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project · in 138 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 2 · 2008: 20 · 2009: 24 · 2010: 26 · 2011: 20 · 2012: 20 · 2013: 26

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2007

2008

  • 2008-01-04 · Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton — John proposes a motto for the Vlogbrothers in 2008: being less frequent doesn't mean the videos will be better. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-01-09 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — John says one of the brothers will post at least one video per week, and on other days there will be pictures and videos from Nerdfighteria on the Ning. (00:01:06)
  • 2008-01-20 · John and Hank on NPR Today! — Hank thanks the channel's 15,000th subscriber, a couple with their own YouTube channel. (00:02:27)
  • 2008-02-12 · Nerdfighters Blurbing Book Club! — Hank asks readers to post their blurb in a blog post and send it to him; he will set up a poll, and the winner gets a free Nerdfighter t-shirt and their face saying the blurb on the Vlogbrothers channel. (00:02:00)
  • 2008-02-27 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song) — The refrain asks where the Vlogbrothers, and America, would be without people who love giraffes who love giraffes. (00:01:00)
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — John says Hank will be punished too: he lost the Peeps contest without participating and made a video over four minutes without a photo montage, which breaks the rule. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-05-01 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank says Vlogbrothers videos have been viewed 11 million times at 3.7 minutes each, 40.7 million minutes or 77.4 years: one human lifetime. (00:00:00)
  • 2008-05-01 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank guesses the Vlogbrothers audience is mostly girls and wonders whether girls like the channel better than boys. (00:01:13)
  • 2008-05-01 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank asks viewers to leave their gender in the comments for an informal demographic analysis. (00:01:43)
  • 2008-05-01 · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank says YouTube and the internet provide ways to participate, and hopes the Vlogbrothers are something viewers and the brothers do together, not a waste of time. (00:03:18)
  • 2008-09-22 · The Pwning of Oprah — John reads YouTube's most-subscribed directors list: the Vlogbrothers have 41,818 subscribers and Oprah 41,365, so they have 'pwned' Oprah. (00:00:50)
  • 2008-12-12 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank announces that he and John have both decided to put up a thousand dollars to donate to a P4A charity, chosen on the quality of the charity and its video. (00:02:38)
  • …and 7 more statements in 2008 (most important shown)

2009

  • 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)
  • 2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You — John says all their videos except those with giraffe sex as the thumbnail are watched by nearly three times more women than men. (00:00:34)
  • 2009-03-02 · Free Will Fetish — John reveals, whispering, that the vlogbrothers now have more subscribers than Google, the company that owns YouTube. (00:02:12)
  • 2009-06-17 · The Fathers of the Founding Fathers — Hank thanks dads, especially his own, who 'created the vlog brothers', and wishes everyone a happy Father's Day. (00:02:12)
  • 2009-06-23 · Fighting the Flame War! — Hank says the brothers are not in the same room: they started the project because they live across the country from each other and wanted to talk more. (00:01:29)
  • 2009-06-29 · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John notes that in their two-and-a-half-year conversation the brothers have uploaded more than 500 videos, watched many times thanks to Nerdfighters. (00:00:10)
  • 2009-06-29 · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John says not everyone watching is awesome and reads comments posted on Vlogbrothers videos in the last week, replacing each curse word with a famous American poet's name. (00:00:22)
  • 2009-07-15 · Sell Outs! — John says YouTube can't survive without advertising, and as vlogging becomes more their job neither can they, since he assumes no one wants to pay for Vlogbrothers videos. (00:02:37)
  • 2009-10-28 · We Win When Everyone Wins — Hank says Florence at the peak of the Renaissance had about 60,000 people, fewer than subscribe to vlogbrothers, yet produced Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Raphael and dozens more geniuses. (00:00:51)
  • 2009-12-16 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John says he will auction off his one and only pair of nerd glasses, which he wore in most 2008 Vlogbrothers videos. (00:02:44)
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John is auctioning his nerd glasses, worn in almost every 2008 Vlogbrothers video; the auction is linked in the sidebar and all proceeds go to Malaria No More. (00:02:03)
  • 2009-12-21 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says the Vlogbrothers channel traditionally reinvents itself at the end of each year, and will do so again this year with viewers' help. (00:03:04)
  • …and 8 more statements in 2009 (most important shown)

2010

  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — John argues professional hurdlers respect the utility of rules; rules stand between us and chaos, which is why he now brushes regularly and why their video blog needs rules. (00:01:45)
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — John announces rule one: every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of 2010 the brothers alternate videos (Hank Wednesday, John Friday, Hank Monday...), except on major holidays and during John's paternity leave. (00:01:45)
  • 2010-02-16 · Hello Baby!! — John says Hank won't see a ton of a child of the brothers in the coming vlogs, though not none, because he wants a child of the brothers to choose whether he has a private life. (00:01:31)
  • 2010-04-21 · The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges — John asks Nerdfighters to plant seeds, saplings or plants on Hank's behalf ('Hank trees and Hank plants'), photograph or film it and email it to him for a big vlogbrothers Hank tree planting video. (00:01:05)
  • 2010-04-24 · VidCon: User Generated Conference — Hank asks viewers to leave their ideas as video responses to the version of this video at youtube.com/vidcon, not the vlogbrothers one, and get people to like them; most-liked ideas are most likely to happen. (00:01:38)
  • 2010-07-17 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — Hank asks viewers to suggest punishments or vote on suggested ones in the YouTube Moderator module below the video on the Vlogbrothers channel. (00:02:42)
  • 2010-07-20 · I Like Balls — John says his proudest day as a Nerdfighter came last week, not when the Vlogbrothers hit 300,000 subscribers, but when Nerdfighters came together with a private person and helped the Harry Potter Alliance win $250,000. (00:01:43)
  • 2010-08-03 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — John says that when he met a private person in Boston, he promised her that on her birthday, forever, the brothers would make videos about whatever she wanted. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-10-01 · Supernote and Charlie's Birthday — Hank announces that the Vlogbrothers are taking part in SuperNote; viewers join the Vlogbrothers team via Rhett and Link's SuperNote site. (00:00:00)
  • 2010-10-01 · Supernote and Charlie's Birthday — Hank says the male and female team members with the longest SuperNote win the right to introduce a vlogbrothers video by saying 'Good morning Hank' or 'Good morning John'. (00:00:25)
  • 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank tells John this matters to him because what the brothers do likewise has little to do with them and is a big deal because of the people doing it with them. (00:01:30)
  • 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John announces that beginning Friday and continuing all next week, the brothers will make a solid effort to be educational. (00:02:46)
  • …and 17 more statements in 2010 (most important shown)

