Hi. My name is Michael Stevens. You may know me as the creator and host of Vsauce on YouTube. On December 8 2011, I created the How to Basic YouTube channel. I created it as what I believe to be Step 1 in an important human revolution. As I looked around at what technology was doing to us I realized that we were offloading information and skills to machines. You no longer have to know how to fix a dented car, or how to make an apple pie, you could just… google it. The human mind was being replaced by machines, and once that replacement is finished… Humanity is gone. I thought warning people would be enough but then I realized it was too late. Only a revolution that tore down the infrastructure of technology in our world would be sufficient, and I could only do that from the inside. I needed to upload DIY informational and educational content full of misinformation and absurdist comedy. That way, the system would fall apart people wouldn’t trust machines and we would all have to trust ourselves.