Miguel Bernal Montes was born on March 27, 1993, in Pozuelo de Alarcon, a suburb of Madrid, Spain. According to Wikipedia’s biography of Mikecrack, he was diagnosed with ADHD at age nine, a detail he has referenced publicly in discussing his childhood. Between the ages of 14 and 18 he trained at a magic academy associated with renowned Spanish magician Juan Tamariz, an unusual grounding for a creator who would later become known for chaotic, high-energy gaming content rather than sleight of hand.

Bernal Montes did not go straight from magic school into full-time content creation. He completed a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in 2015 and went on to pursue a master’s degree in biomedical technology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, according to a biographical profile from Eduvast’s profile of Mikecrack. His academic background in science sits at odds with the persona he later built online, and it is rarely mentioned in coverage that focuses purely on his YouTube numbers.

Bernal Montes’ first brush with YouTube came in 2009, when he uploaded magic-trick tutorials under his own name rather than a channel persona, a direct extension of his years studying under Tamariz. That channel never grew into a full career, and he set it aside to finish his science studies. The gaming channel that made him famous carries a registration date of July 13, 2015, per YouTubers.me’s tracker for the channel, though Wikipedia’s account places his first regular gaming uploads in February 2016, while he was still completing his master’s degree — a gap that likely reflects the channel sitting dormant between its creation and Bernal Montes committing to it full time.

The channel originally launched under the name “Mikecraft,” built around Minecraft let’s plays, before a fan vote led Bernal Montes to rebrand it to “Mikecrack” in March 2017, according to Wikitia’s biography of Mikecrack. Early videos combined straightforward Minecraft gameplay with the beginnings of the exaggerated, cartoonish editing style and the animated dog character, Mike, that would come to define the channel’s identity, styled visually in a way commonly compared to Jake the Dog from Adventure Time.

The turning point for Bernal Montes’ channel was the formation of Los #CoMPas in 2017, a collaborative creator group he built alongside fellow Spanish YouTubers ElTrollino, Timba Vk and Sparta356, later joined by additional creators including RaptorGamer and RiusPlay. The group’s shared Minecraft role-play series and cross-channel challenges multiplied audience discovery across all four core members’ channels simultaneously, a format that proved especially effective with the young, Spanish-speaking audience that Minecraft content was already drawing in large numbers.

Growth from there was rapid and sustained. Mikecrack passed 30 million subscribers in 2021, making the channel the third most-subscribed in Spain at that point, per Wikipedia’s subscriber-milestone timeline. On July 30, 2023, the channel surpassed longtime Spanish YouTube leader Rubius (El Rubius) to become the most-subscribed Spanish-language YouTuber in the world, a milestone that received wide coverage across Spanish entertainment press and cemented Bernal Montes as the country’s leading creator by audience size.

By mid-2026, the Mikecrack channel had reached roughly 58 million subscribers and more than 21.6 billion lifetime views across upward of 2,200 uploaded videos, according to YouTubers.me’s channel statistics for Mikecrack. That scale places the channel among the largest Spanish-language creators anywhere in the world, built almost entirely on Minecraft, Roblox and family-oriented gaming content rather than the vlogging or commentary formats that drive many equivalently sized English-language channels.

Bernal Montes was named to Forbes Spain’s list of the country’s ten best influencers in 2020, ranked fourth, and has been nominated three separate times for the Streamy Awards in the International category, according to OnlyWikis’ profile of Mikecrack. He also released the animated series “Las Perrerias de Mike” in 2021, extending the Mike character beyond gaming commentary into standalone animated storytelling.

Within Spanish-language YouTube, Mikecrack is widely recognized as the genre-defining creator of the “Minecraft comedy role-play” format that Los Compas popularized, a style since imitated by numerous smaller creators across Spain and Latin America. His recognition extends well beyond YouTube’s own charts: repeated Forbes Spain and Streamy Awards nominations place him in the same recognition tier as the platform’s biggest global gaming creators, despite operating almost entirely in Spanish rather than English.

That recognition is concentrated heavily among a young audience. Multiple creator-profile trackers, including InfluencerFee’s brand profile of Mikecrack, describe his core viewership as concentrated in the 8-to-16 age bracket, a demographic skew that shapes both his public image as a family-friendly creator and the type of brand attention his channel attracts.

Specific endorsement contract values are not publicly disclosed by Bernal Montes or his partners, which is standard for creators operating at this scale. What is documented: OnlyWikis’ profile of Mikecrack lists commercial partnerships with Epic Games, multi-channel network BBTV, merchandise platform Teespring, and an Amazon-hosted storefront operated under the name Trendy Top Store, spanning gaming, merchandising and platform-distribution deals rather than a single headline sponsor.

InfluencerFee’s rate-card estimate for Mikecrack places a single sponsored Instagram feed placement at roughly $15,000 to $40,000, and identifies his most common sponsor categories as gaming hardware brands, Spanish food and drink brands, and entertainment-platform campaigns. The same profile notes his family-friendly, under-16-skewing audience commands premium rates relative to comparably sized adult-oriented gaming channels, since brands targeting children and teens have fewer large, brand-safe Spanish-language creators to choose from.

Beyond ad revenue, Bernal Montes has built a publishing and merchandise business around the Mike character and the wider Los Compas cast. The group has released a series of illustrated adventure books, including the 2019 title Los Compas escapan de la prision, per Wikitia’s listing of Mikecrack’s publications. Separately, OnlyWikis’ profile of Mikecrack puts the wider “Los Compas” book series at six titles released between 2018 and 2021 through Spanish publishers including Ediciones Martinez Roca and Planeta de Libros, with combined sales reported at more than one million copies worldwide.

On the music side, Bernal Montes has released a run of original singles under the Mikecrack name, including “Diamantito” (2018), “Sonriendo Siempre” (2019), “Yo Quiero Vivir” (2020) and “Juntos Somos Imparables” (2021), according to TheCityCeleb’s biography of Mikecrack. He has also run merchandise lines covering toys, clothing, school supplies and accessories carrying the Mike character, sold across Spain and Latin America, and has staged live tour appearances in both regions, per PrimesWorld’s profile of Mikecrack.

Bernal Montes grew up in Pozuelo de Alarcon and, as an adult, is reported to live in Las Rozas, another Madrid-area suburb, sharing a home with friends and his dog, nicknamed WillyPerro, according to OnlyWikis’ profile of Mikecrack. No purchase price, closing date, square footage or public property record has been reported for that residence, and no vehicle collection or other major physical asset has been documented in available profiles — several aggregator biographies explicitly list his car holdings as “not known.” HowMuchAreTheyWorth has not independently verified ownership or value for any property associated with Bernal Montes, and this section should be read as celebrity-profile reporting rather than confirmed real-estate data.