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Dalas Review
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Personal information
Born	Daniel José Santomé Lemus (1993-10-31) 31 October 1993 (age 30) Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Occupations	YouTuber Twitch streamer Stardeos Founder Writer (hiatus)
Partner	Lizy P (2016–present)
Website	dalasito.blogspot.com
YouTube information
Channels	Review Dalas Review SIN FILTROS Dalas SIN FILTROS WhaTheGame
Location	Ireland
Years active	2005–present
Genre(s)	Short films (2010–2011) Reviews Let's Play
Subscribers	11.3 million [1] (July 2024)
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 2015 1,000,000 subscribers 2016 10,000,000 subscribers 2021
Twitch information
Channel	DalasReview
Genre(s)	Influencers-related gossip, critics and interviews
Followers	1 million

Daniel José Santomé Lemus (born 31 October 1993), better known as Dalas Review or simply Dalas, is a Spanish YouTuber with more than 11.3 million subscribers on his main channel.^[2] He has also written two novels, Fugitives in Time (2016) and The Ink. Beyond the Magic (2017).

Dalas is the first child of Juan Jose Santomé and Maria Sabrina Lemus Carmenatty, and was born on 31 October 1993 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.^[3] He was introduced to computers when he was three years old and around the age of 11–12, he got into 3D modelling and photo editing. He later enrolled in a multimedia degree, but decided to drop out.^[4]

In 2005, when the YouTube platform was created, Dalas started grabbing film trailers in other languages to put "subtitles that didn't make any sense". "Dalas" is a combination of the first two letters of his first name, the first letter of his second last name and the first two letters of his first last name the other way around.^[4] He started his career in 2010 with a channel named DTeamVlogs, achieving virality with a video criticizing Justin Bieber's fans named "La niña believer". His main channel "Dalas Review" was created in 2012.^[5] In July 2017, Dalas won the Tolete Award for his parody of the Canarian accent in a video titled "Imitating 15 accents of Spain and Latin America (Very Bad)".^{[6][non-primary source needed]} In January 2021 he created a Pornhub account where he intended to upload videos about sexual education.^[7]

In 2016, he published Fugitivos en el tiempo (Fugitives in Time),^[4] a science fiction novel starring Uriel and based on time travel.^[8] It sold 16,000 units in four editions. He signed several copies of his book in Málaga.^[9] In November 2017, he published La tinta. Más allá de la magia (Ink. Beyond magic), a novel that tells the story of Sveia, a young woman misunderstood both by her environment and by the bad relationship with her parents and classmates, but who would soon find herself immense in a magical world inhabited by supernatural creatures. During the book's launch, Dalas stated that instead of the traditional book signings, he would hold some kind of shows that will include activities including reading a snippet from his book.^[10]

In August 2021, he released the beta version of the video website Stardeos,^[11] for which he invested in for a total of nine months.^[12] According to him, the website's focus is to be a "fairer" version of YouTube, in which creators would receive more visibility than in other platforms and would have more freedom regarding their content.^[11] In addition, the platform is not allowed to delete channels^[13] or demonetize and/or censor videos unless a judge orders it.^[14]

During the first four hours after the release, the website was down due to high traffic of more than 150,000 users per minute.^[15] This is due to the fact that the capacity of the servers that Dalas hired could not support large amounts of connected users.^[16] In October 2021, Stardeos was back online, while Wrixy, a website dedicated to publishing literary content, went offline due to Dalas being unable to pay maintenance costs within five days.^[17][18] In October 2021, he uploaded a video complaining about the various problems he had both with 200 people who worked on the project and with companies he contacted.^[19]

During the development of Stardeos, he also contacted some YouTubers and streamers like AriGameplays and JuanSGuarnizo to ask them to upload videos to the platform.^[20][21] In March 2022, he uploaded a video to Stardeos in which he talks about and is extremely aggressive and verbally explicit towards Twitter haters under the argument that he has had to endure comments of the same level from these users for a long time. He also claimed that he would upload videos of the same style but for paid subscribers.^[22][23] In June 2022, he uploaded the first paid Stardeos video accusing AriGameplays of being unfaithful to JuanSGuarnizo with TheGrefg.^[24]

Dalas has worked on a few video game projects like: Fur Fun, an adventure and platform video game in 3D,^[25] released on Steam on 10 February 2017. The game was developed jointly by Dalas and a friend of his named Doky, using the program Unreal Engine 4.^[26] The origin of the development began in September 2016 with a Kickstarter campaign under the title of "Kewpie - Jazzy", a video game strongly inspired by those of Rare. The project aimed to raise 92,000 euros, however only 650 would be raised. Dalas would then take the project and, in December 8 of that year, it would return under the new name "Fur Fun".^[27] After its official launch on Steam, received generally negative reviews and in January 2018, he announced that he would remove the game from Steam.^[28] During 2020 and 2021, Dalas was looking for programmers to help in the development of "Fur Fun 2".^[29]

