| “ | It's the month of the week.... March. | ” |
―Bill wurtz | ||
William James "Bill" Wurtz II[1] (born: December 8, 1989) is an American YouTube musician and animator residing in the state of New York.
Bill is known for the way he presents his videos, with surrealist and retro visual effects, satirical music, and dry humor, which has been highly acclaimed by his viewers. Many describe his content as "psychedelic". He has also been known for his wildly popular video "history of the entire world, i guess".
History[]
billwurtz.com[]
Bill started his music career on his own website as opposed to YouTube. While he does post a lot of his songs on YouTube, all of his songs are posted on his own personal website. His first post was on 3rd March 2005 called "stuck in a rut".
The song was posted around the same time that YouTube was a dating site (when it was first starting out), but he wouldn't post another song on the website until 2009, this one is called, "the song song" which lasts for 3 minutes.
YouTube[]
Bill created his YouTube Channel on February 17, 2012, and posted his first video on September 9th, 2013. The video is simply called "die" which is only a ten-second video. In it, he just says "die" with video and music effects over the word.
The actual song was posted on his website on March 9th, 2010. From 2013 to Early 2016 he uploaded over 350 videos on his channel.
His most popular video is “history of the entire world, I guess”, a successor to his second most popular video, “history of japan”.
He went inactive on March 2019 after uploading a video titled "might quit". He stated that he was working on videos, but took longer to create them since he was in the process of learning new video editing and 3D animation software, including Blender.
On January 18, 2021, Wurtz returned, uploading the music video for a new original song "here comes the sun". Most notable about this video was the use of 3D graphics - unlike all of his prior videos before, made in an outdated version of Final Cut, this video was primarily made in Blender, with a notable change in style but a consistent theme of the classic Wurtz look and visuals.
Quotes[]
- "Hi. You're on a rock floating in space."
- "The sun is a deadly lazer"
- "Bye-bye ocean."
- "You could make a religion out of this."
- "You could make a reli- no, don't."
- "New kingdoms! CHRISTIANIZE ALL THE KINGDOMS!"
- "Everyone hired samurai. Rich important people hired samurai. Poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai."
- "They died in a tornado."
- "Knock knock, it's the United States." (a quote from History of Japan that was later referenced by Technoblade)
- "And the hidden meaning is that... I... um... I'm the il- devil, illuminati, 666 please vote for me." (a quote from a genius lyrics video where he breaks down his song, "Mt Saint Helens is About to Blow Up."
- "Oh, hi, thanks for checking in. I'm still a piece of garbage!"
- "how bout i do anyway?"
Trivia[]
- His "I don't wanna go to school song" was made because one time outside of his home Bill was having a conversation with a woman who was going to college. When he said that he didn't, she tried to convince Bill that going to school was the best use of his time and that he should return. That's why he ends the song with "That girl made me feel blue cuz she told me I should stay in school".
- He uses Final Cut Express 4, a program that was discontinued as far back as in 2011. In 2019, he switched to the more modern software Final Cut Pro X.
- He uses Blender for 3D animations.
- At the end of "history of the entire world, i guess", he says "By the way, where the hell are we?", a question that can be answered by the first sentence of the video "Hi, you're on a rock, floating in space.".
- He is inspired by Jack Stauber.
Website Easter eggs[]
- On his website, when a 404 page appears, it will say "oh no wear is my pink tutu" (example).
- In the question tab on his website, if you ask "oh no wear is my pink tutu" it will bring you to a page that simply says "oh hear it is" (example).
- If you ask nothing on his questions page and then click "ASK", a page saying "Tip of the day: try actually typing something" appears. (example)
- If you ask anything containing "is the sun still a deadly lazer" on his questions page, an image appears with the words "CREATIVE QUESTION AWARD" appears. (example)
- If you ask anything containing "Waluigi" on his questions page, a page saying "i will not be taking any more waluigi questions at this time. i am sorry for the inconvenience" appears. (example)
- If you ask "Are you gay" on his question page, a page saying "if by gay you mean very happy, and full of joy and glee, then yes" appears. (example)
- If you ask "die" on his question page, a page saying "right now i don't think i have time" appears. (example)
- If you ask "will you answer this" on his question page, a page saying "i will try" appears. (example)
- If you ask "what is reality" or "what is life" on his question page, a page saying "a fun challenge" appears. (example)
- If you ask "what is the meaning of life" on his question page, a page saying "that life is possible" appears. (example)
- If you ask "what is your reality password" on his question page, a page saying "there is no password" appears. (example)
- If you ask "what is your name" or "are you a robot" on his question page, a page saying "i will check" appears. (example)
- If you ask "what is a question" on his question page, a page saying "a request for specific information" appears. (example)
- If you ask "do you like music" on his question page, a video about the question and the answer appears. (example)
- If you ask "why" on his question page, a page saying "why what" appears. (example)
- If you ask "where do you live" on his question page, a page saying "turtle island" appears. (example)
- If you ask "question" on his question page, a page saying "answer" appears. (example)
- If you request "bill wrutz" on his anagram page, a page saying "haha nice try" appears. (example)
- If you ask "why is it spelled ueqstions?" on his questions page, a blue page with white text saying "it is the same title design style i have used for almost every page of this site" appears (example)
- If you ask "Do you believe in God?" on his questions page, a page saying "i was hoping for something a little more interesting" appears. (example)
- If you ask "Are you alive" on his questions page, a page with many “are you alive”-questions and the page saying "i will check" appears. (example)
- If you ask "What question did I ask again?" on his questions page, it will lead to the previous person who asked the same question.
- If you ask "Am I Alive?" on his questions page, a page saying "yes" appears. (example)
- If you ask "What inspires you to make your videos?" on his questions page, a page saying "everything" appears. (example)
- If you ask "Do you like Jack Stauber?" on his questions page, a page will show questions that were asked by people in 2018 along with a text saying "jack stauber is my uncle's uncle" (example)
- If you ask "Do you answer all the questions?" on his questions page, a page saying "not even close" appears. (example)
- If you ask "How many questions do you answer?" on his questions page, a page saying "you wanna check" appears. (example)
- If you ask "What percentage of questions do you answer?" on his questions page, a page saying "i don't know" appears. (example)
- If you ask "why is your icon an umbrella?" on his questions page, the website will redirect you to a tweet by Bill saying "if you are wondering why the umbrella is my avi, it's because it is raining garbage. the umbrella is to protect me from all the garbage." (example)
- If you ask "hey" or "hello", a page saying "hi" appears (example)
- If you ask "hi", a page saying "hey" appears (example)
Channel milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: May 15, 2017
- 2 million subscribers: November 12, 2017
- 3 million subscribers: December 22, 2018
- 4 million subscribers: August 4, 2020
- 5 million subscribers: September 4, 2021
Video view milestones[]
- 100 million views: May 19, 2017
- 200 million views: January 22, 2018
- 300 million views: January 3, 2019
- 400 million views: April 25, 2020
- 500 million views: November 11, 2020
- 600 million views: August 20, 2021
References[]
- ↑ A photo titled "3 7 10 f.png" was uploaded to Bill's site on March 7, 2010, with the name "William James Wurtz II" on it, albeit upside-down.
