Is Lauren Brodauf the Funniest Woman on YouTube?

Lauren Brodauf deserves more clout. Still, having only been making videos for a little over a year, she’s gathered an impressive following on YouTube. She has over 188k subscribers and counting on the video-sharing platform.

With a sense of humor as dry as the Sonoran desert, she subverts her way through internet culture. Commonly found in front of a comedically bad green screen and slipping into accents, she kickflips her way through a variety of self-aware sketches.

Here are three of her funniest videos:

“A lot of you may not know that Freddie Mercury is actually my father.”

This video, titled “What If Freddie Mercury Sang Like Halsey,” is Brodauf’s most-watched video with over 700k views. It starts with her proclaiming that Mercury is her father. Somehow this idea leads her to channel him through a mock performance of Queen’s famous Live Aid concert, but in the style of Halsey.

She soon dons the iconic white tank top and acid-washed jeans, mustache included. With a little practice at sounding like Halsey under her belt, she performs in front of a superimposed Wembley Stadium.

Toward the end of the video, as she does in a lot of her videos, she finds herself unfurled. She proceeds to roast herself. Mainly sticking to the idea of what she has just done being incredibly stupid and somewhat insane.

“I started to inhale CO2 and exhale oxygen.”

“I Quit Social Media For 3 Hours *Not Clickbait*” is another of Lauren Brodauf’s through and through laugh out loud videos. In it, she makes the bold decision to delete all of her social media apps for three hours. We follow her through the many steps of withdrawal (soon to be turned into renewal) from Instagram and Twitter.

First, she guides the viewer through her meditating with crystals she got on a second-grade field trip. In the next stages she goes on to exercise in her parents’ garage, take a shit, and serenade her ailing Labrador Retriever in her Halsey voice. She ends the process by dancing in the rain, and then, in a final turn of events, becomes a tree.

Brodauf commonly subverts the idea of what a YouTuber should be, particularly what we expect a skinny straight white girl to be. With this video, she’s playing off the idea of influencers taking the so stressful step of going off social media for 24 hours.

“Do not call me a horse girl, because I was not one of them, and if you do call me one, I will either cry or sue.”

The premise around the video “Finding A Sugar Daddy On Farmersonly.com” is that, for whatever reason, Lauren wants a sugar daddy and because she’s not a horse girl she’s going to try to find one on the dating website FarmersOnly.com

Before diving into trolling online, Brodauf shows off her laughably pathetic farm animals: a horse named Oreo that chronically bites people and two clinically obese donkeys. She does this while describing them in yet another bad accent: farmer. She then goes on to completely strike out with her matches.

Here in this video, Brodauf yet again throws in some Halsey, creating a sort of self-referential string throughout her videos. This constant self-referencing creates a feeling of community while also pokes fun at Brodauf as some bloviating “influencer.”

With her quick-witted quips and unique and subversive choice of video topics, Lauren Brodauf is fast emerging as another great voice on YouTube.