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2007

Also named in: October 18: Live from Datyon: PARTY BLOWER SOLO

2008

Also named in: Three Things

2009

  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank reads 'Auld Lang Syne' as asking whether Hank and John should make more videos in 2009, and answers yes. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Restaging his first video, Hank reverses its no-textual-communication line: this time the brothers will be communicating through textual means. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Sunday for the year, John will send Hank a video about a current news event he considers vitally important and Hank is probably ignorant of. — 00:01:19
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank wants John's Sunday news videos to be good, comprehensive and in-depth, though John may also eat toilet paper or smear peanut butter on his face. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Tuesday one brother sends the other a video blog of any kind. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every other Wednesday Hank will perform an original song: Song Wednesdays are back. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Later in the week there may be a surprise video, so viewers who like surprise and those who like structure both get what they want. (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: A brother who fails to keep up these responsibilities will be punished; Hank jokes the punishment could be sticking a needle in his eye. — 00:02:17
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank sums up: at least one vlog a week, news on Sunday, songs every other Wednesday, more structure and more videos because everybody wanted more videos. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank adds there will be more BlogTV appearances and open days for doing whatever they want. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-04 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! — John: Because the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night, John feels he has to discuss it on Newsday although it makes him miserable, and shows puppy footage to counter that. (hedged) — 00:00:02
  • 2009-01-21 · Google Verb! A Meme. — Hank names the meme 'Google Verb': you google your name with a verb and find out what you did. — 00:00:23
  • 2009-01-21 · Google Verb! A Meme. — Hank reads results such as 'Hank looks like a pretty princess', which he says really was about him: a video title referring to his 'World Wide Web Girl' video with pigtails. (playful) — 00:00:40
  • 2009-01-21 · Google Verb! A Meme. — Hank: Other results have Hank preparing a body for shipping, watching men pee on Flickr, eating bacon grease, rafting the Zambezi and robbing a Greek bank; he insists he isn't making them up. (playful) — 00:01:07
  • 2009-01-21 · Google Verb! A Meme. — ask: Hank asks viewers to play the Google Verb meme too, with the questions in the sidebar, and post their videos as replies to his. — 00:01:47
  • 2009-02-01 · Super Bowl Analysis from an Idiot — John says Google's top autocomplete for 'is Edward Cullen' is 'is Edward Cullen real?', found while checking if Edward is a virgin; John answers that he is not real. (playful) — 00:02:34
  • 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — announcement: John reveals, whispering, that the vlogbrothers now have more subscribers than Google, the company that owns YouTube. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — ask: John: To thank Nerdfighters, John says he and Hank will do pretty much whatever they are told, and asks for challenge ideas in the comments. — 00:02:12
  • 2009-03-08 · PEEPS for Bangladesh — announcement: John announces his half of the Pwning Google Challenge: for every $10 raised for the Uncultured Project by March 22 he will eat one Peep on March 23. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-04-16 · The Day the YouTubes Died — Hank: The song recalls community YouTube pastimes, the Five Facts thing and the Google Verb meme, a first comment and Captcha codes, which Hank will miss behind a 'content wall'. (playful) — 00:01:32
  • 2009-04-16 · The Day the YouTubes Died — Hank thanks viewers most of all, because YouTube is not what Google does but what the community does, including in the comments. — 00:03:45
  • 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John notes that in their two-and-a-half-year conversation the brothers have uploaded more than 500 videos, watched many times thanks to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:10
  • 2009-07-14 · Sell Outs! — John says ads on their videos have been hilarious or humiliating before, including one that seems to mock Hank and one selling a test to tell if your husband is gay. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John: A Nerdfighter named Paige emailed suggesting Nerdfighters make someone up and convince 20q.net's AI that the person is real. — 00:01:08
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John and other Nerdfighters, in a BlogTV room, invented DJ Paige Railstone's identity, history and career; Alan made a website, Karen Kavett photos, plus Twitter and Facebook pages. — 00:01:49
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John: Within two days, typing 'Paige' into Google gave Paige Railstone as the first suggestion. — 00:01:49
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John: The 20Q database is not yet convinced Paige Railstone is real, but John would not put it past the Nerdfighters. — 00:02:18
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John says the point is to find out how real made-up people can become and to remind us we are not innocent bystanders in celebrity: Pattinson has us to thank and blame for his beauty. — 00:02:47
  • 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John announces that the channel has 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — John announces that Nerdfighters have convinced the bots at 20q.net that Paige Railstone is a real person. (playful) — 00:00:06

Also named in: ANNOUNCING: Global Geek Week!!!