On 23 December 2021, Daniel, after having a private conversation with an anonymous person on TorChat, claimed to have received 10 million euros worth of Bitcoin from the anonymous individual. Dalas has claimed for a long time to be raising as much money as possible to open a laboratory focused on biological immortality research. Allegedly, the anonymous donor sent Dalas the money to support this plan. After the announcement, a series of videos followed suit in which he investigated the source of the bitcoins and who sent them, after finding a hidden message he discovered that the person who sent the bitcoins was from Sinaloa, Mexico. After the discovery no more videos about the donation have been published. His plans to create the laboratory, however, have shifted; he now wants to achieve that goal through machine learning AI under the belief that human researchers are too inefficient to reach the goal in a reasonable period of time.^[30][31]

The relationship between Daniel Santomé Lemus and María Rubio Sánchez (Miare) ended in March 2016 and a woman named Naya Chimlova uploaded a video where she explained why they had broken up (the video is currently unavailable).^[32][33] However, on April 19, 2016, Dalas uploaded a video titled "estoy harto de mentiras y por eso hago este vídeo" ("I'm tired of lies and that's why I make this video") in which he responds to Miare and her accusations against him of being a "stalker".^[34][35] In August 2016, Interviú published "No sirves para nada, eres una puta" ("You're useless, you're a whore"), a headline that shows fragments of the complaint that Miare filed against Dalas in July of that same year in a Barcelona court.^[36]

After she broke up with Dalas, Miare asked Dalas for his greyhound named Argos which was adopted in 2015 to keep it for some time. Dalas later asked her to return it to which she denied. Because of that, he sued her to get back his dog in June 2016, and after having had the trial in July 2017, Dalas won the lawsuit and Miare was sentenced to return the dog to Dalas.^[34][37] Because of this, Miare uploaded a half-hour video explaining why she did not agree with the court ruling,^[34] and in addition showed WhatsApp conversations in which Dalas supposedly admitted to having mistreated the dog. The existence of these chats were denied by Dalas in a video uploaded on July 12, 2017 titled "tenía otro vídeo preparado, pero este mal rollo nunca acabará" ("I had another video prepared, but this bad situation will never end") ^[37] In July 2017, several users such as Anne Reburn, Aida Explorer or Mel Dominguez (focusinvlogs) uploaded videos recounting their alleged cases with Dalas.^[38] On the other hand Miare went to explain her version to Fina Brunet on TV3's Els Matins.^[39]

On December 28, 2018, Dalas, Lizy P and some two of his friends went to the Sant Joan Despí neighborhood, Barcelona, where they found Miare's parents walking the animal and demanded that they return the dog. It was then that Miare's father charged towards Lizy and hit her. Then, her mother bit a friend of Dalas who was there at the time in the back. This led to Lizy P ending up in the emergency room due to the pain.^[40] In August 2019, he uploaded a video announcing that he sued Miare for the crime of false complaint.^[41][42]

According to Miare's version, she lost Argos and her family adopted a twin named Marlos and Dalas put a complaint against Miare and her mother for misappropriation of the animal, based on the claim that the dog was actually Argos. On February 3, 2021, the complaint for misappropriation of Argos against Miare and his mother was ultimately archived after an expert assured that the dog was not Argos. Dalas uploaded on April 23 a 56-minute video in which he assure that the expert had been convinced to made the report where they denied that they were the same dog. On the other hand, Miare published a tweet talking about the complaint.^[43] On April 27 he uploaded other video in which he shows how the veterinarian retracted the statement he showed a few months ago and actually showed proof that the dog was the same, confirming that the dog was in fact Argos.^[44]

The 18th of May of 2023, news stated that Dalas had been sentenced to pay a compensation to Miare's father, who made a complaint that Dalas had been insulting him and his family via his Youtube channel.^[45] The very same day, it was announced that a judge sentenced Miare and his parents to return the dog and pay a compensation to Dalas and failure to do so would result in prison, as it was determined that they in fact still had Argos and there was no twin dog, and had committed crimes such as document falsification and misappropritation.^[46]

On October 4, 2017, Wismichu uploaded a video titled "Así es Dalas Review" ("This is Dalas Review"), that as of February 2024 has 20.4 million views,^[47] and in which apart from bringing out Dalas Review's "miseries", he calls him out on his allegations of gender violence,^[48] and insinuates that he fled to Ireland to escape the Spanish law.^[49] He also refers to him as "miserable", "psychopath", "hyena", "bad person", "wretch" and "bastard".^[50]

After the Wismichu video, Dalas lost around 310,000 subscribers, going from having 5,700,000 to 5,390,000. This made Dalas Review hide his channel's subscriber count temporarily.^[51] On October 5, he padlocked his Twitter account, however on October 6, it would be available again,^[52] and his YouTube channel was subsequently deleted due to mass reports.^[53] However, his channel's deletion would not last long, since a few hours later Dalas' channel was reinstated.^[54]

In March 2018, he would have an interview with Los Replicantes, in which he talked about a video in which he would show court documents and evidence that would disprove the lies told against him.^[55] On 18 May 2018, Dalas published "se acabó, wismichu e ingrid" ("it's over, wismichu and ingrid"), also known as "el vídeo definitivo" ("the definitive video"), an hour and forty minutes long video in which he refuted, one by one, the accusations made by Wismichu and his ex-girlfriend, Ingrid Míchel (also known as "SoyMia").^[36][49]

