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Brotherhood 2.0 forum

website community · in 124 videos (2007–2023)

The 2007 Brotherhood 2.0 forum, nicknamed "my pants".

Videos by year: 2007: 87 · 2008: 5 · 2009: 9 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 9 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2014: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2023: 1

Also known as: the forum, my pants (forum nickname), WikiWikiWookie

Threads

Also named in the threads: Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters · John: punishment for accidentally CC'ing Hank on an email (2007) · The brothers' 'secret siblings' (2007) · Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007) · The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) · John and Hank: develop the Evil Baby Orphanage into a story (2007) · John: give away Book Expo swag on Brotherhood 2.0 once Hank launches it (2007) · John's nerdfighter ranks: Decepticons, nerdfighters, nits and mass promotions (2007) · Hank asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas after the brothers' instant-message slip (2007) · The brothers' accidental instant-message exchange that breaks the no-textual-communication rule (2007) · John: do a half-naked dance in a golden bow tie as punishment (2007) · The brothers' feud, to be judged by Nerdfighters (2007) · Foundation project: train fare to bring a secret sibling and her Nerdfighter boyfriend together (2007) · Nerdfighter Ning: the community site launches (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to post their creative work on the Ning as blog posts to be featured (2009)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

in your pants (34) · Brotherhood 2.0 (15) · Nerdfighter Ning (3) · made of awesome (3) · Stuff on Heads (2) · Harry Potter (book series) (4) · No textual communication (2) · nerdfighter (3) · world suck (4) · Indianapolis (4)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2007

  • 2007-01-23 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 23rd — Hank says he was recently at Maureen Johnson's blog, about a long conversation John, Johnson and Lockhart had on the suffix 'in your pants': every book title gets better with it. (playful) — 00:01:57
  • 2007-01-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 — John: Offering in-your-pants jokes, John asks Hank and viewers which is funnier: 'Everyone Poops in My Pants' or 'Everyone Poops in Your Pants'. (playful) — 00:01:22
  • 2007-06-05 · Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum — announcement: 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
  • 2007-06-07 · 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
  • 2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank: Because John has already settled Hank's punishment, Hank must make John's play off it, which needs an embarrassing picture of John; he has several, all from high school. — 00:00:34
  • 2007-07-13 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 13: Outside — John clarifies Hank's punishment: not just spray-painting a green mohawk, but spray-painting it and recreating the goth picture. — 00:01:38
  • 2007-07-20 · July 20: Green Mohawk — Hank says he currently has the number five top-rated song on YouTube, a dream come true that makes him feel like a small-time rock star. — 00:02:03
  • 2007-07-26 · July 26: The Price of Fame — Hank's song 'Accio Deathly Hallows' has been featured on the front page of YouTube and watched over 200,000 times. — 00:00:51
  • 2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank: In the song, John phones Hank in bed shouting 'front page'; Hank wants to nap, then realises, runs to his laptop and finds himself featured on YouTube. (playful) — 00:00:52
  • 2007-08-22 · August 22nd: Um. Uh. IN YOUR PANTS — announcement: John says he had to temporarily suspend the wiki and people may have to watch the videos on YouTube for a couple of days, but Brotherhood2.com will be back and more awesome. (hedged) — 00:02:12
  • 2007-11-01 · November 1st: When Nerdfighters Fall in Nerdfighter-Like — John: The problem is geography: Liechtenstein is in one place but Nerdfighteria is in about 30,000 places; online hangouts like 'my pants' are fine, but sometimes people need to touch and hug. (playful) — 00:01:58
  • 2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John is grateful for the project mainly because he now knows Hank as an adult: smart, funny, clever, with ideas both brilliant (naming the forum 'My Pants') and diabolical (making John wax his chin). — 00:01:34
  • …and 136 statements more in 2007 — all statements of 2007

Also named in: August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans

2008

  • 2008-02-14 · The Puff Pwns Gravity — John had thought the 'in your pants' joke had run its course until a nerdfighter checking in books for third graders found 'Pooh Gets Stuck'. (playful) — 00:02:05
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — John shows gifts Nerdfighters brought the brothers in Grand Rapids: a ceramic DFTBA cup and a book called 'Scruffy Teddy Likes to Play in Your Pants'. — 00:00:30
  • 2008-07-18 · Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song — announcement: Hank says that a year ago today (18 July 2007) he recorded a Harry Potter song that pretty much changed his life, and celebrates the anniversary with another Harry Potter song. — 00:00:30
    • Hank thanks the Nerdfighters for working together to get Accio Deathly Hallows up to 1 million views. — 00:00:30
    • 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. (hedged) — 00:00:51
  • 2008-08-12 · Eight Days of Awesome — Hank says eight days earlier he was in the studio recording an actual studio version of Accio Deathly Hallows, to be discussed later. — 00:00:40
  • …and 1 statement more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