2010

  • 2010-01-29 (said on 2010-01-30, implied) · The iPad and Dolphin Murder — Hank tried YouTube's newly launched rentals program and watched a movie; with Google Checkout already linked to his Google account, renting was very easy. — 00:01:16
  • 2010-02-12 · Google Search Stories: Harry Potter — Hank says that as soon as he saw the Super Bowl ad he felt there had to be a Harry Potter version of a Google search story; there wasn't, so he made one. — 00:01:46
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google/YouTube's auto-captioning is currently very bad, as viewers can see by turning on captions for this video. — 00:00:29
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google is getting better at it and has analytical access to the world's largest database of recorded spoken words: YouTube. — 00:00:58
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google has talent, money and strong incentives: understanding speech would let it run contextual ads on videos, and contextual ads are how Google makes all its money. — 00:01:27
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google also wants people to be able to talk into their phones, which he can already do, but the broader implications of this technology kind of creep him out. — 00:01:27
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says Google has so far been unable to turn sentences into useful information; it needs cultural context and tone, and a program that could would pretty much be artificial intelligence. — 00:02:10
  • 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says 100% accurate speech recognition in two languages would make subtitling conversations on handheld, in-ear or in-eye devices trivial, though machine translation would stay inaccurate, as Google Translate shows. — 00:02:39
  • 2010-04-07 · Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy — John says Hank's Monday video, which he loved, made him think about the Googlization of information in the contemporary world. — 00:01:23
  • 2010-04-07 · Shmancy Hotel Room Is Shmancy — John has long thought Google is technically making individuals stupider: the memory in our heads is less needed when Google indexes massive external hard drives. (hedged) — 00:01:29
  • 2010-05-21 · How to Make a Website in Four Minutes — recommendation: Hank finds a theme by searching Google, picks the most popular one, uploads it via cPanel's file manager into wp-content/themes, extracts it and selects it under Appearance. — 00:02:26
  • 2010-05-28 · How To Do Everything — announcement: John says that for the Friday of How-To Week he will answer the top 10 Google search queries beginning with 'how to'. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-06-09 · Should We Sue Viacom? — Hank thinks even Google's masterminds would struggle to keep YouTube solvent under manual approval. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John: While Willy slept, John read Sarah an excerpt from a German review of one of his books as translated by Google. (playful) — 00:01:06
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — announcement: In the description Hank says he found many amazing autocompletes and might do this again, or John might. (hedged) — video description
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank: Answering 'Is My Life is Liz real', Hank says obviously not, yet being 'dramatized' doesn't make it unreal, since high school is about as dramatized as it gets. (playful) — video description
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank: Among his description answers, Hank says Brett Favre is married, though maybe not for long, and that no, your house is not haunted. (playful) — video description
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank says Google now tries to guess what you want to know before you finish typing, apparently because people are too lazy to move their fingers more than necessary. (playful) — 00:00:04
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank thinks autocomplete's real value is less its convenience than its ability to let us peer into the soul of mankind. (hedged) — 00:00:23
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank reports that after 'is Facebook down', the second most common Google question starting with 'is' is 'is Lady Gaga a man?', and answers for everyone: no. (playful) — 00:00:39
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — ask: Hank: Finding nothing autocompletes for 'is Hank Green' (no one cares), Hank asks viewers to Google 'is Hank Green awesome' so that, maybe, it will autocomplete. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:13
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank finds the exploration fascinating, particularly our obsession with other people's sexual orientation, and looks forward to delving deeper into the nation's psyche with autocomplete. — 00:02:21
  • 2010-12-31 · Is Lady Gaga a Man? — Hank reports 'is g…' autocompletes (Google making us stupid, God real, gonorrhea curable) and that fewer people ask whether Google is gaining a monopoly than whether it is gay. (playful) — 00:02:32

Also named in: JOIN THE PEN15 CLUB!!

