Zachary "Zach" Hsieh (born: January 14, 1999), better known online as ZHC (short for Zach Hsieh Comic Art), is an American YouTuber and self-taught comic book artist from San Jose, California, United States.
He has gained widespread popularity from his art timelapses and giveaway videos, which include drawing for long amounts of time and giving expensive products to his fans. He also makes tutorials to teach others and shares aspects of his life in short vlogs and talks. He is the founder of the Art Alliance and the Copic Abuse Foundation.
History[]
Zach started his YouTube channel on August 6, 2013 and uploaded his first video on December 13, 2016. His earlier content mainly focused on art tutorials and how-to videos, including drawing characters in a comic book style.
By 2018, he started uploading challenges, which included drawing for long amounts of time and the "Last To Stop Drawing Wins ___" challenge. He also started featuring characters in some of his videos, including Dax The Clameleon, Turkey, BunBun, Scrunchie (3 of them are known as the "Flex Family") and Dragon The Rock Johnson (name is a parody of Dwayne Johnson/The Rock) who is often holding money or art supplies. His recent content consists of giving away custom products and surprising famous YouTubers with customized items. On February 21, 2020, he released a video titled "Surprising Charli D'Amelio With 20 Custom iPhone 11s!!📱📞 ft. TikTok & LilHuddy (Giveaway)," where him and his friend Leo Mahalo customized iPhone 11s for TikTokers in The Hype House. This became his most viewed video as of August 2020.
ZHC has collaborated with many YouTubers, including MrBeast, who received a Tesla customized by Zach and other YouTube artists. He has also collaborated with Vexx, who has featured in his "Last To Stop Customizing Tesla" video, as well as many other videos. He also collaborated with Zach King in "Surprising Zach King With A Custom Car, Then Living In It For 24 Hours ($60,000)".
On 28 August 2021, he uploaded a video of him customizing one of the largest hospitals in the world for a hundred hours and paying $200,000 worth of other people's medical bills. Even though paying people's medical bills was supposed to originally be a MrBeast idea requested from the latter's fans, MrBeast found it hard to put the idea in practice without easily recording the faces of the patients in the hospitals, so ZHC managed to put this idea in practice while customizing a hospital first. This video has become #1 on trending in late August 2021.
Members of the channel[]
Other than Zach, the channel features various members who are close with Zach and are also artists who collaborate with him with the customization of various locations in more recent videos:
- Michelle Chin, Zach's girlfriend, whose hair is dyed pink
- Jake, whose hair is dyed green
- Jaz, whose hair is dyed purple
- McKenzie, whose hair is naturally brown
- Ben, whose hair is dyed orange
- Viv, whose hair is dyed yellow
Personal life[]
Zach was born and raised in San Jose, California, United States of Chinese descent. He has a girlfriend named Michelle Chin, who is often featured in his YouTube videos. She also does YouTube videos under the name of MsMunchie.
Controversy[]
On June 12, 2020, Zach was accused of stealing a original character made by Drawntworks on Reddit that got 362 upvotes. Some other redditors say that it was actually one of his assistants.[1][2]
On Zach's subreddit he was heavily criticized for his new style of content. They said that Zach was recycling content. Even as far as one post getting 280 upvotes with 25 comments and another 35 comments.[3][4]
Subscriber milestones[]
Note: The following dates are according to Social Blade. Dates may vary by one or two days due to differences in time zones.
ZHC[]
- 20,000 subscribers: May 7, 2018
- 50,000 subscribers: July 13, 2018
- 100,000 subscribers: September 1, 2018
- 200,000 subscribers: September 21, 2018
- 500,000 subscribers: November 22, 2018
- 1 million subscribers: March 15, 2019
- 2 million subscribers: June 24, 2019
- 3 million subscribers: September 30, 2019
- 4 million subscribers: October 24, 2019
- 5 million subscribers: December 2, 2019
- 6 million subscribers: January 16, 2020
- 7 million subscribers: February 22, 2020
- 8 million subscribers: February 29, 2020
- 9 million subscribers: March 18, 2020
- 10 million subscribers: March 25, 2020
- 11 million subscribers: April 23, 2020
- 12 million subscribers: May 17, 2020
- 13 million subscribers: June 11, 2020
- 14 million subscribers: July 7, 2020
- 15 million subscribers: August 14, 2020
- 16 million subscribers: October 8, 2020
- 17 million subscribers: November 3, 2020
- 18 million subscribers: December 24, 2020
- 19 million subscribers: February 2, 2021
- 20 million subscribers: April 4, 2021
- 21 million subscribers: June 3, 2021
- 22 million subscribers: July 30, 2021
- 23 million subscribers: November 13, 2021
- 24 million subscribers: May 3, 2022
- 25 million subscribers: January 25, 2023
ZHC Crafts[]
- 100,000 subscribers: July 8, 2020
- 200,000 subscribers: July 21, 2020
- 500,000 subscribers: August 26, 2020
- 1 million subscribers: October 16, 2020
- 2 million subscribers: February 22, 2021
- 3 million subscribers: June 2, 2021
- 4 million subscribers: October 25, 2021
- 5 million subscribers: October 25, 2022
zhc[]
- 10,000 subscribers: September 22, 2020
- 100,000 subscribers: January 23, 2021
- 200,000 subscribers: March 8, 2021
- 300,000 subscribers: March 16, 2021
- 400,000 subscribers: April 2, 2021
- 500,000 subscribers: April 18, 2021
- 1 million subscribers: August 4, 2021
- 2 million subscribers: March 28, 2022
ZHC TV[]
- 10,000 subscribers: April 14, 2021
- 50,000 subscribers: April 30, 2021
- 100,000 subscribers: June 4, 2021
- 200,000 subscribers: June 26, 2021
- 300,000 subscribers: September 1, 2021
- 400,000 subscribers: December 13, 2021
- 500,000 subscribers: February 2, 2022
- 600,000 subscribers: May 25, 2022
Trivia[]
- He has spent over $300,000 on his giveaways.
- He bought a $10,000,000 house, where he customized it.[5]
- He has two pet chameleons named Dax and Dragon The Rock Johnson (or just Rock) and a snake.
- His longest art challenge was "I Spent 100 Hours Drawing Every PEWDIEPIE MINECRAFT Thumbnail".
- Zach is a part of the Humble House.
- ZHC was nominated for the 2020 tenth annual Streamy Awards in the Breakout Creator category. The Streamy Awards took place on December 13, 2020.
- He hates tomatoes; in a video, he also mentions he's a germophobe.[6]
- He's scared of murky water and fire.[6][7]
- Youtube “Jazza” criticized his content in a 2.5 part series
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ZHCSubmissions/comments/h7erbp/zhc_stole_my_character_and_used_it_for_his_own/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ulM3K41p0&t=260s
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ZHCSubmissions/comments/ftppe2/another_meme_for_the_og_artist_army/
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ZHCSubmissions/comments/g151rv/upvote_if_you_miss_the_old_vids/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD-CsaaRpk4
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v02fiwEqOSQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw3KE2t_bLg