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2007

2007-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — announcement: Hank tells John they will no longer communicate by any textual means: no instant messaging or email, only video blogs and possibly phone calls. — 00:00:13
2007-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — Hank says he sent John the email outlining the plan the night before from a New Year's Eve party in Lake Tahoe. — 00:00:43
2007-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — announcement: Hank: Starting January 1st Hank sends a video blog, John replies the next day, and they continue alternating like this until the year is up. — 00:00:43
2007-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — announcement: Hank says that if either brother fails to send a video blog on a weekday there will be punishments, to be outlined later. — 00:00:43
2007-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st — announcement: Hank declares that Brotherhood 2.0 commences today and admits the plan probably makes them crazy. (playful) — 00:00:43
2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — John: Recalling the agreed punishments for missed videos, John proposes the brothers also periodically give each other challenges. (hedged) — 00:01:19
2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — John suggests two challenges: eating five sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal, and drinking a glass of Strawberry Hill wine without hurling. (playful) — 00:01:53
2007-01-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd — John tentatively suggests Thursdays and Fridays as challenge days and leaves the choice to Hank. (hedged) — 00:01:53
2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Hank says performing a version of 500 Miles on the show appeals to him and asks whether it should be a punishment, project or challenge. (hedged) — 00:01:56
2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — John notes Hank ignored his toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge in his last video and says that if Hank will not do it, he will. (playful) — 00:01:11
2007-01-04 · Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper — John announces a Brotherhood 2.0 viewer's wife has had a baby after 32 hours of labor and suggests letting the viewer pick a project or challenge for the brothers as a present. (hedged) — 00:02:05
2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank proposes suggesting more punishments so the brothers can choose between them, and letting people suggest punishments too. (hedged) — 00:01:11
2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank says the only punishment so far is the 500 miles punishment, which he would be totally okay doing and thinks would be fun. (hedged) — 00:01:11
2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank suggests three punishments: grow facial hair for a week then wax the chin, the 'stick-a-needle-in-my-eye provision', and giving yourself a mohawk, which he has always wanted. (playful) — 00:01:43
2007-01-11 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th — Hank sings a line of 500 Miles and says it is not a punishment to him; they need to come up with better punishments. (hedged) — 00:02:54
2007-01-12 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 12, 2007 — John proposes punishments for failing to update, taken from his living room: the 1100-page Continuum History of Apocalypticism, a Christmas card with someone else's baby, knitting a scarf, eating a styrofoam peanut. (playful) — 00:01:01
2007-01-15 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th — announcement: Hank presents the new Brotherhood 2.0 website at brotherhood2.com and asks for suggestions or comments. — 00:00:00
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank says that every year around this time he sends a survey to all his friends and family, who answer it, and he then puts the answers online. — 00:00:34
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — Hank: Since the survey is text-based he can't send it to John, but refusing to break the tradition, Hank gives it in video form, skipping questions 1 to 6, which are unchanged and whose answers he already knows. — 00:00:34
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — ask: Hank's questions for John include how long he has known Hank and Katherine, what he wants from them, what he is doing, why, and for how long, what he wants to be doing, what's next, and the best book he read this year (2007). — 00:01:03
2007-01-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 19th — ask: Hank: Later questions turn whimsical: how humans will go extinct, feelings about kids these days, what Ambrozzo tastes like, which cliché he would be, invisibility or time travel, what's wrong with the world; the last asks to post the survey online. (playful) — 00:02:05
2007-01-22 · Brotherhood 2.0, January 22, 2007 — announcement: John says he planned to start the survey today but it will have to wait until Wednesday (24 January 2007). — 00:00:12
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John: Answering the survey, John says he has known Hank since Hank was born and Katherine since, he believes, 1999. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John: Asked what he wants from them, John calls it a 'question wrongly phrased': the question is what his brother wants from him, a Nintendo Wii, which John also wants from Hank. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says he is writing books for teenagers and doing 'this weird video project' with his brother; his answer to why he writes is cut off mid-sentence. — 00:00:38
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — John says the major next thing is finishing his new and as yet untitled third book. — 00:00:59
2007-01-24 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 24, 2007 — recommendation: John: Asked for the best book he's read this year (2007), John names the best he read last year (2006): probably The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. (hedged) — 00:00:59
