knew him.

However, when creating his YouTube account, he could not put it because only names with 8 characters were allowed, so he decided to add a few more characters and create the new name, "Wismichu".

Since October 2013, Prego lived and dated his girlfriend Ingrid, whose relationship ended in mid-2019.

He currently lives in Barcelona.

Ismael is outspoken about his choice to be a vegan for ethical reasons.

In September 2021, he showed through Twitter his support for the Communist Party of the Workers of Spain in his plan to nationalize the electric companies.

In 2022, he revealed that he had been suffering from left ear problems for almost a decade.

Wismichu during his career had several controversies.

Apart from publishing two comics and a book, Ismael appeared in the 2014 movie Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas and also produced in 2019 a movie titled Vosotros sois mi película.

Ismael José Prego Botana was born in A Coruña, located in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.

He moved to Madrid to study Audiovisual Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos I University.

In 2014 he had a cameo in the comedy crime film Torrente 5: Operación Eurovegas, in 2016 he published his first book Si te rindes, pierdes, and in 2017 he published his first comic Norman y Mix.

In 2015, when the Wismichu channel was shut down for several days after being reported and flagged for having "explicit sexual content."

A petition on Change.org amassed over 21,000 online signatures in favor of reinstating the Wismichu channel, and it was ultimately restored.

In September 2016, Álvaro Ojeda filed a police report against Wismichu for threats, after he jokingly claimed that he was "coming for Alvaro Ojeda" in his "Pokemania" video, the report was dropped by police because it was not classified as a threat.

In 2016, Wismichu uploaded a video in which he together with YouTuber AuronPlay made several telephone jokes to different Spanish logging companies.

The owner of one of the companies that had received the calls (resident in Córdoba, Andalusia) denounced the YouTubers before the Spanish police, as reported by the same on Canal Sur Televisión; He also assured that a large number of calls began to arrive, coming from their subscribers.

AuronPlay and Wismichu, for their part, defended themselves against the accusations, alleging things such as the fact that their video had not showed no phone number or that they had not made calls to people from Córdoba, but to people from Galicia and Catalonia, and that they had permission to publish the calls they made.

In October 2017, Wismichu was denounced for attacking a 21-year-old young man with a bottle of beer in the early morning of September 30.

According to one of the complainant male's female companions, Wismichu began to discuss the conflict in Catalonia and the figure of The King with the alleged victim and, after a good time of discussion, the tenants of the apartment decided to evict Ismael from the house.

Faced with this situation, Wismichu, who was sitting in the living room at the time, took a bottle of beer and hit the complainant three times on the head, according to the complaint filed with the police.

After what happened, the attacked young man went to the emergency room, where he was diagnosed with an occipital laceration and contusion, so they had to put five staples in his head, along with some stitches.

At 9:00 a.m., he went to the offices of the police to file a complaint against Ismael Prego.

On the recommendation of his lawyer, the young man did not want to make any statements in this regard.

On 9 September 2017, a female friend of the victim posted several tweets about case, along with some images of the shirt and the floor full of blood.

On 12 September 2018 he announced that the shooting of his first movie, named Bocadillo starring fellow YouTubers Joaquín Albero (JoaquínPA), David Cajal (Kajal Napalm) and María Rubio (Miare's Project), it was also produced by the YouPlanet company.

The film was released at the Sitges Film Festival on 12 October 2018, and the trailer that announced said film ranked first in trends in Spain with a total of 1 million views.

At its release, the film was defined as a joke on the part of Luisa Jabato.

On 17 October 2018 was revealed he was working on a documentary film directed by Carlo Padial, and Bocadillo was a part of the documentary.

From November 2018 he presents a podcast series with Kajal and Joaquín named W-Podcast where they interview contestants, in 2019 he published the sequel of Norman y Mix called Norman y Mix 2: Hazte villano.

In 2018 he appeared in the Movistar+ TV show La Resistencia, hosted by David Broncano.

It was defined as the worst interview, due he broke a cup on his own accord and then run away from the set.

Later Ismael apologized to both the program and the public, stating that "he wanted to make a nod to when Ignatius broke cups in the 1st season."

In April 2021, he and Dalas Review were denounced by inCruises International, a subscription-based world cruise travel company.

Based on the fact that they committed the crime of defamation, claiming that with their videos about them they caused many people not to want to join the membership club.

His Vosotros soís mi película's film trailer was released on 10 March 2019, and the movie already mentioned and produced by YouPlanet was released in Flooxer on 31 March 2019.