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Pizzamas

annual merch event · in 162 videos (2011–2026)

Yearly limited-edition Pizza John merch event. Pizza John is the design of Valerie2776, later the brothers' community manager, who traced a screencap of John's mustache in white on red; the first Pizza John shirt dates from 2010. The first Pizzamas, in 2012, sold six variations of it; since 2014 it comes with weekday vlogbrothers videos for two weeks, and since 2018 its profits go to charity.

Includes: Pizzamas pin subscription

Videos by year: 2011: 1 · 2012: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2014: 10 · 2015: 10 · 2016: 9 · 2017: 9 · 2018: 11 · 2019: 13 · 2020: 13 · 2021: 13 · 2022: 16 · 2023: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2025: 12 · 2026: 15

Threads

Also named in the threads: Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters · Four-minute rule for vlogbrothers videos (2007) · Song Wednesday: Hank performs a song on Wednesdays (2007) · Question Tuesday: weekly Tuesday question days for nerdfighters (2007) · Pizza John shirt: DFTBA pre-order of John's pizza-mustache photo shirt (2010) · Thoughts From Places: the vlogbrothers' series of visual essays from places (2010) · Keep It or Shave It: Hank's facial-hair vote with dollars for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011) · Hank: post his childhood photos for Throwback Thursdays on Instagram (2014) · Cheez Doodles Guy, the screaming man of Pizzamas 2015 (2015) · John's weeks of severe illness while changing his medication regimen (2015) · Awesome Socks Club: monthly sock subscription (2016) · Hank's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts standing in (2016) · Hank asks viewers to suggest a Pizza John cocktail, virgin and alcoholic, in the comments (2017) · DFTBA Pin Pals: DFTBA's pin subscription club (2018) · Hank's 'I can't dance' fashion-shoot dance break (2018) · Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019) · John asks viewers to donate to Partners In Health at pih.org/hankandjohn (2019) · Bizarre Beasts: Hank's weird-animal videos for John (2019) · Vlogbrothers videos titled with Smash Mouth's All Star lyrics (2020) · John draws 170,000 circles to grasp the US COVID-19 death toll (2020) · The doctor who said 'sneezing is not normal, I never sneeze', nicknamed Dr. NeverSneezer Scrooge by Hank (2021) · Awesome Coffee Club: the brothers' coffee subscription for charity (2022) · John asks viewers to press Danaher and Cepheid to cut GeneXpert TB test cartridges to $5 (2023) · Hank asks viewers to get the Pizzamas app and turn on push notifications (2023) · Hank: send a bad dad joke through the Pizzamas app every day of Pizzamas 2024 (2024) · Hank: send a pizza dad joke through the Pizzamas app every day of Pizzamas 2025 (2025) · P4A 2026 edition · Hollywood, Ending book tour (2026)

Often together

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

Pizza John (65) · DFTBA Records (41) · Partners In Health (22) · Hollywood, Ending (9) · maternal death (10) · Sierra Leone (13) · TikTok (10) · tuberculosis (13) · Reunion video (3) · Brotherhood 2.0 (10)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2011

  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John: Because Nerdfighter suchducks claimed in a video that they make fewer inside jokes than they used to, John reveals the Pizza John mustache for the second time. (playful) — 00:00:00

2012

  • 2012-11-07 · The 51st State — announcement: Hank announces that tomorrow morning DFTBA.com starts a pre-order of an interesting new item he won't reveal because it's weird. — 00:03:46
  • 2012-11-08 · VOLT! A Dream Comes True. — announcement: John: For about the next 72 hours, six variations Hank made on Valerie2776's original Pizza John shirt design are on pre-order at DFTBA.com, then disappear forever. — 00:03:01

2013

  • 2013-11-08 · VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins — announcement: Hank says they are in the middle of the 12 Days of Pizzamas: instead of last year's (2012) limited-edition Pizza John designs, the Pizza John face goes on many different products. — 00:02:35
    • The Pizzamas items (hoodie, keychains, pin, mugs, guitar picks, frisbees, fleece blanket, pencils, journals, mouse pads, socks) are on pre-order until the 15th, then never available again. — 00:02:58
  • 2013-11-15 · I Have a Band? — announcement: The description announces that Pizzamas has officially ended. — video description
    • Hank says this is the last day of the 12 Days of Pizzamas and tells viewers to buy their pizza things now. — 00:03:23
    • Hank says the Pizzamas items will never be available again, except maybe the number one top-selling one; he is not sure. (hedged) — 00:03:28

