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I think now is a good time in my blog to talk about Bill Wurtz.

I’ve been a fan and an avid follower of his content for a couple years now, and with every video he puts out, I like him more and more. Yes, this is another post about a comedy YouTuber; but Bill Wurtz is a different type of comedian. He makes jokes purely out of the absurd.

Bill Wurtz makes content that is confusing and hilarious at the same time. He balances these two aspects perfectly. His older videos were short songs, 5 to 30 seconds long, that would answer a random question, or they simply are random words strung together to form a loose concept. His newer videos are a lot less frequent, and that’s because they’re longer songs—about 2 to 3 minutes long—and he puts more work into them.

For each of his newer videos, Bill Wurtz creates animations and turns them into a quasi-music video with the lyrics appearing sporadically around the screen. I understand that this may be hard to visualize out of context, so I’ve linked his YouTube channel below for you to check it out.

The lyrics to these songs aren’t always coherent, but they always tie back into the chorus of the song somehow. Wurtz’s brain is scattered throughout the video, that much is obvious, but he still has thousands upon thousands of people returning to his channel. He has gained an astounding 3.5 million subscribers on YouTube from these insanely unrelated songs.

The last category of videos on his channel is documentaries. Bill Wurtz has made two uncharacteristically long videos that detail the history of Japan and the history of the world in general. These two videos are, respectively, 9 and 19 minutes long. He animates this rapid-fire knowledge the whole time and adds short breaks to sing a few words of history. These two are easily my favorite videos of his because of how much work he put into them. Other videos are short and sweet, but these show hours of dedicated work and result in a video unique only to Bill Wurtz.

And YouTube videos aren’t the only things that Bill Wurtz puts out either. He makes sure to tweet something as equally absurd as his videos every day.

Some notable tweets include, “i don’t know what a plaintiff is but it sounds delicious. mmm, roast plaintiff,” and, “in school, desks learn for free,” and, “got invited out of a party.” These might sound crazy, but if you consider his YouTube videos, they’re pretty on par with his abstract thoughts. Some of his video titles include, “tomato anxiety,” and, “soap tips,” and, “just opened the letter i wrote to myself and it says i’m a stupid idiot.”

A peek into the mind of Bill Wurtz is incredibly thought-provoking. Honestly, I still don’t know what half of the things he says mean. The more you think about his content, the less it starts to make sense, and I still don’t know yet if that’s a good or bad thing.

Visit Bill Wurtz’s YouTube channel here:

Bill Wurtz YouTube

Watch Bill Wurtz accept the Shorty Award for “Weird” here: