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2011

  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John says the studio he is in is where the Indianapolis episodes of the brothers' new channel, Crash Course, will be filmed. — 00:00:34
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — John says the brothers have long dreamt of an educational YouTube channel that is both genuinely informational and genuinely entertaining, and now have the opportunity. — 00:00:34
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John announces that for 40 weeks from late January 2012 he will teach world history and Hank biology on Crash Course, as a very broad introduction. — 00:01:19
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John says that afterwards they will teach other courses, such as literature, chemistry or physics, whatever Nerdfighteria wants. — 00:01:19
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — ask: John asks viewers to subscribe to Crash Course and SciShow through links in the doobly-doo and annotations. — 00:02:05
  • 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — Hank adds that he also has 'SciShow and Crash Course things' going, but all is well as long as he can play Super Mario Bros. Wii with his wife. — 00:03:24
  • 2011-12-14 · Greek Phallic Disco Golf Balls: A Free Association Game — announcement: John: Hank says 'Socrates'; John says it is either Greek or Latin, which Hank will soon find out in episode 3 of Crash Course. (playful) — 00:02:39

2012

Also named in: Thoughts on Growing up

2013

  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John calls 2012 an amazing year for the brothers: Hank co-created The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow and Crash Course, VidCon doubled, and The Fault in Our Stars spent 51 consecutive weeks on the NYT list. — 00:02:45
  • 2013-01-22 · How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday — ask: John: Answering questions on Romeo ('if he were named Paris he wouldn't be nearly so hot') and Holden Caulfield, John points to Crash Course episodes and tells viewers they should subscribe. (playful) — 00:02:07
  • 2013-02-08 · The Space Time Continuum: Thoughts from Dublin — recommendation: Hank's playful conclusion: watch Crash Course World History. (playful) — 00:03:41
  • 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — announcement: Hank announces that they launched Crash Course Chemistry, which he is very excited about. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John: Hank has just started teaching chemistry on Crash Course; it sounded unpromising but has been entertaining and interesting, and John is learning. — 00:02:25
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John is three episodes into teaching the history of the United States, which he jokingly calls Canada's pants. (playful) — 00:02:34
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Danica works on Crash Course, doing its excellent chalkboard drawings and also the Mental Floss set. — 00:00:19
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John says Mark is the producer and director of the Mental Floss channel, and Stan, as always, is working on Crash Course. — 00:02:11
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — John wanted Hank to see the office because Hank had shown John his, and to meet the people who actually make Crash Course, Mental Floss and the Swoodilypoopers happen. — 00:02:40
  • 2013-05-07 · The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour — announcement: John says he will soon be on paternity leave, but the things made in the office will continue to be made while he is away. — 00:02:51
  • 2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says he finished filming Crash Course US History early yesterday, so he drove to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where Sarah is a curator. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups — Hank says he and John know their only asset is the viewers; without them there would be no Sanditon, DFTBA Records, Crash Course, SciShow or even 2D Glasses. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: During the leave there will be a Crash Course US History video every Thursday, a mental floss video every Wednesday, and Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers FIFA games every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. — 00:00:55
  • 2013-06-14 · What is the Strongest Force on Earth? — recommendation: Hank tells viewers who do not know scientific notation to watch Crash Course Chemistry. (playful) — 00:00:55
  • 2013-06-25 · Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer — Hannah Hart: Hannah opens with a fake Crash Course intro, then frames her video as a Thoughts from Places about coming home, written at her favourite cafe. (playful) — 00:00:38
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — Hank: Cultural changes need activation energy and catalysts; Hank feels Nerdfighteria, now a powerful force, could be the activation energy and Subbable the catalyst. (hedged) — 00:01:00
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — announcement: Hank: Subbable lets you subscribe to content and choose what to pay: $0, $1, $5 or $100 a month, or a one-time amount. — 00:01:12
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — announcement: Hank: Subscribers get videos and other content in their feed, possibly some exclusive content, without having to pay. (hedged) — 00:01:26
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — announcement: Hank: Money spent is banked in Subbable and traded for perks for that project, such as a signed poster, a mention in an episode, or a message to a loved one in the description. — 00:01:33
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — announcement: Hank: Subbable launches with only Crash Course, the brothers' educational show, which is very expensive to make. — 00:01:45
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — announcement: Hank: The Google grant that paid for Crash Course for the last two years is ending; without Subbable and its fans' support they cannot keep making it. — 00:01:50
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — Hank says educational content cannot get the 'bajillion' views needed to pay for itself through advertising. (playful) — 00:01:58
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — announcement: Hank: Crash Course will stay free on YouTube; the hope is that enough people who can pay will, so that everyone can have access. (hedged) — 00:02:03
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — ask: Hank asks viewers, which he calls weird, to pay for content because they want to, not because they are forced to: a cultural shift. — 00:02:13
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — Hank credits developer Peter Jaros, designer Andrew Willis and the support of Nerdfighteria for making Subbable possible. — 00:02:38
  • 2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — ask: Hank spells out subbable.com and asks viewers to go there, help fund Crash Course, and 'defy capitalism'. (playful) — 00:02:59
  • 2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam — announcement: Hank reports that SciShow and Crash Course are going well and SciShow just hit a million subscribers. — 00:02:54
  • 2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam — announcement: Hank says Subbable had a snafu with Amazon and recurring payments: monthly subscriptions were cancelled because they were not following all of Amazon's rules; now they are. — 00:03:00
  • 2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam — ask: Hank asks Subbable subscribers to sign back in and re-up their subscriptions; Subbable has been very successful, and if everyone re-subscribes Crash Course will be safe, but only 50% have so far. — 00:03:12
  • 2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform — John: freed from saving every dollar against bankruptcy, Hank could invest in DFTBA Records, VidCon, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and more; none could have happened without publicly subsidized health insurance. — 00:02:55
  • 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank says Subbable is doing amazingly, with Wheezy Waiter, Mystery Guitar Man, CGP Grey, MinutePhysics, Beer & Board Games and Woodworking for Mere Mortals now on it. — 00:00:18
  • 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank says Subbable has averaged $100,000 a month paid out to partners over the last two months. — 00:00:29
  • 2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria — John says Crash Course, SciShow and Mental Floss all have large and growing audiences. — 00:01:20
  • 2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — announcement: Hank: By coincidence, Subbable has also just launched comments, its own comment system. — 00:03:19
  • 2013-11-15 · I Have a Band? — announcement: Hank is making the album with some of his favorite musicians: Nick Jenkins (who films, edits and directs Crash Course Chemistry), Rob Scallon, Joe DeGeorge of Harry and the Potters, and Andrew Huang of Songs To Wear Pants To. — 00:00:23