2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank says many people have suggested very good punishments: not just difficult but extremely embarrassing on a video blog, which is the kind they want. — 00:01:05
2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank: Expecting he may well be the first punished, Hank proposes that the unpunished brother choose the punishment, so the punished one can't take the one he'd most like; viewers see the other's pick. (hedged) — 00:01:05
2007-01-25 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th — Hank tells John he enjoyed his survey answers and hopes to see more of them tomorrow. (hedged) — 00:03:30
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John's perfect day: wake up, write 4,000 words, Sarah comes home from school, a sushi dinner together, then reading until bed. — 00:00:03
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: He adds that on the perfect day The Office is on and Pam and Jim hook up. (playful) — 00:00:42
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked how humans will go extinct, John sides with T.S. Eliot: not with a bang but with a whimper. — 00:00:42
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked how he feels about 'kids these days', John says he really wants a baby, a lot, but asks Hank where one would fit in their apartment. — 00:00:42
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Setting his own question, pirates or ninjas, John picks ninjas for how fast they strike. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Ambrosia, John says, tastes like everything you can't eat on Weight Watchers: cheeseburgers, sugar cookies, real ice cream. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — recommendation: John: On science fiction, John says he really likes Kurt Vonnegut and is a big fan of Margo Lanagan's short stories. — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked cheese or chocolate, John protests that both are things he can't eat anymore. (playful) — 00:01:16
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John thinks his first concert was The Cure in ninth grade, with a friend; he liked The Cure a lot. (hedged) — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: If he could live anywhere, John would live in North Carolina. — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Invisibility or time travel: claiming he already wears an invisibility cloak, John chooses time travel. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: For an instantly successful business John suggests a malaria-curing business or a store selling only novels by John Green. (playful) — 00:02:00
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John: Asked what's wrong with the world, John says the big problem is people ('we're the worst'); puppets are a small problem. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:29
2007-01-26 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 26, 2007 — John gives Hank permission to put the survey on his webpage. — 00:02:29
2007-01-30 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 30, 2007 — John says he accidentally CC'd Hank on an email, which means he has to do a punishment, and asks Hank to be kind. (playful) — 00:02:02
2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank says someone suggested John send Hank his Wii as punishment, but he is not that much of a jerk; he has many punishments to choose from. (playful) — 00:01:34
2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank: Some call John a stand-up citizen for agreeing to the punishment before being told it, but Hank says John phoned him arguing the email wasn't punishable. (playful) — 00:01:34
2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank: As the email wasn't really a personal communication, Hank allows some leeway and won't give John the worst punishments possible. (hedged) — 00:01:34
2007-01-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 31st — Hank gives John a choice of two punishments: grow his facial hair for a week and then wax his chin, or fill a large bowl with Ben & Jerry's ice cream and watch it melt. (playful) — 00:02:13
2007-02-01 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 1, 2007 — John: As a word of parting, John says his chin is prepared. (playful) — 00:01:18
2007-02-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd — Hank greets the viewer who made the first Brotherhood 2.0 reply video on YouTube: 'Well done'. — 00:00:03
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John: At Duane Reade John looks for wax, finding it not with the makeup or soap but with the hair brushes, and tells Hank he is about to wax his chin. (playful) — 00:00:10
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John: After microwaving the wax and washing his face, John says he is really worried because Hank made it out to be so horrible. (playful) — 00:00:39
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John: On the first attempt the wax will not come off although John pulls hard, and he bleeds. (playful) — 00:01:18
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John: Because he is a hard worker and believes in the project and in Brotherhood 2.0, John tries once more, but will stop if he bleeds again. (playful) — 00:01:47
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John: Bleeding again, John tells Hank they will have to switch punishments because this one makes him bleed. (playful) — 00:02:15
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John: For the alternative punishment John watches mint chocolate chip ice cream melt while eating what he calls his crappy popcorn. (playful) — 00:02:15
2007-02-05 · Brotherhood 2.0, February 5, 2007 — John thanks Hank for giving him an alternative punishment. (playful) — 00:03:08
2007-02-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 6th — Hank: Seeing John's clean chin, Hank apologises: he didn't realise the waxing would be quite that horrible; apparently wax is not made for facial hair. (playful) — 00:00:10
