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DFTBA Pin Pals

project · in 11 videos (2018–2020)

In 2019 it returned as the Bizarre Beasts pin club at $12 a month, a new beast's pin each month, raising money for maternal health in Sierra Leone; it closed to new members in 2020, then continued with the Bizarre Beasts channel.

Videos by year: 2018: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2020: 5

Threads

Also named in the threads: Awesome Socks Club: monthly sock subscription (2016) · Bizarre Beasts: Hank's weird-animal videos for John (2019)

Often together

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

Sierra Leone (3) · hankschannel (2) · maternal death (2) · Orin Green (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2018

  • 2018-01-19 · Many Years Ago, Someone Gave Me a Whole Bitcoin...then I lost it. — announcement: Hank: Until the end of January viewers can join DFTBA Pin Pals, DFTBA's new pin subscription, with free shipping worldwide; the third pin will be Mars Pathfinder. — 00:03:22
    • The pin club has limited openings so DFTBA doesn't make too many or too few pins, so Hank tells viewers to go sign up. — 00:03:39
  • 2018-11-23 · Four Jokes from a Two year Old — announcement: Hank: DFTBA is stopping the sock club and the pin club and replacing them with the Flair Club, a quarterly box with more stuff per box. — 00:03:08

2019

  • 2019-08-02 · The Cutest Octopus — announcement: Hank: To raise money for the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, DFTBA Pin Pals launches a Bizarre Beasts pin subscription club. — 00:03:05
    • Each pin comes in common, uncommon and rare versions; it costs $12 a month with free worldwide shipping, and the year's subscription is available only this week (week of 29 July 2019). — 00:03:25
  • 2019-08-09 · Decluttering the Somewhat Embarrassing Nightstand of a 39 Year-Old Best-Selling Author — ask: Hank: For viewers into enamel pins who want to support the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, the Pin Club is open just two more days at $12 a month with free worldwide shipping. — 00:01:48
    • Hank repeats that it is the last chance to sign up for the DFTBA Bizarre Beasts Pin Pal Club. — 00:03:12
  • 2019-09-13 · You Need to Know About This Caterpillar — announcement: Hank: The Bizarre Beasts Pin Club was so successful that this month (September 2019), one time only, members get two pins: the caterpillar and the moth; Hank thanks everybody who signed up. — 00:03:41
  • 2019-11-04 · This Cat Makes No Sense — announcement: Hank names Pallas's cat this month's (November 2019) Bizarre Beast and says the Bizarre Beasts pin club reopens until the end of Pizzamas, with a new beast's pin and info card every month. — 00:03:24
    • Hank invites viewers who want the Pallas's cat pin to join the pin club right now. — 00:03:24

2020

  • 2020-01-24 · Horses are Very Weird — ask: The description invites viewers to sign up to be notified when Bizarre Beasts reopens. — video description
  • 2020-03-06 · I Did Not Get Leprosy! — ask: The description invites viewers interested in the Bizarre Beasts pin club to sign up to be emailed when or if it relaunches. — video description
  • 2020-03-27 · Take a Break with Some Feather Stars — announcement: Hank tells Bizarre Beasts pin club members that feather star pins were sent out early instead of armadillos, implying the mix-up was his fault. (playful) — 00:03:20
    • Hank thanks pin club members and says all the money from it goes to help some of the most vulnerable people in the world. — 00:03:29
  • 2020-05-15 · Lookin' Kinda Dumb! — announcement: Hank says the Bizarre Beasts Pin Club is closed to new members, apologises, and says they will try to figure out something in the future. (hedged) — 00:03:39
  • 2020-06-26 · You Might as Well Swim! — announcement: Hank isn't ending it: he announces a new YouTube channel, Bizarre Beasts, co-hosted with Sara Suta, one weird animal a month, with the Pin Club continuing and opening to more people. — 00:03:22
    • Hank asks viewers to follow him to Bizarre Beasts, subscribe now, and sign up for the Pin Club if they want. — 00:03:22