Also named in: New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News

2014

  • 2014-01-03 · The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! — announcement: Hank announces that for the next season of Crash Course he will do Crash Course Psychology. — 00:03:49
  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John lists the businesses Hank has started: Crash Course, SciShow, DFTBA Records, VidCon and, jokingly, 'the ceaseless juggernaut' 2D Glasses. (playful) — 00:00:02
  • 2014-02-07 · Kill All The Humans — announcement: Hank announces that Crash Course Psychology, starring him, has just launched on youtube.com/crashcourse, using our minds to explore our minds. — 00:02:37
  • 2014-03-11 · Question Tuesday: TFIOS Movie, Existential Crises, and Symbolism — announcement: John: Answering why Hamlet's father is also named Hamlet ('old-fashioned Shakespearean doubling'), John says it will be discussed in detail in next week's (week of 17 March 2014) Crash Course Literature. — 00:00:06
  • 2014-03-28 · New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! — Hank lists what else is going on: Crash Course Psychology, Crash Course Literature, Emma Approved, keeping his colon healthy and a village in the game Banished. (playful) — 00:03:27
  • 2014-05-09 · Oh JK Rowling - Kinetic Typography — Hank apologises to people outside the Western US: SciShow, Crash Course and the other Missoula projects and people make it hard to be away more than a couple of weeks; he makes internet things so everyone can have them. — 00:03:18
  • 2014-05-20 · Deserving — announcement: John: Crash Course is about to teach a ten-episode Big History series, made possible by a grant from one of Bill Gates' organizations, charting the universe from the Big Bang to now. — 00:02:08
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank says 40% of respondents don't know Subbable, which has been so successful that SciShow, Crash Course and Sexplanations would not exist without it. — 00:01:48
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank explains Subbable as a voluntary subscription platform where subscribers choose any monthly amount, even zero, which keeps the shows available to everyone, including people who can't pay. — 00:02:02
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John: Three: teachers and students want non-video materials - essays, primary sources, worksheets - to go with Crash Course; Khan Academy has helped some, and they want to do much more in the coming year. — 00:01:09
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John says Crash Course is used in thousands of schools. — 00:01:12
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John asks whether and how to run pre-rolls; options: keep things as they are, delete ads entirely, or run pre-rolls and give all the money to the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck or to education and Nerdfighter projects, or a mix. — 00:02:17
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to take the survey linked in the doobly-doo on ads and on what they want from Crash Course and education content on YouTube. — 00:02:50
  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — announcement: John reports that tens of thousands answered his question from last week (week of 7 July 2014); they voted overwhelmingly to turn on vlogbrothers pre-roll ads and split the income between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund for educational video projects. — 00:00:13
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: Nerdfighteria loaned the million dollars, so each brother had two punishments; they cleared one by making six videos in a week, three each, leaving one punishment each. — 00:03:34
  • 2014-08-22 · Kidneys, LlamaJohn, Frankenstein, Back to School, and The Nerdfighter Online Video Workshop! — announcement: Hank: SciShow is about to reach two million subscribers, Crash Course just reached two million, and SciShow Space is about to reach 200,000; Hank thanks viewers. — 00:01:07
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — recommendation: John: To pass AP Chemistry, John suggests Crash Course might help. (hedged) — 00:01:19
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank says Crash Course is now used as a tool in literally thousands of schools. — 00:00:32
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John asks whether he should focus on Mental Floss, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Vlogbrothers or the Wimbly Womblys, and whether doing all of them means doing none well. (unsure) — 00:01:38
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — announcement: John says that in the coming months viewers might see less of his face on Crash Course, but he will still be working a lot on it. (hedged) — 00:03:02
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank recalls that almost three years ago he and John set out to do something hard; Crash Course became a thing used by many teachers and students, and it has been kept free. — 00:00:02
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank: With love for Pemberley Digital, SciShow, VidCon and the Wimbly Womblys, Hank calls Crash Course the best thing the brothers do and says he is very proud of it. — 00:00:13
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank presents a look back at the last three years of Crash Course: a montage of clips from John and Hank's courses. — 00:00:23
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank says Crash Course works only because people like it: most viewers watch because they want to, not because they have to. — 00:01:28
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank says Crash Course was funded for its first two years basically by a Google grant; when that ran out, the brothers asked fans to give a little so it could keep existing for everyone. (hedged) — 00:01:35
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank says they refused offers to charge for Crash Course or put it on an exclusive platform for fair money, not wanting to lock the content down, though it looked like they might have to. — 00:01:49
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank: People chose to give money through Subbable; Hank says Crash Course relies hugely on that support, which lets it make better and more content, and he could never be more grateful. — 00:02:02
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank says the Big History series Crash Course is in the middle of is a partnership with the Bill Gates think tank BGC3. — 00:02:12
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank announces a significantly larger relationship with PBS Digital Studios that will basically double Crash Course content; PBS is likewise viewer-funded and partnered with them on Frankenstein MD and The Art Assignment. — 00:02:18
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank says that in 2015 they hope to make four Crash Courses: Government with Craig Benzine (WheezyWaiter), Astronomy with Phil Plait, Physiology with Hank, and hopefully Economics. (hedged) — 00:02:37
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — recommendation: Hank recommends viewers who haven't checked out Crash Course do so, and points to PBS Digital Studios' channel in the description. — 00:02:54

2015

  • 2015-01-02 · Why is The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? Eight Completely Arbitrary Things — ask: Hank urges viewers to study broadly and deeply and to watch Crash Course World History, all of Crash Course, and SciShow. — 00:03:37
  • 2015-01-16 · Is School Broken? (Also...ANNOUNCEMENTS OF IMPORT) — announcement: Hank says Crash Course, the brothers' educational YouTube channel, is starting to cover topics more off the beaten path for that reason. — 00:02:22
  • 2015-01-16 · Is School Broken? (Also...ANNOUNCEMENTS OF IMPORT) — announcement: Hank says Crash Course Anatomy and Physiology started two weeks ago (early January 2015), with two episodes up, covering how the body works and what happens when it breaks. — 00:02:29
  • 2015-01-16 · Is School Broken? (Also...ANNOUNCEMENTS OF IMPORT) — announcement: Hank says Crash Course Astronomy launched yesterday, hosted by astronomer and science communicator Phil Plait, whom he can hardly believe he gets to work with. — 00:02:37
  • 2015-02-06 · You Will Be Forgotten ...And That's OK — Hank lists his successes: touring in a rock band, being written about in the New Yorker, helping raise over 2 million dollars for charity, Crash Course in thousands of schools, interviewing the President. — 00:01:16
  • 2015-02-17 · Places I've Never Been — announcement: John says Crash Course will soon start an introduction to intellectual property and copyright law, of interest to everyone who cares about the internet and making things. — 00:03:15
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — announcement: Hank says SciShow Kids and Crash Course Kids took months of work they weren't allowed to discuss (funding, defining them, character development, hiring for animation) and are now real. — 00:01:36
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — Hank says that as SciShow, Crash Course, VidCon and DFTBA have grown, more complicated infrastructure leaves him less freedom to talk about them. — 00:02:38
  • 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — ask: John asks viewers who support Crash Course or SciShow through Subbable to move their subscription to Patreon, which he calls like Subbable only better. — video description
  • 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — announcement: John reports that yesterday (16 March 2015) Subbable was acquired by Patreon, which he calls great news. — 00:00:07
  • 2015-03-20 · A Sacrifice of Individuality and the Internets — Hank thanks Patreon patrons funding SciShow and Crash Course; they are almost two-thirds of the way to pre-Patreon-switch funding levels. — 00:01:33
  • 2015-03-20 · A Sacrifice of Individuality and the Internets — Hank says Crash Course raises over $18,000 a month to fund free educational video, which our brains attribute to 'the crowd'. — 00:01:46
  • 2015-03-20 · A Sacrifice of Individuality and the Internets — Hank says it isn't the crowd or the culture but individuals: a few people, less than one percent of the shows' viewers, with the ability and enthusiasm to give money they don't have to. — 00:01:59
  • 2015-04-10 (said on 2015-04-11, implied) · This Video Makes No Sense — Hank gives a quick tour of his offices: staff at work, Callie Awesomesauce moved to a different tank for being 'a murderer', the Crash Course studio (now upstairs), SciShow and VidCon. (playful) — 00:01:31
  • 2015-05-15 · Happy Graduation, Future Dead People — Hank says Crash Course traffic shows students freaking out and bingeing Crash Course Chemistry, which means many people are about to graduate. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — announcement: John: Thanks to Bill Gates, the team is building Crash Course curriculum materials (lesson plans, primary sources) for teachers and students, rolling out before the new school year. — 00:02:40
  • 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria — John says the brothers use the Census every year to choose Crash Course topics and Vlogbrothers videos and to understand Nerdfighteria's interests, and thanks everyone who fills it out. — 00:01:37
  • 2015-09-04 · Addicted to Outrage — Hank: People love Crash Course, and the vast majority of census respondents have suggested it to friends or family. — 00:03:23
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John says Crash Course and SciShow are primarily supported not by advertising but by voluntary Patreon subscriptions from those who can afford it, so others watch free. — 00:00:41
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John tells Hank that although many said Patreon funding would never work, it is working great: Crash Course and SciShow are now fully sustainable thanks to Patreon. — 00:00:55
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — announcement: John says the brothers hope to expand both Crash Course and SciShow in 2016, and thanks supporters. (hedged) — 00:01:00
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — ask: John points to cool perks for supporting the shows on Patreon, with a link in the description. — 00:01:07
  • 2015-12-18 · We're All Gonna Die - A Song — announcement: Hank is making SciShow and Crash Course episodes and has just started shooting the new series Crash Course Philosophy, which will not be uploaded for a while. — 00:02:23

