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All statements about Crash Course coin

72 statements about Crash Course coin in 26 videos, by upload date.

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2021

2022

  • 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
  • 2022-04-22 · 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
  • 2022-04-22 · My Life is on My Walls — Hank says the exclusive prototype coins excite his collector sense: no one knew they existed until now, and nobody can have them. (playful) — 00:03:16
  • 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
  • 2022-06-10 · 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 — announcement: Hank says the 2022 200-learner coins remain available through this weekend and then never again. — 00:03:24
  • 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
  • 2022-09-02 · 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

2023

  • 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
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — announcement: In a comment John says everyone who has been a patron for at least three years will get the patron coin. — creator comment
  • 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? — announcement: John: The coin's engraving was inspired by a JWST photograph showing a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand at arm's length, vast and teeming with galaxies. — 00:02:15
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John: For John the coin image represents how learning illuminates unseen parts of ourselves and the universe, and how building knowledge leads to more knowledge. — 00:02:32
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — announcement: John lists this year's (2023) four coins: one for three-year patrons, a $100 coin supporting 2,000 learners, a limited $500 coin supporting 10,000 and a more limited $1,000 coin supporting 20,000. — 00:03:07
  • 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? — 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
  • 2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — ask: The description reminds viewers to get a Crash Course Coin. — video description
  • 2023-06-20 · 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

2024

  • 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
  • 2024-05-28 · 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 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
  • 2024-11-03 · 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

2025

2026

  • 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
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank: Showing his collection of Project for Awesome and Crash Course coins with his son Orin, Hank says they have been making the P4A coin for a long time. — 06:04:52
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank shows that they keep the dies used to press their Crash Course coins, and sometimes destroy them with an angle grinder, to prove they will never make that coin again. — 06:05:30
  • 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 — 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 — announcement: Hank says most of the $1,000 coins have sold out and fewer than 20 of the $5,000 coins are left. — 00:05:58
  • 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'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 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 — 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 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