He received early attention in 2015 for the short video "Shaving My Piano", which was covered briefly in The Verge. Before transitioning fully to YouTube, Wurtz was uploading a video to Vine nearly every day. He began by taking short videos he had previously published to his website and re-editing them to fit Vine's six-second restriction. Wurtz was first known for his presence on the short-form video-sharing website Vine, where he first gained a following in 2014.
He is known for his distinctive musical, comedic, and narrative style which includes deadpan delivery and singing paired with colorful surrealist, psychedelic, and non-sequitur graphics.
Bill Wurtz (stylized in lower case as bill wurtz or billwurtz) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and YouTuber based in New York City.