Also named in: Becoming Someone Else

2016

2017

  • 2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Ceri says she is editing Crash Course Film. — 00:00:53
  • 2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Hank says Vlogbrothers is still just him, but VidCon, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA.com and the rest need many people to happen. — 00:03:25
  • 2017-02-21 · Does Human Life Have Real Meaning? — announcement: John: Asked about another season of Crash Course Literature, John says there probably will be one. (hedged) — 00:01:59
  • 2017-03-14 · Green Brothers Reunited! — Hank says that in college he wanted a job where he could get a mohawk at 40, and now he has one, then plays 'your cool teacher Hank with the 40 year old mohawk'. (playful) — 00:02:09
  • 2017-03-31 · No Cut Confessional: Priorities — Hank says one obligation is to a new idea he can uniquely pull off: almost an obligation to the idea or the universe to make it exist, which drives his art, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:00:50
  • 2017-04-04 · Why I Won't Run for Office — John tells how, over ping-pong, Stan turned his praise of the Crash Courses in Computer Science and World Mythology into talk of more Crash Course Literature (perhaps 1984): a trick into a meeting. (playful) — 00:01:25
  • 2017-04-04 · Why I Won't Run for Office — announcement: John announces more Crash Course Literature coming this fall. — 00:01:41
  • 2017-04-21 · The Adpocalypse: What it Means — Hank says he is not a huge fan of advertising as an institution, yet built an entire business on ad revenue to make SciShow, Crash Course and more. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-04-21 · The Adpocalypse: What it Means — Hank says YouTube sorts content into buckets: hand-picked channels like Crash Course sold as safe and expensive, an algorithmic no-ads bucket, and a confusing middle no one understands. — 00:02:09
  • 2017-04-21 · The Adpocalypse: What it Means — Hank says if the value proposition breaks, creators will find (and already are finding) new support: subscriptions like Rooster Teeth's First, YouTube Red, Patreon, and creator-brand relationships communities like. — 00:03:12
  • 2017-05-12 · Things That You Just Might Love — Hank says he falls into this trap, tending to push his greater resources toward their own projects such as SciShow, Crash Course and Dear Hank and John. — 00:00:14
  • 2017-05-23 (said on 2017-05-14, implied) · Boxes, Butterflies, and Regular Aunts: Live from the Past, It's Question Tuesday — John: At VidCon John most looks forward to the annual Nerdfighter meetup, where they talk about future plans for Crash Course and more. — 00:01:42
  • 2017-07-07 · My Earthquake Story - (And Thoughts About Numbers) — Hank: As AP scores come back, Hank gets many tweets saying Crash Course helped; he thanks them, giving the students most of the credit. — 00:01:23
  • 2017-09-01 · What Everyone Gets Wrong About Global Warming — recommendation: Hank recommends Crash Course Film Production with Lily Gladstone as so good. — 00:03:50
  • 2017-09-08 · How to Win Australia — Hank: In Melbourne a Crash Course fan gives Hank directions to boba tea, but the shop is cash only. — 00:03:04
  • 2017-11-08 · Follow Hank All Day — Hank really enjoys shooting SciShow and Crash Course, even though it is pretty draining. — 00:02:05
  • 2017-12-01 · Let's Talk About Stress! — recommendation: Hank: For more on stress and our physiological responses to it, Hank recommends a SciShow video on how persistent stress harms our bodies and his own Crash Course episode on emotion, stress and health. — video description

2018

  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — announcement: John says Adriene Hill has just started hosting a new Crash Course series on statistics, whose episode Mathematical Thinking helped him understand differences between big numbers. — 00:00:01
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — announcement: Hank tells John the new Crash Course media literacy series with Jay Smooth is good and fascinating and will change how viewers see the world: less cut and dried, but more accurate. — 00:03:37
  • 2018-05-11 · Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things — announcement: Hank says he has a book, which is very exciting, and Crash Course and SciShow are doing amazingly well. — 00:01:05
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — recommendation: Hank recommends a series on the US court system on youtube.com/complexly, Complexly's new YouTube channel where the production company can try new things. — 00:09:40
  • 2018-09-04 · The Eisenhower Matrix — John's many urgent problems include getting his kids to school, Crash Course script deadlines, emails marked urgent and an urgent desire to eat several times a day. (playful) — 00:00:07
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — announcement: John is hosting more Crash Course next year (2019). — 00:02:55
  • 2018-11-07 · A New Thing? — announcement: Hank: Complexly, the production company behind SciShow and Crash Course, puts the questions together. — 00:01:27
  • 2018-11-09 · I Don't Know What Work Is — Hank replied asking whether it had to be a university, which is what they then called Crash Course. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — Hank: Asked how many courses of Crash Course there have been, Hank answers 18. — 00:00:58

2019

  • 2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John wants to edit and host 46 episodes of a new Crash Course History series about Europe. — 00:03:15
  • 2019-01-08 · I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going — announcement: John: For the next 10 weeks John hosts a Crash Course series on navigating digital information, with an evidence-based approach to judging online information and spotting misinformation. — 00:02:58
  • 2019-01-08 · I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going — recommendation: John: The tools from the series improved how John researches and what he ingests, more than any blocked website; he hopes viewers check it out. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-02-01 · We Have Destroyed Copyright Law — recommendation: Hank recommends the Crash Course Intellectual Property episode explaining how unsimple fair use is and other ways copyright law works poorly today. — 00:08:08
  • 2019-03-15 · Why We Stopped Making Explainers: EXPLAINED — The description says they once planned a separate business making only explainers, but explainers proved difficult and expensive without a trusted face, and the project died in favor of Crash Course and SciShow. — video description
  • 2019-04-12 · Escalators: We're Not Doing it Wrong (Mostly) — Hank says Crash Course, Destin of Smarter Every Day and many others realize we must take this seriously and notice how content pushes our buttons; taking clicks seriously could start the revolution. — 00:03:16
  • 2019-04-26 · It's Time to Care About "Business" — announcement: Hank's office has spent months on a business Crash Course that isn't business school, on 'soft skills'; after working on its videos, staff walk into meetings asking why no one explained this to them. — 00:02:26
  • 2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why — The description calls the video a response or update to the video that introduced Crash Course Literature. — video description
  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — John says he partly hasn't written a novel because of other work (Crash Course European History, the Partners In Health project, TV and movie adaptations), though he has had some kind of day job for most of his writing life. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — John: This year (2019) he has written more words he is proud of than in any year since 2011, and hosted Crash Course series on European history and on navigating digital information. — 00:01:33
  • 2019-11-19 · Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit — recommendation: John: In a pinned comment John points viewers to the Crash Course on Navigating Digital Information, which he hosted. — creator comment
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Many favorite moments were little: a Joan Mitchell show with Sarah, sprawling at VidCon with Rosianna, hamburgers with Hank, the Pettibon spiral, his mom's painting of his La-Z-Boy, laughing while filming Crash Course with Stan. — 00:03:18

2020

  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank lists what that togetherness has produced: Life's Library, the Project for Awesome, the work with Partners in Health, the ideas that helped him understand the world, Dear Hank and John, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:01:47
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says SciShow and Crash Course long ago eclipsed Vlogbrothers in subscribers and views, but Vlogbrothers, without which they wouldn't exist, has had more impact despite a smaller audience. — 00:02:00
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says Crash Course now has over ten million subscribers. — 00:02:54
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says Crash Course should grow as much as it can because its goal is to reach people with educational content, but Vlogbrothers doesn't need to. — 00:02:54
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — announcement: John will finish Crash Course European History this year (2020): it has been great fun and taught him to shift perspectives in history, but it ends as it approaches the present. — 00:00:31
  • 2020-01-17 · It's Like Shark Tank, but for Charity — recommendation: Hank thinks everyone should watch Crash Course Business: Entrepreneurship, a 17-episode series hosted by Anna Akana on the basics of starting a business and of business in general. — 00:03:35
  • 2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — Hank recalls launching SciShow and Crash Course in 2011; both are now way bigger than Vlogbrothers, with over a billion views each. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — recommendation: Hank: Tip eleven: use every resource available, learning from, connecting with and helping the many other teachers doing this, and using the internet's educational videos like Crash Course. — 00:03:00
  • 2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — announcement: Hank announces Crash Course is launching Study Hall with Arizona State University: learning playlists on writing and composition, algebra, chemistry and data literacy, with the first composition episode out now. — 00:03:20
  • 2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank says it is also true that following trends is part of his work: it feeds some of the best parts of his novels, and Complexly, SciShow and Crash Course need to understand how people get information. — 00:00:14
  • 2020-09-04 · Go Play! — The description notes that Crash Course has done math in a way: an algebra course made in partnership with Arizona State University. — video description
  • 2020-09-04 · Go Play! — The description says Crash Course lacks math courses because teaching math for tests is very different from teaching its beauty and joy; they want both and have found that very hard, though not impossible. — video description
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says growth is the easiest goal; for Crash Course and SciShow it is the goal: reach more people to educate them and make them passionate about learning. — 00:02:13
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says the goal of Vlogbrothers is creating a community, which feels less real past some size: a breeding ground for ideas, weirdness, community and change that enables things like Crash Course. — 00:02:13
  • 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John flew to somewhere like St. Louis for the Q&A and was editing a Crash Course script backstage when someone asked if he'd like to meet Vice President Biden. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John lists ideas Hank has realized: VidCon, NerdCon, Subbable, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Truth or Fail, Crash Course, SciShow, a podcast, card games, T-shirts, Eons, books and coffee mugs. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-12-18 · How to Change What you Want — Hank has found ways to alter his wants: to want to work more on Crash Course he engages with education through podcasts and talks about making college accessible, and the more he engages, the more he wants it. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John did finish Crash Course European History, though the last several episodes were filmed in his basement and directed by Stan over Zoom. — 00:00:29

