Your Pants

project · in 27 videos (2011–2012)

Mentions by year: 2011: 25 · 2012: 2

Threads

Your Pants (yourpants.org): the Nerdfighter forum, its hacker outage and return (2011) — stage, restart, 2011–2012
Hank asks his Twitter followers for potential Your Pants logos (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
Hank asks viewers to sign up for Your Pants while it is open to the first 200 people (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
Nerdfighters research the life of a private person in Your Pants (2011) — stage, result, 2011–2011
John asks Nerdfighters for Question Day questions on Your Pants (March 2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
John asks Nerdfighters to research Ivan the Terrible's lost library in a Your Pants thread (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
John asks Nerdfighters to plan Hank's birthday in a Your Pants thread (Hanko de Mayo 2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
John asks viewers how to tell who belongs in the Evil Baby Orphanage given the complexity of history (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
John invites viewers to continue the conversation about religion on Your Pants (June 2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
Nerdfighters are asked to vote in a Your Pants poll on the Sharpie colour for John's signatures of The Fault in Our Stars (2011) — ask, reported back, 2011–2011
John asks readers whether The Great Gatsby's portrait of wealth and the American dream is true, to discuss on Your Pants (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
Hank asks viewers for punishment ideas for his missed video, via comments or #punishHank (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011
John asks Hank and commenters whether Gatsby's quest, and their own, is heroic (2011) — ask, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2011–2011

What the videos say

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)
2011-02-12 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank and his team worked all day and late into the night on Your Pants, including integrating Facebook; he is very tired from coding CSS and hacking it. (00:00:02)
2011-02-12 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank asked on Twitter for Your Pants logos and got many; the consensus and his heart go to one submitter's logo, which invites people to make the YP sign together. (00:02:27)
2011-02-12 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank opens Your Pants for business, but only to the first 200 people, a limited public release so that nothing crashes or breaks. (00:03:05)
2011-02-12 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank asks viewers to go to Your Pants right now and sign up if they can. (00:03:18)
2011-02-12 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank says they will 'theoretically' open Your Pants to everyone very soon. (00:03:24)
2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — John congratulates Hank on Your Pants. (00:02:10)
2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John gives Nerdfighters the task of searching out everything knowable about the library, in a thread he created on Your Pants (link in the description). (00:03:23)
2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — John's non-rhetorical question: given history's complexity, how do we know who belongs in the Evil Baby Orphanage, and that our own lives would not land us there? He invites discussion in comments and Your Pants. (00:02:05)
2011-08-09 · Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War. — Hank explains the attack: a hacker found a vulnerability in the vBulletin software running Your Pants and released an exploit, probably as a simple script, which script kiddies ran to own servers, steal passwords and send spam. (00:00:00)
2011-08-09 · Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War. — Hank says their white-hat security expert, Sam Rudd (ASR), stopped the infiltration before any user data was compromised, but a big hunk of the forum's content has been lost. (00:00:42)
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)
…and 21 more statements in 2011 (most important shown)

2012

2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — Change two: John says the Your Pants forum has been down for several months because of Russian hackers but is coming back this week. (00:01:08)
2012-06-19 · Solving Your Problems! — To find local Nerdfighters, John points to Facebook, the Ning and Your Pants, where there are many location-specific Nerdfighter groups. (00:03:16)