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.
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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- 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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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 .
Available in 17 languages
- Français
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- Catalan
- Hebrew
- Moroccan Arabic
- Nederlands
- Slovenian
- Svenska
- Tiếng Việt
- Ukrainian
- ไทย
- 한국어
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