2021

  • 2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) — John recalls predicting the pandemic: in mid-2019 on Dear Hank and John he said everyone must prepare for the coming global disease pandemic, and a year earlier he listed one among his chief fears. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — Stan Muller (quoted): Crash Course co-founder Stan Muller has told John that when you live in the middle of history, you never know exactly what it means. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: 2007 John wasn't the author of The Fault in Our Stars, a resident of Indianapolis, an AFC Wimbledon supporter, Crash Course's co-founder, best friends with Chris and Marina, or a jogger. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — John: Unless they want a video to reach a broad audience, they don't use custom thumbnails or optimize metadata on Vlogbrothers; they do on Crash Course, whose priority is reaching the most learners. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-06-01 · My Two Favorite Books of the Year — recommendation: John: How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith of Crash Course Black American History, is about how the US does and doesn't reckon with the history of slavery. — 00:00:20
  • 2021-06-15 · VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! — ask: The description asks viewers to support Crash Course with the Crash Course coin. — video description
  • 2021-06-15 · VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! — announcement: Hank says they launched a new project the day before: the Crash Course coins. — 00:01:45
  • 2021-06-15 · VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! — Hank says Crash Course reaches about 70 million students a year, and they want to keep being able to do that. — 00:02:27
  • 2021-06-15 · VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! — announcement: Hank says a $100 coin lets them reach 2,000 learners and a $500 coin 10,000 learners, with only 500 of the latter being made. — 00:02:27
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — ask: The description says the Crash Course coin is available until midnight tonight, linking crashcoursecoin.com. — video description
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — In a comment Hank adds that, in fairness, Crash Course almost didn't make it through its first year without Google funding either. — creator comment
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — John Green (quoted): John's chat calls the deal made in an indoor tennis court the most interesting moment in world history, except for when the prince of Nepal became a serial killer. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank replied that it was a great idea, John said he would do it, and that, Hank says, is how Crash Course was born. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank admits he left something out: John wanted that video to be their entire pitch to [redacted] and other venture capitalists. (playful) — 00:00:51
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank says they were sure Crash Course could have impact but could not imagine funding it without traditional venture capital. — 00:00:51
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank thinks Crash Course could have succeeded on venture capital, but then a lot of it would be behind a paywall now. — 00:01:12
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank: Thanks partly to John advocating for Crash Course over Hank's terrible other ideas, they never had to take investment, which kept Crash Course focused on staying free. — 00:01:12
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank says making Crash Course work takes weird thinking about earning money without charging and making it as inexpensively as possible; they need to essentialize. — 00:02:11
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — Hank says Crash Course and Complexly have funded themselves creatively: advertising, grants from organizations that understand the mission, Subbable, then Patreon, and now the Crash Course coin. — 00:02:40
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — announcement: Hank says today is the last day of the Crash Course coin: a $100 and a $500 coin, each a piece of the budget to reach 2,000 or 10,000 students. — 00:02:54
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — announcement: Hank says the coin has been so successful that there will be a different 2022 coin next year (2022), but today is the last day for the 2021 coins. — 00:03:09
  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — ask: Hank says that after Friday, June 25 the coins are gone, but viewers can still support Crash Course on Patreon. — 00:03:39
  • 2021-08-06 · Remembering What's Special — Hank: The projects that vibed include Crash Course, now huge; DFTBA Records, which helped creators make a living; and the Awesome Socks Club, which has raised over $600,000 for Partners In Health. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-08-06 · Remembering What's Special — Hank says Crash Course has four times more subscribers than Vlogbrothers and reaches far more people. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-08-06 · Remembering What's Special — Hank: Crash Course is by any measure a bigger deal than Vlogbrothers, but not to Hank: Vlogbrothers is the core of what they do, and without it Crash Course would not exist. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-08-20 · Question Tuesday Except I'm an AI — Hank: The AI recommends watching Crash Course at twice speed after wisdom teeth removal; Hank doubts it, just after anesthesia, and suggests it meant half speed. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — Hank: In the evenings Hank assembles Crash Course coins himself, as a way to thank the people who supported Crash Course through them, though it takes longer. — 00:00:47
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — announcement: Hank is prepping for an important meeting with a potential Crash Course partner that could be very good; impressing them should be easy, because they are amazing. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:16
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — Hank: Working on Crash Course's partnership with ASU has given Hank insight into how US education really functions and where it lets people down. — 00:01:16
  • 2021-09-10 · The Most Important 10 Words a Stranger Ever Said to Me — Hank: Neither the dancer nor the girl remembers the moment; they may know Hank now from Crash Course without knowing they met him in 1991. — 00:02:44
  • 2021-09-28 · 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — recommendation: John: For peaceful hours with a great mystery series, John recommends Ann Swinfen's novels, introduced by Stan Muller: The Bookseller's Tale, first of his favorite series, set in Oxford in 1353 amid medieval bookmaking. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says he has about one idea every five years: Vlogbrothers in 2006, Crash Course five years later, The Anthropocene Reviewed five years after, and he awaits his fourth. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John says the lasting aftereffect of keeping it is that the first episodes of SciShow and Crash Course were both filmed with Hank's goatee. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • 2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — John says the census helps them understand the community's values and priorities and has hugely affected everything from Crash Course to their work with Partners In Health. — 00:03:24

