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71 statements about Kickstarter in 44 videos, by upload date.

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2012

  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John is a huge fan of ways to connect people directly with the stuff they like, like Kickstarter: Julia Nunes no longer needs venture capitalists or record companies to fund an album, a very big revolution. — 00:02:26
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — ask: John says Thought Bubble, who animate Crash Course, are kickstarting a documentary; if enough Nerdfighters help fund it, Nerdfighteria will be its executive producers. Link in the description. — 00:02:55
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John says what he loves about Kickstarter, as about the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, is that it is 'about us': the money is raised and spent together. — 00:02:55
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John says projects like Gumroad and Kickstarter make him think the internet might someday become the artistic utopia: a place to make a living making things you care about with and for people you care about. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — announcement: The description says the first two episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries are out now. — video description
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank wanted to do something no one had done before: an adaptation in online video, transferring a previous work into the new medium; he knows of no examples. (hedged) — 00:00:36
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — announcement: Hank: The series is a work of fiction adapted into a video blog, and the work chosen is Pride and Prejudice. — 00:01:04
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — announcement: Hank: They have made eight episodes; to make more they must prove people want to watch, either to get a sponsor or to get enough views to pay for it. — 00:02:25
  • 2012-06-08 · How to be More Productive...With Hank! — announcement: Hank lists his many jobs: VidCon is coming up at the end of the month, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries just passed 50,000 subscribers, plus SciShow, Crash Course, Truth or Fail, EcoGeek and DFTBA Records. — 00:00:03
  • 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — Hank says The Lizzie Bennet Diaries gets about the same number of views every episode, rare for a web series: around 70,000, roughly 30,000 short of paying for the show. — 00:02:39
  • 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — ask: Hank asks 30,000 viewers to go and watch all the episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. — 00:02:58
  • 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — announcement: John: The brothers did not make the Evil Baby Orphanage card game: they saw it, contacted its makers, were shown it and think it looks really cool; if the Kickstarter raises enough, the makers will release a Nerdfighter-specific expansion pack, which John calls 'pretty jokes' in 2007 vlogbrothers terms. — video description
  • 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — announcement: John announces that a professional gaming company is Kickstarting an Evil Baby Orphanage card game and asks viewers to check it out. — 00:03:41
  • 2012-08-10 · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony — announcement: Hank says the people at Weird Games took up the idea; when he saw their Kickstarter he asked to help and they showed him the whole game. — 00:02:57
  • 2012-08-10 · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony — announcement: Hank says at $50,000 the Kickstarter adds a Nerdfighter expansion in which players can play John and Hank as time nannies. — 00:03:17
  • 2012-08-10 · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony — ask: Hank reminds viewers that the expansion and other perks come only with pledges of more than $40. — 00:03:24
  • 2012-08-10 · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony — announcement: Hank says the Kickstarter ends in two or three days, but the game will be sold at local game stores and probably at DFTBA.com. (hedged) — 00:03:31
  • 2012-08-24 · Happy Birthday John Green! — Hank notes that their Evil Baby Orphanage idea is now a real card game with two decks of cards. — 00:00:58
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank lists his songs about quarks, ponies, Harry Potter and Helen Hunt, notes Helen Hunt tweeted him about hers, and recalls inventing 2D glasses and turning Pride and Prejudice into a video blog. (playful) — 00:01:36
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank says they started educational channels that both have more than 200,000 subscribers, plus a record label, a web series and a conference. — 00:02:11
  • 2012-09-28 · THE EYE OF LONDON: Thoughts from Northern Montana — Hank: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries has reached its 50th episode; Hank thanks viewers for helping the project survive and thrive. — 00:03:08
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — Hank notes that yesterday (1 November 2012) was Darcy Day, the big reveal of William Darcy on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. — 00:00:43
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says the P4A already has more than $15,000, thanks to Nerdcrafteria donations and to the Evil Baby Orphanage card game makers, who quietly donated part of their proceeds. — 00:02:26
  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — Hank says he is grateful to have worked with so many amazing people on projects like the P4A, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA Records and VidCon, and that he just loves to create and to help people create. — 00:03:01