2007-02-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble — Hank: The working computer is helping with Brotherhood 2.0 projects, chiefly their new MySpace page, which already has about 69 friends after John's SparksFlyUp post and Hank's bulletin. — 00:00:59
2007-03-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 5, 2007: Hank's Punishment — John says Hank broke the no-textual-communication rule by writing 'see you tomorrow' in text to him, so he will be punished. (playful) — 00:00:00
2007-03-12 · March 12th: How to Make a Podcast — announcement: Hank says he has to teach John to make a podcast by video, since he can't do it with John's videos and can't send a text tutorial. — 00:00:45
2007-04-20 · Brotherhood 2.0: Carbon Neutralizing Youtube — John: According to YouTube, Brotherhood 2.0 has received 116,419 views. — 00:00:09
2007-05-07 · May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza — Hank says John phoned before the film to tell them Neil Gaiman had posted a link to Brotherhood 2.0 on his blog. — 00:01:10
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — announcement: John: Since collaborative writing is hard without text, John proposes a series of Evil Baby Orphanage videos in which the brothers read their proposed book proposals to each other, eventually building a book proposal from them. — 00:01:10
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John says he misses text badly; he sometimes opens an instant-message window to Hank and types without hitting enter, so as not to break the rules. (playful) — 00:01:10
2007-05-17 · May 17th: Wikeeeeeepedia...and Happy Birthday Katherine — Hank calls it an interesting side effect of text-based communication that you never learn how words are pronounced; without text, he can now catch and correct John. — 00:02:29
2007-05-21 · May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies — Hank says the no-text-communication rule makes keeping the proposal secret harder, but he thinks they can, though he doesn't know how. (hedged) — 00:02:49
2007-05-31 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating — John thinks Brotherhood 2.0 needs a forum because the comments are too many and too confused to follow, and challenges Hank to make one if viewers favour it. (hedged) — 00:01:45
2007-07-02 · Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting — announcement: John says July 2 is the first day of the second half of Brotherhood 2.0. — 00:00:03
2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank: Trying to get John on iChat to talk face to face, Hank instant messages him instead, and John instant messages back. — 00:01:39
2007-07-06 · July 6: Ooooooops — Hank says he was trying to get John to notice he was on video chat, and concludes that the brothers are very stupid. (playful) — 00:02:59
2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John says commenters and forum members claim the brothers communicated by text on purpose to get punished; he denies it, saying they are just stupid. (playful) — 00:00:09
2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John thinks Hank was probably doing several things at once and texted by accident, while he calls himself stupid. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:09
2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John recreates the exchange: a video chat request from Hank failed, a text window opened saying 'OK, I'm here now', and John typed asking whether it was Catherine. (playful) — 00:00:53
2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John: Thrilled that Hank had broken the rule, John typed 'dude, you are so punished' and hit return, only realising when Hank didn't reply that he had texted too. (playful) — 00:01:22
2007-07-09 · July 9: The Punishment Fiasco — John accepts that the brothers cannot veto their own punishments but proposes that their wives may veto punishments nerdfighters suggest, and hopes Hank agrees. (hedged) — 00:02:47
2007-07-10 · July 10: Embarassing Photographs — Hank: Since the brothers broke the rule more or less simultaneously, Hank wants a simultaneous punishment in which each does a similar one. (hedged) — 00:00:11
2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — announcement: John says hard-working Nerdfighters have found a textual communication he apparently sent Hank on January 11, 2007, so he, not Hank, is about to be punished. (hedged) — 00:01:49
2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says the message read 'Hank, you should feel free to edit this'; had he written 'Hank should feel free to edit this' he would have been fine. (playful) — 00:01:49
2007-08-02 · August 2nd: Airports and Box Fans — John says he looks forward to everyone's punishment suggestions and reminds Hank that if the Yeti vetoes one, he doesn't have to do it. (playful) — 00:02:19
2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — announcement: Hank says Nerdfighters discovered John textually communicated with him ten days after the project started, so John must be punished. — 00:02:27
2007-08-03 · August 3: The Retail Dance — Hank adopts a viewer's suggestion: John must call an ex-girlfriend and talk for at least one minute, mentioning certain things. (playful) — 00:02:59
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — announcement: John reports the Yeti has vetoed the ex-girlfriend punishment, feeling he has tortured his exes enough with radio pieces 'and all of that stuff'. — 00:00:43
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John: Needing a punishment anyway, John phones Daniel Biss to ask whether he may accept contributions given because John injures himself, so the punishment decreases world suck. (playful) — 00:01:11
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John proposes basing the severity of his punishment on the number of people who donate to Biss's campaign. (playful) — 00:02:03