2022

  • 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — Hank says that ten years ago, starting Crash Course, he thought students mainly needed better learning tools; they do, and he is proud of Crash Course's work there. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — The description thanks everyone who has helped Crash Course through the Coin, Patreon, or watching and sharing. — video description
  • 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — Hank says they understood none of this when starting Crash Course; over the last couple of years he, John and many at Complexly had a crash course in how US higher education works. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — announcement: Hank announces that, in partnership with Arizona State University, they are launching a new YouTube channel called Study Hall. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — announcement: Hank announces a new Crash Course course, Crash Course How to College, covering the options a person in the US faces about their future, from financial aid to admissions to majors and careers. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-03-25 · US College Students Need Help — ask: Hank asks viewers to check out Crash Course How to College and the Study Hall channel and send them to everyone who might go to college soon, including themselves. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — recommendation: both: Asked how to keep learning after school stops, the brothers first answer: use Crash Course. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2022-04-22 · My Life is on My Walls — Hank shows prototype Crash Course coins with different looks, made while planning the first coin and for future ones; he loves them because the coins and their buyers keep Crash Course going. — 00:02:47
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — John says almost everyone who recognises him on errands knows him as the Crash Course Guy, his favourite nickname, even more than 19, because he is proud of the people who make Crash Course. — 00:02:38
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — John says that in 2021 alone Crash Course helped tens of millions of people learn, about everything from organic chemistry to Black American history. — 00:02:38
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — announcement: John: The 2022 Crash Course coin is on sale for two weeks: a $100 coin sponsors 2,000 learners and a $500 coin 10,000; its design draws on the Lascaux cave paintings. Coin funding helped launch three series last year (2021). — 00:03:07
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — ask: John asks viewers who can afford it to get a coin at CrashCourseCoin.com; most can't, which is fine, since Crash Course is free for everyone forever. — 00:03:37
  • 2022-06-03 · What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Student Loans — Hank says Crash Course's partnership with Arizona State University targets exactly this problem, helping students make good decisions earlier and learn what high school taught them poorly. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — In a comment Hank says the 'embarrassing dermatology story' title was there because he needed viewers to click on a video about Crash Course. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank: At his latest dermatology visit, a med student who had been in the room thanked him outside for Crash Course; Hank says that feels good every time. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says this happens often: yesterday, at a coffee shop with Orin on his first day of summer vacation, two people thanked him for Crash Course, one about to start nursing school. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says that when they started Crash Course he hoped it would help students learn but could not have predicted that it would succeed, or why; now he understands why. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says starting Crash Course as YouTubers mattered: on YouTube you compete by grabbing and holding attention, and by doing it inexpensively. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says holding attention with educational content means making it really good, and doing it cheaply means cutting everything else; that produced Crash Course's focus on lowering barriers to education. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says Crash Course lowers the learning barrier by being as good as it can: finding stories, giving context that matters to students, and emulating styles they already like. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says Crash Course tackles the access barrier by being free and available to anyone with an internet connection and good English. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — announcement: Hank adds that Crash Course has made a course in Arabic and is working on a biology course in Spanish. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says Crash Course is on YouTube because students and teachers already are; instead of selling to school districts and forcing it on teachers, it lets them choose, so it is used only when found useful. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says Crash Course reaches many people on a low budget that still costs a lot, and 37% of that budget comes from Patreon and the Crash Course coin. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — announcement: Hank says the coin is minted in Arkansas from hand-engraved dies, and the 10,000-learner coins have sold out. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — ask: Hank asks viewers who want to help Crash Course and have $100 to spare to buy a coin via the link in the description, saying he understands if they cannot. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-07-22 · What are These Boys Doing?? — Hank feels community pride in Crash Course because Complexly staff, the script writers, freelancers and Thought Cafe came together to make it. — 00:02:05
  • 2022-07-22 · What are These Boys Doing?? — Hank: Crash Course would never have got funding or its initial viewership without this community: it is something Nerdfighteria built, like many of their projects, which Hank sees as things 'we' did. — 00:02:20
  • 2022-08-05 · Let's Make Some Fish — Hank says Study Hall launched its first four series yesterday (4 August 2022): Communications, American History, College Math, and Rhetoric and Composition. — 00:02:10
  • 2022-09-02 · How A YouTube Company Actually Makes Money — Hank: Funders who see that Crash Course generates far more value than it can capture give grants; grant income fluctuates, but last year (2021) it was about 29% of revenue, about the same as YouTube. — 00:00:48
  • 2022-09-02 · How A YouTube Company Actually Makes Money — Hank: Just under 20% of revenue is crowdfunding through Patreons or the Crash Course Coin, given because people know their work isn't sustainable under current internet business models. — 00:01:17
  • 2022-09-02 · How A YouTube Company Actually Makes Money — Hank: Complexly also licenses its free content to platforms, such as Crash Course on CuriosityStream; licensing was about 5% of revenue last year (2021). — 00:01:46
  • 2022-09-02 · How A YouTube Company Actually Makes Money — announcement: Hank: Complexly is selling five calendars for five shows: Eons and Bizarre Beasts art, James Weiss's Microcosmos microphotography, and SciShow and SciShow Space images, printed in the US with facts, shipping everywhere. — 00:02:16

2023

  • 2023-01-17 · John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions — John says Hank runs Complexly, an educational media company making Crash Course, SciShow, Eons, Journey to the Microcosmos and more. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-01-17 · John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions — John says Hank no longer runs VidCon, now owned by other people, and started many companies, including Subbable, which became part of Patreon. — 00:02:26
  • 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — Hank says Crash Course has become notable in educational media, so many people have approached them wanting to invest or partner. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-01-27 · An Announcement 3 Years in the Making — announcement: Hank announces that GoStudyHall.com launched this week (January 2023), letting learners go from College Foundations videos to an online course earning transferable ASU college credit. — 00:02:40
  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John calls Hank's newly announced Study Hall, a Complexly, ASU and Google partnership linking educational YouTube videos to college credit, brilliant. — 00:02:35
  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John explains that a Study Hall course costs $25 to sign up, and only after finishing with a grade do you decide whether to pay for college credit. — 00:02:35
  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John says this can lower the cost of US college and, critically, spares students loans before they learn whether a program's approach suits them. — 00:02:35
  • 2023-01-31 · I'm Going Back to College? — John: Overwhelmed by how awesome it is, John has signed up for two Study Hall classes starting in March, one in American history up to 1865. — 00:03:04
  • 2023-03-17 (said on 2023-03-16, implied) · This is a Video!! — announcement: Hank announces Crash Course in Spanish, starting with chemistry (química), produced in Spanish from the ground up; a few episodes are up and more are being made. — 00:01:51
  • 2023-05-05 · New Office Tour!! — announcement: Hank: On a set of shelves where everything is something he loves, Hank shows the prototype of this year's (2023) Crash Course coin, showing only its front because the rest is secret. — 00:02:23
  • 2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John recalls the usual causes of World War I, as taught by Crash Course: Europe's complicated alliance system and the growing militarization and expansion of empires. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — announcement: John asks people to spare a thought for the employees of DFTBA and Complexly, who now have him, a store-brand Hank Green, as temporary CEO. (playful) — 00:02:55
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John says the world still needs Crash Course, SciShow and everything else Complexly makes. — 00:03:14
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — The description thanks Hank for making Crash Course real and everyone who makes it, from the team and teacher advisors to Thought Cafe, freelancers and supporters, and Joey Helms for the coin footage. — video description
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John lists Hank's roles: CEO of Complexly and DFTBA.com, founder of the Awesome Socks and Coffee Clubs and Sun Basin Soap, host of Crash Course, SciShow, Journey to the Microcosmos, Vlogbrothers and an advice podcast. — 00:00:08
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says he did come up with the idea for Crash Course: he loved making educational videos on Vlogbrothers but wanted to do it bigger and better, and knew they couldn't do it alone. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says the idea alone did not get Crash Course its 15 million YouTube subscribers (he said 'billion' by mistake and says so in a comment), over 1.8 billion views and a place in many American high schools and colleges. (slip of the tongue: 15 billion) — 00:00:43
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says he did not and could not make Crash Course happen: to become and remain real it needed Hank and thousands of collaborators, from writers and animators to teachers and supporters. — 00:01:18
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says supporters keep Crash Course free for everyone forever, some through Patreon but many through the Crash Course Coin, which was Hank's idea. — 00:01:45
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — announcement: John announces this year's (2023) Crash Course Coins, available only for the next 11 days and minted in Arkansas from hand-engraved dies; he finds them beautiful. — 00:01:58
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says the coins are vital: the Patreon and coin campaigns are the single largest slice of Crash Course's annual budget, not a tiny slice of a corporate pie. — 00:03:30
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — announcement: John: Thanks to coin support, Crash Course this year (2023) launched courses in Black American History, Botany and Biology and Crash Course en Español, among many others. — 00:03:48
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says that, as reluctant and temporary CEO for about 18 days, he can say with authority this would not be possible without viewers' support, and thanks them. — 00:03:57
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — ask: John asks viewers who can afford it to get a coin at crashcoursecoin.com, with no worries if they can't, to help Crash Course reach more learners. — 00:04:11
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says that is the story of Crash Course, of JWST, and of how almost everything worth doing gets done: together. — 00:04:48
  • 2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — ask: The description reminds viewers to get a Crash Course Coin. — video description
  • 2023-06-13 · touched by a king — announcement: John is at the Indiana Medical History Museum, in the old autopsy room where students watched, filming a new kind of Crash Course that takes a deep dive into one topic. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John's deep-dive topic is tuberculosis, which he calls the oldest, deadliest and, in his opinion, least understood infectious disease in human history. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John jokes that Hank kept working anyway: making ads for the Socks Club and Crash Course Coin, shooting SciShow, pitching business ideas daily and making Vlogbrothers videos while in pain. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John loves the people they work with and what they make (Eons, Journey to the Microcosmos, Crash Course, SciShow), which he watches daily and now understands a little. — 00:02:29
  • 2023-10-27 · I Keep Thinking About Taylor Swift — Hank describes Complexly as the company that makes SciShow, Crash Course, Eons, Bizarre Beasts, Microcosmos, Study Hall and many other shows. — 00:00:20
  • 2023-10-31 · How to Make Hot Sauce for Just $65 per Bottle — recommendation: John: Noting that many viewers asked for their comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the description points to a Crash Course video on the conflict's history for context. — video description
  • 2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank: By capable Hank means the community can act for itself and the world, from TB access to Crash Course, SciShow and the clubs funding maternal health in Sierra Leone; membership should feel valuable. — 00:03:57
  • 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Hank: From a 2011 tweet, Hank recalls a donation vote to keep or shave his goatee ($993 to $879) that he calls a huge mistake, since the first SciShow and Crash Course episodes were filmed with it. (playful) — 00:16:34

