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2007

  • 2007-01-03 · Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd — Hank says being John's brother is frustrating: people tell him he looks like John and jokes like him, only less funny. (playful) — 00:00:13

2010

  • 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · Book Nerd PARADISE — John talks with his editor, Julie Strauss-Gabel, about his new book on camera. — 00:00:34
  • 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · Book Nerd PARADISE — announcement: Julie Strauss-Gabel: Asked whether the new book will be John's next book for sure, his editor says yes; she says she loves it, though she has not finished it. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • 2010-06-25 (said on 2010-06-26, implied) · Book Nerd PARADISE — announcement: Julie Strauss-Gabel: John's editor describes the book: a desert island, a dangerously attractive boy who's up to no good (John demurs), and a girl narrator. — 00:00:34

2011

  • 2011-03-09 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — announcement: John says his new book comes out in almost exactly one year. — 00:00:54
  • 2011-03-09 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — announcement: John says the novel is about two teenage cancer survivors obsessed with a reclusive novelist, and also about Swedish hip-hop and the meaning of life. — 00:00:57
  • 2011-03-09 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — announcement: John confirms the novel is narrated by a girl, Hazel. — 00:01:07
  • 2011-03-09 · DANDY LIONS! It's Question Day — John says the novel has no title yet: he changes it about every day and all the titles are bad. — 00:01:09
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — announcement: John says he just learned his new book is definitely coming out in March, not in two days but the next March, and he should settle on a title soon. — 00:01:20
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — John says his original title was The Hectic Glow, after a Thoreau quote, but it is the rural juror of book titles: people mishear it as The Metric Snow or The Hectic Blow. (playful) — 00:01:55
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — John says he then considered Omnis Cellula e Cellula, but Penguin told him Latin doesn't smell like a bestseller, so he still has no firm title. (playful) — 00:02:14
  • 2011-04-20 · Tulipomania — John says he is really in Amsterdam, not before a green screen, for two months finishing his new book; the reason for Amsterdam will become obvious when you read it. — 00:00:03
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — announcement: John: Hank turns 31 on Hanko de Mayo, May 5; because John is desperately trying to finish his book, he outsources Hank's birthday to Nerdfighteria. — 00:02:42
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John: Asked whether he should be writing his new book right now, John says yes, he should. — 00:03:19
  • 2011-05-13 · Winkels to the Left, Winkels to the Right: Thoughts from Places, Antwerp — announcement: The description says John spent the day working on the revision of his new novel, which comes out in March. — video description
  • 2011-05-18 · The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED — John says that in the last 24 hours he finished the big revision of his novel. — 00:00:04
  • 2011-05-23 · Eating the Unicorn — ask: John: About nine months in advance, John begins asking Hank and Nerdfighteria not to spoil the book. — 00:02:07
  • 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John: The manuscript of John's new book arrived from New York with his editor and publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel's comments on the pages. — 00:01:09
  • 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John: After more than a year of revising the book together, John and Julie have reached the fun stage of notes on the manuscript, like how to spell 'stormtrooper'. — 00:01:18
  • 2011-06-10 · Then I Took Off My Bra — announcement: John says he and Hank will go on tour in the United States when his new, as-yet-untitled but soon-to-be-titled book comes out. — 00:02:15
  • 2011-06-10 · Then I Took Off My Bra — John says the probable title of his new novel, and its central observation, were taken from a Nerdfighter, and thanks Nerdfighteria. (hedged) — 00:02:30
  • 2011-06-10 · Then I Took Off My Bra — ask: John: Saying the brothers are not that creative, John asks Nerdfighteria what they would like to see happen and do on the tour (where to go is a separate conversation). — 00:02:39
  • 2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — announcement: John: The title of John's new book is still not totally decided, so he can't say yet, but soon. — 00:01:14
  • 2011-06-17 · Top 7 Tips for LIFE — ask: Hank tells John to stop trolling and say what the title of his new book is. (playful) — 00:03:54
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — announcement: John can finally reveal the title of his new novel: The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — announcement: John: The Fault in Our Stars is number one on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble; John thanks everyone who pre-ordered it. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — ask: John points to the pre-order link in the doobly-doo (dft.ba/tfios), where the book costs only about $9. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — announcement: John: Every pre-ordered copy of The Fault in Our Stars will be autographed: John will sign every copy of the first printing himself, by hand, probably with a Sharpie. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — John: In Target's Sharpie aisle John had an existential crisis over colour: black might look fake, blue or red ostentatious, green like a pun on his name. (playful) — 00:01:10
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — ask: John delegates the Sharpie colour to a poll in Your Pants, linked in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:10
  • 2011-06-29 · THE FAULT IN OUR STARS — John: In the last 24 hours Nerdfighters made hundreds of covers for The Fault in Our Stars, many really good, shown to a Sing-a-ma-jig concert. — 00:01:39