2011

  • 2011-01-04 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John wishes Hank a happy four-year YouTube anniversary and says he dressed up because it is their special day. (00:00:00)
  • 2011-01-04 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — Thanking Nerdfighters for sticking with them, John says the vlogbrothers will continue Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos in 2011 and, having heard viewers, will make more question videos, Thoughts from Places and 'info-tational' videos. (00:02:24)
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John lists more feats: Nerdfighters broke the email inbox of Warner Chilcott's CEO, determined that moon pasta is more efficient than Earth beef, and transcribed every vlogbrothers video at nerdfighteria.info. (00:01:44)
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John says vlogbrothers videos have been viewed about 122 million times, with an average video length of about 3 minutes 30 seconds. (00:00:36)
  • 2011-04-07 · Live on YouTube — Hank points viewers to John's livestream, 2:30-4:30, at youtube.com/vlogbrothers, the brothers' YouTube channel. (00:00:50)
  • 2011-05-20 · How to Vlog: From the Vlogbrothers — Hank says the vlogging voice takes time to hone; early vlogbrothers videos show that the brothers sucked too when they started. (00:01:01)
  • 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — John tells viewers who want a Vlogbrothers video of Hank saying their ten words to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle and await emailed instructions. (00:01:27)
  • 2011-08-12 · The Fair: Testacular! — Hank muses that 'Good morning, John' may be the most important words in the videos: it reminds him John is the key audience member and links every Vlogbrothers video to every other. (00:00:00)
  • 2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — John asks Nerdfighters who recently made an awesome video deserving a wider audience to post it as a video response; the brothers will watch all and feature a few in a future video. (00:02:02)
  • 2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — John tells Hank and Nerdfighteria that the maps they make with vlogbrothers videos will always be distorted and insufficient. (00:01:43)
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — Anticipating angry comments that Nerdfighteria will die, John says Vlogbrothers videos aren't changing: same Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule and basement shooting. (00:02:42)
  • 2011-11-18 · Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ — Hank argues the PROTECT IP Act would let a corporation have a vlogbrothers video taken down without human review, leaving creators powerless, as if the MPAA were a law enforcement body. (00:02:35)
  • …and 5 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John marks five years since he uploaded his first Vlogbrothers video, on January 2, 2007, with a deliberately terrible jump cut. (00:00:00)
  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — Change four: in 2012 there will be two Vlogbrothers videos a week, John's on Tuesday and Hank's on Friday; John apologises to viewers. (00:01:08)
  • 2012-01-07 · Kill your TV — Hank says he and John offer at least six YouTube videos a week across vlogbrothers, SciShow and Crash Course (launching January 25), more than doubled with HankGames and Truth or Fail. (00:03:06)
  • 2012-04-06 · Can I be Space President? — Hank proposes that his title at 'Vlogbrothers Enterprises' become 'Hank Green, President of Space, Nerdfighteria' and asks John whether he can be president of space. (00:01:01)
  • 2012-04-13 · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank says the project is very different from his vlogging: he prefers to vlog alone, but this needs actors, a sound guy, production people and writers, which is totally new to him. (00:01:25)
  • 2012-04-13 · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank feels Vlogbrothers is a story but not an intentional one; with this series they are deliberately telling a story, splitting and writing it and moving it into the present day. (00:01:42)
  • 2012-06-15 · Flinching in the Shower — Hank asks people to leave the problems they see, from small ones like YouTube's subscription system to big ones like hunger, with (not actual) points for uniqueness and for rarely commenting. (00:02:51)
  • 2012-08-03 · I Don't Understand My Life — When a private person was really sick, John told her the brothers wanted to celebrate her birthday every year the channel existed; after about two weeks she chose a day for saying 'I love you' to family and friends. (00:02:19)
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank announces that he and John have made 1,000 videos and says he is proud of them both. (00:00:30)
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — Hank announces that the Harry Potter Alliance and the Vlogbrothers are teaming up on DFTVA, 'Don't Forget to Vote, America', for anyone who cares about the election. (00:01:41)
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says he and Hank were also privileged to have internet access in 2007 and $249 for cheap video cameras at the end of 2006; without that, Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, SciShow, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and VidCon would not exist. (00:00:58)
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — John asks viewers to head to projectforawesome.com, watch the livestream and comment like crazy, since every comment on a P4A video is a penny (word cut off) he has to donate to charity. (00:02:49)
  • …and 11 more statements in 2012 (most important shown)

2013