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John: Lower tiers via ActBlue: five or fewer donors, six saltines in a minute; 10, 1,500 calories of gross food; 25, saltines plus a novelty dance; 35, waxing a limb; 50, waxing plus licking a cat. (playful) — 00:02:03
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — John: Upper tiers: 75 and 100 donors, breaking Kurt's Peeps eating record plus waxing; 200, a blenderized Happy Meal; 500, 16 hours in Walmart; 5,000, a Nerdfighter tattoo. (playful) — 00:03:01
2007-08-06 · August 6th: JK Rowling and I Will ... Be Punished — ask: John invites Hank and the Nerdfighters to suggest more punishments and offers to say how many donors each would take. — 00:03:01
2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — Hank says this skips a bunch of punishments: at the very least John must wax a limb of Hank's choosing while breaking the Peeps-eating world record set by punk rock Nerdfighter Curt. (playful) — 00:00:56
2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — ask: Hank wants to see the blenderized Happy Meal, 96 donations away, and though unsure it can be done, asks nicely for more donations. — 00:02:14
2007-08-07 · August 7th: Curd Fighter Nurt — ask: Hank says viewers can instead give 50 cents or a dollar to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; it counts toward the total but does not go to Biss. — 00:02:14
2007-08-08 · August 8th: The Lawn and the Fury — announcement: John: Contributions to Biss's ActBlue page before midnight Eastern on Friday count toward John's punishment, as do contributions by non-US people and minors to the Fund to Decrease World Suck. — 00:03:31
2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — Hank reports a count of 189 (by context, donors to Daniel Biss's campaign), 'not technically enough', but about 50 people also gave to the Foundation to decrease world suck. — 00:00:10
2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — announcement: Hank judges the total will not rise further and rules that John must eat a blenderized Happy Meal. (playful) — 00:00:10
2007-08-09 · August 9th: Anagramming Guide to the 2008 Elections — announcement: Hank leaves the kind of Happy Meal and drink (a soda flavour, or milk) to John, and says he doesn't think he will watch. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:31
2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — announcement: John says it looks like he will eat a blenderized Happy Meal while waxing two of his legs, or, if Hank is kind, two of his arms. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:11
2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John admits he never expected this punishment, not thinking so many would give to Daniel's campaign; he underestimated the Nerdfighters, a lesson for everyone. — 00:01:41
2007-08-10 · August 10th: Bears!!!! — John is still happy that his punishment can help decrease world suck and hopefully help get Daniel elected. (hedged) — 00:02:10
2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — announcement: Hank doesn't care which Happy Meal or drink John gets, but John must blend it and eat it. (playful) — 00:02:57
2007-08-13 · August 13: The Fair!!!! — announcement: Hank: Calling John a good sport, Hank offers, if John agrees, to cut the waxing to one leg; with licking a cat, John will be done. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:26
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John: Looking for a cat to lick, John asks people whether they own a cat or have close friends who do; he tells Hank the cat licking will have to wait till Thursday (16 August 2007). (playful, hedged) — 00:00:09
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John announces that Tuesday, August 14th, is the day of his punishment. — 00:00:24
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John: Presenting it as 'cooking with John Green', John blends a Happy Meal (orange drink, French fries, hamburger), keeping some drink to wash it down. (playful) — 00:00:56
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John feels like puking after one spoonful and retches, but eats the blended Happy Meal spoonful after spoonful until it is finished. — 00:01:58
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John: Before waxing a leg strip by strip, John tells himself it can't be as bad as the Happy Meal; the first strip hurts far more than Sarah's predicted five. — 00:03:16
2007-08-14 · August 14th: The Blenderized Happy Meal (and Leg Waxing) — John says he would rather wax his entire body than ever eat a blenderized Happy Meal again. (playful) — 00:03:37
2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says he didn't have time to write a song about John eating a blenderized Happy Meal. (playful) — 00:02:59
2007-08-15 · August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube — Hank says he looks forward to John finding a cat to lick. (playful) — 00:03:51
2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John: With a Venn diagram John explains his cat-licking dilemma: no one he knows in Indianapolis owns a cat. (playful) — 00:01:26
2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John: Nerdfighters are the 'fourth circle': a Nerdfighter (name unclear) put John in touch with Indianapolis people who have a cat named Toby, to be licked that afternoon. (playful) — 00:02:08
2007-08-16 · August 16th: Finding — and Licking — a Cat — John licks Toby on the head with the owners watching and declares the cat licked and his punishment finished. (playful) — 00:02:38
2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank is impressed that some nerdfighters are so into Brotherhood 2.0 that they corrected John's cat-licking technique by licking cats themselves. (playful) — 00:00:00
2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank reports Katherine's point that for some cat owners licking a cat isn't really a punishment; she sometimes puts Cameo's paw in her mouth. — 00:00:00
2007-08-17 · August 17: Hmmm...A Secret Project? — Hank won't lick Cameo because he hasn't been punished, and hopes never to be punished again because John's punishment set the bar far too high. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:40