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank says John's new book The Fault in Our Stars, which he has read, is totally gripping, touching, hilarious and genius, though no one else knows yet. — 00:00:01
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank says the book has become something of a sensation and he doesn't think anyone has ever done what John just did. — 00:00:09
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank says The Fault in Our Stars has been number one on the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller charts four days running with almost no publicity. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — announcement: Hank says the book's story has just been written up in the Wall Street Journal. — 00:00:38
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — announcement: Hank says Ellen Hardcastle will have no pre-order, unlike John's book with its very long pre-order time; they have decided. (playful) — 00:02:54
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank sincerely congratulates John on the pre-success of The Fault in Our Stars and says it deserves it, the Wall Street Journal article included. — 00:03:04
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank expects the book to be a pretty big deal. (hedged) — 00:03:09
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank thanks Nerdfighters for making this a huge deal and being part of something he thinks is historic in the timeline of the publishing industry. — 00:03:13
  • 2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 — John: One NextUp Europe finalist is Rosianna, who John says is responsible for the title of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:29
  • 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — John thanks Nerdfighters for continuing to make The Fault in Our Stars a bestseller on Amazon and Barnes & Noble: 'you're made of awesome'. — 00:02:29
  • 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — John: Nerdfighters Julie and Martha made a website asking whether all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed, John's favourite website ever, which answers a question he was asked hundreds of times this week (week of 4 July 2011). — 00:02:37
  • 2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — ask: John: Viewers are deciding which Sharpie colour John will use to sign the books: the poll in Your Pants is linked in the doobly-doo, so vote. — 00:02:49
  • 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — announcement: Hank recalls that the day before they talked about John signing every pre-ordered copy of The Fault in Our Stars, and says that was not enough, so he offers more for Ellen Hardcastle. — 00:00:41
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John announces Penguin has moved The Fault in Our Stars forward five months, from May 1 to January 10, 2012. — 00:00:17
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John says Penguin told him it had watched the comments and Nerdfighters wanted the book before May, and credits their 'hardcore pre-ordering' for the earlier date. — 00:00:28
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John notes he has agreed to autograph every copy of the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars; the Yeti made him a thermometer to chart his progress to 150,000 books. — 00:00:48
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John says a Nerdfighter guessed on her blog he would have to sign 70,000 books in about 180 days and couldn't; he must sign twice as many in half the time and says he will. — 00:01:29
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John says 2,000 books is not a lot for one day but a lot to do 75 days in a row. — 00:02:00
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John explains the boxes hold 150,000 pages he signs, which go to Pennsylvania to be bound into the book with a cover that doesn't exist yet; he shows Nerdfighter-designed covers. — 00:02:06
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John says he really wants to sign all the books because he likes the idea of signed books going into awesome Nerdfighter homes, like puppies adopted by awesome people. — 00:02:34
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — announcement: John announces that all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars, wherever buyers live (the US, the UK, Canada, Malaysia), will be signed, and promises to get it done. — 00:02:45
  • 2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John reports Nerdfighters voted in a Your Pants poll on his Sharpie colour; green won, but rejecting winner-take-all he will split colours like a German federal parliament (40% green, 20% purple). (playful) — 00:03:01
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — announcement: Hank admits he missed a video, entirely his fault, so viewers get to punish him and can suggest punishments. — 00:02:55
  • 2011-08-05 · Vidcon: Thoughts from Places — ask: The description invites viewers to pre-order John's new book, The Fault in Our Stars. — video description
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: John announces a punishment for Hank: besides his family, John brought to Montana one box of signature sheets for The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:02:15
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: Hank says the box holds 7,400 sheets, 5% of the total, and he will draw an anglerfish on every one, so buyers have a 5% chance of a 'Hanklerfished' copy. — 00:02:23
  • 2011-08-15 · HANKLERFISH! — announcement: John says he brought the sheets because he cannot take a week off from signing: everyone who pre-orders The Fault in Our Stars gets a signed book, and 5% will be Hanklerfished. — 00:03:00
  • 2011-08-17 · Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! — John says he feels for the questioner because he has struggled with that question a lot, and wrote The Fault in Our Stars about it. — 00:02:47
  • 2011-08-17 · Hank's Question Tuesday DEBUT! — announcement: Hank adds that The Fault in Our Stars is available at a link below and all copies will be signed. — 00:02:54
