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Rosianna Halse Rojas

staff · in 107 videos (2008–2026)

John's assistant, later his business partner in Life's Library; also a YouTuber.

Speaks in 4 videos; this page lists what is said about them.

Videos by year: 2008: 2 · 2010: 1 · 2011: 2 · 2012: 1 · 2013: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2015: 11 · 2016: 17 · 2017: 6 · 2018: 9 · 2019: 14 · 2020: 3 · 2021: 9 · 2022: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2026: 7

Also known as: Rosianna

Threads

Also named in the threads: The brothers' 'secret siblings' (2007) · John's 8/8/08 event in Chicago: library talk, Grant Park and The Bean (2008) · John's UK trip for the Paper Towns UK release: London and Edinburgh (2010) · John: outstanding 2012 Kiva-deal punishment, ultimately an inkless tattoo (2012–2015) · Nerd Factor 2013 edition · John's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts filling in (2013) · John asks Nerdfighters to design the AFC Wimbledon billboards and program ads (2013) · John's AFC Wimbledon FIFA series on HankGames, whose ad revenue sponsors the real AFC Wimbledon with Nerdfighter-designed ads (2013) · John asks London-area Nerdfighters to attend AFC Wimbledon's first game with Nerdfighteria as sponsor (2014) · NerdCon: Stories 2015 edition (Minneapolis, October 9-10) · John and Maggie Stiefvater's charity race car race at Princeton Speedway (2015) · John's social media hiatus to write a novel (2015) · John: go to Wembley to watch AFC Wimbledon if they reach the play-off final (2016) · John's 'easier than IKEA' video in only two parts (2016) · Hank's paternity leave from vlogbrothers, with guest hosts standing in (2016) · Turtles All the Way Down: announcement and publication of John's novel (2017) · Turtles All the Way Down film adaptation (2017) · John asks viewers to sign up at lifeslibrarybookclub.com to be notified when Life's Library launches (2018) · Pizzamas 2018 edition · John invites viewers to join Life's Library at lifeslibrarybookclub.com (2019) · Vlogbrothers videos of each brother reading the first chapter of his new book (2008)

Often together

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

The Anthropocene Reviewed (podcast) (5) · AFC Wimbledon (7) · Partners In Health (8) · DFTBA Records (8) · Chicago (city) (4) · Donald Trump (5) · The New York Times (4) · Europe (4) · England (3) · London (3)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2008

  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — announcement: John: Because the day coincides with the Harry Potter conference Terminus, John says special guests will come: Secret Brother Adam, Secret Sister Rosianna, some of the Five Awesome Girls and Guys, and a surprise guest. (playful) — 00:00:25

Also named in: Eight Days of Awesome

2010

2011

  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — John says he kind of stole the title from a Nerdfighter, Miss X. Rojas, on YouTube, and thanks Nerdfighteria. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 — ask: John names the Nerdfighters to vote for in YouTube NextUp Europe: missxrojas, DeEelcoShow, BarryAldridge, dutchforn00bs, Beckie0, booksandquills, OMFGItsJackAndDean, tristopiatv, willsodyssey, thegearskeepturning, musicfromblueskies and tyrannosauruslexxx. — video description
    • Many Nerdfighters reached the voting round of YouTube NextUp Europe; John links their entries and asks viewers to watch all the videos and vote, since they can shape YouTube's future. — 00:03:26
  • …and 1 statement more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

2012

  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — recommendation: John: As an example of what Gumroad can do, John points to Nerdfighter Rosianna Halse's "Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time", beautiful meditations on grief and longing, for $3. — video description

2013

  • 2013-06-28 · Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality — announcement: Hank corrects the crowd's 'see you on Tuesday': he won't see John on Tuesday, he will see Rosie. — 00:03:06
  • 2013-07-02 · The Perks of Being John's Assistant — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna introduces herself as John's assistant and, 'as of way back when', John and Hank's secret London sister. — 00:00:01
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Because she lives far away in London, people most often ask what she does as John's assistant; after Hank's Missoula and John's Indianapolis offices, she tours hers. — 00:00:07
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: She says a large part of her role is scheduling, which she is awesome at, using Craigslist, shared Gmail calendars and Skype credit. (playful) — 00:00:38
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she is a die-hard West Ham United fan; she admits Steven Gerrard is a very talented Liverpool player, even a little handsome, but feels she betrays her beloved Irons. (playful) — 00:02:12
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Jokes aside, Rosianna says being John's assistant is honestly the best job she has ever had, and it is really cool working with the brothers. — 00:02:58
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: She recalls reading John's 'very static' blog in 2006 and being addicted to Brotherhood 2.0 in 2007. — 00:03:03
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: The tools she uses for the job without thinking - Skype Out, shared calendars, OnStar emails - weren't really possible back then: 'we're living in the future'. — 00:03:10
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: So, she tells Hank, we're living in the future, and she's loving it. — 00:03:23
  • 2013-07-30 · Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself… — The description thanks the guest hosts by name: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, WheezyWaiter, Rosianna, MagicTurtle643 and NerdyAndQuirky. — video description
  • …and 4 statements more in 2013 — all statements of 2013

