HowToBasic
Sign in to saveHowToBasic is an Australian YouTube comedy channel, with over 17 million subscribers as of 2025. The creator of the videos neither speaks nor shows his face, thus remaining anonymous. The channel primarily features bizarre and destructive visual gags disguised as how-to tutorials. The channel first gained popularity in 2013.
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Vinony's link graph records 105 inbound references to HowToBasic, and connects out to YouTube, X (social network) and egg.
Vinony files it under Anonymous bloggers, Australian black comedy web series and Australian people with disabilities.
Vinony links it to 17 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Social media personality.name
- HowToBasic
- Social media personality.logo
- HowToBasic.png
- Social media personality.youtube_handle
- HowToBasic
- Social media personality.youtube_years_active
- 2011–present
- Social media personality.youtube_subscribers
- 17.8 million
- Social media personality.youtube_views
- 3.97 billion
- Social media personality.stats_update
- 3 March 2026
- Social media personality.instagram_handle
- HowToBasic
- Social media personality.tiktok_handle
- howtobasic
- Social media personality.twitter_handle
- howtobasic
- Social media personality.instagram_followers
- 417 thousand
- Social media personality.tiktok_followers
- 5.3 million
- Social media personality.twitter_followers
- 324.8 thousand
- Social media personality.twitter_years_active
- 2012–present
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- HowToBasic on Cold Ones.png
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- social media followers
- 306000
- inception
- 2011-12-08
- search formatter URL
- www.youtube.com/user/HowToBasic/search?query=$1
- Commons category
- HowToBasic
- number of viewers/listeners
- 9981129
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Description and history
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
HowToBasic is an Australian YouTube comedy channel, with over 17 million subscribers as of 2025. The creator of the videos neither speaks nor shows his face, thus remaining anonymous. The channel primarily features bizarre and destructive visual gags disguised as how-to tutorials. The channel first gained popularity in 2013.
, HowToBasic is the eighth biggest Australian YouTube channel. The channel's estimated net worth is US$2 million .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HowToBasic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 17 languages
- Français
- 中文
- 日本語
- Português
- العربية
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Moroccan Arabic
- Nederlands
- Slovenian
- Svenska
- Tiếng Việt
- Ukrainian
- ไทย
- 한국어
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