  • 2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — announcement: John: In an outtake, John announces a punishment for Hank for failing to make a video, breaking their promise of a video every Monday, Wednesday and Friday into perpetuity. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — announcement: John says his novel The Fault in Our Stars comes out in January and all pre-ordered copies will be signed. — video description
  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John: Asked how the TFIOS signing goes, John says he is at about 35,000, is temporarily out of red Sharpies and has a long way to go. — 00:00:40
  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — announcement: John says all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed, wherever ordered (Amazon UK, England, Canada); the whole first printing is being signed, but only pre-orders are guaranteed. — 00:00:56
  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John says Sarah has contributed tons to his writing: the line 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' in Looking for Alaska, the pranks in Paper Towns, and hugely to The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:05
  • 2011-08-31 · How to Become An Adult — John says he has signed 42,000 copies and will continue, but first must see a doctor because his hand isn't working right and he needs occupational therapy. — 00:03:20
  • 2011-09-07 · The Great Gatsby: Living the Dream in the Valley of Ashes — announcement: In the description John says his new novel The Fault in Our Stars is available for preorder and all preorders will be autographed. — video description
  • 2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — announcement: In the description John says The Fault in Our Stars comes out in January and all preorders will be signed. — video description
  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — ask: In the description John says the entire first printing of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed and suggests today may be the day to order it. — video description
  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — John says he has spent a couple of days in New York meeting his publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel and agent Jodi Reamer about The Fault in Our Stars and wonderful things he can't tell about. — 00:00:22
  • 2011-09-16 · Narrowly Avoiding Arrest: Some Airport Insanity — John says when flights are delayed he signs The Fault in Our Stars; he brought 2,000 sheets to sign that day, and it is a green pen day, as it always is. — 00:00:31
  • 2011-09-21 · NERD FACTOR — John: To rest his voice, John says he is going back to signing The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:26
  • 2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — John has signed over 80,000 copies of The Fault in Our Stars, but his publisher called to say he must reach 150,000 by November 3. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — John tours the signing setup: boxes still to sign, a pile of Singamajigs, and signing with a Sharpie using an aid his occupational therapist gave him. (playful) — 00:00:55
  • 2011-10-05 · SIGNING MADNESS — announcement: John says that, however the next month goes, he is going to sign every copy of The Fault in Our Stars, and thanks Nerdfighters for giving him such a wonderful problem. — 00:01:53
  • 2011-10-10 · Animal Mating and Librarian Talking — John says today is the last day he can make meaningful changes to The Fault in Our Stars, so he'd rather spend it with the book(s) than with Hank. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-10-10 · Animal Mating and Librarian Talking — announcement: John: Having to get back to The Fault in Our Stars, John gives Hank instead a Truth or Fail on animal mating that he filmed in the past. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-10-14 · Defying Wadsworth! — John has now signed his name over 100,000 times in his mission to sign every copy of the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars; to those who think he cheats or uses a stamp, he shows himself signing. — 00:00:47
  • 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — Hank wishes John luck as he keeps signing 'like a madman' and refers to John's inflamed right hand. (playful) — 00:03:49
  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — announcement: John: With his publisher Julie Strauss-Gabel's permission, given two minutes earlier, John reveals the cover of The Fault in Our Stars and hopes viewers like it as much as he does. — 00:00:30
  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — John: The cover was designed by Rodrigo Corral, John's favourite book designer, who designed the covers of Oscar Wao, Super Sad True Love Story, The Glass Castle and The Marriage Plot; John is grateful and in love with it. — 00:00:30
  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — announcement: John: Excited by the fan-designed covers for The Fault in Our Stars, Penguin will let Nerdfighteria design the new cover of An Abundance of Katherines; one submission becomes the actual cover, maybe forever. — 00:01:02
  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — announcement: John: Asked whether he really will sign the entire first printing of The Fault in Our Stars, John answers 'Oh, yes!' — 00:02:01
  • 2011-10-19 · Question Wed — THE COVER OF THE FAULT IN OUR STARS! — John: There will be exactly one Hanklerfished and Yetified copy of The Fault in Our Stars. (playful) — 00:02:30
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank cites the hundreds of people who designed covers for The Fault in Our Stars as another example of Nerdfighters doing something awesome together. — 00:01:27
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank: The project also convinced Penguin to take the cover of The Fault in Our Stars very seriously, which it did. — 00:01:56
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank finds it interesting that so many Nerdfighters dislike the TFiOS cover, when it is only so good because of them. — 00:01:56
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank's view: it's the kind of bold, iconic, timeless cover publishers give books they want to become classics, and having read the book he knows it fits. — 00:02:26
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank congratulates John on an amazing classic book cover for what he thinks will be an amazing classic book. (hedged) — 00:03:11