2024

  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — announcement: John: Complexly is now the lead sponsor of Willis's Twitch and YouTube livestreams, with Complexly's logo prominently featured. — 00:03:35
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John jokingly brags that Complexly, maker of Crash Course, SciShow, Eons and more, is now the first online media company to sponsor a world-class Tetris player. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:43
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says Complexly's brands are strong but far fewer people know Complexly itself, so they want to raise awareness of who they are, not just what they make. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — announcement: Hank says they just announced John's Crash Course guest lecture, a new thing Crash Course is doing. — 00:06:20
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: The description says the Crash Course Lecture on the history and present of tuberculosis premieres on Monday. — video description
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John announces Crash Course Lectures, a new Crash Course format of long deep dives into a single topic with very beautiful graphics. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — announcement: John says the first lecture, written and hosted by him, comes out Monday at noon Eastern, teasing that viewers will never guess its topic. — 00:04:23
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — ask: John invites viewers to the premiere to watch live together and chat, Monday at noon Eastern on the Crash Course channel. — 00:04:23
  • 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank loves the good parts of his work (Good Store, Project for Awesome, Crash Course, SciShow, Dear Hank and John) but also loves the slot machine. — 00:01:13
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — announcement: John: There is a new Crash Course lecture about the history of tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — announcement: Hank notes John's new tuberculosis video on the Crash Course channel, a new format giving someone a chance to lecture, with John as the guinea pig. — 00:04:44
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank looks forward to seeing who lectures next; it won't be him, though he wants to do one. — 00:05:13
  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — Hank says free educational resources on YouTube exist because everyone helps by buying Crash Course coins and supporting Crash Course on Patreon, as do internet stores that give all profit to charity. — 00:04:13
  • 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — Hank: Outsiders may think Good Store, Crash Course or the iPhone are inevitable, but from inside, with Nerdfighteria supporting them and people at DFTBA and Complexly working on them, they exist through sheer force of will. — 00:04:42
  • 2024-04-19 · I Closed My Boob in a Door — announcement: Hank announces a merch drop: Red Deacons items, a dubious advice shirt and notepad, We're Here Because We're Here in a spiral, John's original Crash Course 'The Test' monologue, and mugs. — 00:05:07
  • 2024-04-23 · Full Hank — announcement: John announces his new show, The Universe, a Crash Course podcast about the universe, coming out tomorrow. — 00:02:10
  • 2024-04-23 · Full Hank — announcement: John has been working on Crash Course Religions, the first ever Crash Course on world religions, coming later this year (2024). — 00:03:01
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — announcement: John says the clip is from The Universe, a new limited-series Crash Course podcast in which theoretical astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack walks him through the history of the universe; it is available now. — 00:03:44
  • 2024-05-20 · Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!! — announcement: Hank: The first Crash Course Pods episode is up: 'The First Fraction of a Second', John and Katie Mack on the beginning of the universe, on YouTube and podcast apps. — 00:20:06
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — announcement: The description says John and Katie Mack will walk through the history of the universe over the next 11 episodes, and the first three episodes are out now. — video description
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — In a channel comment Hank says people who approach him in public mostly know him from Crash Course, with TikTok second. — creator comment
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says over 70 people work full-time for Complexly and over 50 for DFTBA.com or Good Store. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John, proud of what the companies do, says Crash Course has reached hundreds of millions of learners. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — announcement: John announces the Crash Course coin, on sale from today for one week only at CrashCourseCoin.com; buyers sponsor 2,000, 5,000 or 10,000 Crash Course learners and help keep it free. — 00:04:02
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says upcoming Crash Course videos, from biology to art history to world religions, are possible only because of supporters through the coin and Patreon. — 00:04:02
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — ask: John asks viewers to check out the Crash Course coin via the doobly-doo at crashcoursecoin.com. — 00:04:31
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank: Watching a John Oliver clip on YouTube about dark sides of some homeschooling, Hank found a comment saying Crash Course had really helped someone homeschooled in a particular situation. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says nice comments about Crash Course keep popping up: search Twitter for Crash Course and AP and you can scroll forever. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — announcement: The description teases a video next week (week of 3 June 2024) explaining why this year's (2024) coin has a fig on it. — video description
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank is a little sad that most people responsible for Crash Course (writers, artists, editors, experts, fundraisers, producers) hear this less than he does, since their faces aren't on it. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says the good Crash Course has done in the world is bonkers and the work, thought and care put into it are off the charts. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank: Explaining the title, Hank says being amazed that a few people made something internationally impactful for teachers and students is somehow much less compelling than hating people on the internet. — 00:00:58
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank is pretty sure there is zero chance that being mad on the internet could be better for the world than spending time helping Crash Course exist. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — ask: Hank invites viewers who think Crash Course's work by dozens of people is worth more than YouTube ads deliver, and who can help, to buy one of three coins. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says Crash Course spends around five cents for every learner it reaches, which is the currency of the coins. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — announcement: Hank lists the coins, expensive by design: a copper 2,000-learner coin for $100, a bimetallic 10,000-learner coin for $500, and a $1,000 laser-anodized titanium coin reaching 20,000 learners. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank thinks Crash Course could charge much more than five cents per person but doesn't want to, and that it could never have succeeded had it charged in the first place. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank: To people asking why Crash Course does not start charging now that the brand is built, Hank says they want it free for everyone forever, which works only if people who can pay, pay so those who cannot do not have to. — 00:03:53
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — ask: Hank points viewers who want to give a different amount to the Crash Course Patreon linked in the description. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — announcement: Hank says there is also a secret patron coin, available only to people reaching their three-year anniversary as Crash Course patrons. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank is proud of the Crash Course team's work over the years, proud to have been part of it, and proud to support them, including by getting his own coin. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says he co-hosts the podcast Crash Course the Universe with astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack, and while making it learned what will become of him in about 10 billion years. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — ask: John: In a P.S., John hopes viewers will watch or listen to the Crash Course Universe podcast, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:04:52
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says the podcast was made with funds from last year's (2023) Crash Course Coin. — 00:04:52
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — ask: John says the Crash Course Coin, an essential part of how Crash Course is funded, is available only for the next few days at crashcoursecoin.com. — 00:04:52
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — announcement: Hank says this story is why a fig is featured on the reverse side of this year's (2024) Crash Course coin, which people have been asking him about. — 00:03:12
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — ask: Hank says today is the very last day to get the Crash Course coin; each coin lets Crash Course reach 2,000, 10,000 or 20,000 learners, and the coins will never be available again. — 00:04:01
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank says Crash Course exists because people who can pay, pay, so that people who can't don't have to; buyers help it continue and get a coin. — 00:04:01
  • 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — announcement: Hank announces that Complexly, maker of SciShow, Crash Course and Eons, has launched its own store, with products up to 50% off to kick it off; purchases help Complexly keep existing. — 00:03:49
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — John: The man asked why the Russian government would go out of its way to hack John's and Hank's email, perhaps for criticising it on Crash Course; John said he did not know either. — 00:02:15
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reports that 404 Media found a generative AI video company, Runway, trained on thousands of videos without permission, including thousands of SciShow and Crash Course videos. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Proof News's searchable database shows SciShow, Crash Course, Eons and Vlogbrothers are all in the training data, and probably any YouTuber a viewer likes. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says his company has more videos in the dataset than almost anyone: Marques Brownlee 9, MrBeast 19, Mark Rober 24, MinutePhysics 85, against Vlogbrothers 188, SciShow over 300, Crash Course 982. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2024-08-26 · Welcome to the Learn-a-Thon — announcement: Hank announces the Learnathon, a fundraiser over the next few weeks for Complexly's mission of accessible education, celebrating its staff with livestreams and behind-the-scenes videos. — 00:00:51
  • 2024-09-06 · I feel like I can't talk about this… — announcement: Hank: Crash Course Religions is coming out; Hank notes it is John's project, not his, but he thinks about it a lot. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-09-06 · I feel like I can't talk about this… — ask: Hank: The Complexly Learnathon ends today; Complexly is not launching a streaming service, but viewers can pretend and give $60 for a year of Complexly. — 00:02:55
  • 2024-09-06 · I feel like I can't talk about this… — Hank says everyone at Complexly works hard on razor-thin margins, which is stressful, but at the moment a good stressful. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-09-30 · Put a little bit of cinnamon in it — Hank: After the talk Hank introduces Sarah, who moderated, and Thurston, a helper who he jokes is a bigger John Green fan and was listening to Crash Course. (playful) — 00:02:49
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: Complexly (SciShow, Crash Course and more) is the most impactful thing Hank has helped start; it could always use him, from promoting Study Hall and the Crash Course coin to SciShow thumbnails. — 00:07:34
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank says that work is great when it is working with no problems, but harder when there are problems, like fewer SciShow views or too few Study Hall sign-ups. — 00:07:56
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank hasn't been involved in Crash Course day to day for a long time; its team runs it, and needing his approval would stop everything, since he is extremely disorganized. — 00:13:34
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John isn't doing it for the money: he makes about $25,000 a year helping with Crash Course, which gets him health insurance, and otherwise hasn't been paid for YouTube in years. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John says Crash Course has helped educate hundreds of millions of people and Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger healthcare systems. — 00:04:23

