Responsibility.
My platform gets larger and larger every day, and because of this, I've really been thinking a lot about
my responsibility, as a content creator, and
I have come to the conclusion that I would really don't have any. I'm a Youtuber. There are never gonna be any repercussions
for any of my actions. So with that being said, I am proud to announce, from now on, I'm gonna be exploiting chil-
*thonking*
-Catering to a child demographic.
Greetings, parasocial parish, rejoice for today father's blessing you with a ✧･ﾟ: reaction video *:･ﾟ✧. Now when it comes to children's content on Youtube,
Things are pretty hit or miss.
So when it comes to children's content on Youtube, things are pretty much a mixed bag. You have channels ranging from
Collins Key to Ryan's Toy Review to Kids Diana Show.
I don't know what that is, but they get like 24 million views a
day.
So... needless to say, kids' content is very marketable and...
very weird.
And today we're going to be focusing on
ZHC. Now ZHC is most commonly known as the 'Ricegum' of the art community.
Uhh, he has over a million subscribers. And I think the best way to understand that nickname is to just-
watch his latest video. This is a video titled simply, "How to Draw-
"Song."
♪ Yo, it's Kuza ♪
♪ And I'mma teach you how to draw like ZHC ♪
♪ Yeah! ♪
-Kuza?? Wait, that's not ZHC. I thought ZHC was gonna teach us. But you know what, if this uhh-
♪ Kuza ♪ can teach us how to do this in three minutes then honestly,
I stan.
♪ So there's a couple tools I think we should go over, Comic art board and a Staedtler lead holder ♪
And so this is already going just amazingly for me, because I don't have either of the tools that he just mentioned.
♪ Got an eraser thats electric like zapdos ♪
What kid is gonna own an electric eraser?
Actually, my real question is: What is an electric eraser?
♪ -better let the cash go ♪
Alright, so he's advising us to spend money on art supplies, as the first step in learning how to draw. So uhh
ᎶᏒᎪb ᎽᎾuᏒ ᏟᏒᎬᎠᎥᏆ ᏟᎪᏒᎠs ᏦᎥᎠs, ᎳᎬ'ᏒᎬ ᎶᎾᎥᏁᎶ shᎾᏢᏢᎥᏁᎶ.
♪ Once you got the right materials, then it’s time to draw ♪
But I-I don't
♪ Measure out the figure, and it should be 8 heads tall ♪
Okay, that's actually good advice.
♪ Now you start with the biggest of parts, ribcage in the sixth and the seventh marks ♪
That's good advice too.
♪ For the spine draw an S like for superman ♪
♪ But ain’t nobody fly like ya boi Kid Kuza, maaaan ♪
Yeah, S curves are good advice, but- "Nobody flies like Kid Kuza"?
Hey, you know what? There's another name you might know me by!
♪ kUZA ♪
Who?
Now the next minute or so of the song is just legitimate art instruction.
Circular forms for the head, break the hand down into smaller parts. It's good stuff. It has my blessing. But then...
the song just evolves into bragging ?
♪ Make sure that one side of the ankles is higher than the other ♪
♪ 'Cause if not I'mma break some more ankles again ♪
♪ (2x) Yeah, Imma show you how to draw ♪
-So what I've learned from this video is, pretty good proportions for human figure drawing, that electric erasers exist, and that
Kid ᛕᑌ乙ᗩ is going to literally assault me if I mess up the ankles on my drawing; which I must admit, is pretty good
motivation. But honestly,
You could have just said, "I would be forced to listen to that song again if I mess up the ankles"
I have a feeling I would certainly become very proficient at drawing angles. Now I'm not gonna stay here and lie,
It's a very catchy song and I think you really could, like follow the instructions and come up with a pretty decent human figure.
I'm just laughing at it...
Because it amuses me. My issue with ZHC mostly lies in...
...literally every single other video on his channel. Say, for reference, ZHC's audience is young... like,
Really young? Now, obviously, I don't have access to his demographics,
but you can kind of just look at his comment section and tell.
Another thing I'm basing this off of, is the fact that his channel banner says
"Sub to Pewdiepie and I or I delete your TikTok" Like, it's pretty obvious.
He's not making this content for people of a certain age range, even though I actually do have a TIkTok account.
But that's beside the point. So his content is clearly catering towards children, but for some reason his content is like this:
"I'm sorry, I'm sorryyyy!!! I'll make it up to youuu"
"You ripped my drawing!"
"Mmmm :(... sex?"
":o Okay"
Just kind of a weird joke in a kids' video, in my opinion.
