ZHC under fire amid claims of ripping off contestants for YouTube challenges YouTube: Jazza \/ Instagram: zhcPopular YouTube artist Zach \u2018ZHC\u2019 Hsieh is coming under fire as former contestants from his challenge videos accuse him of alleged mistreatment and orchestrating purportedly fake giveaways. ZHC is a hugely popular content creator. The artist is best known for customizing luxury items for some of the net\u2019s biggest social media stars; he jazzed up a Tesla for MrBeast and created a unique designer handbag for Addison Rae. He even hosted YouTube\u2019s Instant Influencer, a reality-style game show that tasks up-and-coming influencers with a series of challenges for a grand prize. However, ZHC has orchestrated more than a few challenges of his own, usually recruiting fellow artists to customize luxury goods (like Teslas), with the winner receiving one of the pricey items as their trophy. In October 2021, YouTuber and artist \u2018Jazza\u2019 created a lengthy video speaking out about his own experiences with ZHC, claiming there was poor communication and mismanagement of projects from the artist. In a follow-up video created on January 23, 2022, Jazza spoke to some contestants from ZHC\u2019s past challenge videos and former collaborators. Some claimed that they didn\u2019t receive some of the promised compensation for their hard work, nor received adequate credit for their appearances in his videos. In one instance, three competitors tied for a challenge that would have seen the winner take home a Tesla. Rather than gifting all three winners a new Tesla, the group decided to split the value of the Tesla three ways between them. One contestant claimed that ZHC had valued a base model Tesla at $14,000 \u2014 an amount she was shocked by, as base model Tesla 3\u2019s generally go for $39,000 in 2022. ZHC responds to allegations of ripping off challenge contestants In the follow-up video, ZHC got on a call with Jazza to answer questions regarding the allegations against him. In the call, he claimed that he\u2019d looked on Ebay to find a \u201creally broken down\u201d Tesla priced at $15k. \u201cAt the time, I was like okay, this is the minimum I have to reach to technically be the value of a Tesla,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026If I miscommunicate, I think that\u2019s completely on me.\u201d Although ZHC expressed a desire to improve communication moving forward, and explained certain controversial instances, Jazza wasn\u2019t impressed by his answers. \u201cI think Zach has used people a lot,\u201d he surmised. \u201cI think while he indicates and expresses he wants to change and be a better person, he continues to do the same thing where he doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s being watched.\u201d Zach has not made any further comments on the video at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ZHC under fire amid claims of ripping off contestants for YouTube challenges YouTube: Jazza \/ Instagram: zhcPopular YouTube artist Zach \u2018ZHC\u2019 Hsieh is coming under fire as former contestants from his challenge videos accuse him of alleged mistreatment and orchestrating purportedly fake giveaways. ZHC is a hugely popular content creator. The artist is best known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}