Misteur Flamingo

Michaël Flamand (born: ), better known online as Misteur Flamingo, is a Canadian YouTuber from Québec City. He began posting videos in December 2013, but he created his channel a month earlier.
== Early Life==
Born on March 5, 1998 in Québec City, Michaël, who is an only child, has been deeply passionate about movies ever since he was at least 5 years old. Lived a relatively normal life until May 2007, when his parents bought a grocery store in a village called Val-Alain, requiring the family to move from Beauport to that area and making him lose touch with his very few friends and to go to a new school.
Since then, Michaël had quite a miserable experience with people and education. Now living in a very small town, parents allways working, having no friends and being treated very poorly by pretty much all the other kids to the point were even teachers never stood up to help him, depression and very dark though started to come up to him on a daily basis.
After 5th grade, in hope of being treated better in a different school, Michaël went to do 6th grade at a school in Plessisville, but unfortunately, people treated him worse there. Between getting heavily mistreated by a large group of female student from his class and beat up daily by a bully simply for being overweight, Michaël felt left alone in a hostile environment.
He now started faking being sick in order to avoid going to school and getting beat up, so had to redo his entire 6th grade the next year instead of going to high school.
Things in high school were not that much better, but still nowhere near as bad. Despite meeting his (now former) best friend Olivier, the duo were being treated poorly by the other students. Not being capable of eating at a table during lunch because nobody would let them sit close led them to go sit by themselves.
=== YouTube Start ===
By December 2013, Michaël decided to film and then upload to YouTube a fake movie trailer about magic. Recorded with his laptop's webcam and edited on a crappy free software without any real basic knowledge.
== Shows==
=== Rires De Caves===
Michaël's most known and popular show on his channel. The show first started on a secondary channel, but it moved to Michaël's primary channel after the 10th episode.
The show consists of many shorts funny videos that have no link to each other, but that makes an entire episode of 5 to 10 minutes. He wrote the 14 first episodes with his best friend and has directed those videos together.
Rires De Caves is so popular with the audience that the show got renewed for a third season that began in January 2016 with the 10th episode. The 14th episode of the show was the last of season 3 and the show is planned to return for the fourth season of 13 episodes that were supposed to start on September 2017 with one episode every four months. On September 23, 2017, was released on his channel the first gag of the episode as a teaser to let the fans know that the show isn't dead and that episode 15 is in active works. The show was finally cancelled back in October 2019 and rebooted as Rires De Caves Présente, before getting a one episode revival in September 2020. 
=== Rires De Caves Présente===
Reboot/new formula of the Rires De Caves web-series. Instead of many skits in one episode, this new version consist of only one funny video per episode, each being between 2 and 10 minutes, and having a different theme as well. The very first episode is an homage to the American Pie film series and was released on April 14th. The title of this reboot is a reference to the American Pie Presents, which is the direct-to-video spin-off of the main theatrical films.
===Le Flamingo Enragé (Discontinued)===
This show consisted of old and/or bad games reviews just like the AVGN but in French. It's the second season receive far more mixed reviews. Compared to the first season, which receives critical praise from the audience, the season 2 ratings where far more average than the first season.
The show was supposed to return for a third season on June 23, 2017, but it was later pushed to July 19, 2017.
The third season finally started on July 15, 2017, and ended on January 19, 2018. The fourth season was planned to begin on April 6, 2018, but instead began on May 29, 2018.
Michaël announced in 2023 that he would no longer continue Le Flamingo Enragé, feeling that this much negative energy as that character was adding to his already ongoing depression.
===Quoi D'Neuf Mr Flamingo? (Discontinued)===
French-Canadian adaptation from Ray William Johnson Equal Three. It was canceled after it's second season because Michaël wanted to come up with more original ideas instead of creating adaptations from YouTubers he likes.
===Les Frères Flamingo (Discontinued)===
French-Canadian web-series where Michaël and his (fictionnal) twin brother Masturbain Crossfort are talking about movies/video games.
==Films==
Michaël is also making films for his YouTube channel.
===Released films===
Ploucadence (June 2, 2015) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BVbh_idkso&t=935s
===Upcoming films===
===Completed screenplay===
#Les Pas-Très-Fant4stiques
#Le Vendredi 13 Du Flamingo Enragé
===Films currently in writing process===
*Menace Clownesque
*2 Épais Sur La Route
*Grand Theft Donuts
*Flamingo Enragé: Le Film
*À La Recherche Du Slender Man
*YouTubers: Endgame
==Content==
Michaël uploads movie and game reviews, web-series and short filmsthat he writes and direct by himself. He was also making content with his (former) best friend until October 2019, before starting back working together in late 2020 for a very limited time.
==Personal life==
Michaël got diagnosed with autism in October 2015, at the age of 17 and a few months after dropping out of high school. He has difficulty working at a full time job as well because of abnormal anxiety. Because of that, he has monthly allowance from the government of Canada so he can pay his rent, buy food, and live on his own. From July 2019 to December 2020, he was an intern at a video game store on the weekends, but left because of anxiety due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unfortunate amount of disrespect he was getting from his boss.
From July to December 2021, Michaël worked in a restaurant, washing dishes, cancelling the help he was getting from the government. He, however, quit that job because of his anxiety got worse during the COVID-19 pandemic and is now back with government monetary help as of January 2022.
On December 14, 2023, on his first video's 10th anniversary, Michaël uploaded a short and sweet "thank you" message and then said that he would be going on an indefinite hiatus from YouTube because of his ongoing depression and many suicidal thoughts, while promising we will be seeking professional help and comeback once he will be ready. While he intended for his hiatus to be longer, Michaël decided to upload again on January 1, 2024, planning to be active online, but less frequently than before in order to avoid giving himself too much pressure.
=== Weight loss ===
Initially at around 295 lbs before contracting COVID-19 in late october of 2023, Michaël lost more than 55 pounds in the span of the following months and had to walk with a cane for a brief period.
==Trivia==
*He created his fictional twin brother Masturbain Crossfort as a way to have a new character available for web-series and other videos.
*He created the Donuts Entertainment independent production website and developed it by himself, but decided to completely shut down the website as of June 13, 2020. As of August 2020, the website is completely shut down. However, Michaël launched a new (also defunct) website in November 2020 called Divertissement Flaminator.
*Michaël learned how to edit videos by watching YouTube tutorials.
==Subscriber milestones== 
*100 subscribers: February 15, 2016
*200 subscribers: June 9, 2016
*300 subscribers: On August 24, 2016
*400 subscribers: On November 20, 2016
*500 subscribers: February 25, 2017
*600 subscribers: April 3, 2017
*700 subscribers: June 7, 2017
*800 subscribers: July 24, 2017
*900 subscribers: October 7, 2017
*1,000 subscribers: December 10, 2017
*1,100 subscribers: March 17, 2018
*1,200 subscribers: May 24, 2018
*1,300 subscribers: August 26, 2018
*1,400 subscribers: November 22, 2018
*1,500 subscribers: March 9, 2019
*1,600 subscribers: May 29, 2019
*1,700 subscribers: September 8, 2019
*1,800 subscribers: November 21, 2019
*1,900 subscribers: March 11, 2020
*2,000 subscribers: May 23, 2020
*2,100 subscribers: August 11, 2020
*2,300 subscribers: January 29, 2022
*2,410 subscribers: July 27, 2022
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Review YouTubers
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013