2011

  • 2011-01-03 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John sets out to answer some of Google autocomplete's common questions beginning with 'is b' (he calls it auto-correct). (playful) — 00:00:06
  • 2011-01-03 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John: Answering 'Is Bob Harper gay?' (a man on The Biggest Loser), John asks Google whether we'd have a unified theory if we thought as much about quantum physics as about celebrities' sexuality; he thinks so. (playful) — 00:00:13
  • 2011-01-03 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John: After the 'is Bieber' autocompletes (gay, in jail, a girl, really 51, dead, going to North Korea…), John says the answer to all is either no or 'ahhh', and that in 2007 they did not imagine a world where Google thinks we want to know such things. (playful) — 00:01:51
  • 2011-01-05 · Homeless Man with a Golden Voice Gets a Job — Hank: Checking whether 'our strategy' worked, Hank finds Google does not autocomplete 'is hank green' but Bing does (and suggests 'hank green is cute'), so for this purpose Bing beats Google. (playful) — 00:02:35
  • 2011-01-28 · Is Hank Green Batman? — Hank: Typing 'is h' into Google now suggests Hank is awesome, and 'is Hank Green' brings up what people wonder about him, including whether he is gay and whether he is Batman. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • 2011-01-28 · Is Hank Green Batman? — Hank: Since people wonder whether he is Batman, Hank swaps his glasses for a Batman mask and tries a Batman voice. (joke) — 00:00:54
  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — John: Asked who Hank is, John describes Batman: a DC comic-book superhero first appearing in 1939, also known as the Caped Crusader. (joke) — 00:00:59
  • 2011-03-23 · Why Does My Dog Eat Poop? — John announces 'Google Auto-Fill once again proves that people are weird': he answers the top ten questions people ask Google beginning 'Why does my…'. (playful) — 00:00:14
  • 2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — John: When stressed, John plays 'Google auto-fill once again proves that people are weird', answering the questions people most often ask Google beginning 'Is my b...'. (playful) — 00:00:11
  • 2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — John says whether your boyfriend is gay is not a question for Google but a question for your boyfriend. — 00:00:56
  • 2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — John says people google 'Is my baby sick?' to avoid taking a rectal temperature, but Google can't take your baby's temperature; that is the parent's job. (playful) — 00:01:03
  • 2011-04-11 · Is My Boyfriend Gay? Is He Cheating? — John lists possible problems - cheating, an untrustworthy partner, inability to trust, not feeling good enough, feeling undervalued or smothered - that Google cannot answer; you have to talk to your boyfriend. — 00:01:46
  • 2011-04-15 · Humpy Hank — The description says the video collects animations of Hank humping an astonishing variety of people and animals (and himself) into a single music video. (playful) — video description
  • 2011-04-15 · Humpy Hank — John reminds Hank that he recently made a video in which he briefly humped Google. (playful) — 00:00:05
  • 2011-04-15 · Humpy Hank — John says that a couple of days later Nerdfighter Mattie Boosh posted an animation of Hank humping the TARDIS on his Tumblr, and the Humpy Hank phenomenon was born. (playful) — 00:00:05
  • 2011-04-22 · 500,000 Subscribers (Almost...and Thank You) — Hank says Nerdfighteria's support runs from that to him humping things on Tumblr; he admits he did not mention it in his last video but was impressed. (playful) — 00:02:47
  • 2011-05-06 · Happy Birthday To Me! — Hank calls a viewer-made 'Humpy Hank' birthday card, whose figure can hump different things at different speeds, the best birthday card of all time. (playful) — 00:01:44
  • 2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — John says Tumblr seems to be the top destination for Nerdfighter jokes, Looking for Alaska quotations, DFTBA tattoos, Pizza John jokes and Humpy Hank sites. (hedged) — 00:02:50
  • 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — In the description Hank clarifies he is not arguing Google should be treated as a sentient life form: if alive, it is alive the way a virus is, with unchanged ethical status. — video description
  • 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — Hank judges Schrödinger's criterion better than his own, since fire increases entropy and fails it, and Google meets it; but an autonomous toy factory would then count too, almost as alive as a virus. — video description
  • 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — Hank: The problem with 'want' is that it is easy to program: Google's search bot wants to seek out information and send it back — does that make Google's software alive? — 00:01:39
  • 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — Hank: By Schrödinger's definition too, Google qualifies: made by humans, it now organizes itself using power from the grid, so Hank ventures a cautious yes, Google is alive. (hedged) — 00:02:51
  • 2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John sets Hank's punishment as the one most popular in Nerdfighteria, Humpy Hank All Over Town: Hank must hump the town. (playful) — 00:02:23
  • 2011-11-21 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — John says the legislation before Congress would increase that inequality: YouTube, Google and Tumblr can afford lawyers against Viacom, he can't, and it won't stop already-illegal wholesale piracy. — 00:02:54
  • 2011-11-23 · Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous — Hank types 'Why are' into Google and answers the most-searched question for every letter of the alphabet as a service to Google searchers. — 00:00:24

