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CLICK PAINTS BOB ROSS CHALLENGE! *blindfolded*

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Seven Australian YouTubers, a blindfold, and one very confused canvas — Click takes on Bob Ross.

Click, the Australian creator collective behind some of YouTube’s biggest gaming and challenge content in 2018 and 2019, turned its attention to fine art for one video — sort of. In “CLICK PAINTS BOB ROSS CHALLENGE! *blindfolded*,” the group follows along with an episode of Bob Ross’s classic PBS series The Joy of Painting, attempting to recreate his wet-on-wet landscape technique using only his voice as a guide. The twist that turns a straightforward art tutorial into pure chaos: nobody can see the canvas.

• Click’s roster for the video draws from the group’s core lineup, including LazarBeam (Lannan Eacott), Muselk (Elliott Watkins), Crayator (Nathan Ryan), Bazza Gazza (Bradley Laws), Marcus, Tannar Eacott, and Loserfruit (Kathleen Belsten).
• The challenge follows Bob Ross’s step-by-step narration from The Joy of Painting, including his signature wet-on-wet oil technique and palette-knife mountains.
• Each participant paints while blindfolded, relying entirely on audio pacing and spatial guesswork instead of sight to follow Ross’s instructions.

The Format Behind the Video

The “Bob Ross Challenge” had already circulated widely online by mid-2019, with creators across YouTube attempting to match Ross’s finished landscapes stroke for stroke while his old broadcasts play in the background. Click’s version leans into the collective’s usual comedy-and-variety format rather than treating the exercise as a genuine art lesson. Instead of judging accuracy against Ross’s original canvas, the fun comes from watching skilled comedians fail spectacularly at a task that requires precision they’ve deliberately been denied.

Removing sight from the equation turns Ross’s famously calm, methodical pacing — the deliberate brushstrokes, the patient wait for a “happy little cloud” to dry — into a countdown the painters can’t actually track visually. Palette-knife mountains become smears. A tree Ross describes as needing “just a little” pressure becomes an unpredictable blob somewhere on the page, sometimes nowhere near where it was supposed to land.

The Man Whose Voice Guides the Chaos

Bob Ross hosted The Joy of Painting from 1983 until 1994, building a reputation on a soft-spoken delivery and a philosophy that mistakes were simply “happy accidents.” That voice is the entire engine of Click’s video — without the ability to see brush placement, every member of the group is forced to lean on Ross’s cadence and verbal cues alone to guess where a mountain range or a cabin roof should go.

“We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.”

That line, one of Ross’s most quoted from the original broadcasts, becomes something closer to a mission statement once the blindfolds go on. Nothing painted under those conditions is going to resemble Ross’s finished landscape, and the entertainment value comes precisely from how far each attempt drifts from it.

A Format Click Had Already Mastered

By the time this video went up, Click had built its channel around exactly this kind of oddball, handicap-driven challenge content — the same instinct behind videos like World’s Largest Challenge! and World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room!. The Bob Ross video fits that mold: take a familiar, low-stakes activity, strip away one crucial sense or ability, and let the group’s chemistry carry the rest.

The appeal isn’t technical painting skill — none of Click’s members are working artists — it’s the gap between Ross’s calm instruction and the frantic, half-blind scramble to keep up with it. That gap is where the video’s comedy lives, and it’s the same gap that’s fueled the wider Bob Ross Challenge trend across YouTube since it took off.

Nobody in the video walks away with anything resembling a Bob Ross landscape, and that was always the point. The real result isn’t hanging on a wall — it’s whatever chaotic canvas each Click member unveils the moment the blindfold comes off, compared side by side against Ross’s original for the group to roast each other over.