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HowToBasic is an Australian YouTube comedy channel with over seven million subscribers that gained popularity between 2012 and 2013. It shows bizarre visual gags disguised as how-to tutorials. The man featured in the videos does not speak or show his face, and remains anonymous.
The channel has over seven million subscribers as of April 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 facetiously compared to the work of David Cronenberg and Marcel Duchamp.
The channel is a part of the Fullscreen network. HowToBasic has collaborated with other YouTube personalities such as Max Stanley of "maxmoefoe", George "Joji" Miller of "TVFilthyFrank", and Ian Kovic of "iDubbbzTV".
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.