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Brotherhood 2.0

project · in 177 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 120 · 2008: 16 · 2009: 14 · 2010: 6 · 2011: 7 · 2012: 6 · 2013: 8

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What the videos say

2007

  • 2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — Starting January 1st Hank sends a video blog, John replies the next day, and they continue alternating like this until the year is up. (00:00:43)
  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Through the list Hank confesses he spilled beer on his wife's MacBook, which would not boot, nearly ruining the project, until reinstalling the battery worked; he hadn't told her. (00:01:21)
  • 2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — Hank presents the new Brotherhood 2.0 website at brotherhood2.com and asks for suggestions or comments. (00:00:00)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — From January 1st Hank sends a video blog, John replies the next day, and so on until the year is up; missing a weekday video brings punishments. Brotherhood 2.0 commences. (00:00:41)
  • 2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Expecting he may well be the first punished, Hank proposes that the unpunished brother choose the punishment, so the punished one can't take the one he'd most like; viewers see the other's pick. (00:01:05)
  • 2007-01-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 — Calling it a Brotherhood 2.0 Project, John says he will write an entire picture book under the winning title and read it on the air. (00:01:22)
  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank lists his work: Brotherhood 2.0 with his brother, running EcoGeek.org (a blog on environmental technologies), his old web design and development business, and trying to be a freelance writer; he is in this month's Mental Floss. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-02-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 19, 2007 — Disturbed that two viewers have apparently never been to a concert, John proposes a Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund for them and possibly other viewers who haven't been to one. (00:01:19)
  • 2007-02-21 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — The working computer is helping with Brotherhood 2.0 projects, chiefly their new MySpace page, which already has about 69 friends after John's SparksFlyUp post and Hank's bulletin. (00:00:59)
  • 2007-02-21 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Hank is amazed at the response to his survey: over 53 comments on the survey post, over half of them surveys, plus surveys on Brotherhood2.com, other posts, people's websites, audio and video. (00:01:48)
  • 2007-03-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 1, 2007: Sophistication. And balls. — John asks Hank whether Brotherhood 2.0 should endorse a presidential candidate and, if so, whether in the primary. (00:02:19)
  • 2007-03-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 1, 2007: Sophistication. And balls. — John thinks Brotherhood 2.0 should endorse a candidate, and in the primary, naming Barack Obama. (00:02:19)
  • …and 149 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

  • 2008-03-22 · Twitter After School Time — Hank admits he cannot complain, since this is largely what Brotherhood 2.0 and Nerdfighting are about, but finds it confusing and asks whether this is how we define ourselves now. (00:02:12)
  • 2008-04-10 · Barack John Obama Green — In a 'special edition of Brotherhood 2.0', Hank stands with a companion in the longest line of his life to see Barack Obama; getting up at 7 a.m. shows he is a big fan. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-06-19 · Memo to the Fourteenth Century (and to the Tobians) — John recalls that Daniel Biss, the brothers' 'resident mathematician', was one of the very first Nerdfighters and is running for state representative. (00:01:12)
  • 2008-07-09 · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — John says Brotherhood 2.0 was initially his idea; he has a crazy idea every 45 minutes and relies on Hank to reject them, but Hank said this one was not terrible. (00:00:25)
  • 2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — Hank corrects the report: the brothers did not merely stop texting a year earlier; they gave up all textual communication, which is different. (00:01:20)
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John says this is only his second video of the month-long Brotherhood 2.1 project and he already has nothing to talk about. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-10-08 · Hank on the Debate — Hank says his video blog Brotherhood 2.0, about being nerds, is watched by lots of young people who email him all the time. (00:00:29)
  • 2008-10-08 · Hanks actual Vlog — Hank, who thinks John forgot to explain it in his last video, says Brotherhood 2.1, the brothers' private name for this month of vlogging, is their punishment. (00:00:32)
  • 2008-10-08 · Hanks actual Vlog — Hank says the Nerdfighters' punishment is for the brothers to vlog Brotherhood 2.0-style for an entire month. (00:01:01)
  • 2008-11-07 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank says this is the last video of Brotherhood 2.1 and bids it goodbye. (00:00:06)
  • 2008-11-07 · Funny Noises from Tennessee — Hank won't be sad to see Brotherhood 2.1 go: he preferred one or two videos a week, and fewer will be easier now they are always on the road, though viewers won't like it. (00:00:29)