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — John is under stress from signing The Fault in Our Stars: 25,000 copies remain and he has few non-travel days left, so he is freaking out. — 00:00:41
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — John signed 5,300 books yesterday in about 14 hours and must keep that pace every non-travel day until November 3 to finish. — 00:01:13
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — John hopes he finishes, because otherwise some viewers will get unsigned books and be mad at him, and he at himself. (hedged) — 00:01:25
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — announcement: John will read from The Fault in Our Stars in Indianapolis on November 1 (description: 7:30 PM, Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler University, free and open to the public). — 00:02:49
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John: Instead of a real video, John reads the first chapter of The Fault in Our Stars as a live-show video, something he has long wanted to do. — 00:00:26
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — John says he tried this reading a few months ago but deleted that live show because he wanted to change things; this one stays. — 00:00:33
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says The Fault in Our Stars is dedicated to his friend Esther Earl. — 00:01:12
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — John: In the author's note John says the book is fiction and that hunting for facts inside a story attacks the idea that made-up stories can matter, 'sort of' our species' foundational assumption. (hedged) — 00:02:16
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — John says the book is the story of Hazel and Augustus trying to come to terms with Hazel's opening soliloquy that everything will end in oblivion, and of their life together. — 00:27:15
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — ask: John points to doobly-doo links to pre-order a signed copy; all copies will be signed, nobody should feel obligated, and he prefers they reach Nerdfighter homes. — 00:27:40
  • 2011-10-28 · Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars — John: Showing the TFIOS-ometer, John says he is very nearly up to 135,000 signatures, with roughly 15,000 to 20,000 to go; he has not counted recently. (hedged) — 00:27:42
  • 2011-10-31 · Pumpkin Slashing, Sexy Watermelons, and Zombie Tools with Jayne — Hank tells John he is excited about John being done with signing, and even more excited about The Fault in Our Stars coming out. — 00:03:35
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John shows his signing progress meter: he is almost at 150,000 signed copies, but almost does not count. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John: A Nerdfighter offered John the paper jogger at a signing; John says he has 5,000 books to sign in the next 24 hours. — 00:01:47
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John thanks Nerdfighters for all their support while he has signed the books. — 00:02:15
  • 2011-11-04 · You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! — Hank congratulates John on signing 150,000 copies of The Fault in Our Stars and tells him he is done. — 00:03:37
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — John celebrates having signed all the books after a happy dance through town. — 00:00:34
  • 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — Hank thinks Coulton's joke that he didn't have to sign 150,000 pre-ordered CDs was probably a reference to The Fault in Our Stars. (hedged) — 00:00:36
  • 2011-11-16 · Top 5 Zombie Apocalypses OF ALL TIME — John's description apologises for uploading late: he is in Grand Haven, Michigan, recording an audio version of The Fault in Our Stars. — video description
  • 2011-11-21 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — John: Before Chicago, John was at Brilliance Audio, his audiobook publisher, narrating The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:35
  • 2011-11-21 · Old Man Narrates Young Girl — announcement: John: There will be two audiobooks of The Fault in Our Stars: the real one narrated by Kate Rudd, available everywhere, and John's, only in a physical limited-edition box set from DFTBA. — 00:00:41
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John reads Chapter 2 of his new book The Fault in Our Stars aloud, thanking his publisher Penguin for allowing it. — 00:00:07
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — ask: John says Chapter 2 won't make much sense without Chapter 1 and points to a doobly-doo link to watch, hear or read it. — 00:00:07
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — John recaps Chapter 1: Hazel and Augustus meet at a cancer kids' support group; he says she looks like V for Vendetta-era Natalie Portman and invites her to watch it at his house. (fiction) — 00:00:37
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — John says he is nervous: apart from recording the audiobook, he has never read the book aloud. — 00:01:23
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says The Fault in Our Stars comes out on January 10th, in about 48 days, and hopes viewers like it. — 00:22:24
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — ask: John puts links in the doobly-doo to all the places viewers can pre-order the book. — 00:22:54
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — ask: John says hearing him read the whole book is only possible via the special box set from his last video, thanks to Brilliance Audio; link in the doobly-doo. — 00:22:54
  • 2011-11-25 · Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars — John hopes viewers enjoy the rest of the book and is excited to share it so it is no longer just his. — 00:23:24
  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History — John shows the finished copy of The Fault in Our Stars that came in the mail, one of the few unsigned copies. — 00:00:03
  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History — announcement: John notes the book's back cover carries quotes from Markus Zusak, Jodi Picoult and E. Lockhart; Zusak calls it John Green at his best. — 00:00:12
