HowToBasic
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| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||
| Residence | Cannington, Perth, Australia | ||||||||
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| Channel | HowToBasic | ||||||||
| Years active | 2011–present | ||||||||
| Genre | Surreal comedy, black comedy, visual gags | ||||||||
| Subscribers | 8.42 million | ||||||||
| Total views | 1.28 billion | ||||||||
| Network | Fullscreen | ||||||||
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HowToBasic is an Australian YouTube channel with over 8 million subscribers that gained popularity between 2012 and 2013. It shows bizarre visual gags disguised as how-to tutorials. The person featured in the videos does not speak or show his face, and remains anonymous. The channel is a part of the Fullscreen network.
The channel has reached eight million subscribers as of mid-September 2016, the highest of any Australian YouTube channel. In June 2013, the person behind HowToBasic was interviewed as part of a 6 PM News Bulletin by Nine News Perth broadcast on STW. The station preserved his anonymity on his request. HowToBasic videos have been compared to the work of David Cronenberg and Marcel Duchamp.
The channel has been criticized on ethical grounds for its typical waste of large amounts of food, while it has been also claimed that the man behind the channel uses expired food from a grocery store he owns. The channel has been briefly suspended on multiple occasions, once in 2014 and again in late 2015 on presumed violations of YouTube's policy on misleading content. Soon after, the channel was restored, and suspension lifted in both circumstances.
The channel intentionally misleads first-time unaware viewers to believe it is a how-to channel, with video titles, thumbnails and descriptions, as well as the channel's general description, claiming its videos to be tutorials on different subjects, with a particular emphasis on cooking (which becomes less prominent later in time). The videos feature a man interacting with food and objects in a first-person view; he does not show his face or speak, however he does utter groans and other obscure sounds. At certain point of each video, mostly at the beginning but sometimes later, the man begins to act aggressively, often by mixing or combining ingredients in an unusual way, and then creating a large mess by smashing, destroying, and throwing the aforementioned objects, with an excessive use of eggs, the channel's theme, and occasional use of dolls, chicken meats, fishes and printed images, along with many different items and instruments including electronics and firearms. The earliest videos consisted of quick, but actual tutorials of very simple actions, such as "how to open a door"; with the videos' plots gradually changing to this form described above. Recent videos, however, are employing additional gags, with guest actors and related footages appearing. One notable guest actor to appear in these videos is Max Stanley from Maxmoefoe, another Australian YouTube channel.
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