2007-09-06 · September 6th: The Book Club Returns — announcement: John will make a draft of Paper Towns available to Hank and Katherine in a couple of weeks; how, without textual communication, remains to be seen. — 00:02:56
2007-09-27 · September 27th: Bionic Woman v. Helen Hunt on PCP — Hank: Because the videos must be text-less, speaking only, Hank suggests telling his news by charades instead. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:10
2007-09-28 · September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! — John says Brotherhood 2.0 may be three quarters done, but nerdfighting is just getting started. — 00:02:38
2007-10-02 · Oct. 2nd: Brotherhood 2.0 on the Road (Literally) — John does not recommend vlogging while driving at 72 mph unless you are nine months into a 12-month project and have never missed a day. (playful) — 00:00:36
2007-11-09 · Nov. 9th: Sick Day — John notes that the Brotherhood 2.0 rules require a video every other weekday for all of 2007 but never require a long one. (playful) — 00:00:00
2007-11-15 · Nov 15: Jay-Z, the Inkys, Nerdfighteria, and Venn Diagrams! — John's first Venn diagram puts people ashamed of watching The Hills on MTV where Nerdfighters and Hills viewers meet; he notes Venn diagrams are established as not textual communication. (joke) — 00:01:59
2007-11-15 · Nov 15: Jay-Z, the Inkys, Nerdfighteria, and Venn Diagrams! — John: A second Venn diagram: people who like Cameo overlap heavily with Nerdfighters, with a corner for those freaked out when the cat stares into the camera. (joke) — 00:01:59
2007-11-15 · Nov 15: Jay-Z, the Inkys, Nerdfighteria, and Venn Diagrams! — John: Last Venn diagram: the gooey feeling before something begins (anxiety) and before something ends (sadness); John says their overlap is where Awesome lives. (playful) — 00:02:28
2007-11-20 · November 20th: A White Thanksgiving — announcement: Hank: Because Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, John posts tomorrow, Hank posts Friday and nobody posts Thursday; Hank notes a holiday finally falls on one of his days. — 00:03:29
2007-12-03 · December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project — Hank announces Brotherhood 2.0 has passed its 10,000th subscriber; it actually has 10,022. — 00:00:10
2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — Hank notes that Katherine wrote everything on the package going to John, so there was no textual communication. (playful) — 00:00:09
2007-12-13 · December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas — announcement: John: In a phone message, John tells Hank that Vlogbrothers has finally cracked YouTube's all-time most-subscribed directors list. — 00:03:33
2007-12-18 · Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! — announcement: John: Answering whether there will be a punishment before year's end, John says yes: Hank communicated with him in the comments of Nalts's video, so Hank will be punished. (playful) — 00:00:39
2007-12-18 · Dec 18th: The Project for Awesome and Question Tuesday!!! — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to suggest lots of punishments for Hank in the comments, as time is short. — 00:00:39
2007-12-19 · December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube — Hank rejects a viewer's punishment suggestion that he pay five dollars for every hand gesture in every video, saying he would be destitute. (playful) — 00:03:20
2007-12-20 · December 20th: HANK SHALL BE PUNISHED! — John says the brothers have almost completed Brotherhood 2.0 and he is impressed with them. — 00:00:00
2007-12-20 · December 20th: HANK SHALL BE PUNISHED! — John says Nerdfighters get bloodthirsty at punishment time and reviews suggested punishments he had to dismiss. (playful) — 00:01:28
2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — announcement: Hank says Monday is the last day of Brotherhood 2.0 and that he is kind of sad about it. — 00:03:18
2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — announcement: Hank signs off saying he will see John's last Brotherhood 2.0 video tomorrow. — 00:03:48
2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John is grateful for the project mainly because he now knows Hank as an adult: smart, funny, clever, with ideas both brilliant (naming the forum 'My Pants') and diabolical (making John wax his chin). — 00:01:34
2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John says that, much as they enjoyed it, the brothers would never have finished the project if people hadn't watched, because it was hard and because he loves not finishing things. — 00:01:47
2007-12-28 · Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video — John signs off to Nerdfighters 'in my pants', thanks Hank for all of this and says he'll see him on Monday. — 00:03:30
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — John: The song recounts that in 2006 John fell in love with 'Zay' (apparently Ze Frank) and told Hank they should do the same thing their own way. (playful) — 00:00:03
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The chorus says goodbye to Brotherhood 2.0, telling viewers the brothers know they will be sad to see it go. — 00:00:40
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The song lists the year's in-jokes: thinking about 'my pants' (the forum) makes them do their happy dance, along with 'Peels' (unclear), shirtless pictures and wax on John's chin. (playful) — 00:01:24
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The song asks whether the brothers are closer now than they were a year ago. (unsure) — 00:01:24
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — both: The song says that while writing it they realised it has been about more than the two of them, which is why it is sad to sing goodbye. — 00:01:59
2007-12-31 · Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 — announcement: both: The song states that the project is ending and that its rules seem to need some amending. (hedged) — 00:03:00