2009

  • 2009-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank restages his first Brotherhood 2.0 video from two years ago, including the camera glitch and the eye reflection, admitting he then did not know how to make videos. (00:00:37)
  • 2009-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Every Sunday for the year, John will send Hank a video about a current news event he considers vitally important and Hank is probably ignorant of. (00:01:19)
  • 2009-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank says John's news videos were one of the coolest things they did in Brotherhood 2.0: blissful ignorance is nothing compared to the crushing weight of the truth. (00:01:19)
  • 2009-01-08 · Hank Green: Behind the Music — On the stream Hank will play music and talk about the album, Song Wednesdays, the future of Brotherhood 2.0 and DFTBA Records, starting around 5 pm Eastern. (00:02:31)
  • 2009-01-22 · Google Verb! A Meme. — Hank says he is a big fan of old Myspace memes, wishes they had not gone away and brings one into Brotherhood 2.0. (00:00:11)
  • 2009-02-12 · A Song About an Anglerfish — Hank says this Song Wednesday song was recorded straight in the studio rather than first on acoustic guitar, so viewers get the studio version first. (00:00:11)
  • 2009-02-19 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — Hank says the Nerdfighter whose proposal he relayed on Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 hid in his girlfriend's attic, waiting for her to check vlogbrothers, CuteWithChris and Stuff on My Cat. (00:01:31)
  • 2009-02-21 · Paper Towns and PUPPY — There are Paper Towns references in Brotherhood 2.0, not the reverse: viewers shared the last year and a half of writing and revision, so they saw what he was thinking about. (00:01:45)
  • 2009-04-25 · Saturday Video?!?!?! — John says this is a rare Saturday Brotherhood 2.0 video that is also Question Tuesday, when he answers real questions from real Nerdfighters. (00:00:00)
  • 2009-11-02 · NaNoWriMo!!! — John holds that no great book can be written in a month, as he told Nerdfighters who asked about NaNoWriMo when Brotherhood 2.0 began in 2007. (00:00:30)

2010

  • 2010-05-17 · My YouTube Story is Short — Hank gives his own YouTube story: his brother convinced him to do something ridiculous they thought would be about two people, and it turned out to be about many more. (00:01:55)
  • 2010-10-13 · On Hope and Chile — John reasoned relationships have few outcomes, so a formula predicting who ends one should be possible; he wrote a novel about someone who could, with the formula by Daniel Biss. (00:01:12)
  • 2010-11-16 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget! — Saying the deficit shows the need for more mathematicians in power, John announces that Brotherhood 2.0 resident mathematician Daniel Biss is now a state representative-elect. (00:02:56)
  • 2010-12-22 · I Was on Jeopardy!!!! — Not being a mathematician, John phones 'Brotherhood 2.0 resident mathematician' and state representative-elect Daniel Biss to ask whether $135,000 is a lot; on hearing yes, John cheers. (00:00:47)

2011

  • 2011-03-08 · Why is Haiti Poor? — Hank recalls that long ago he and John went to the Dominican Republic and toured with a microfinance organization; that video is deep in the Brotherhood 2.0 archives. (00:00:51)
  • 2011-08-31 · How to Become An Adult — John says Ilene is the only reason Looking for Alaska exists, he has a job writing books, and there is Brotherhood 2.0 or Nerdfighteria. (00:02:46)
  • 2011-10-07 · Steve Jobs and a Song — Hank says Steve Jobs made what the brothers do possible: from their first computer, the Apple IIe their dad got, to the computers bought in 2007 for this project and all their editing software. (00:03:03)
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John recalls that in Brotherhood 2.0 they created the Foundation to Decrease World Suck: people donated and the brothers gave the money to things like Save the Children and train fare for two Nerdfighters to meet. (00:00:37)

2012

2013

  • 2013-01-08 · Addicted to the Internet — John recalls that in late 2006, while planning Brotherhood 2.0, Sarah doubted he could do it given his internet time, and he insisted making videos would replace it. (00:00:45)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says he and Hank missed the easy collaborations of their teens, which is why they started Brotherhood 2.0 in 2007, wanting collaborators again; they never imagined this many. (00:56:49)
  • 2013-01-16 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Asked what most decreased world suck, Hank names P4A but recalls their first-year visit to a microfinance organization in the Dominican Republic; microfinance seems to really work. (01:55:09)
  • 2013-03-06 · The Gray Speckled Walls Encroach: The Perks and Liabilities of Frequent Flying — John says that since Brotherhood 2.0 started in 2007 he has flown more than 400,000 miles, which has earned him a lot of perks. (00:00:23)
  • 2013-03-20 · Ads Work...but for Whom? — John likes the all-volunteer, zero-budget model, which is basically what they did with Brotherhood 2.0, but finds it often impractical because grown-ups need to eat and pay rent. (00:02:40)
  • 2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — She recalls reading John's 'very static' blog in 2006 and being addicted to Brotherhood 2.0 in 2007. (00:03:03)
  • 2013-07-19 · TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More! — Asked if he's missing a tooth, John says yes: it caused terrible chronic pain since before Brotherhood 2.0, was removed in complicated, painful surgery, and no longer hurts. (00:01:16)
  • 2013-11-19 · On Middle School Misery — John unexpectedly found himself alone on a train in New York, where Brotherhood 2.0 began for him and where they played a sold-out Carnegie Hall show earlier this year. (00:00:11)
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — Sitting where Brotherhood 2.0 began, John says he never imagined the community would lend more than $3 million, and thanks Nerdfighteria and Hank. (00:03:16)