Also named in: NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants)

2012

  • 2012-02-17 · World's Smallest Animals — Hank says Mr. Peebles, a tiny cat, is his favourite animal of the video because it led him to Google 'cat in a cup', where he found many cats in cups. (playful) — 00:02:43
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says this dependence means companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter and Tumblr have to listen to their users, which is good. — 00:00:59
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says everyone using Facebook, Twitter, Google or Angry Birds has agreed to be commodified: not necessarily a bad decision, but one to make thoughtfully and consciously. — 00:02:15
  • 2012-09-07 · Can You Really Light a Fart? — Hank answers the top questions asked to Google that begin with 'Can you really…'. (playful) — 00:00:31
  • 2012-11-04 · Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins — John says money from selling a company (say, YouTube to Google) or appreciated stock is capital gains, currently taxed at 15%, far below the ordinary income rate. — 00:01:56
  • 2012-11-23 · Black Friday: An Accident of History — Hank thanks YouTube and Google for funding SciShow and Crash Course and for supporting Vlogbrothers and all the brothers' endeavors over the years. — 00:02:51

2013

  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John says that on Thursday he will be in a Google+ Hangout with President Barack Obama, and will probably have a cold sore, which he has begun to develop. (hedged) — 00:00:37
  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John: Someone at Google called John a couple of days earlier asking whether he wanted to be in a Google Hangout with President Obama and ask him a few questions. — 00:01:04
  • 2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — announcement: John: The Hangout will be live on YouTube at 4:50 PM Eastern on Thursday. — 00:01:58
  • 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank says President Obama gave Nerdfighteria a shoutout during the Hangout, which still leaves him without words. — video description
  • 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank reports that John got to interview the President a bit this week (14 February 2013), and shows a highlight. — 00:01:47
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John and his wife are expecting their second child, whom the President told not to forget to be awesome. — 00:00:05
  • 2013-05-10 · Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs — Hank says Google has just released a tool, built on decades of photographing Earth from space, that lets you scan the whole world and watch the last 25 years of change. — 00:00:12
  • 2013-05-10 · Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs — Hank hopes that looking around Google Earth Engine, based on NASA's 'fantastic' Landsat program, might give us a better understanding of our realities and so lead to better decisions. (hedged) — 00:02:48
  • 2013-05-10 · Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs — Hank cheers NASA, Google, science and understanding, and hopes for action in the near future. (hedged) — 00:03:05
  • 2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups — Hank finds big tech's bidding war for his time weird and worrying, not because people shouldn't spend time online, but because savvy companies see value in being 'the lens' on his world. — 00:01:03
  • 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 — 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 — Hank credits developer Peter Jaros, designer Andrew Willis and the support of Nerdfighteria for making Subbable possible. — 00:02:38
  • 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
  • 2013-10-08 · Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now — John: Starting at 1:11 p.m. via Google, John's exchange sign-up repeatedly fails ('please wait', 'sign up unsuccessful', 'system is unavailable'); five minutes in he calls it a little underwhelming. — 00:00:26
  • 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
  • 2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — announcement: Hank: By coincidence, Subbable has also just launched comments, its own comment system. — 00:03:19
  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks — John says the brothers popularized the phrase: it had almost no Google hits or searches before Nerdfighters began using it. — 00:00:39
  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks — John says the same happened to escalator and thermos, and nearly to Nintendo, which marketed the phrase 'game console', and Google, which carefully says 'searching' rather than 'googling'. — 00:03:05
  • 2013-12-03 · Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks — John contrasts companies terrified of genericization with the community, which is defined not by its name or mottoes but by the values they represent, values that don't lose meaning when shared. — 00:03:21

