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Mentions by year: 2010: 2 · 2011: 22 · 2012: 19 · 2013: 16

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2010

  • 2010-04-07 · Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy — John says many Nerdfighters on the Eff Yeah Nerdfighters Tumblr have posted photos holding Will Grayson, Will Grayson, though mirroring makes the title read backwards. (00:00:28)
  • 2010-08-10 · JOIN THE PEN15 CLUB!! — Hank says the Tumblr Eff Yeah Nerdfighters has 5,000 followers and asks viewers to follow it too. (00:02:50)

2011

  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John notes much conversation on Tumblr, the Ning, YouTube and Twitter about Nerdfighteria changing as it grows and how to keep the community strong, and offers his two cents. (00:00:56)
  • 2011-03-07 · This Machine Pwns n00bs Video LP — Hank says the songs can be streamed free all day and night by anyone with a YouTube connection, and shared on Tumblr, Twitter or a weblog. (00:00:12)
  • 2011-04-15 · Humpy Hank — John says that a couple of days later Nerdfighter Mattie Boosh posted an animation of Hank humping the TARDIS on his Tumblr, and the Humpy Hank phenomenon was born. (00:00:05)
  • 2011-04-22 · 500,000 Subscribers (Almost...and Thank You) — Hank says Nerdfighteria's support runs from that to him humping things on Tumblr; he admits he did not mention it in his last video but was impressed. (00:02:47)
  • 2011-05-20 · How to Vlog: From the Vlogbrothers — Hank says he wrote a script for this video and will post it on his Tumblr so viewers can compare it with the finished video. (00:01:31)
  • 2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — After years as fans of the Eff Yeah Nerdfighters Tumblr, John and Hank both got Tumblrs earlier this month, on the same day. (00:02:34)
  • 2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — John says the great thing is that the brothers are not the only Nerdfighters: thousands work together through YouTube comments, Twitter, Tumblr, the Ning and Your Pants to improve the maps, making better maps than anyone could alone. (00:01:50)
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — URLatron turns a Tumblog into a .com domain in about five minutes of work for $30, with custom email addresses; Hank invites interested viewers to check out urlatron.com. (00:02:26)
  • 2011-11-18 · Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ — Hank argues sites shouldn't be blamed for users' uploads: the PROTECT IP Act would make Tumblr responsible for GIFs of Abed from Community and could get it switched off. (00:02:13)
  • 2011-11-22 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — John argues copyright is complex: posting a quote from his book on Tumblr is fine, posting the whole book is infringement, and where the line falls is ill-defined. (00:01:34)
  • 2011-11-22 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — John says the legislation before Congress would increase that inequality: YouTube, Google and Tumblr can afford lawyers against Viacom, he can't, and it won't stop already-illegal wholesale piracy. (00:02:54)
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — As word spread, more and more Nerdfighters on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pledged not to read the book before January 10, or not to spoil it for the majority who receive it then. (00:01:52)
  • …and 11 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

  • 2012-01-13 · TFiOS PARTY! — Hank thanks everyone who has bought and is reading The Fault in Our Stars and posting pictures of themselves with it on Tumblr. (00:01:32)
  • 2012-02-01 · How It Felt — Like the internet, the tour went by very fast, like pressing the down key on Tumblr; John says a problem with the internet is that things pass too fast to really experience them. (00:00:30)
  • 2012-02-11 · How Big is the Universe? — Hank says his Tumblr died and asks people who followed him there to follow him again. (00:02:40)
  • 2012-04-24 · Beneath an Abandoned Hospital: Thoughts from Places — John suggests this is why we explore, read, watch sports, browse Tumblr and study astrophysics: whether watching horror movies or visiting their sets, we seek the terrifying, awesome, otherworldly feeling of not knowing what lies in wait. (00:03:08)
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says this dependence means companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter and Tumblr have to listen to their users, which is good. (00:00:59)
  • 2012-05-25 · The Subway Where I Used To Go (Somebody That I Used To Know / Gotye Parody) — Hank says the song was not an advertisement: Jimmy John's paid him nothing, he just saw a picture on Tumblr; though 'that thing over there' is an ad. (00:01:49)
  • 2012-07-27 · Tumblr: The Musical — In the song Hank portrays Tumblr as a compulsive, dopamine-chasing scroll that keeps him glued to his screen, full of cats, memes, fandoms and GIFs. (00:00:07)
  • 2012-07-27 · Tumblr: The Musical — The song is not on iTunes yet but will be shortly; Hank will tweet it and put it on his Tumblr. (00:03:29)
  • 2012-07-27 · Tumblr: The Musical — Hank calls Tumblr a weird but very fun place and urges viewers not to spend their whole lives there but to go do other, even outside, things. (00:03:34)
  • 2012-09-18 · Existential Airport Anxiety — Recalling Montag's line about walls yelling at him, John says we literally live in a world of shouty walls, and his phone holds billions of voices on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. (00:01:01)
  • 2012-09-25 · Do Businesses Need to Suck? — John found watercolor paintings with quotes from his books by Malaysian Nerdfighter May; they print posters he signs, and the royalties can support her through university and a graphic-design job search. (00:01:56)
  • 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says Nerdfighteria used to be a YouTube-based phenomenon but now has many places, listing Minecrafteria, Facebook groups, the Ning, Our Pants, Reddit, Tumblr and Kiva, and probably more. (00:00:58)
  • …and 6 more statements in 2012 (most important shown)

2013