2014

  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — announcement: Hank announces that from Monday he and John will do the Twelve Days of Pizzamas, making a video every day except weekends, like Brotherhood 2.0. — 00:03:13
    • Hank will post Monday, Wednesday and Friday next week (week of 10 November 2014), then Tuesday and Thursday; expect lots of Paper Towns set, with quality decreasing as they go a little insane. (playful) — 00:03:28
  • 2014-11-10 · The Woman Without a Face - Pizzamas Day 1 — announcement: Hank says the Pizzamas before last was just T-shirts; this year (2014) mixes new weird Pizza John designs with products they have never done before. — 00:01:12
    • On the end screen Hank lists more Pizzamas products than shirts: baby onesies, iPhone cases (iPhone 5 only), patches, stickers, magnets and the pint glass. — 00:03:32
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — announcement: John wishes Hank a happy Pizzamas, the only time of year his face is available on an astonishing variety of items. (playful) — 00:03:38
  • 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank says Pizza John began when John, in a video about Pakistan, slowly shaved his Movember beard, ending with a few seconds of mustache, crazy eyes and big hair; Hank dates it to 2011. — 00:01:32
    • Hank recounts Pizzamas: a few years ago limited-edition Pizza John designs, named Pizzamas, with no extra videos; last year (2013) different products; now both new designs and products plus extra Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:02:38
    • Asked how long he will keep doing this or what his five-year plan is, Hank says he will be doing it forever, picturing a toothless 81-year-old Hank mumbling about Pizzamas 2061. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2014-11-17 · Combines and Movie Magic: Pizzamas Day 6 — John: After Hank posted a circa-1981 photo of the brothers on Thursday, Nerdfighters photoshopped it (as a rap duo, playing cards): 'the many gifts of Pizzamas'. — 00:00:31
  • 2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — announcement: Hank: End screen: only three days of Pizzamas are left. — 00:03:42
  • 2014-11-20 · Announcing VidCon 2015! — Hank: In a final Pizzamas end screen Hank says daily videos for a couple of weeks were great; he can't keep it up but is glad they did it, and thanks John, who had it harder on set, and viewers. — 00:03:41
  • 2014-11-21 (said on 2014-11-20, implied) · The Sleepiest Sleepyhead in Sleeptown — John tells Hank he really enjoyed doing Pizzamas with him: it has been really fun, a 'good old days' kind of feeling. — 00:02:03
  • …and 9 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

Also named in: The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4, The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8

2015

  • 2015-11-06 · Announcing VidCon 2016! June 23 - 25 (and Pizzamas 2015!) — announcement: Hank explains Pizzamas: as last year (2014), two weeks of Brotherhood 2.0-style videos, one every weekday from Hank or John, starting Monday. — 00:03:22
    • Pizzamas also brings limited-edition Pizza John shirts; last year's (2014) cannot be had, and this year's (2015) new designs will be shown when Pizzamas begins on Monday with Hank's video. — 00:03:37
  • 2015-11-09 · Enjoy My Stupid Dancing! (Pizzamas Day 1) — Hank explains Pizzamas as a two-week period of daily videos from John and him, like when they started in 2007 with what was called Brotherhood 2.0. — 00:00:52
    • During Pizzamas Pizza Johns come in various styles, available for pre-order only in this two-week period and then never again. — 00:01:12
    • One Pizzamas shirt costs extra and all its proceeds go to the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund. — 00:03:00
  • 2015-11-10 · It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) — John: After a Nerdfighter commenter and Hank both said they finally liked his beard, John declares it time to shave it and reveals his moustache as a Pizzamas miracle. (playful) — 00:00:13
    • Besides the Pizza John T-shirts, other Pizza John gear such as shoestrings and a travel mug is available only during Pizzamas. — 00:01:08
  • 2015-11-12 · Cheez Doodles Guy, Ringo Silver, and Dad Jokes (Pizzamas Day 4) — ask: John recommends Pizza John shoelaces and a Pizza John travel mug as gifts, available for pre-order only during Pizzamas at DFTBA.com. (playful) — 00:01:38
  • 2015-11-18 · SUIT UP! A Very Fancy Reunion Video (Pizzamas Day 8) — announcement: John: Asked whether there will be Dear Hank and John merch, John instead plugs the Pizza John merch available now at DFTBA.com. — 00:00:45
  • 2015-11-19 · Is Success a Bad Idea? (Pizzamas Day 9 of 10) — Hank: Ending his Pizzamas videos, Hank says he still doesn't know what success is: he knows individual successes, but acquiring success or 'being a success' is a made-up thing. (hedged) — 00:03:15
  • 2015-11-20 · On Mental Illness (and the end of Pizzamas) — ask: John says it is the last day to order Pizzamas merch, including his face in a nebula 'on your torso', available until midnight at DFTBA.com. — 00:00:29
    • John thanks viewers, and Hank for the gift of Pizzamas, which gave structure and achievable tasks when he desperately needed them; he is starting to feel better through medication and exercise. — 00:03:14
  • …and 8 statements more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