  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History — John: Gaiman's Law held again: John found what he thinks is the book's only typo, in the author's note, immediately. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History — John says he made the list mainly so that he could ask forgiveness for any mistakes. (playful) — 00:03:08
  • 2011-12-05 · 5 Worst Typos of History — ask: John points viewers to doobly-doo links to pre-order a signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:08
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John announces that three and a half years later he, Hank and Katherine are going back on tour to celebrate the release of The Fault in Our Stars, in a slightly larger vehicle. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: In one take John lists the stops: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Tempe, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John says the tour gatherings will feature music, readings, decreasing worldsuck, punishments and hilarity. — video description
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — ask: John invites tour questions in the comments or on Tumblr and says he will try to reply. — video description
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John says the tour mostly sticks to the coast, not for lack of love for the Midwest, but because it snows there in January and they travel by car; he apologises to the Midwest. — 00:00:45
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: The tour starts January 10th, the day the book comes out, and ends January 31st. — 00:01:15
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: In most cases admission is the price of a copy of The Fault in Our Stars bought from the host bookstore, which gets you a signed, Hanklerfished book, a poster and the show. — 00:01:15
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: The show will feature John reading from The Fault in Our Stars, Hank playing songs, discussion (and jokingly electrocution and puppetry); John will sign books and Hank CDs. — 00:01:49
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: Tickets are going fast and New York is almost sold out; they are trying to add a second New York event; ticket details are in the doobly-doo. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2011-12-09 · Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012 — announcement: John: Summing up, Hank, Katherine, John and occasionally the Yeti will be on tour in January 2012. — 00:02:19
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — announcement: John: Tour de Nerdfighting updates are in the doobly-doo: shows in Vancouver, Boston, New York, Portland and Raleigh are sold out, but tickets remain in many cities. — 00:01:56
  • 2011-12-19 · Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath — announcement: John: The Fault in Our Stars comes out in three weeks; John is trying not to freak out and not succeeding. — 00:02:25
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John: On Wednesday morning John learned that a bookseller had prematurely shipped more than a thousand copies of The Fault in Our Stars to people who pre-ordered it. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — announcement: John: The book is not due out for three more weeks; for the past year Penguin and John worked hard so everyone could read it at the same time. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — announcement: John: Every copy of the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars is signed by John — all of them. — video description
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John: Everyone who has read The Fault in Our Stars, John and Hank included, signed non-disclosure agreements; Penguin paid for an embargo and skipped the usual advance copies to critics, movie people and foreign publishers. — 00:00:30
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John does not want the book spoiled for anyone; even Looking for Alaska, almost seven years old, should not be spoiled, since thousands bought it this week (week of 19 December 2011) without knowing what it is about. — 00:00:53
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John accepts that not every reader will avoid spoilers and that the shipping error was an honest mistake with no maliciousness. — 00:01:23
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John called Hank, as he does when mad, and Hank reminded him that his readers care not just about his books but about each other. — 00:01:52
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John: As word spread, more and more Nerdfighters on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook pledged not to read the book before January 10, or not to spoil it for the majority who receive it then. — 00:01:52
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — announcement: John: The Fault in Our Stars has been with John in some form for more than a decade; he wants it out on January 10, for reasons Looking for Alaska readers may know. — 00:02:21
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — ask: John wants everyone to have the same reading opportunity and thanks viewers in advance for not posting spoilers; he closes with 'Please don't post spoilers.' — 00:02:21
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — John thanks Amazon and every independent bookstore for not shipping their pre-orders after the leak, which lets the January 10 publication date stand. — 00:02:50
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — ask: John: The Fault in Our Stars is still available for pre-order, and meanwhile viewers can read John's other books (the description names Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns). — 00:02:50
  • 2011-12-28 · Goats Mating — announcement: John: There are some new tickets to the Boston Tour de Nerdfighting event, and its venue has changed. — video description

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2012

  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says The Fault in Our Stars comes out today, January 10, 2012, though he is filming on Monday, January 9, because he is busy tomorrow. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John promises that buyers whose pre-ordered copy of The Fault in Our Stars came unsigned, who email him their name, address and where they ordered, will be sent a very rare signed bookplate. — video description