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2008

2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — John says Brotherhood 2.0 was initially his idea; he has a crazy idea every 45 minutes and relies on Hank to reject them, but Hank said this one was not terrible. (playful) — 00:00:25
2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — Hank corrects the report: the brothers did not merely stop texting a year earlier; they gave up all textual communication, which is different. — 00:01:20

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 — Hank restages his first Brotherhood 2.0 video from two years ago, including the camera glitch and the eye reflection, admitting he then did not know how to make videos. (playful) — 00:00:37
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 — Hank says John's news videos were one of the coolest things they did in Brotherhood 2.0: blissful ignorance is nothing compared to the crushing weight of the truth. (playful, hedged) — 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
2009-03-01 · 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
2009-06-20 · Neck Beards and Fitness Challenges — Hank says he and John just had a conversation on Instant Messenger, which the brothers' current rules now allow. — 00:00:29
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
2009-07-28 · Love and Romance Questions ANSWERED — John says guys who don't like girls smarter than them are exactly the guys you don't want to date. (playful) — 00:03:32
2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John announces that the channel has 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00

2010

2010-05-17 · My YouTube Story is Short — Hank gives his own YouTube story: his brother convinced him to do something ridiculous they thought would be about two people, and it turned out to be about many more. — 00:01:55

2012

2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John marks five years since he uploaded his first Vlogbrothers video, on January 2, 2007, with a deliberately terrible jump cut. — 00:00:00

2014

2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank says the brothers created the channel on January 1, 2007 with three rules: a video on your day, no video over four minutes, and no textual communication between them. — 00:00:21
2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: That same month John CCed Hank on an email, counted as textual communication, and had to wax his chin. — 00:00:31
2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: When Hank IMed John in July and John replied, both were punished and dressed up like their most embarrassing high-school pictures. — 00:00:53
2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: In March John missed a video while hospitalised and replied to Hank on a forum, so he ate a blenderized Happy Meal, waxed his legs and licked a cat; Hank is unsure why three, possibly Daniel Biss donations. (hedged) — 00:01:03
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

2017

2017-07-14 · YouTube History Lesson: Vlogbrothers Through the Ages — Hank: In December 2007, having done the project for its planned year and with 11,000 subscribers, the brothers thought about stopping but decided to keep going, which turned out okay. — 00:03:06
2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: In July 2007 John was doing Brotherhood 2.0, a year-long project of weekday videos with Hank, watched by a few hundred people a day. — 00:02:12

2020

2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John says starting a collaborative video blog back in 2006 was his idea. — 00:00:00

2021

2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John: In late 2006, after An Abundance of Katherines came out, John quit his day job to write full time, found himself still inconsistent and the empty days terrifying, and three months later invented an unpaid job, this channel. — 00:01:34

2026

2026-03-13 · Pain — Hank notes the brothers no longer require themselves never to miss a day, and no longer get punished for missing one. — 00:03:04
2026-09-29 · Pretend You Don't Know This — Hank recalls they decided to upload a video every weekday of 2007 and relive that for two weeks every year in Pizzamas, not near Christmas and loosely based on pizza. — 00:01:30
2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John recalls that early on the brothers replaced text with video blogs for no reward but bit commitment: no money, and 200 videos before 200 subscribers. — 00:02:08