Also named in: On Our Way to the Dance (Pizzamas Day 6), The Things that People Do (Thoughts from New York City) (Pizzamas Day 7)

2016

  • 2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — announcement: Hank says he will be on leave during Pizzamas, whose idea is making more videos than usual, so he made one video and others will cover for him. — 00:00:38
    • Hank says this year's (2016) Pizzamas designs differ: he asked favourite internet designers for their take on Pizza John, producing a diverse, weird set he is excited to share. — 00:00:51
  • 2016-11-07 · It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts) — announcement: The description says the brothers make a video every weekday for two weeks of Pizzamas; since this year (2016) falls in Hank's leave, guests will fill his days so there will still be 10 Pizzamas videos. — video description
  • 2016-11-08 · A PIZZAMAS MIRACLE — announcement: John says each year brings limited-edition Pizza John merch (this year (2016) a LaCroix Pizza John, a hoodie, shirts by Hank's favourite designers) at DFTBA.com, available only during Pizzamas. — 00:00:52
  • 2016-11-10 · The Museum of Pizza Johns Past — Dave introduces Valerie, who lives in Missoula and works for VidCon, as the designer of Pizza John, which led to Pizzamas: her lasting legacy. — 00:00:35
    • Valerie2776: Valerie says that this year (2016), as Hank said, they asked their favourite designers to design Pizza John shirts. — 00:01:50
    • Rachel says the personal pizza Pizzamas box holds box-only items: a hot and fresh shirt and notepad, a Pizza John pizza cutter with bottle opener and an apron with gold imprints. — 00:02:31
    • Rachel says that, as last year (2015), one item gives its proceeds to charity: 100% of profits from the Pizza John pet leash go to the Animal Legal Defense Fund. — 00:02:52
  • 2016-11-14 · Who the Eff Is Hank? — announcement: The description says Craig Benzine stands in for Hank on the second Monday of Pizzamas. — video description
    • Craig Benzine: Calling the Pizza John moustache crucial, Craig says the oldest portrait of a moustache is an Iranian horseman from 300 BC (first saying AD, then correcting himself). (playful) — 00:02:11
  • 2016-11-17 · Decathlons, Pretension, and the Weirdest Animal I've Met: It's Question Thursday — ask: John reminds viewers that Pizzamas ends tomorrow and its items are available for only one more day at dftba.com. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2016-11-18 · Are Pets Ethical? — announcement: The description says Lex Croucher fills in for Hank on the last day of Pizzamas to talk about whether pets are ethical with her cat Felicity. — video description
  • …and 14 statements more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

Also named in: Why We Left Buzzfeed (Some Thoughts on Taking Risks)