Also named in: Top 25 Life Hacks of Reddit

2014

  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John grants that the regulations and redistributive tax policies that improve equality of opportunity elsewhere limit innovation, partly why Apple, Twitter, Google and In-N-Out Burger began in the US. — 00:02:31
  • 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
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: After 2007 the brothers abolished the textual communication rule, changed the schedule, and exempted educational videos, montage videos and 4:01 videos (YouTube adds a second) from the time limit. — 00:01:32
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank went to Google to ask a 'what's the difference' question, got distracted by others' questions, and decides to answer one for every letter of the alphabet. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 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: 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

2015

  • 2015-01-23 · Interviewing the President — Steve Grove: A Google employee, Steve Grove, assures Hank that nobody in the White House, not even the President's staff, will see his questions beforehand. — 00:00:18
  • 2015-02-20 · Why Are Fewer People Studying Science and Engineering? — Hank says Emerson is worried because fewer people graduate with STEM degrees and more of them go to work for big new companies like Google, SpaceX and Tesla. — 00:00:40
  • 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
  • 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — John says every map company does this, usually with paper streets or bridges; Google Maps probably created a paper town called Argleton in England. (hedged) — 00:01:07
  • 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — John says Google recently used fictitious entries against Bing, and the Billboard charts have used them too. — 00:01:57
  • 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
  • 2015-09-18 · Muslims Aren't Dangerous — In the description Hank says that googling 'Muslims Aren't Dangerous' turned up article after article about how dangerous Muslims are, which he found sad, discouraging and angering. — video description
  • 2015-12-11 · The Refugee Crises: Project for Awesome 2015 — announcement: John says donations can go straight to the Foundation via a new fee-free card made by Google, which matches every dollar up to $100,000. — 00:03:54
  • 2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — ask: Hank notes Google matches only donations made through the donation cards until December 21, 2015, so donors using them should do it soon. — video description
  • 2015-12-15 · P4A 2015 - Condensed Soup — announcement: Hank says donations through the on-screen donation card are still matched by Google up to $100,000, and every cent passes to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:03:26

2016

Also named in: Loving Loving Things in Los Angeles

2017

2018

2019

  • 2019-02-01 · We Have Destroyed Copyright Law — Hank says he often uploaded others' content, like a music video for a Willie Nelson song and his arguably parody song The Subway Where I Used to Go; none were blocked, only claimed, their AdSense money going to the labels. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-09-20 · Why Does Australia... (this video is bad, I'm sorry) — Hank modifies the bit: he types 'why is Australia' into Twitter search and answers what comes up. (playful) — 00:00:45
  • 2019-09-27 · Crisis — Hank: Googling for a crisis, Hank finds Chiquita explaining what it is doing about the banana crisis, and declares a crisis of crises. (joke) — 00:00:20
  • 2019-10-18 · They Hacked Me — Hank: On Sunday, putting Orin to bed, Hank got a reply to an email he hadn't sent; he handed Orin to Katherine and found no unknown devices logged into his Google account. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — John: He still spends much time online: too much email, dumb Google News stories, and some lurking on Twitter and Reddit, which he will probably keep doing. (hedged) — 00:02:26

2020

  • 2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — both: The brothers establish that Juicy Fruit is the yellow gum and, with Google and Wikipedia, that the striped gum with a zebra mascot is Fruit Stripe. — 00:01:42
  • 2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — both: Asked by the brothers, Google says Charlotte Brontë, the most famous and longest-lived of the sisters, died on 31 March 1855. — 00:02:55
  • 2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — John: The brothers joke that Google pronounces the Brontë name correctly, as it was probably pronounced, while they say it as it is spelled. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:05
  • 2020-10-30 · Four Years Ago — Hank says photos and videos of that time don't tell the whole story; his Google search history from that day tells a more true and more personal, if creepy, one. — 00:00:00
  • 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