I really started to notice that, a lot of his content was like that when I clicked into his video called,
"I HATE DOING THIS." where he was drawing in public, and I noticed that a lot of the jokes he makes are kind of
weird, I just got to show them that I'm drawing the big morning wood
if you know what I mean, the more buildings I saw the more turned on I got
nice
It was already hard enough walking around with such a big sack on my back
And now I'm trying to keep my boner from popping out of my pants
there were sexy buildings all
Around me and I couldn't help but reach into my backpack and whip out my pencil and go at it hard
I looked at the building from top to bottom and licked my lips. I grasped the pencil harder. I moved it faster
Faster up and down the page-- Yeah, that's enough. That legitimately makes me uncomfortable.
Very few things to do at this point. It's not so much a joke itself. If it was being told by somebody else
I might actually laugh it's just really weird that he's catering this content towards children. But like this is the content:
Okay
It's just, it's just--
It's kind of weird. Another thing he does is try really really hard to be Ricegum.
The man does everything, from constantly flexing on his audience:
Yo what is up you guys, how's it going. It's ya boi ZH Comic art, Steve right here.
Hey, check out our matching Armani shirts. To annoying people in public for no reason. LIKE, COMMENT, AND SUBSCRIBE--
Sorry". To making diss tracks on other youtubers, but like art diss tracks.
And also, uh
literally putting rice gum in the tags of his videos, along with
Draw with Jazza, Rossdraws, Vexx, Super Rae Dizzle, Jake and Logan Paul, Mark Crilley, Baylee Jae,
KSI and Pewdiepie-- none of whom are actually in the video or even mentioned in the video.
Very misleading.
He also has this thing where he pretends to sniff markers, and it's like a THING on his channel,
So much so to where his new year celebration video was called "sniffing Copics until 2019"
I mean the man really has everything you need in your typical kids art channel: dangerous challenges that he encourages his audience to try,
Sponsored videos where he never actually uses the word sponsored, even down to the incessant giveaways, except instead of free iPhones,
he's giving away free markers . . . you know, so the kids can *snort*
But you know what? Misleading video tags, inappropriate innuendo marketed towards kids,
misleading clickbait, substance abuse jokes marketed towards kids, and flexing on his child audience aside;
He has pretty nice art! And he makes a lot of money so,
Goals.
ZHC is goals. That's the point of this video.
See, if you thought I was kidding earlier when I said I was going to become akids channel, you were wrong.
Don't ever judge a book by its cover. The final step in becoming the
kids art channel to end all kids art channels is to make a diss track, I guess.
The problem here is that I have a feeling it kind of takes a while to make a diss track, but you know, I
have time.
Don't worry I won't swear in this song, you know, since your entire audience is 12 and under. Oh,
You're ZHC huh, You're on TV huh (that's nice)
No
Snuck into big YouTuber country behind Pewds and MrBeast, huh / Too bad
You had to disguise as Ricegum for your Visa / Editing so fast make JoJo Siwa
look like Daftpina / Making that Bank / Stack it up / Get the views, lie to preteens
Tell them you're poor in every video but keep buying Gucci, Armani, those poor people things
Taking the cake for the most fake in the community / Oh you're struggling but you bought all those things? It's not Burger King
You can't have it both ways / Hope those kids don't get too attached, you milk 'em for cash /
Just wait till they grow up and they're like SKRRT, trash / You auto play, I automatically click out so fast
I skip through all of your ads / I support legends and you're not that / Hey that thumbnail looks pretty rad
Wonder how you came up with that
Showed your videos to my dad
He left and he never came back
Making mistakes / Adding up / I see through your little game / You crack me up
How could you think that we don't know you're fake but when we call you out you get mad at us
Teach me how to draw / But you cannot teach us anything at all / You couldn't make a tutorial for tying shoes
But I'd watch your tutorial "how to get views" / Generation Z, target your niche / You're creating TV for
who can't read / Call yourself fat just for pats on the back from the 12-year-olds that pay your bills watching ads
You've got low self-esteem and it shows through the screen / But just take it from me, views don't make you happy
Your views keep going up, You've got YouTuber luck / artist army get shook cuz I don't give a /
Well, that was fun.
Now, if you'll excuse me
I'm gonna go watch "hot tinder girls choose what I draw" with my 12 year old brother. And looks like I've gotten 10 minutes of
content out of this, so leave a like, tell me what you think and subscribe if you haven't already. Thank you for watching and a big thank you to my
103 thousand subscribers. Okay, bye.