2017

Also named in: Banana Milk and Almond Orchards

2018

  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John: All profits from Life's Library go to Partners In Health, which they have worked with for over a decade and which provides health care to the poor. — 00:02:16
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — announcement: John: In a P.S. John announces that Pizzamas is coming next week (week of 29 October 2018). — 00:03:45
  • 2018-10-29 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: John opens Pizzamas: once a year for two weeks the brothers trade videos every weekday as in 2007; it is Nerdfighteria's third most important holiday, celebrating love, pizza and e-commerce. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • This year (2018) all Pizzamas profits and royalties go to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, to be used as matching funds during the Project for Awesome. — 00:00:31
    • John unboxes the designer Pizza John shirts: Abstract Pizza John by Sofia Cardone, a Mr. Potato Man Pizza John by Andy J. Pizza, and shirts by Maria Wynn and David Pemberton. — 00:01:05
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — Hank: That is one reason Hank loves Pizzamas: he must make many videos, so viewers will probably be more understanding if not all are very good. (hedged) — 00:00:44
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — announcement: John says a mug, sleep mask, t-shirt, button and many other Pizzamas items are available to order now at DFTBA.com. (playful) — 00:01:53
  • 2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — both: Hank and John appear together in an unplanned Pizzamas reunion video: they are together because their cousin is getting married. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says only five days are left in Pizzamas and urges viewers to get their Pizzamas gear now at DFTBA.com. — 00:00:00
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — announcement: John: In his last Pizzamas video, wearing a suit, John presents the Bank of Nerdfighteria's semi-annual report, the last of which was a year and a half ago. — 00:00:01
    • John says more of the brothers' Nerdfighteria work is shifting to supporting charity: Pizzamas royalties go to the Foundation and proceeds of Life's Library, his book club with Rosianna, to Partners In Health. — 00:01:05
  • 2018-11-09 · I Don't Know What Work Is — ask: Hank thanks everyone for Pizzamas and says it is closing, so Pizzamas products are at DFTBA.com. — 00:03:40
  • …and 13 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: The Looking for Alaska Thing

2019

  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: The description says that, because of how their accounting works, DFTBA profit going to Partners In Health extends back through the entire last year (2018). — video description
    • With big goals for maternal health in Liberia with Partners In Health, Hank says DFTBA will give the vast majority of its after-tax profit to PIH for that project, with more information soon. — 00:02:56
  • 2019-10-11 · Your Life Will be Better After you Know About Frogmouths — announcement: Hank announces Pizzamas from October 28, when the brothers make videos every weekday as in 2007 and sell Pizza John products. — 00:02:54
  • 2019-10-25 · Unscripted and Unhinged — announcement: Hank says, having not mentioned it on the channel, that DFTBA now gives all the profit distributions that would go to him and John to charity. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-10-28 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!! — announcement: John announces Pizzamas, the most magical time of year in Nerdfighteria, when for two weeks they make weekday videos as in 2007. — 00:00:00
    • John jokes that he might need to grow a mustache, and one appears on camera; he calls it terrible, worse for being subtle. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • John says everything is available only during Pizzamas at DFTBA.com and urges viewers to go right now, admitting a false sense of urgency. (playful) — 00:02:09
  • 2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John is personally delivering Pizzamas merch to buyers who live in Indianapolis, for efficiency's sake. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-11-01 · On Looking Up to Your Little Brother — ask: John shows the Pizzamas sweatshirt and scarf, available only during Pizzamas, then reads his note about pretending supplies are limited. (playful) — 00:03:37
  • 2019-11-04 · This Cat Makes No Sense — announcement: Hank names Pallas's cat this month's (November 2019) Bizarre Beast and says the Bizarre Beasts pin club reopens until the end of Pizzamas, with a new beast's pin and info card every month. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-11-08 · Trolling Through John's YouTube History...GUESS WHAT I FOUND!? — announcement: Hank says it is the final day of Pizzamas and this year's (2019) products are only available during these weeks, so time is running out. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says all the profits from Pizzamas products are going to improve maternal health in Sierra Leone. — 00:03:40
  • …and 19 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2020

  • 2020-09-25 · i said yep — Hank says even viewers who just watch, never comment and aren't excited about Pizzamas are part of it; generally, just by being there you are part of the media you engage with. — 00:00:46
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — The description says this title is the leftover interstitial bits of All Star not yet used in Vlogbrothers titles, so they are done; Pizzamas begins next week (week of 5 October 2020). (playful) — video description
    • Hank says they finished the video before Pizzamas: for the next two weeks from Monday he and John will trade videos every weekday, as in 2007. — 00:03:13
  • 2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — announcement: John announces Pizzamas: for two weeks the brothers trade videos every weekday as in 2007 and sell stuff with John's mustachioed face, a reference to something from 2008 he doesn't remember. — 00:00:00
    • The Pizzamas items are sold only during this Pizzamas, and all profits and royalties go to charity to reduce child and maternal mortality, plus international COVID relief for a couple of items. — 00:00:29
    • Buying all the t-shirts gives a discount and buying all of this year's (2020) Pizzamas stuff an even bigger one, to wrap as gifts that help friends through what may be a difficult winter. — 00:01:54
    • John asks viewers to head to pizzamas.com now: the items are available only for the next two weeks, and all proceeds go to charity. — 00:02:56
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John loves seeing people draw circles in response to his circle drawings; a Pizzamas t-shirt is such a drawing, made by a nerdfighter named Kimmy. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John announces his mustache is back, a Pizzamas miracle, adding that not all miracles are good. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2020-10-15 · Civilization and the Lies We Love — ask: John asks viewers to head to Pizzamas.com before all the Pizzamas stuff disappears forever. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-10-16 · Still Riding a Big Wave that I Do not and Cannot Know — announcement: Hank says Pizzamas is over, which is wild: there are a bunch of videos he wanted to make and didn't. — 00:02:23
  • 2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John says a few years ago the brothers decided their portion of the profits from these businesses should go to charity. — 00:01:27
  • …and 13 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

