Brotherhood 2.0 forum

project · in 45 videos (2007–2011)

Mentions by year: 2007: 41 · 2008: 1 · 2009: 2 · 2011: 1

Threads

• 'In your pants' suffix game (2007) — bit, callback, 2007–2013
• Hank: make a forum for Brotherhood 2.0 (2007 challenge from John) — punishment, performed, 2007–2007
• Brotherhood 2.0 forum 'my pants' restored after an outage (2007) — stage, restart, 2007–2008
• Hank asks viewers to suggest sections for the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
• John: give away his tote bags on the forum 'My Pants' (2007) — promise, dropped, 2007–2007
• Hank asks viewers to report remaining spam on the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
• Hank asks Nerdfighters to comment more, join the forum and rate the videos on YouTube (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
• Hank: recreate his goth photo as punishment (2007) — punishment, performed, 2007–2007
• John asks Hank to help pick John's punishment on the forum (2007) — ask, reported back, 2007–2007
• Hank's song 'Accio Deathly Hallows' (2007) — stage, retro, 2007–2013
• Hank's Anagramming Guide to the presidential elections (2007) — stage, retro, 2007–2013
• Brotherhood2.com: site problems and relaunch as a new site (2007) — stage, milestone, 2007–2007
• Brotherhood 2.0 scavenger hunt (2007) — stage, retro, 2007–2007
• John asks Nerdfighters to help solve 'our identity crisis' on the forum (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
• Hank asks Nerdfighters about fights they have been in (2007) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2007–2007
• John asks Nerdfighters to contribute to the relaunched wiki at wiki.brotherhood2.com (2009) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2009–2009
• Your Pants (yourpants.org): the Nerdfighter forum, its hacker outage and return (2011) — stage, restart, 2011–2012

What the videos say

2007

• 2007-06-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John thinks Brotherhood 2.0 needs a forum because the comments are too many and too confused to follow, and challenges Hank to make one if viewers favour it. (00:01:45)
• 2007-06-06 · June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants — John reports the Brotherhood 2.0 forum, My Pants, has about 200 posts and nearly 100 registered viewers in roughly its first eight hours. (00:01:06)
• 2007-06-06 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — Hank launches the Brotherhood 2.0 forum, linked in the sidebar and at the Brotherhood 2.0 site's /mypants address; registering takes about 15 seconds. (00:02:06)
• 2007-06-06 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — In a forum thread Hank regretted his earlier remark and says he is never actually going to vote for John McCain; sometimes you just like to make your older brother mad. (00:02:35)
• 2007-06-08 · June 7: Weather and My Pants — Hank reports that overnight the forum 'My Pants' reached over 300 registered users, who had posted about a thousand posts. (00:01:46)
• 2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — John divides people into four kinds: Decepticons (not nerdfighters); nerdfighters (the brothers, commenters, forum regulars, song writers); nits, or nerdfighters in training (occasional viewers); and would-be nerdfighters who don't know the word yet. (00:01:57)
• 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John says commenters and forum members claim the brothers communicated by text on purpose to get punished; he denies it, saying they are just stupid. (00:00:09)
• 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John reports that the forum has set Hank's punishment, which will involve recreating a picture shown on screen; he doesn't know the other details. (00:02:12)
• 2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John says nobody has settled on his own punishment and asks Hank to go into the forum and help pick something particularly harmful to him. (00:02:12)
• 2007-07-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: Harry and the Potters are Nerdfighters! — Since forum commenters love the idea of the brothers dyeing their hair green, John asks to add one more thing to the punishment. (00:01:46)
• 2007-07-25 · July 25: Brotherhood 2.0's Youtube Comments Are Answered! — John defines a nerdfighter as a regular person made out of awesome instead of tissues, cells and organs; nerdfighters hang out on the forum 'in my pants' and embroider pillows. (00:01:40)
• 2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — After forum talk on minors and foreigners contributing to Biss's campaign, John tends to agree with Hank that under-18s should be allowed to contribute more to politics. (00:02:17)
• …and 44 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

• 2008-07-19 · Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song — Hank says he thinks he has fixed 'my pants', central to the Nerdfighter community: the spam filter had been out of control and locked many people out. (00:00:51)

2009

• 2009-02-18 · Winners and Winners and Ningmasters — Three forum moderators, Panny (a supermod on a big Zelda forum), Jennafighter (with a Nerdfighter licence plate) and Chip (on the forum since its creation), will feature forum content on weekends. (00:02:33)
• 2009-09-29 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — John says they are relaunching the wiki and asks Nerdfighters to contribute at wiki.brotherhood2.com, saying they really need them to. (00:00:41)

2011

• 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, like the old forum My Pants but yours; hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org, for friendships and decreasing world suck. (00:02:23)