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Henry Green

child · in 180 videos (2009–2026)

John's son, born January 2010. Not Henry Reich of MinutePhysics.

Child of: John Green, Sarah Urist Green

Speaks in 3 videos; this page lists what is said about them.

Videos by year: 2009: 5 · 2010: 37 · 2011: 24 · 2012: 22 · 2013: 26 · 2014: 13 · 2015: 9 · 2016: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2026: 7

Also known as: Henry

Threads

Also named in the threads: John's wife Sarah as 'the Yeti' (2007) · Carbon-neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 through carbonfund.org (2007) · Will Grayson, Will Grayson: publication (2010) · John asks Nerdfighters to illustrate Gus Is a Bug (2009) · 'French the llama': John's misreading of FTL as an exclamation of amazement (2009) · Maureen Johnson fills in for John on vlogbrothers during his paternity leave (2010) · John's spring 2010 tour for Will Grayson, Will Grayson · John asks viewers to pre-order Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) · John asks Hank and Nerdfighters whether they have an ultimate concern, what it is, and whether they should (2010) · John's trip to Munich for the White Ravens Book Festival (2010) · The Fault in Our Stars: writing, title and publication (2011) · John's two-month move to the Netherlands (April 2011) · John's walk in the woods near his parents' North Carolina home: their goats mate and he gets lost (December 2011) · John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) · Hank's 'million dollar idea' phone calls to John (2013) · Incongruent: Hank's album with Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers (2013) · John applies for health insurance through the ACA exchange and a pre-ACA private insurer (2013) · John asks Nerdfighters for punishment suggestions in comments (2013) · John's visit to rural health care in Ethiopia with the Gates Foundation (2014) · Hank asks viewers to join the P4A 2015 livestream (2015) · John turns his phone into a 'dumb phone' and changes how he follows the news (2016) · John reads widely about tuberculosis and 19th-century illness (2022) · John asks viewers to subscribe to Henry's YouTube channel (2023) · Everything Is Tuberculosis: John's nonfiction book about tuberculosis (2024) · John's family gets a puppy, Potato (2023) · P4A 2026 edition

Often together

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

Alice Green (26) · Sarah Urist Green (40) · Project for Awesome (19) · Will Grayson, Will Grayson (4) · DFTBA (6) · Sydney Green (7) · doobly-doo (8) · Punishment (8) · 100 Days (2) · Harry Potter (book series) (5)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2009

2010

  • 2010-01-08 · GUS HAS NO FUZZ! — John reveals he wanted the book to give to his baby, so by finding it Nerdfighters were unknowingly giving him a baby-warming present. — 00:00:58
  • 2010-01-18 · Fatherhood — John says it is Monday, January 18, which means the baby is due any day now, and fatherhood is all he is thinking about. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — announcement: Hank announces that January 20 is the birthday of John and Sarah's son: early that morning their 'two became three' when the baby was born. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Maureen says John is taking one more week of paternity leave with baby Henry (joking he will then make Henry get a job), so she fills in on Wednesday before John returns. (playful) — 00:03:25
  • 2010-02-15 · Hello Baby!! — John, back on the vlog, introduces his three-week-old son Henry on camera. — video description
  • 2010-02-19 · Henry's Pee and My Gut — John says he has been on a cleanse for two weeks and has lost 12 pounds so far. — 00:02:22
  • 2010-02-24 · JOHN GREEN IS FAT. — John says he has lost almost 15 pounds since Henry was born, not through a crash diet: he eats a lot but no french fries, and has started running. — 00:01:27
  • 2010-03-10 · New Tour! New Book! (Remember Books?) Your Q's A'ed! — John says he is losing weight because of his son Henry: looking at him, he guesses the only real motivator is love; an aside adds wanting ex-girlfriends to regret dumping you. (hedged) — 00:01:36
  • 2010-03-15 · Cute OVERLOAD: The Ultimate Concern Edition — John says he doesn't mind Henry's self-centeredness: something weird, base and nurturing happened to him at Henry's birth that makes him want to change diapers. — 00:01:09
  • 2010-04-09 · Why is the Sky Blue and Other Questions Answered — Hank tells baby Henry that his dad John is not good at science and worries he can't answer Henry's questions, so they are answering them pre-emptively. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • 2010-04-26 · Nerdfighters, They Named a PLANE After Us — John misses Sarah and Henry, is tired and misses having time to write, but in a couple of hours meets hundreds of readers of the book he wrote with David, which makes him feel like the luckiest guy in the world. — 00:01:38
  • 2010-12-29 · Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places — John: Driving north with the whole family, John says the road delivered them to the one place his youthful trips west never could: home. — 00:02:36
  • …and 51 statements more in 2010 — all statements of 2010