Also named in: Something Important I've Never Talked About

2021

  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John says the brothers' share also seems high, because the money belongs to Nerdfighteria, not to them; that is why half goes to grants for educational creators and half to charity. — 00:02:26
    • John stresses the 'in part': the brothers can afford not to make money from Vlogbrothers and DFTBA only because they earn elsewhere, John from books and Hank from his many jobs. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-09-28 · 11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — announcement: John's bookshelves are disorganized and need recataloging, but there is no time because Pizzamas starts in six days. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-10-01 · A Lie I Heard this Week — Hank says that because John did that work, they have raised tens of millions of dollars for Partners In Health, and donors, Awesome Socks Club members, Pizzamas buyers and community members were all part of it. — 00:02:53
    • Hank says Pizzamas starts Monday, when he and John make videos five days a week as they did in 2007; he is both excited and overwhelmed. — 00:03:15
  • 2021-10-04 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: John announces that Pizzamas, in its tenth year, has begun: for the next two weeks he and Hank make weekday videos, as in 2007, to celebrate pizza, mustaches and e-commerce. — 00:00:04
  • 2021-10-06 · Searching for Betsy in Brazil — John: On the third day of Pizzamas, John drives to Brazil, Indiana, because someone there ordered Pizzamas items and he wants to partially fill the order himself. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — announcement: Hank says Friday is his final day of Pizzamas; it went by far too fast, and he ends it with more video ideas than he started with. — 00:00:00
    • Hank loves that too: every year he knows a little less what Pizzamas is, which is perfect; it is confusing, low stakes and lovely. — 00:00:58
    • Hank says Pizzamas, Vlogbrothers and Nerdfighteria fit no well-defined box and are unlike a normal YouTube community: hard to talk about, but it keeps them under the radar, which he likes. — 00:01:27
    • In his last telling, Hank says the Pizzamas store stays open through the weekend, five cents off with Nickelback, all profit to charity, and nothing available again after Sunday. — 00:03:22
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says if the idea of 2D glasses could become 2D glasses, then a conference could become VidCon, an educational video company Complexly, and John with a mustache a t-shirt. — 00:01:46
  • …and 32 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

2022

  • 2022-01-04 · After 15 Years on YouTube, THIS IS THE MOST AMAZING THING — announcement: John: With PIH's own fundraising and support from Life's Library and the Awesome Socks Club, ground has broken on the Maternal Center of Excellence. — 00:00:58
    • They hope to raise another $4 million in that time, taking the project from $25 million to $31 million to support the Kayima clinic and expand the MCOE; some will come from Pizzamas. (hedged) — 00:08:00
  • 2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — announcement: John says Pizzamas is coming, which is why he has a mustache: two weeks each year of daily videos selling things with his mustache on them for charity. — 00:01:16
  • 2022-09-20 · Against Nihilism — announcement: The description announces that on October 5 Hank and John will be together in person for their first show since March 2020, a small fundraiser called Pizzamas: After Dark. — video description
    • The description says Pizzamas starts next week (week of 26 September 2022), when John's beard will finally be freed to do its essential work. — video description
  • 2022-09-26 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US — announcement: John announces Pizzamas: two weeks when he and Hank make videos every weekday like in 2007 and sell items with John's mustache at pizzamas.com for charity. — 00:00:00
    • John says everything is available only during this year's (2022) Pizzamas at pizzamas.com, with all proceeds supporting stronger health care systems in Sierra Leone. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-10-04 · Hank and John Reunited at Last — ask: John urges viewers to get the Pizzamas shirt now: it will be gone forever, or at least until they make a throw blanket of it next year (2023). — 00:03:29
  • 2022-10-05 · Asking an AI Image Generator for Pizza Johns — ask: Hank, showing a Pizzamas item that Orin calls the tiniest statue in the world, says the world needs more access to health care, as in Sierra Leone, where all Pizzamas proceeds go, and the item is available only for a couple more days. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-10-06 · The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… — ask: John wishes everyone a happy Pizzamas and urges them to get Pizzamas soccer jerseys at pizzamas.com before they disappear forever. — 00:03:46
  • 2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — John says Pizzamas raised over $130,000 toward better maternal and child health in impoverished communities. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — Hank runs through early prompts: DFTBA, Pizza John Yourself, Breezy Fall Day (a reference to his second novel), Just the Word Pelican, Surprise Fiddle Concert, Nerdfighteria and Pizzamas. — 00:00:58
  • …and 22 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