2009

  • 2009-02-08 · All Aboard the Fail Boat — John says Nerdfighteria takes the attack on women's pants personally: the in-your-pants book-title joke is funny, a hoopskirt designed to rob women of power is not, and Williamson will not take his in-your-pants jokes. (playful) — 00:01:33
  • 2009-02-18 (said on 2009-02-17, implied) · Winners and Winners and Ningmasters — Hank: AmberTheAmberyOne will organise the forum and head Nerdfighter projects, featuring the best Nerdfighter videos on the Ning every Monday. — 00:02:04
    • 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
  • 2009-06-01 · DFTBA Street Team In Your Pants — Maureen Johnson: As E. Lockhart sought a title for what became The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, Maureen, staring at John's cream cheese, proposed adding 'in your pants' to any title; Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines came first. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2009-07-15 · This Isn't Hogwarts! A Harry Potter Song — Hank says it is nearly the third anniversary of 'Accio Deathly Hallows', the song that kicked the Vlogbrothers into the mainstream. — 00:03:02
  • 2009-07-26 · Volunteering (In Your Pants) — John recounts that he and Maureen Johnson discovered in a coffee shop that adding 'in your pants' to book titles makes them funnier, and runs through examples. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — John announces that Senior Executive Ningmaster Tom has recruited new Ningmasters for the forum, images, chat, books, blogs, anti-worldsuck and 'Ducky's', and, for the first time, the wiki. — 00:00:06
    • 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
  • 2009-10-06 · Victoria Beckham In Your Pants — John restates the 'in your pants' rule: adding the words to the end of a book title often makes it funnier, and Nerdfighters keep finding examples, the last being 'Pooh Gets Stuck'. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • John says a Nerdfighter may have found an even better example: Victoria Beckham's book 'That Extra Half an Inch', subtitled 'Hair, Heels, and Everything in Between'. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:32
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — John says 'in your pants' was discovered by Maureen Johnson: adding it to book titles makes them funnier, e.g. The Sun Also Rises and A Spot of Bother. (playful) — 00:02:38
  • …and 1 statement more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

2010

  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — Maureen Johnson: She describes herself as a friend of John's and fellow YA author, probably best known to Nerdfighters as the originator of the 'In Your Pants' joke. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-07-21 · I Hung out with Snookie...Accidentally — Hank marks roughly three years since Accio Deathly Hallows was featured on YouTube's front page, the first time many people watched the brothers' videos. — 00:00:52
  • 2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — John: In 'important developments in the field of your pants', John announces that a UK Nerdfighter has found a children's book called The Sweaty Yeti. (playful) — 00:03:18

2011

  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John piles up old in-jokes: pizza in the mustache, the singamajig, his puppy-sized elephant, the Dread Pirate Fireball Wilson Roberts and French the Llama, Tender Morsels in your pants. (playful) — 00:00:18
    • 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. (hedged) — 00:02:23
  • 2011-02-11 · 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
    • 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
  • 2011-02-14 · CHUBBY BUNNY...blergh! — John congratulates Hank on Your Pants. (playful) — 00:02:10
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John explains the 'in your pants' rule: their friend Maureen Johnson discovered that book titles are funnier with 'in your pants' added, and gives examples. — 00:01:31
  • 2011-07-15 · Harry Freaking Potter — Hank says four years ago he wrote a song about the book Deathly Hallows and how he wanted it to come out, and has written another Harry Potter song every year since. — 00:00:04
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — announcement: Hank says Your Pants is still down after being hacked, so ideas go in the YouTube comments or on Twitter with the hashtag punish Hank. — 00:02:55
  • 2011-08-08 (said on 2011-08-09, implied) · 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. (hedged) — 00:00:00
    • Hank says their white-hat security expert, Sam Rudd (as heard), stopped the infiltration before any user data was compromised, but a big hunk of the forum's content has been lost. — 00:00:42
  • 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — Hank explains the Your Pants forum buckles under 10,000 Nerdfighters; they are negotiating for hosting that won't crash or cost about $500 a month, and expect it back by January at the latest. — video description
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank: In 2008, in the vlogbrothers' first year, Hank anagrammed the presidential candidates' names; now, nearly in 2012, he anagrams this year's (2011) Republican presidential hopefuls. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • …and 4 statements more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says five years ago he would never have guessed there would be a Nerdfighteria, a Project for Awesome, In Your Pants jokes or an Evil Baby Orphanage (which still doesn't exist but should). — 00:00:00
    • Change two: John says the Your Pants forum has been down for several months because of Russian hackers but is coming back this week (week of 2 January 2012). (playful) — 00:01:08
  • 2012-06-19 · Solving Your Problems! — recommendation: John: To find local Nerdfighters, John points to Facebook, the Ning and Your Pants, where there are many location-specific Nerdfighter groups. (playful) — 00:03:16
  • 2012-08-17 · Open Letter to the Wizards — Hank says a Harry Potter song he wrote in 2007 changed his life, so he promised himself to write another Harry Potter song every year on that video's anniversary, and has. — 00:00:15

2013

  • 2013-01-11 · On the Ownership of Ideas — Hank recalls making a video anagramming presidential candidates' names; about a week later The Daily Show did the same, but John, through his writer friends, found its segment was written first. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank says before the last Harry Potter book he emailed YouTube suggesting a front-page feature and a video; they did, the brothers' first real traction on YouTube. — 01:06:09
  • 2013-07-12 · Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song — announcement: Hank's description says that every year around the anniversary of Accio Deathly Hallows he releases another Harry Potter song, and this is that song. — video description

2014

  • 2014-05-20 · Deserving — John: The luck goes further back, John says: he is lucky to have Hank as brother and collaborator, and lucky that Hank's 2007 Harry Potter song gave them a whole new audience. — 00:00:50
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: When Hank IMed John in July and John replied, both were punished and dressed up like their most embarrassing high-school pictures. — 00:00:53

2017

  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Ten years ago today (18 July 2007) Hank uploaded Accio Deathly Hallows, a song about his excitement for the publication of the last Harry Potter book. — 00:02:31

2018

  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John often thinks that if Hank's Harry Potter song hadn't been featured by YouTube in July 2007, none of this would exist, though countless other things had to happen too. — 00:01:00

2023