2025

  • 2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says all Dear Hank and John ad money goes to Complexly rather than to the hosts, as would be normal for a podcast; ideally not forever, but Complexly needs it now. — 00:05:55
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John says Modern Health Crusader coins were minted by the US National Tuberculosis Association in the early twentieth century as a fundraiser against TB, like the Crash Course coin. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — In a comment, Hank says Crash Course has received government grants, which are great but very annoying because of reporting regulations. — creator comment
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank: A doctor in training at the appointment thanked Hank for helping with anatomy and physiology; Hank says this happens to him all the time. — 00:00:20
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank feels he must explain that it wasn't really him: dozens of people designed curriculum, wrote scripts, found context, added jokes, made animations and sets, and edited. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says a secret Crash Course coin goes only to people who helped make a Crash Course, and he won't show it. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says the invisible work is what makes Crash Course good; the team wants viewers learning, not thinking about the team. — 00:01:06
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank is angry that Crash Course is so useful to teachers and students yet underfunded, maybe because they make it look easy or YouTube seems a low-budget, less legitimate medium. (hedged) — 00:01:27
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says a recent American Historical Association report lists Crash Course as the second most popular resource for history teachers in the US, after US government institutions. — 00:01:36
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says Crash Course is used in over 90% of US high schools and colleges, yet its total budget is less than a single 22-minute sitcom episode. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says a dentist friend's house costs more than Crash Course's yearly budget; it is nice, but Crash Course probably creates more value for the world. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:10
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says fewer people support Crash Course financially than live in Havre, Montana, a town of under 10,000 people. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says some strategies let a very small number of people have a truly insane impact, as every Crash Course supporter has had. — 00:02:41
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank thinks that if money came easier Crash Course would be a little less efficient, but less stressed and would get way more done. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says if everyone considers it, those who can will; Crash Course found the right place to push and has the lever and fulcrum, needing weight only from those who can pay. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says not making schools pay has big benefits: teachers decide whether to use it, so Crash Course lives by its value to teachers and students, not by selling to school boards. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — ask: Hank asks viewers who can help to get a Crash Course coin: about a week is left in the campaign as the video goes up. — 00:04:40
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — announcement: Hank says the coins are minted from hand-engraved dies at a mint in Arkansas, in four versions by ability to give, each representing thousands of learners reached. — 00:04:52
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — ask: Hank says viewers for whom a coin is not right can support Crash Course on Patreon. — 00:05:00
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — ask: Hank invites people with significant business or personal wealth to email info at complexly.com, where they have ideas to share. — 00:05:05
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says Nerdfighteria, Crash Course, TB Fighters and the Project for Awesome taught him that small groups of people can bring about tremendous change. — 00:05:20
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says Crash Course's free model could not have worked before YouTube, nor without this community's support; he thanks YouTube for supporting it over the years. — 00:05:51
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank reminds everyone that Crash Course was John's idea, and congratulates him. — 00:06:14
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank sometimes gets mad seeing how far Crash Course stretches every dollar while some companies rake it in for private equity, then says he shouldn't complain. — 00:06:30
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — announcement: Hank says they have promised Crash Course videos will always be free for everyone, and they are not about to launch a paid product, as business people assume. — 00:06:43
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says staying free leaves Crash Course more resource constrained, but only those who feel they should pay do, so everyone gets it free, and that works. — 00:06:58
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — Hank says Crash Course is now powerful, successful, impactful and financially sustainable because people considered whether they could support it. — 00:07:21
  • 2025-05-30 · My Rare 'Disorder' — ask: Hank says this is the last chance to get a Crash Course coin and asks viewers who have $100 to spare and think Crash Course could do good with it to go to CrashCourseCoin.com. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John jokes that a few viewers will be surprised that Crash Course John Green and Fault in Our Stars John Green are the same person. (playful) — 00:01:21
  • 2025-06-06 · The Secret Inside my MIT Commencement Speech — Hank says he represents more than himself: the people at Crash Course, Study Hall, SciShow and Good Store, the community that is the only reason any of it happened, science communication and John. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — announcement: John says he is doing something new in Vlogbrothers' 18 years: Stan, his Crash Course Humanities co-creator, called him One Take Johnny because he could do nothing in one take, but this video with Hank is one take. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — John refuses to add a Quadragocon link to the description: part of the one-take rule is uploading in one take. (playful) — 00:05:10
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — John: When thanked for getting people through high school, John wants to say his Crash Course team, Stan, Meredith and Zulaiha, did it; he only read the teleprompter. (playful) — 00:10:57
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — John says he credits viewers' actual teachers, telling them not to underplay their role, though he is happy if he helped. — 00:10:57
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — John says his airline pilot that day was a Crash Course enthusiast, meaning very young: their doctors and pilots are now younger than them. (playful) — 00:10:57
  • 2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John relays a Crash Course European History writer's remark that one could write a history of humanity through caffeine: access, cultivation, and who was enriched or impoverished. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says the channel had about 9,000 subscribers after its first year and about 640,000 when Crash Course launched in early 2012 with The Fault in Our Stars, and only reached a million in March 2013. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank finds that the brothers, the Vlogbrothers channel and Nerdfighteria each have a Wikipedia page, as do Crash Course, SciShow and John's books. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank lists such things: VidCon, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow, Complexly, DFTBA.com selling merch for many creators, and Good.Store donating its profit to charity. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says without the community there would be no Crash Course, no hospital in Sierra Leone, and no AFC Wimbledon doing surprisingly well this season. (playful) — 00:05:00
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says that is why he and John quietly take no profit distributions from DFTBA or Complexly and give away all the revenue from the channel. — 00:05:35
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the grants have supported channels that became much bigger than Vlogbrothers, one bigger than Crash Course. — 00:05:51
  • 2025-11-21 · I Wasn't Always Like This!! — Hank explains Complexly, the educational media company he and John started (SciShow, Crash Course, Eons): people who show up daily to wonder together and lower barriers to knowledge. — 00:03:40
  • 2025-11-21 · I Wasn't Always Like This!! — ask: Hank: On the last day of the Complexly Learnathon, Hank shows hand-drawn logo shirts and asks viewers to support Complexly: $60 gets a Pelican pin, SciShow dice set, Endlings bandana or shirt, gone after today. — 00:04:45
  • 2025-11-21 · I Wasn't Always Like This!! — Hank says nearly half of Complexly's budget now comes from people who choose to support its work. — 00:05:14
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John notes B could have been Bizarre Beasts, a Complexly YouTube channel about unusual organisms, and C could be Crash Course or Complexly. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John shouts out Study Hall, the YouTube-videos-to-college-credit path Hank helped build with Complexly and Arizona State University. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Subbable was a crowdfunding platform launched about the same time as Patreon and so similar to it that Patreon ended up acquiring it. — 00:03:53