Also named in: The Wildest Way it Could Possibly Have Gone - Our 16 Year Anniversary

2023

  • 2023-02-03 · My Mid-Afternoon Existential Crisis — announcement: Hank says a glitch in the subscription system that runs the Awesome Socks Club, the coffee club and Pizzamas may have emailed members that they will be skipped this month (February 2023); they won't be, and a fix is coming. — 00:00:21
  • 2023-09-22 · A Feeling I've Never Felt Before — announcement: Hank announces Pizzamas begins Monday; a new creator sensation is finding the Pizzamas app, with John's face, in the App Store. — 00:04:06
    • Hank asks everyone to get the Pizzamas app on Apple and Android and turn on push notifications. — 00:04:23
    • Hank says app users get access to the Pizzamas store a couple of hours early, and a few items are limited in quantity. — 00:04:46
    • Hank reminds viewers that all Pizzamas profit goes to decreasing maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. — 00:04:56
  • 2023-09-25 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!! — John says all Pizzamas proceeds go to charity every year; this year (2023) the money is focused on tuberculosis, getting now-cheaper diagnostics and treatments to more people. — 00:00:34
    • John says all the shirts and Pizzamas items are only available during Pizzamas, for the next two weeks, at Pizzamas.com or the new Pizzamas app. — 00:01:41
  • 2023-09-26 · THE REVEAL — Hank says his shaving has reached a classic Pizza John, the mustache running down for peak ridiculousness, but he will clean his up: that one is John's, so what is his? (playful) — 00:02:15
  • 2023-09-29 · Like Apocalyptic Horsemen — ask: John says the planter is available only during Pizzamas and only at pizzamas.com, along with a very soft blanket. — 00:00:29
    • John says the family is concerned that Hank hinted his mustache might become permanent, and insists it should only be a Pizzamas mustache. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says Pizzamas is a challenge: the brothers have more demands on their time than in 2007, and he always tries one or two ambitious Pizzamas videos. — 00:00:00
    • Hank offers the code HANKSENTME for an extra $5 off the discounted items, for those who want to commit to the bit; this year's (2023) Pizza John shirts are available only a couple more days. — 00:08:28
  • …and 30 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2024

  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John: Most of the money still comes from the Awesome Socks Club, but coffee and soap are growing, and Pizzamas grew last year (2023) too. — 00:01:31
  • 2024-09-20 · Do I Regret TikTok? — ask: Hank asks viewers to download the Pizzamas app (linked in the description) to get his terrible dad jokes every day of Pizzamas. — 00:08:15
  • 2024-09-23 · IT'S HERE! — announcement: John announces Pizzamas: for two weeks the brothers make weekday videos back and forth as in 2007 and sell merch with John's mustachioed face for charity. (playful) — 00:00:00
    • John says this year's (2024) Pizzamas items are available only during this year's (2024) Pizzamas. — 00:00:20
    • John says all the money made at pizzamas.com this Pizzamas goes to Partners In Health; keeping it would be morally repugnant. — 00:01:46
    • John points viewers to buy the Pizzamas items at pizzamas.com or in the Pizzamas app, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:03:48
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — ask: Hank points viewers to get all the Pizzamas items at pizzamas.com or in the Pizzamas app. — 00:06:48
    • Hank says the Pizzamas items closest to selling out are the apron, the Magic 8-Ball, the dice set and the blanket hoodie. — 00:06:48
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — announcement: John says the dice case, magic eight ball and blanket hoodie have already sold out, apologizing that they didn't order enough. — 00:02:45
  • 2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — ask: John: Noting that the end of Pizzamas is nearly upon them (with a playful twist on a line by "the poet"), John asks viewers to get Pizzamas items at pizzamas.com while still available. — 00:05:13
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank thanks John for a wonderful Pizzamas and says, as always, 100% of Pizzamas profit is donated to help Partners In Health build health systems where most needed. — 00:05:05
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John goes on mostly from obligation to and love of Nerdfighteria: he enjoys less making videos than what they make, Nerdfighteria, from TB activism to Pizzamas memes to marriages. — 00:04:52
  • …and 23 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