Also named in: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

2011

  • 2011-01-21 · Looking for Alaska Five Years After the Printz Award — John: Taking part in big, interesting conversations with Hank and the Nerdfighters through his books is the most fulfilling thing in his life, John says, then jokes that it is really Henry and Sarah, with Nerdfighters close behind. — 00:02:55
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John says he won't pay the $5,000 offset because someday Henry is going to want to go to college. (playful) — 00:02:37
  • 2011-04-01 · Many Truths, 1 Lie! — John says Henry spoke his first multiple-word sentence this week (week of 28 March 2011): after an exchange of 'hi's, he looked John in the eyes and said 'Hi, cat!' (playful) — 00:01:03
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John and the Yeti agreed in advance that a boy would be named Henry and a girl 'Bubbles the Nerdfighting Lady Baby'. (playful) — 00:01:47
  • 2011-05-09 · Trading Underwear for Rice Crispy Treats: Queens Day in Amsterdam (Thoughts from Places) — John, Sarah and Henry spent Queen's Day (30 April 2011) in Amsterdam; Henry woke them at 5:42 a.m. and they took him to the Vondelpark in a Dirk Kuyt jersey. — 00:00:01
  • 2011-08-31 · How to Become An Adult — John says his son puked on his face last night and he slept about two hours, yet he ranks the night above almost every night of his first two years after college. — 00:00:55
  • 2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — John says that yesterday (11 September 2011) he walked in the woods with Henry and the Yeti, down to the White River, where Henry watched the water for a long time, then to a playground. — 00:00:03
  • 2011-09-30 · YouTube Survey: Balls and First Kisses — John wanted to name his son Henry 'Gatsby', but Sarah refused because Gatsby is a tragic character; John countered with the novel's line about what preyed on Gatsby and wanted that quote over the crib. — 00:02:13
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John shows the painting behind him: he rides a smoking French llama in a Swoodilypoopers jersey, with Henry and a Yeti, labelled the adventures of John Green. — 00:02:15
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John announces Hank is launching SciShow in early January: science news plus answers to age-old science questions like why the sky is blue. — 00:02:05
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — John's P4A highlight: he covered his face in Sharpie when donations reached $50,000, then someone rang his doorbell and he panicked and hid. (playful) — 00:01:13
  • 2011-12-28 · Goats Mating — John: The day before, John walked the creek with Henry and explained how fallen leaves become dirt that feeds the still-living trees. — 00:00:30
  • …and 18 statements more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

Also named in: Happy Birthday To Me!, Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading), Awesome Bankers?

2012

Also named in: Nerds at the Beach: A REUNION VIDEO!, Adorable Squirrel and Table Topics, Time for AWESOME

2013

Also named in: DOCTOR GREEN

2014

  • 2014-02-18 · 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — recommendation: John recommends The Golden Rule by his mentor Ilene Cooper: children don't inherently excel at empathy, and the book has helped his family talk with Henry about others' feelings. — 00:01:45
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John tries an experiment: needing to make a video, he asks his young son what it should be about, and takes up the suggestion. — 00:00:01
    • John says having a dinosaur-obsessed child makes you realize both how much we know and how much we don't about life's distant past. — 00:02:53
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John: Henry asked John for a video about dragons and dinosaurs fighting bad guys together, with scary parts but not too many; John explained he can only make videos where his head moves around a screen. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In October 2013 John's over-four-minute video was ruled not educational enough, and as punishment he ate slobber carrots made by his son. — 00:02:57
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John landed in Addis Ababa after a thirty-hour journey, met a Gates Foundation staffer, had Ethiopian coffee, bought Henry an Ethiopia soccer jersey and went to Yekatit 12 Hospital. — 00:00:01
  • 2014-09-05 · REUNION TUESDAY! FRIDAY! WHATEVER! — John: Building Legos, Henry called a figure the bad guy; John suggested villains are complicated and should be imagined complexly; Henry insisted he was really bad. (playful) — 00:02:22
    • John: Henry told Sarah a good kind of learning is learning how to turn on the TV. (playful) — 00:02:50
  • 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says that in Ethiopia he talked with a girl clinging to her brother; her mother works in Kuwait, her father in the city, and her grandfather cares for them. — 00:00:00
    • John says much of his Ethiopia footage shows him looking away: from families at a hospital, preterm babies under inadequate heat lamps, and a very sick boy his son's age awaiting a malaria test. — 00:00:19
  • 2014-11-17 · Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 — John spent the weekend home in Indianapolis, rode a combine with his son and learned about contemporary American farming practices from a farmer. — 00:00:01
  • 2014-12-16 · Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome — John says the illness began with a throat tickle on the P4A Saturday morning (13 December 2014) while Henry gave him Sharpie face; he jokes the Sharpie fumes may have caused it. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:12
  • …and 12 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

Also named in: Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For, BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town!

