Bill Wurtz (stylized as bill wurtz) is an American video blogger and musician. Wurtz is known for his distinctive style of song and video, including dry delivery and singing, paired with colorful surrealist or non-sequitur graphics. Two of these videos, “history of japan” and “history of the entire world, i guess” (both which are educational videos in Wurtz’s style) went viral on YouTube.

From 2009-2011, Bill went by the pseudonym “Billy Wilds” until he changed it upon discovering it was the same name as a male porn star. In the middle of that era, he created his first YouTube account, “billynothingshow,” which consisted of videos of his IRL self; it has since become inactive. Wurtz used to post jingles on Vine and posts longer songs on his website and main YouTube channel, with the majority of them being only seconds long; most jingles are also featured on his YouTube channel with colorful text and retro-styled visuals.

In 2016, Wurtz won the Shorty Award for “Best in Weird.”

The bios on Bill’s online platforms are usually anagrams of one to two words, depending on what the platform is used for. YouTube and Twitter read “is slef,” an anagram of “is self,” because it’s where he posts the content that he himself has created. His Spotify bio reads “sumic,” an anagram of “music,” because it’s where he is now: another place where he is posting his original songs.