2025

  • 2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank says half the money from this channel supports up-and-coming online educators and the other half goes to Partners In Health. — 00:05:55
  • 2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — Hank calls Pizzamas the weirdest vacation, work nostalgia: a simpler era of work when he can clear his schedule and be 2007 Hank. — 00:06:45
  • 2025-09-29 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US! — announcement: John announces Pizzamas: for the next two weeks the brothers make weekday videos back and forth as in 2007, celebrating brotherly love, joy and charitable e-commerce. — 00:00:00
    • John says all the merch is available only at Pizzamas.com during this year's (2025) Pizzamas, the next two weeks, then disappears forever, as there is a different Pizzamas every year. — 00:02:32
    • John says they donate 100% of their Pizzamas proceeds to Partners In Health. — 00:04:31
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — ask: Hank thanks the Pizzamas designers for this year's (2025) shirts, available only for the next two weeks and then never again. — 00:07:52
    • Hank says that if viewers download the Pizzamas app, he will send them a pizza-related dad joke every day during Pizzamas. — 00:08:08
    • Hank asks viewers to download the Pizzamas app on iPhone or Android, or get everything at pizzamas.com, linked in the description. — 00:08:25
  • 2025-10-01 · Real Reasons for Hope — John tells viewers who bought a Pizzamas shirt, donated monthly to Partners In Health or encouraged others to care about maternal mortality that they played a role in this story. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege — ask: John says there is great new stuff at pizzamas.com, including a DM screen at 20% off today only. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-10-08 · Being Alive — announcement: Hank: In a later insert Hank says Pizzamas is running 24-hour flash sales, one item at a time, with more to come on items he does not yet know. — 00:04:16
  • 2025-10-10 · Maybe This is My Problem — Hank says that, unlike some Pizzamases, this one has had a theme: broadly, the open realization and discussion of what to do about the internet. — 00:01:16
  • …and 32 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

  • 2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 — John says YouTube's interest has always been co-creation between creators and audience: Nerdfighteria would be far less interesting without Sneezing Isn't Normal, Pizzamas and TB Fighters, which came more from the community. — 00:03:53
  • 2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — Hank says views may suit brand deals, but Vlogbrothers does none: they make things with people, such as artists' Pizzamas shirts whose money goes to Partners In Health. — 00:08:15
  • 2026-09-28 · Death. Taxes. Pizzamas. — John announces Pizzamas: for two weeks the brothers make videos back and forth like in 2007, even on tour, a celebration of love, pizza and e-commerce for charity. — 00:00:00
    • John says no one is paying him to praise the shirts, because 100% of the Pizzamas royalties go to support Partners In Health. — 00:02:14
    • John says all the merch is available only during this year's (2026) Pizzamas at pizzamas.com; anyone who doesn't get it in the next two weeks will live without it. — 00:03:48
  • 2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John says what is interesting is not the project but what built up around it, from Pizzamas to the Maternal Center of Excellence, because Nerdfighteria commits to bits better than almost any online community. — 00:04:30
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — ask: The description points viewers to Pizzamas at pizzamas.com. — video description
  • 2026-10-07 · The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species — ask: Hank reminds viewers that only three days of Pizzamas are left to get something from this year's (2026) Pizzamas offerings. — 00:03:36
    • Hank announces that Pizzamas has officially broken even, so every further purchase adds to what goes to Partners In Health. — 00:03:36
  • 2026-10-08 · The Test of a First Rate Intelligence — ask: John asks viewers to get Pizzamas items at pizzamas.com, available only for the next few days; all proceeds go to Partners In Health. — 00:01:28
    • John wants to lie in bed in Pizzamas loungewear for two days but also wants to perform tonight in Tucson: wanting competing things is a hallmark of human experience. — 00:01:28
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank produces things not because productivity matters to him but because Pizzamas, Nerdfighteria, John, cancer treatment, Crash Course, SciShow, 4x3 and the media environment do. — 00:09:38
  • …and 34 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026