Also named in: Million Dollar Ideas

2014

  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna, an internet kid who loves GIFs, Instagram and YouTube, finds something cool in the physical boards at the pitch designed by Nerdfighters living far away. — 00:00:30
  • …and 1 statement more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

Also named in: Should We Raise the Minimum Wage?, Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context, The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4

2015

Also named in: Crime and Outrage

2016

  • 2016-06-21 · Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story — John: Rosianna, who joined John on both trips, filmed much of the footage, and UNHCR introduced John to the family and provided translators. — video description
    • A couple of weeks ago John and Rosianna visited the family in Rockford; they shared a big lunch, but the move had clearly been hard, with everything from language to appliances different. — 00:01:11
  • 2016-08-02 · Beckoning Lovely — John: That day John first met Rosianna, then a high school student and now his production partner in movie stuff. — 00:01:35
  • 2016-12-02 · Logging Off — announcement: The description says Rosianna fills in for Hank during his paternity leave to talk about logging off and the internet as a work in progress. — video description
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna introduces herself as John's producing partner, John and Hank's secret sister, a YouTuber and an avid user of the internet. — 00:00:02
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she recently hit her limit of the social internet: she scrambled her passwords, deleted apps and backed away, then read more books in a week than in the previous two months. — 00:00:11
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says the internet is not intrinsically anything: it is a tool and a system we use. (hedged) — 00:00:33
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Summing up a piece in Offscreen Magazine, Rosianna says the internet is not inherently one way but constantly changed by us, so we can change it for the better instead of adapting ourselves to its toxic parts. — 00:00:41
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says she struggles to believe that theory: we are still building the internet, there are voices we aren't hearing and still work to do. (hedged) — 00:01:39
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna says, idealistically but sincerely, that the internet is not a buried bunker but infrastructure: as humans learn what helps people, the internet will change and we will change it. — 00:01:57
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna suggests we start by not knowing; what helped her was realizing how long it had been since she logged off, an intentional decision about her online behaviour rather than a passive one. (hedged) — 00:02:28
    • Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna wonders whether Twitter was a shortcut that didn't quite work, and whether we need more long hard work to get its benefits, like hearing more voices and community organizing, instead of seeing the pyramid as complete. (speculative) — 00:03:28
  • …and 19 statements more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

Also named in: Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp, My New Book, Marriage Advice, and Hamilton: 50 Snapchat Questions Answered!, The Most Amazing Day, The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV, On Not Seeing Hamilton, P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!!

2017

2018

  • 2018-10-16 · Life's Library — announcement: John announces Life's Library, developed with Rosianna Halse Rojas and DFTBA.com: every six weeks for a year a group reads a book at least a year old and discusses it on Discord. — 00:00:58
    • Books are chosen alternately by Rosianna and John; the physical subscription mails the book with a letter from John, bookplates by artists, postcards and other surprises. — 00:01:17
    • Subscribers also get digital extras: a podcast by Rosianna and John about each book, a discussion guide, and Q&As with the authors when available. — 00:01:32
    • 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
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — announcement: Hank congratulates John on launching Life's Library: it got its first thousand people and is now open for sign-ups; Hank has signed up himself. — 00:03:14
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — announcement: John: That idea is one reason John and Rosianna started the Life's Library Book Club, which thanks to viewers' overwhelming response is now open for enrollment. — 00:03:01
  • 2018-10-29 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — announcement: John: 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
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — announcement: 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
    • John says the Life's Library book club closes enrollment tomorrow (9 November 2018) because it is running out of spots. — 00:03:18
  • …and 2 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

Also named in: Your Attention, Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup

