What You Don't Know About The Try Guys' Zach Kornfeld
Robert King
Published Mar 30, 2026
Before filming with Try Guys, Zach Kornfeld had never gotten a tattoo. That all changed on Aug. 18, 2014, when he and several other BuzzFeed employees visited a tattoo parlor.
Zach's tattoo choice was a surprising one: he asked for a smiley face on his buttocks. "So, my idea for a tattoo is a smiley face on my butt," he announced in the BuzzFeed video. Though he seemed a bit nervous to begin the process, Zach settled into it quickly. "Tattoos are easy, guys," he said as the artist continued to draw the smiley face. At the end of the video, Zach admitted that he "thought it was going to hurt a lot more."
Once the artist was finished, Zach posted a photo of himself and his butt tattoo on Instagram. In the caption, he wrote, "Life achievement unlocked. Got a smiley face butt tattoo." After the announcement, he followed up with a joking tweet that said, "I apologize for any emotional scarring I may have caused."