In 2018, Daniel sued Ismael for the alleged crime of libel and slander committed in the video "Así es Dalas Review", asking for a penalty of nine months in jail and a 15,000 euros fine.^[56] At the end of 2019 Dalas uploaded to his main channel a video titled "Denuncié a Wismichu" ("I Sued Wismichu"), a video in which he talks about the lawsuit filed a year earlier against Prego for the video that "damaged his career".^[57]

After several months of that video, on December 17, 2020, the trial was finally held where it would be analyzed whether or not Wismichu actually slandered Dalas.^[48] In 2021, the 25th criminal court of Barcelona acquitted Ismael of the accusations of slander and insults perpetuated by Dalas.^[58][59]

On February 11, 2021, Dalas uploaded a video accusing Ismael of having a criminal record and having been sentenced to 6 months in prison for injuring a 21-year-old man in the head with a glass bottle.^[60][61] In the video, he assures that he had access to Ismael's criminal history because he sued him,^[61] and also that it was not made public because Prego had manage to silence the Spanish judicial system.^[62] He also claims to have in his possession audio files of Ingrid where she accuses Ismael of being an abuser.^[60]

During the 2021 controversy he called Ismael out for searching for teenagers on Chatroulette and asking them to strip naked, with the intention of recording them and publishing them on his website without censorship as paid videos. On the other hand, he made an appeal to speak with any of his alleged victims to present his case, and as a consequence, an alleged victim appeared in a video on February 16 to report that when she was 14 years old, she showed her breasts with a friend of hers in one of Ismael's recordings.^[63][60]

In April 2018, a 15-year-old Argentinian girl named Olivia shared on her Twitter account several screenshots, videos, and live streams of alleged conversations she had with Dalas in 2016, the year in which she was supposedly about 13 years old. She also claimed that he sent her semi-nude pool photos on Instagram. This topic was addressed by the Mexican youtuber Diego De La Mattaz, most known as Mexivergas, in a livestream with Dalas from March of that same year. In 2021, Fabían Pasos, a YouTuber known as Mafian TV interviews this alleged victim from Dalas in a video titled "La Verdad Oscura de Dalas Review" ("The Dark Truth about Dalas Review"). Olivia, known on social networks as Olivita de Mar, claimed that Dalas contacted his father to intimidate him.^[64]

Following Olivia's accusations, Dalas was tried on November 30, 2018 for "child sexual cyberbullying and sexual abuse".^[65][36] The Madrid prosecutor's office asked for 5 years in prison,^[66][67] 11 of disqualification,^[68] and 9 years of estrangement.^[69] According to her testimony, she and Dalas began to communicate through Twitter in 2015 and Dalas sent her a photo of his naked torso.

They did not meet in person until 26 January 2016,^[70] when she attended a signing of his book Fugitivos en el tiempo held in Madrid, Spain. Both continued talking on WhatsApp and on 8 February 2016,^[71] he met her at the Atocha train station. She claimed that during that encounter he kissed her and proposed to go back to his hotel and that they later went to the Retiro park where he allegedly kissed her again and touched her vaginal area and her breasts.

Dalas defended himself by saying that the topless photo had already been published before, however he admitted that they did indeed meet in person in 2016 during his book signing. He affirmed that he was in Atocha only for about 15 minutes to sign a copy of his book that the girl had. He denied that they went to the Retiro park and the sexual encounter that supposedly occurred there.^[72] He flatly denied having had any sexual interest in her. He also stated that he had talked a lot with her because she claimed to have both problems at school and abuse from her mother.^[73] In December 2018, the Provincial Court of Madrid acquitted Dalas due to lack of evidence.^[74][75]

Daniel is an atheist and he deny the existence of Jesus.^[76] His sister is Ariadna Cabrero Lemus, known on social media as Ariann Music.^[77] As of 2018, Dalas lives in Ireland with his girlfriend Damaris Pérez known as Lizy P, a fashion and make-up YouTuber,^[78][79] due to high taxes in Spain among other reasons.^[80] On August 17, 2022, his stepfather Manel Cabero i Pueyo (son of Manuel Cabero) died of stage 4 liver cancer with metastasis. After this event, he criticized the health system due to the treatment given to him by health professionals.

Dalas has been controversial for several of his comments on politics: he has occasionally shown some support for the Republican politician Donald Trump for his economic policies and his decision to designate Antifa as a terrorist group and various other reasons.^[81][82] He also made a video supporting the Spanish far-right party Vox for their economic policies and stance on the spanish gender violence law despite largely disliking the party's other social postures.^[83] He has also been critical of socialism, communism,^[84] progressive leftist movements in Spain and of taxes, criticizing statism. Many of his comments have been described as homophobic and racist.^{[vague][85][86]} During the 2016 Madrid Book Fair he was expelled due to feminist pressure for his sexist and misogynistic comments.^[87] In a video uploaded in September 2021, he commented "that even if habits are changed, it is impossible for people to stop climate change." Video that was classified as a climate change denier.^[88]

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• Dalas Review's channel on YouTube
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• Dalas Review judgment of December 17, 2018 published by El País