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Peeps

candy · in 67 videos (2007–2026)

Candy that runs through the channel's history: in 2007 Hank's punishment was to eat 100 Peeps and pay a dollar for each one left, starting a fund for decreasing world suck.

Made by: Just Born · Spin-offs: John Green Peep

Videos by year: 2007: 31 · 2008: 10 · 2009: 11 · 2011: 2 · 2012: 3 · 2013: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2026: 1

Also known as: Peep

Threads

Also named in the threads: Four-minute rule for vlogbrothers videos (2007) · Hank asks viewers to put stuff on their heads (2007) · Stuff on Heads: viewers send pictures and videos of stuff on their heads (2007) · John: eat a blenderized Happy Meal, wax a leg and lick a cat, for a textual communication (2007) · John asks Nerdfighters to vote between two punishments for Hank (2007) · John writes the Paper Towns screenplay (2008) · John decorates the blank blue wall behind him with objects from vlogbrothers history (2015)

Often together

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

Daniel Biss (6) · Punishment (11) · DFTBA (6) · Brotherhood 2.0 (8) · in your pants (5) · Foundation to Decrease World Suck (4) · world suck (5) · Willy (4) · No textual communication (2) · Four-minute rule (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2007

  • 2007-02-19 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 19, 2007 — announcement: John: Disturbed that two viewers have apparently never been to a concert, John proposes a Brotherhood 2.0 Concert Scholarship Fund for them and possibly other viewers who haven't been to one. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:19
  • 2007-03-05 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 5, 2007: Hank's Punishment — announcement: John: For each Peep Hank does not eat, he must put one dollar into a new bank account John has set up. (playful) — 00:01:36
  • 2007-03-09 · Brotherhood 2.0: March 9, 2007: Peeptastic! — ask: John says there is now a link at Brotherhood2.com for contributing to the Brotherhood 2.0 fund for decreasing suck levels worldwide and asks viewers to contribute. — 00:02:57
  • 2007-04-06 · Brotherhood 2.0: April 6: Nerdfighters Never Surrender — announcement: John: The Foundation to Decrease Suck has made its first gift, $100 to One Kid, One World, an organization that helps refugees in Africa; John thanks the contributors, most notably Hank. — 00:01:59
  • 2007-05-14 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage — announcement: John: In a P.S. John says more than $300 was raised in the last week for the family of a viewer's friend who died, and donations continue all week. — 00:02:47
  • 2007-05-25 · May 25th: FreeMonkey's Tour — announcement: Hank: To celebrate Free Monkey's day, John's happy dances in Holland and the end of the collection period for Randy's family, Hank lowers the World Suck Index to Suck Level Yellow. — 00:01:57
  • 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
  • 2007-11-01 · November 1st: When Nerdfighters Fall in Nerdfighter-Like — announcement: John: Remembering that the brothers created a foundation for exactly this kind of problem, John says they are going to do it despite complexities and complications. — 00:02:23
  • 2007-11-08 · November 8th: SUGAR HIGH! — Hank unveils a homemade marshmallow Peep shaped like John, made by a nerdfighter, fulfilling John's stated lifelong ambition; Hank says nerdfighters can make dreams come true. — 00:01:30
  • 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
  • 2007-12-21 · December 21: Hank Accepts His Punishment — announcement: Hank announces the vote result: his punishment is performing Nerdfighter songs for at least an hour, drinking Strawberry Hill wine blended with Peeps if he needs a drink; he says he deserves it. — 00:01:22
  • 2007-12-27 · December 27th: The Gig! — Hank recaps the concert with clips of his songs, including 'It's Too Hot', 'I Sold Your Dog on eBay' and 'The Day That the Nerds Took Over YouTube'. — 00:01:27
  • …and 64 statements more in 2007 — all statements of 2007

Also named in: August 10th: Bears!!!!, August 24th: John's Secret Project Part 2

2008

  • 2008-01-04 · Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton — John apologises for an earlier video in which, eating Peeps, he called President Musharraf 'Prime Minister' Musharraf; he calls it a significant error. — 00:02:33
  • 2008-03-27 · PEEPS Eating Contest Is Peepstacular, Painful — announcement: John: Though Peeps hurt Hank's sensitive gut, John challenges him to a Peeps eating contest, the winner to get some magnificent prize. — 00:00:42
    • A Nerdfighter gave John the Peeps in South Carolina weeks ago; though some say not to eat Peeps after Easter, their expiration date is November 2009. (playful) — 00:00:42
    • John asks Nerdfighters to suggest in comments what the winner and/or loser of the contest should get. — 00:01:09
    • John ate 12 Peeps in three minutes, four of each kind, half a Peep fewer than a year ago, and nearly threw up 30 seconds in. — 00:03:57
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank complains John challenged him to a Peeps eating contest without consulting him, forgetting they agreed last year (2007) never to have one again; he 'defused' it by pinning a Peep John. (playful) — 00:01:23
    • Hank concedes the Peeps eating contest: Peeps are no longer sold after Easter and his old Peep John would break his teeth, so he loses. (playful) — 00:03:00
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — John says Hank will be punished too: he lost the Peeps contest without participating and made a video over four minutes without a photo montage, which breaks the rule. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-16 · Hank's Punishment (ugh...I don't believe uploading this...) — Hank says he is finally doing his punishment, which he learned only yesterday; it was chosen from suggestions by Nerdfighters and John. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • As the punishment, Hank sings a cover of a ToyBox pop song about a 'World Wide Web girl' chatting online. (playful) — 00:00:59
  • 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — John jokes his own books are the best inspiration, then says that once you finish a book 'they' want the pale basement-dwelling writer to become a selling machine, though he only wants to stay home, make videos, eat Peeps and hang out with Willy. (playful) — 00:01:11
  • 2008-10-31 (said on 2008-10-30, implied) · Show 'n Tell Thursday — John thanks Nerdfighters for these, for all the Peeps, and for the hundreds of other made-of-awesome presents he has received. — 00:02:24
  • …and 5 statements more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

