Do you have about 20 minutes of free time? Good, go watch this video. Trust me, it’s worth it. I’ll wait.
Okay, are you done? “History of the Entire World, I Guess” is the latest production from Bill Wurtz, a YouTube artist known for random, quirky videos that all share a simplistic aesthetic, with text, clip art, and Microsoft Paint drawings. They’re torn right out of the old-school heyday of YouTube and internet videos, somehow miraculously transported to 2017.
But while Wurtz’s channel is largely filled with random 10-second ditties, his most popular piece was “History of Japan,” which originated the high-velocity, jingle-filled, history documentary format that returns in a far grander scale in “History of the Entire World, I...