2013

  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John introduces a reading from The Fault in Our Stars, now past the first pages, by actors from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a YouTube web-series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. — 00:38:22
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John retells the Evil Baby Orphanage: Hank asked about killing baby Hitler, a commenter proposed an orphanage for evil babies, inspiring fan fiction, web comics and now a professionally produced card game. — 00:57:30
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John introduces Hank as co-founder of VidCon, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and DFTBA Records and founding editor of EcoGeek.org. — 01:01:29
  • 2013-02-15 · Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week — Hank: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries won two Streamys at the pre-awards and may yet win more. — 00:02:26
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John gets several emails a day praising his work on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which he is not involved with at all, though he is happy to take credit. (playful) — 00:02:56
  • 2013-02-26 · Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition — John: Hannah Hart asked people who donated to her Kickstarter to show off their kitchens because she might come cook in them, so John and his son cook dinner to show theirs. (hedged) — 00:00:01
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — ask: Hank invites Nerdfighteria to discuss, in the comments, Our Pants and the Nerdfighter subreddit, what they love, how to broaden, how content is discovered and whether there is a better way to fund it. — 00:03:13
  • 2013-03-20 · Ads Work...but for Whom? — John asks how to make interesting, important projects without a million views sustainable, and says the comments on Hank's last video offered five models. — 00:02:07
  • 2013-03-20 · Ads Work...but for Whom? — John says Kickstarter is awesome but suits projects with an end, like a movie, album or game, not a YouTube channel meant to last. — 00:02:22
  • 2013-04-26 · Cat GIF Critique — Hank thanks backers of the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter, the fifth top-funded film and video project ever; it was fourth that morning until Zach Braff's campaign. — 00:02:21
  • 2013-05-31 · Optimism is Not Insane — recommendation: Hank writes that one of the people behind the space-telescope project wrote a book that heavily inspired this video, calls it really good and very interesting, and suggests viewers buy and read it. — video description
  • 2013-05-31 · Optimism is Not Insane — Hank jokes that he thinks he can run five businesses and pop over to Seattle to help kickstart a space telescope without going crazy. (playful) — 00:00:56
  • 2013-05-31 · Optimism is Not Insane — Hank's trip to Seattle's Museum of Flight to help Planetary Resources launch its space-telescope Kickstarter inspired him: crowdfunding a telescope, artifacts of great shared projects, dedicated people. — 00:02:51
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Hank: according to Weird Games, the Evil Baby Orphanage card game has now sold over 4,000 copies. — 00:00:26
  • 2013-08-27 · On the TFIOS Movie Set — announcement: John congratulates Hank on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries winning an Emmy, after the film's screenwriters, on set, congratulate Hank too. — 00:01:24
  • 2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam — Hank: In a song, Hank recalls asking Bernie what he thought of Pride and Prejudice characters as vloggers, and marvels that the idea won an Emmy award. (playful) — 00:00:52
  • 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank: At the warehouse, Hank says DFTBA Records is going well and preparing for Christmas and the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter, whose rewards he apologises have not been sent yet. — 00:01:20
  • 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank recalls telling John at this spot his idea for a Jane Austen vlog series; The Lizzie Bennet Diaries did very well, with tens of millions of views and an Emmy. — 00:01:44

2014

2015

2017

  • 2017-03-31 · No Cut Confessional: Priorities — announcement: Hank says Wizard School has launched and people like playing it, but many Kickstarter perks have not been sent yet; he feels terrible and apologizes. — 00:02:10
  • 2017-08-04 · Why Bullets are Good for the Environment — announcement: Hank announces ROLF, a new silly party game from DFTBA Games, on Kickstarter for the next 24 days or so; it has already reached its goal, so it will be made. (hedged) — 00:03:20
  • 2017-08-25 · Trust and Fire - Thoughts from the Smoke — ask: Hank says the Kickstarter for ROLF, DFTBA Games' dumb party game, ends in a few days; anyone who wants to help and pledge for a copy has a link in the description. — 00:03:29

2021

  • 2021-01-08 · In Which Hank Worries for a Little Bit and then Looks at Microbes — announcement: Hank: Journey to the Microcosmos is running a Kickstarter for this microscope with a phone attachment for making content, plus a guide to starting your own microcosmos journey. — 00:03:00
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — announcement: Hank: The Microcosmos microscope from their Kickstarter is finally shipping, but a piece is missing, probably lost in transit; backers' microscopes ship now and the piece follows. — 00:00:00

2022

  • 2022-04-22 · My Life is on My Walls — announcement: Hank shows the Lizzie Bennet Diaries DVD set and notes that this month (April 2022) is the 10-year anniversary of the show's first episode. — 00:02:17

2023

2024

2025

  • 2025-05-09 · OK, I MESSED UP. — Hank: The Kickstarter did amazingly and everything shipped perfectly on time, which Hank has never done with a Kickstarter before. — 00:02:01
  • 2025-05-09 · OK, I MESSED UP. — announcement: Hank: The typo is restored in the second printing, available now; the book had so far only been available during the Kickstarter. — 00:02:29
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a YouTube-based Pride and Prejudice adaptation that became wildly popular about 13 or 14 years ago, won Hank his Emmy. — 00:02:26

2026

  • 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank: When the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a show Hank produced on YouTube, won an Emmy, he did not pay to get a statuette for himself, which he now feels very dumb about. — 00:00:36