HowToBasic
| HowToBasic | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube information | ||||||||||
| Channel | ||||||||||
| Years active | 2011–present | |||||||||
| Genre(s) | Surreal comedy, black comedy | |||||||||
| Subscribers | 6 million[1] | |||||||||
| Total views | 871 million[1] | |||||||||
| Network | Fullscreen | |||||||||
| Associated acts | Filthy Frank, MaxMoeFoe | |||||||||
| ||||||||||
Last updated: 11 December 2015 | ||||||||||
HowToBasic is an Australian YouTube channel with over six million subscribers that gained popularity in 2012 and 2013 for its bizarre instructional videos.
The channel has over six million subscribers as of December 2015;[2][3] the highest of any Australian YouTube channel.[3][4] 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.[5] HowToBasic videos have been compared to the work of David Cronenberg and Marcel Duchamp.[6]
The channel is a part of the Fullscreen network.[4] HowToBasic has collaborated with other YouTube personalities such as Max "Maxmoefoe" Stanley and Filthy Frank.
The channel has been briefly suspended on multiple occasions, once in 2014 and again in late 2015 on presumed violations of YouTube's policy against misleading content. Soon after, the channel was restored and suspension lifted in both circumstances.[7][8][9]
References
- ^ a b "About HowToBasic". YouTube.
- ^ "HowToBasic". YouTube. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
- ^ a b "Top 100 YouTubers in Australia Filtered by Subscribers - Socialblade YouTube Stats | YouTube Statistics". socialblade.com. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
- ^ a b "Can you make money out of YouTube? You bet, just ask these Aussies". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
- ^ "Perth teen's bizarre videos become internet hit". Nine News. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
- ^ "Is Kurt Coleman the future of Australian screen storytelling?". The Conversation. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
- ^ "UPDATED: Popular YouTube Channel HowToBasic Terminated Without Warning". MOARGeek. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ^ "HowToBasic on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ^ "Spam404.com on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2015-12-09.