Also named in: Happy (Belated) Birthday, Hank, Sharing Presents in Westport

2009

  • 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
    • John says he will then make a video of himself eating the Peeps, and months later Shawn will make a video showing the real school viewers built. — 00:02:15
  • 2009-03-10 · How to Get Girls to Like You — ask: John says he is up to 100 Peeps so far, which is nothing, and asks viewers to keep donating. — 00:02:55
  • 2009-03-22 · John Loves Amsterdam — announcement: John says he will talk to Hank about the Peeps-eating situation on Tuesday. — 00:03:01
  • 2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! — John says he was supposed to eat about 315 Peeps yesterday (23 March 2009) but ate none. — 00:00:00
    • A group of Nerdfighters banded together and ate more than 200 Peeps on John's behalf, so he now has to eat only about 102. — 00:00:24
    • John has a busy week turning around two revisions, one on a book he is writing and one on a movie, so eating 300+ Peeps in a day would hurt his productivity. — 00:00:24
  • 2009-03-29 · Tiny Chickens Cause Epic Fail — announcement: John: Because of the steroids the doctor ruled out eating 102 small sugary meals, so John's Peeps eating must wait; he says he will do it once the doctor allows. — 00:00:35
  • 2009-04-05 · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea — John says building the needed time machine is no challenge: nerdfighters do everything asked, e.g. they ate 317 Peeps for him. (playful) — 00:02:27
  • 2009-04-19 · Weekend of Surreality — announcement: John admits he never ate the 317 Peeps he promised; after several doctor visits he cannot eat even one Peep without further testing. — 00:02:16
    • To make it up, John wants to do 317 of something and asks Nerdfighters to suggest things he could do 317 times in one day that would make them laugh. — 00:02:16
  • …and 4 statements more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

Also named in: Question Tuesday, HAPPY JOHN DAY!!!

2011

  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John recalls that in Brotherhood 2.0 they created the Foundation to Decrease World Suck: people donated and the brothers gave the money to things like Save the Children and train fare for two Nerdfighters to meet. — 00:00:37

Also named in: Happy Birthday To Me!

2012

Also named in: Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday

2013

  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank thanks everyone who has been part of it, from his giving away Peeps on the street in 2007 to translating dance songs in 2013. — 00:03:01

2014

  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: For once writing 'see you tomorrow' in text in a video, Hank had to give away Peeps on the streets of Missoula, which is how he met Kurt the punk-rock Nerdfighter. — 00:00:44
    • During the first Project for Awesome in December 2007, Hank replied to John's comment and had to drink blended Peeps and Strawberry Hill wine while playing a show to six people, his first show ever; the only one there who knew him was his wife. — 00:01:15
    • In April 2008 Hank made a video 14 seconds too long and had to sing 'World Wide Web Girl' with pigtails in his hair. — 00:01:49

2015

  • 2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — John tours the wall's relics: Willy, a puppy-sized elephant, a card of Hank humping Peeps, Daniel Biss's 'bloated triangles' paper, an Agloe road map, An Imperial Affliction 'stolen' from the movie set. (playful) — 00:01:35

2017

Also named in: Valentines Candy Taste Test with Hank and Katherine

2019

  • 2019-11-26 · old fashioned parts video — John recalls that in 2007 the Foundation to Decrease World Suck was mostly a joke, decreasing worldsuck by paying for people's first concerts: of some value, though maybe not the most efficient. — 00:00:51

2023

  • 2023-02-24 · The P4A 2023 is The Hottest Club on the Internet — Hank gift-wrapped the Peeps labelled to open on P4A day one, but his son thought they were a present, opened them at John's house and ate them. (playful) — 00:00:29
    • Fan art imagines 'The Road to Rax' as a video game whose levels are the P4A's bits: the Dr Pepper Peep, bean pickle, lemon lips, raw coffee beans and Tyrannosaurus Rax. (playful) — 00:16:16

2025

  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says it is all built on happy dances, giving Peeps away and drinking blenderized Happy Meals: it is about big and good, but also about goofing and fun. — 00:05:58

2026

Also named in other years (nothing said): Doing This Makes Me Happy, but Maybe it Doesn't' Seem that Way? (2018-11-16)