2021

2023

2024

  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — In a channel comment, Hank says he was a little surprised, and that their refusal to say it out loud suggests it matters whether they are actually doing it. — creator comment
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank poses the question many fear to ask: does Google, a company creators have a relationship with, train its generative AI models on YouTubers' videos? — 00:04:52
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Neal Mohan (quoted): Asked whether Google uses YouTube to train Gemini, Mohan says Google uses YouTube content in accordance with the terms of service or individual contracts with creators. — 00:06:36
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Google sees this license as sufficient for training generative AI: legally weaker than explicit language about training, but solid enough for them. — 00:07:55
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank asked his YouTube contacts whether Google trains Gemini on YouTubers' property; they said YouTube had no comment beyond Mohan's Bloomberg interview. — 00:11:29
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank favors Google's training of AI on YouTube videos for subtitles and translations: it gives him and the world value, and he would not opt out. — 00:11:29
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says training data is finite, more is better, Google and OpenAI have gathered basically all of it, and now they are losing some to legal doubts. — 00:16:20
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank: Touring YouTube's robots.txt, Hank shows all robots are barred from some pages but welcome on video and channel pages, while Google Media Partners' robots may go anywhere. — 00:18:16
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says that after ChatGPT OpenAI was worth about $86 billion, and Anthropic, Google, Apple, Meta and Nvidia rushed to build their own LLMs from internet data. — 00:20:13
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Reddit, blocking all scrapers, has done deals with OpenAI and Google letting them train on its data for pay, sending it to them directly. — 00:21:21
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank's case: if the derivative-works clause is good enough for Google's lawyers to train on Redditors' content, it is good enough for YouTubers' content. — 00:22:57
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Google thinks training on YouTubers' copyrighted content is fine; he thinks they are wrong: he doesn't know if it is legal, but doesn't think it is right. — 00:23:26
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank's final point: if Google didn't own YouTube, YouTube would not let Google train on YouTubers' videos; companies would pay, and YouTubers would expect a revenue share. — 00:28:00
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says because Google owns YouTube it apparently doesn't have to pay, and no rival can pay, since Google won't sell YouTube's data to competitors. (hedged) — 00:28:29
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John tells Hank he loved his video about Google and other large companies stealing from independent creators to train generative AI. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says money investors in early YouTube became phenomenally wealthy: every $100 invested, rolled into Google stock, is now worth more than $5,000. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says YouTube became a massive business for Google because it decided long ago to share around 55% of revenue with independent creators and treat them much like large corporations. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John credits this to a mutually beneficial relationship between independent creators and Google staff with the capital and expertise in ad sales and servers. — 00:04:52
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says that relationship is now at risk because Google has, as Hank pointed out, in a very roundabout way basically admitted to stealing the content of creators to train language models without permission. — 00:05:05
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says these language models will earn Google billions of dollars while the users whose content made them possible get nothing. — 00:05:21
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John: As a first way forward, John says Google, where employees have a lot of power, could see the light, stop taking creators' content and start paying for it. — 00:05:59
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John: As a third way forward, John says governments could regulate terms of service so Reddit can't sell users' intellectual property without permission and Google can't use every hosted video for billion-dollar products. — 00:06:19