2015

Also named in: John Gets a Tattoo, Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books!

2016

  • 2016-02-26 · Things You Don't Know About Us (REUNION!) — John says his biggest professional accomplishment is vlogbrothers and his biggest personal one is behind the camera, where his son Henry is. — 00:03:24 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
  • 2016-03-01 · Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition — John: Asked for a favourite One Direction song, Henry offers his favourite song, which John explains is the Swedish hip-hop song on The Fault in Our Stars soundtrack, in Henry's own name for it. — 00:03:09
  • 2016-05-10 · On Pain — John's six-year-old son, bitten by an ant, said it hurt like this and pinched him, trying to shrink the space between his pain and John's understanding. — 00:01:26
  • 2016-07-12 · Our Capacity for Wonder: A Review — John recalls a November woods walk when son Henry was about two: John held him up to admire the misty forest view, but Henry said 'leaf' and grabbed a single brown oak leaf. — 00:01:53
    • John says he wanted to tell Henry that brown oak leaves are everywhere in the eastern US in November, but looking with him he saw red, orange and yellow veins too complex to take in. — 00:02:26
  • 2016-11-29 · Baby Poop Rookie: Vlogbrothers Reunited — John says Henry pooped on him many times but Alice never, because he went in with about seven diapers, like a diaper suit of armor. (playful) — 00:01:37
  • 2016-12-27 · The Best of My 2016 — John says it was an awesome year to be a dad: Henry learned to ride a bike, Alice learned her ABCs, and both learned every word to Moana. — 00:02:49
  • …and 1 statement more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

2017

  • 2017-03-14 · Green Brothers Reunited! — The description says John and Hank pause on a long desert walk to answer Nerdfighters' questions, mostly on two topics chosen by John's children: Pokémon and monkey turtles. — video description
    • John says that asked what he wants to be when he grows up, Henry says inventor, then pauses and adds: of Pokémon. (playful) — 00:01:47
  • 2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John: On a friend's advice, a month later after an egregious bout of twittering, John made his phone a dumb phone: no Twitter, Facebook, email or Reddit, and he deleted Pokémon Go, breaking his son's heart. — 00:00:49
  • 2017-04-25 · Pokemon, Reviewed by a Dad Who Knows Nothing about Pokemon — John's seven-year-old son wakes at five every Saturday and watches two hours of Pokémon before John can take the iPad away. — 00:00:03
    • John says it's great because he wants his kid to have passions and be excited about stuff, but he knows nothing about Pokémon beyond what his son told him and a brief foray into Pokémon Go. — 00:00:18
    • John believes surplus Pokémon (17 Pidgeys) can be transferred to 'the Professor', which seems a bad idea; his son told him Pokémon don't like going there. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:24
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Most sheets are just signed, but about 3% carry a DFTBA, some have yetis drawn by Sarah, a few were circled in hot pink by Alice and several hundred bear Henry's Pokéballs: a family affair. (hedged) — 00:03:08
  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Of John's five memories of shocked joy, the first two are his children's births: expected, yet both times the feeling, an overwhelmedness of joy and awe, was a complete surprise. (hedged) — 00:00:59
  • …and 3 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

2018

Also named in: This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs?, Reading Mean Comments with John

2019

2020

  • 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) — John recalls making a video from Ethiopia six years ago called Looking Away, about listening to and supporting people living in absolute poverty. — 00:02:20

2021

2022

  • 2022-10-06 · The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… — John: Asked by Reagan which one shirt to buy, John says choosing is like choosing between his kids, but Alice chose the square Pizza John in a pizza box and Henry chose the "if it rides, I lives" design. — 00:01:21