2026

  • 2026-01-30 · Has Anyone Ever Accidentally Seen me Naked (Question Tuesday on a Friday) — announcement: Hank says he hosts the new Crash Course Scientific Thinking, about how science works, how we created it and what it is; two episodes are out. — 00:05:21
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank says he has over 44,000 emails containing the phrase 'Crash Course', but the first mention of what became Crash Course does not contain it. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank says that in an early email naming the project he preferred 'Crash Course' over his second favourite name, 'Cram'. — 00:00:13
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank says his earlier tellings made it sound like John had an idea for a video, but John was clearly proposing a big idea: they discussed finding time, taking investment and dropping VidCon. — 00:00:38
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank quotes John in the chat, while they worked out funding and time: the ideas interested him, not the payoff. — 00:01:10
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank offered the $20,000 he had just made in affiliate marketing; John took $10,000, which funded the initial test episodes of Crash Course and became the seed of Complexly. — 00:01:17
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank says Crash Course is an educational video resource used in nearly every high school in America. — 00:01:40
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — announcement: Hank announces that, as of January 1, 2026, Complexly has relaunched as a nonprofit organization, which he and John had kept secret for about a month. — 00:02:02
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — announcement: Hank announces the brothers have donated all their shares to the new nonprofit to make Complexly stronger and built to last for generations, prioritizing the biggest impact on the most people. — 00:04:04
  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank thanks viewers who for years knowingly gave a for-profit company money with no tax deduction, through Patreon, the Crash Course Coin, the Learnathon and SciShow fundraisers. — 00:06:23
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — announcement: John congratulates everyone at Complexly on officially becoming a nonprofit. — 00:04:48
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — announcement: Hank reminds John that Complexly, the company they founded together 15 years ago, just became a nonprofit organization, which they think was a good idea. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says Complexly becoming a nonprofit is a relief to him and exciting; he remains its founder emeritus. — 07:44:31
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank's favorite of his projects is Crash Course, which he calls such an important thing in the world. — 06:01:36
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — announcement: John recaps that Complexly became a nonprofit. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John is tired of a world where many take risks on him, with the funding that started Crash Course or educational opportunities, and few on Sierra Leone's health system. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John hails Hank as inventor of 2D Glasses, TikTok science guy, Crash Course, VidCon and Project for Awesome man, best-selling novelist, Billboard-charting musician and Emmy winner. (playful) — 00:00:13
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: Often siblings connect over aging parents; for them it is Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, Dear Hank and John and more, and working with someone you trust all the way down is beyond a gift. — 00:01:56
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank credits John with the first Crash Course episodes, which took the tropes of online video, added to them, focused them on a goal and intentionally overexposed them. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — announcement: In a channel comment Hank says he forgot to say that he is no longer an owner because Complexly was converted into a non-profit, which is why coins are now tax deductible. — creator comment
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank says he is still often thanked for Crash Course; today Kendall and Miranda stopped him in Missoula to say thank you. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank confesses that as Crash Course and SciShow grew into Complexly he was hungry with jealousy of BuzzFeed, Vice and Mashable. — 00:00:39
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — announcement: Hank says that at the beginning of this year (2026) he left Crash Course, in a pretty weird way. — 00:02:18
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank says that until then the brothers owned Crash Course through Complexly, and people had wanted to buy the company with plans to grow what they were doing. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — announcement: Hank says that until the end of 2025 he owned Crash Course and now he does not; his strongest legal relationship to the brand is gone. — 00:04:12
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — announcement: Hank will keep working for Crash Course: he just finished hosting a course on scientific thinking and is working on another he will host next year (2027). — 00:04:24
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank admits that calling this leaving Crash Course stretches the meaning, but he doesn't feel bad about it. (playful) — 00:04:33
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank says he left Crash Course by giving it away, yet now feels more connected to it than ever. — 00:05:12
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — ask: Hank asks viewers to ask themselves whether they can afford a Crash Course coin, by far Crash Course's most important source of funding. — 00:05:22
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — announcement: Hank says that in its sixth year the coin can be part of a tax-deductible donation with no sales tax; the campaign is in its fifth day with about a week left. — 00:05:30
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank says the coin campaign is a blip but the whole reason Crash Course and Complexly can exist; just thinking about it is all he asks. — 00:05:46
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — ask: Hank says viewers who prefer monthly giving can use the always-open Patreon, long a huge part of how Crash Course is supported. — 00:06:04
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — ask: Hank invites viewers who could give more than a coin to reach the development team through the email in the description. — 00:06:15
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says Hank's video last week (week of 18 May 2026) had a very clickbaity title, Why I Left Crash Course: Hank flew too close to the clickbait sun and made two critical errors. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — ask: The description asks viewers to get the Crash Course Coin to support Crash Course's efforts to make educational video free for everyone forever. — video description
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says Hank did not leave Crash Course: he is still on the board of directors of Complexly, which makes it, and helps with Crash Course and Complexly projects all the time. — 00:00:22
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says Hank's line that Crash Course is no longer owned by the brothers led people, justifiably, to conclude they sold to a private equity firm, and they disliked coin money going to Rich Uncle Pennybags. — 00:00:38
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says that in 2011 he and Hank founded Complexly, which has made lots of educational content, from Bizarre Beasts to The Art Assignment to SciShow to Crash Course. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says that over the last five years they had many conversations with companies about the future of Complexly and Crash Course, to find the right future for it. — 00:01:34
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says the companies wanted to buy Crash Course, keep the videos free and charge for surrounding content or school licensing; told of the free-forever promise, they said companies change priorities. — 00:01:56
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John thinks the private equity people meant Crash Course doesn't make economic sense, not for lack of views but because it is free and expensive to make, needing a huge team. — 00:02:15
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says the choice the private equity companies saw was to make Crash Course cheaper, meaning less good, or to make it not free. — 00:02:36
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John argues becoming a non-profit keeps Crash Course free forever, means the brothers never profit from crowdfunded growth, and makes coin buyers' and donors' money a tax-advantaged donation. — 00:03:16
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — announcement: John says Complexly became a charity, so Crash Course and the rest of Complexly are now owned by the public it seeks to serve. — 00:03:38
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says Hank should have said in his first ten seconds that Crash Course is a non-profit they no longer own, whose board Hank serves on unpaid. — 00:03:47
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says saying so would have drawn fewer views and coin sales, which maybe shows a problem with an algorithmic internet that values only capturing and holding attention. (hedged) — 00:04:00
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says omitting the charity status was not Hank's finest moment, but turning Crash Course into a non-profit is one of his finest moments and most interesting choices. — 00:04:22
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John is proud of the impact of Crash Course and Complexly, especially now that the only priority is serving the public well with reliable information. — 00:04:40
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — announcement: John says he did actually leave Crash Course and Complexly: he will still appear in videos sometimes and contribute however he can, but did not join the board. — 00:04:52
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says he is not very good at the job, since he can't read a spreadsheet, so he will help Crash Course by writing and hosting rather than running it. (playful) — 00:05:21
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says Crash Course got 154 million views last year (2025) and is used in thousands of schools around the world, making education more accessible. — 00:05:50
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says that although he doesn't work at Complexly, he got a Crash Course coin this year (2026). — 00:06:00
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — ask: John says viewers who want to support Complexly can get a Crash Course coin for the next few days at CrashCourseCoin.com, supporting a charity. — 00:06:05
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — ask: Hank says now is the last chance to get a 2026 Crash Course coin, helping people make educational video; the sale ends sometime this weekend, before the next Vlogbrothers video. — 00:06:04
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — announcement: Hank notes Complexly is now a non-profit, so donations are tax-deductible and the coins carry no sales tax. — 00:06:34
  • 2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — Hank says no one is using AI to write Crash Course videos, whatever an AI-generated headline said. — 00:01:54
  • 2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — Hank: What Hank feels worst about: the reputational hit is his to take and earn back, but Complexly staff who write SciShow, Endlings, Eons and Crash Course and work with experts are now questioned because of him. — 00:02:23
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank says the event is in Los Angeles and expensive because it is a fundraiser, so inaccessible to most people, but it helps make Complexly's content accessible to everyone. — 00:03:28
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank produces things not because productivity matters to him but because Pizzamas, Nerdfighteria, John, cancer treatment, Crash Course, SciShow, 4x3 and the media environment do. — 00:09:38
  • 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank: What Hank needs instead is reviews, kind emails to the Dear Hank and John inbox, and people showing him their Awesome Socks or Beans house or, most of all, saying Crash Course helped them in school. — 00:05:36