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2025

  • 2025-07-18 · OK, but What Are The Other 403 Errors? — Hank explains that when a requested address such as google.com/search holds nothing, the server replies 404 not found, usually with custom code that forms the visible 404 page. — 00:00:53
  • 2025-07-18 · OK, but What Are The Other 403 Errors? — Hank says error 418 'I am a teapot', a late-1990s joke from a mock coffee-maker protocol, is the only Easter egg he knows built into many HTTP instances; Google still reports it at google.com/teapot. (hedged) — 00:04:18
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John has used Focus Friend for weeks; writing a lot since getting home from tour, he says it has helped him tremendously to focus on writing instead of his phone. — 00:00:43
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John likes that stopping focus mode makes the bean's knitting evaporate and the bean look disappointed: he doesn't want to disappoint the bean, so he leaves his distracting apps alone. (playful) — 00:01:12
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — recommendation: John recommends Focus Friend for kids going back to school and calls its design and illustration top-notch. — 00:01:25
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John praises that the app collects and sells no personal data, needs no login and, best of all, has no ads: a clean, free, effective app is vanishingly rare in 2025. — 00:01:30
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John notes as a user that after a couple of weeks of constant use there are no more rooms to decorate, though Hank is working on that. — 00:01:43
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John explains the app pays for development with optional in-app purchases, such as upgrading the bean, which he supports if it keeps the experience ad-free. — 00:01:55
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John recalls Hank calling to say he had made the app with a developer named Bria; John thought the pitch brilliant and loved the idea of buyable beans like a Hank Bean. — 00:02:11
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John bought the John Bean for $5.99 to support the app and jokes that it is a 70-year-old bean, though it drinks Keats & Co. coffee and its shirt is on point. (playful) — 00:02:40
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John's main complaint: he still has a diminishing number of brown hairs, yet John Bean is entirely gray; he asks to be at least salt and pepper. (playful) — 00:02:55
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John says that apart from forcing him to reckon with his own mortality, Focus Friend is pretty great. (playful) — 00:03:38
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John says that ever since inventing 2D glasses Hank has been on a non-stop run of making things; each new idea gives John gray hairs, so he asks Hank to slow down. (playful) — 00:03:50
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John genuinely congratulates Hank on having the number one app, then goes back to writing with Focus Friend. — 00:04:15
  • 2025-08-19 · The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App — John: After the sign-off John marvels that Hank keeps doing it, wonders where his energy comes from, and calls being the tail to Hank's comet a full-time job. (playful) — 00:04:30
  • 2025-11-14 · The End of The Penny (and of Congress??) — Hank recalls that when John interviewed Obama on a Google+ Hangout about the penny, Obama said many small things that should be done are blocked by entrenched structures or the interests of a few. — 00:00:56
  • 2025-11-28 · Three Things! (Wait, no, actually four...) — announcement: Hank announces Focus Friend has won Google's App of the Year, outright rather than in a category, which he calls wild. — 00:03:22
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John: Trying to recall the name of Hank's 1990s Mars website, John scrolled past a completely wrong Google AI response and learned from Wikipedia it was Hank Green's Mars Exploration Page. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Focus Friend, co-created by Hank, was the Google Play Store's 2025 app of the year; it helps you use other apps less so a little bean in your phone can knit socks. — 00:00:58
  • 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

  • 2026-01-02 · I Got a New Disease and I Kinda Liked It. — announcement: Hank says he did not work out Focus Friend's psychology, it just seemed like it would work; it had a bonkers launch and year: top app in the App Store, Apple's social impact award and Google's app of the year. — 00:04:21
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — announcement: Hank says more runes for Focus Friend are coming soon and thinks a bedroom is being beta tested, with some people having access. (hedged) — 05:43:57
  • 2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John says in 1992 you couldn't Google the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, because Google would not be invented for six more years. — 00:01:57
  • 2026-09-04 · This is a Terrible Idea… — Hank says chemists might use "un-ionized", though he thinks not commonly, preferring non-ionized or electrically neutral (Googling it returned this joke first), and chemists are often unionized anyway. — 00:04:01
  • 2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — John gives examples: reading Hollywood, Ending, his publisher and he capture your attention's value; this video he splits with Google; on Instagram Meta captures almost all of it. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank says that drive even led him to create a whole app that is basically a Pomodoro timer with a bean living in your phone. (playful) — 00:03:27
  • 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — announcement: Hank says the limited-time sale on the Focus Friend Lifetime Pro subscription, which he earlier told viewers to wait for, is on now and ends on Halloween (31 October 2026). — 00:00:00
  • 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank wanted things his colleagues found baffling, like writing for Scientific American or ranking his websites high on Google: he started on YouTube as a fan of internet things, not TV. — 00:00:36
  • 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank: Focus Friend winning Google's 2025 App of the Year outright, not in a category, is a huge deal but fell flat for Hank. — 00:03:28
  • 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank is not accountable to Google and does not care what Google thinks of his app: the people he feels accountable to are those whose judgment he cares about. — 00:04:42
  • 2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank says that in 2016 Google published a paper on YouTube recommendations now being made by deep neural networks. — 00:01:59
  • 2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — announcement: Hank says the Focus Friend sale ends tomorrow or the day after (31 October or 1 November 2026). (hedged) — 00:08:07