Also named in: PIZZAMAS IS UPON US

2023

  • 2023-08-15 · Henry — John: In 2019 John visited the Lakka TB hospital in Sierra Leone and met Henry, who shares his son's name and seemed his son's age; Henry showed him around, and John assumed he was a nurse's child. — 00:00:00
    • John says global health authorities deemed the bedaquiline protocol too expensive, so people like Henry could not get it. — 00:01:27
    • The injections were not working for Henry: he lost weight, TB-swollen lymph nodes became open wounds, and he bled so much he needed blood transfusions. — 00:01:27
    • Henry's mother Isatu paid the equivalent of thousands of dollars for his treatment, finding blood and supplies, and lost her business and apartment in the process. — 00:01:56
    • Henry's lab work showed the injectables had failed; Dr. Tefera later told John that, seeing no options, he thought they would lose the boy. — 00:02:26
    • Saying that in TB you have to keep trying, Dr. Tefera asked Partners In Health and the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health to bring needed drugs from Liberia and Lesotho to save Henry. — 00:02:26
    • John came home from that trip obsessed with tuberculosis and spent the next few years learning about it, often thinking of and praying for Henry but never daring to ask what happened to him. — 00:03:14
    • When John and Sarah returned to Lakka in 2023, John asked a nurse about Henry; she said he was there that day, wanting to see John, and they reunited. — 00:03:43
    • John says Henry was the first in Sierra Leone to get the bedaquiline-based cocktail; he recovered 'like magic', walking and laughing within three weeks, was cured and went home after over two years at Lakka. — 00:04:15
    • Henry returned to school and, with Partners In Health's support, studies human resources management at the University of Sierra Leone; he dreams of working in business and travelling. — 00:04:42
    • John has started a GoFundMe to fund Isatu's business and help Henry lift his mother out of poverty. — 00:05:47
    • John says Henry is alive thanks to extraordinary efforts by himself, his family, charities, caregivers and government; he gets to have a YouTube channel, take tests and help his mom. — 00:05:47
  • …and 16 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2024

  • 2024-08-06 · What Helped Through Depression — John's friend in Sierra Leone, Henry Reider, is trying to build a well in Freetown to address the water crisis there. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says in 2019 he visited a tuberculosis hospital in Sierra Leone, met a boy who shared his son's name, and came home obsessed with tuberculosis. — 00:00:33
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John says Henry is taking part in NaNoWriMo at his school. — 00:31:32
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Like most of his books, John says, it stars a smart teenager who loves poetry: Henry Reider, a young man who lived with tuberculosis for most of his childhood. (playful) — 00:03:23
  • …and 2 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2025

  • 2025-01-10 · SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! — Hank: Kirkus, read by Hank, says that after John met a sick boy, Henry, in Sierra Leone in 2019, he set out to learn everything about TB and concluded it persists through racism, greed and public-health economics. — 00:03:58
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John says Henry told him yesterday (17 March 2025) that his dream is 100,000 subscribers and the silver plaque, and asks viewers to help make it come true. — 00:02:58
  • 2025-11-13 · Fighting TB in Kids: A Discussion with Doctors without Borders — John says his friend Henry, an MDR-TB survivor in Sierra Leone, credits Dr. Girum Tefera and also his mother, who brought him extra food when many are abandoned by families. — 00:47:09
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John tells Hank he has been traveling to Denmark and England; in Denmark he attended the Union Conference on Lung Health with Henry Reider, whom viewers know from Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
    • John says Henry just had his wisdom teeth out, got dry socket and was in terrible pain, and John felt terrible for him. — 00:44:47
    • John says being a boxer, as Henry is, means being really tough, while John is the opposite of tough. (playful) — 00:46:15
  • 2025-11-25 · Poverty Is Expensive — John recalls that Henry Reider inspired his interest in TB and that Henry's effort to survive multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a through line in Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00
  • …and 1 statement more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John says his 16-year-old son Henry, a very good boxer, will punch him when the P4A reaches a million dollars. — 01:17:37
    • John plays Henry's UFC video game with him: when your 16-year-old will do anything with you, you want to do it with him. — 01:29:25
    • John says P4A donations support structural change and individual lives like his friend Henry Reider, in the chat, whom he wrote Everything Is Tuberculosis about and who would not be alive without Partners In Health. — 01:42:50
    • After the P4A passes $1 million, John takes the live camera to his home gym, where his son Henry punches him in the stomach. — 02:09:17
    • John reads Henry the first chapter of Zombicorns, whose narrator recalls his corn-obsessed father, whom he shot a year earlier, while holed up in a Lincoln Square cellar. (fiction) — 02:31:19
    • John tells Henry that he and Hank don't fight anymore, and that Henry and Alice get along really well, which makes him proud. — 02:59:31
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — John lets Alice write on his face with a Sharpie the initials of donors giving over $100 in the last 14 minutes of the hour; Alice and Sarah cover his face with names. — 00:37:56
    • Hank: To reach the night's goal, Hank tells donors that a donation over $500 gets their name written on his face. — 06:14:01
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says both his kids are great, lovely, hardworking, good-hearted kids, all you could ask for, though he admits he is deeply biased. — 02:35:17
    • The 2026 Project for Awesome reaches $3.5 million, which John celebrates with Henry's choco pies, at 10:13 in the morning with an hour and 47 minutes left. — 03:21:01
  • 2026-06-23 · A Very French Reunion — John got to take his son Henry, 16, to a US men's national team game in 2026, which was very special to him. — 00:06:34
  • 2026-08-03 · Esther Day 2026: Some Thoughts on Loss — John cannot reconcile himself to his friend Henry having almost died of TB and living with its scars. — 00:02:13
  • …and 9 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026

Also named in: Project for Awesome 2026 part 2!