2019

  • 2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John wants to read at least two books per month and be a productive member of the Life's Library Book Club community. — 00:02:58
  • 2019-01-11 · What is Burnout? — recommendation: The description recommends further reading on burnout: the BuzzFeed News article on millennial burnout everyone is talking about, a Slate piece in response, and a video by Hank's friend Rosianna. — video description
  • 2019-01-15 · On Burning Resentment — announcement: John: The Life's Library book club's Q&A with author Jacqueline Woodson will be January 31st at noon Eastern. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-02-22 · I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore — announcement: Hank: 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
  • 2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — John: At a dead end, John asked Tuataria, the sleuthing community born of his and Rosianna's scavenger hunt before Turtles All the Way Down, to verify his findings and find the pictures. — 00:01:56
    • In a P.S. John says more slots are opening in the Life's Library Book Club, to read with him, Rosianna and a community that includes many from Tuataria; more at lifeslibrarybookclub.com. — 00:03:24
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John: Rosianna, who is great at titles, pointed John to the Julius Caesar line about the fault in our stars and came up with the title Life's Library for the book club. — 00:02:26
  • 2019-05-07 · How I Read and Why — ask: The description invites viewers who want to discuss books further to the book club John runs with Rosianna at lifeslibrarybookclub.com. — video description
  • 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
  • 2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — announcement: John: Year-two subscriptions for the Life's Library book club have just opened: in 2020 it will read nine more books, beginning with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. — 00:03:10
  • 2019-11-15 · Are audiobooks worse? — announcement: Hank pushed for the new year of Life's Library to have an audiobook option: subscribers choose audio with digital or physical perks and keep their audiobooks if they cancel. — 00:02:52
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Everything was perfect: singing with fans in a pub, then Wembley with his dad, Rosianna, his friend Stuart and Wimbly Womblies co-founder Meredith. — 00:01:21
  • …and 9 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

2020

  • 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
    • John says Hank helped him and Rosianna start Life's Library, a book club whose members read together and raise money to fight maternal mortality. — 00:01:56
  • …and 2 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

2021

  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — John's producing partner Rosianna Halse Rojas just marked 15 years on YouTube, more than half her life making videos. — 00:01:54
    • John loves Rosianna's videos, especially her unhurried travel vlogs, such as bicycling across England. — 00:02:23
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The video continues a tradition from 2008, when John read Paper Towns' first chapter; the brothers have since read first chapters of seven books; for this one John and Rosianna asked Meitar Almog to make art. — video description
  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — John's long-time producing partner Rosianna Halse Rojas often reads his scripts and asks him not to make them, for undercooked hot takes, a great weakness of his, or for content that might divide or weaken the community. — 00:02:26
    • Years ago John wrote a would-be funny video on the brothers' differences and how Nerdfighteria's factions might line up in a civil dispute; Rosianna said it would get many views but weaken the community. — 00:03:21
  • 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
  • 2021-10-08 · On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is. — In a comment John says the script was much longer, with much about the upcoming tour; Rosianna suggested just saying they would tour if safe, and he eventually agreed. — creator comment
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank says that may be part of why they started donating all Pizzamas profit: not making money helps it not feel like work. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • …and 2 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

Also named in: My Physicalmental Illness

2022

2023

2024

  • 2024-04-30 · Not Doing That Great — John got home last night from the amazing LA premiere of the Turtles All the Way Down film, celebrated with its makers, Kirsten Dunst, YouTube friends, Rosianna and the cast; his kids saw one of his movies for the first time and loved it. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John: Bromley scored in the first half; John and Rosianna stood to change their luck, but the home team added a second goal, Wimbledon's first defeat of the season. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-09-23 · IT'S HERE! — announcement: 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
  • 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
  • …and 1 statement 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
  • 2025-04-22 · The Unimportant Things — announcement: John announces that a documentary about AFC Wimbledon, made over the last couple of years by him and Rosianna with longtime nerdfighter Jonathan Vogler, who helped make The Last Dance, premiered on YouTube last week (April 2025). — 00:01:56
  • 2025-09-29 · PIZZAMAS IS UPON US! — John says they donate 100% of their Pizzamas proceeds to Partners In Health. — 00:04:31

2026

  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — announcement: John: Talking with Rosianna Halse Rojas in the final three hours of the 2026 Project for Awesome, John says that when the next goal is hit, Alice will do his makeup. — 02:09:07
    • Rosianna's self-care bunnies remind John that it is important to take care of himself as well as others; they can coexist, and often what feeds him also feeds others. — 03:14:09
  • 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 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
  • 2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — ask: The description asks viewers to get their Pizzamas at pizzamas.com, noting that all the value Pizzamas captures goes to Partners In Health. — video description
  • 2026-10-07 · The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species — announcement: 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
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank says Pizzamas pays artists and product designers to make amazing pizza stuff, available for the last time, with the profit donated to Partners In Health. — 00:08:58
  • …and 1 statement more in 2026 — all statements of 2026