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No textual communication

ritual · in 25 videos (2007–2009)

Mentions by year: 2007: 22 · 2008: 1 · 2009: 2

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What the videos say

2007

  • 2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — Hank tells John they will no longer communicate by any textual means: no instant messaging or email, only video blogs and possibly phone calls. (00:00:13)
  • 2007-01-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Since the survey is text-based he can't send it to John, but refusing to break the tradition, Hank gives it in video form, skipping questions 1 to 6, which are unchanged and whose answers he already knows. (00:00:34)
  • 2007-01-23 · Week 1 Condensed! — Hank tells John they will no longer communicate by any textual means: no instant messaging or email, only video blogging. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-01-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 — John says he accidentally CC'd Hank on an email, which means he has to do a punishment, and asks Hank to be kind. (00:02:02)
  • 2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Some call John a stand-up citizen for agreeing to the punishment before being told it, but Hank says John phoned him arguing the email wasn't punishable. (00:01:34)
  • 2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — Since collaborative writing is hard without text, John proposes a series of Evil Baby Orphanage videos in which the brothers read their proposed book proposals to each other, eventually building a book proposal from them. (00:01:10)
  • 2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Trying to get John on iChat to talk face to face, Hank instant messages him instead, and John instant messages back. (00:01:39)
  • 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)
  • 2007-07-11 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Since the brothers broke the rule more or less simultaneously, Hank wants a simultaneous punishment in which each does a similar one. (00:00:11)
  • 2007-08-03 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says hard-working Nerdfighters have found a textual communication he apparently sent Hank on January 11, 2007, so he, not Hank, is about to be punished. (00:01:49)
  • 2007-08-04 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank says Nerdfighters discovered John textually communicated with him ten days after the project started, so John must be punished. (00:02:27)
  • 2007-12-18 · Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! — Answering whether there will be a punishment before year's end, John says yes: Hank communicated with him in the comments of Nalts's video, so Hank will be punished. (00:00:39)
  • …and 9 more statements in 2007 (most important shown)

2008

  • 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)

2009

  • 2009-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Restaging his first video, Hank reverses its no-textual-communication line: this time the brothers will be communicating through textual means. (00:00:37)