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John is a bit stressed: he has to leave his family for a month, which is a bummer, but he is excited to go on tour. — 00:00:12
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says TFIOS grew from his work almost twelve years ago as a student chaplain at a children's hospital; he has been trying ever since to write a funny, honest story about it. — 00:00:28
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John: Asked if TFIOS is his best book, John doesn't know: its reviews are better than any of his other books', but authors shouldn't judge their own work; Mark Twain thought Joan of Arc his best. (hedged) — 00:00:38
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John doesn't think he could have written TFIOS until he was a parent. (hedged) — 00:01:00
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says he did more medical research for TFIOS than a hypochondriac probably should. (playful) — 00:01:04
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says he wrote TFIOS from a girl's point of view partly to think about how gender constructions shape our understanding of what constitutes heroism. — 00:01:08
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says readers won't feel out of the loop without Looking for Alaska: unlike Harry Potter, his books have nothing to do with each other. — 00:01:30
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — ask: John tells buyers whose pre-ordered copy wasn't signed not to panic and to email him their name, address and where they ordered the book. — 00:01:40
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says he got emotional quite a bit while writing the book, but he's a crier. — 00:01:47
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John: Asked whether TFIOS will make readers cry or laugh, John says ideally it will make them feel all of the things. — 00:01:50
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says he could never have written TFIOS without knowing Esther, who definitely inspired it, but stresses that Hazel is not Esther: the book is made up, a novel. — 00:02:11
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says Tour de Nerdfighting tickets remain only near New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Seattle and San Francisco, with ticket info in the description. — 00:02:31
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says Nerdfighteria has shaped TFIOS in so many ways he can't list them, as readers will probably see. — 00:02:46
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John's favourite moment: Islamic mystics' word fanaa, dissolution of the self, is what reading and writing do when they work; writing TFIOS he often felt he transcended himself, and hopes readers will too. — 00:02:53
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — Hank goes to the bookstore for The Fault in Our Stars, a package that 'does not exist' until January 10; on January 10 he opens it, asks whether it is signed, and finds an anglerfish. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — recommendation: The description urges viewers to get a copy and quotes praise for TFIOS, including Markus Zusak's 'John Green at his best' and The New York Times Book Review. — video description
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — Hank tells John he is really proud of him and of The Fault in Our Stars: every review has been fantastic, everyone on Amazon loves it, and Hank loves it. — 00:00:42
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — announcement: Hank warns that buyers of the audiobook from DFTBA Records should not watch its DVD before reading or listening to the book, because the DVD contains spoilers. — 00:01:07
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — announcement: Hank says that during the tour the brothers do 'Nerdcash': leaving bags of buttons in places, which viewers can only find out about by following them on Twitter. — 00:01:07
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — Hank thanks everyone who has bought and is reading The Fault in Our Stars and posting pictures of themselves with it on Tumblr. — 00:01:32
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: On tour John wakes every morning after a few hours of sleep with 'Five Hundred Miles' stuck in his head, packs up and drives 500 miles or so in the van to the next place. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: They arrive in the early afternoon to lots of books needing signatures and Hanklerfishes, which takes a couple of hours. — 00:00:25
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: Then many people arrive, wearing John's face or Doctor Who shirts, bringing book cakes, some with things he wrote tattooed on their bodies; John finds it amazing, beautiful and completely terrifying. — 00:00:43
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: At the show John reads and talks about The Fault in Our Stars, Hank sings, John answers questions, Hank wears a tutu, and in joint questions whoever is talking when the timer goes off is shocked with Charlie McDonnell's 'patented shocker'. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: After the show they sign for five hours, reach the hotel around 2 a.m., and John sleeps a few hours before it starts again. — 00:02:10
  • 2012-01-20 · Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans — Hank: The brothers are in New Orleans and played a show last night (19 January 2012) in a synagogue, weird but awesome; John is at a conference while Hank walks the city with his wife, eating and watching street performers. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: A traveller, apparently John (speaker inferred), says he had four hours of sleep and asks Hank for a very quiet video. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Hank narrates the drive from Arizona across the river into California, with back-and-forth over where the border is, and a stop at the Jesus Christ is Lord Travel Center. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — announcement: Hank introduces John as the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: Asked how being number one feels, John calls it ridiculous, says he loves Nerdfighteria and that, much as he'd like credit, it has nothing to do with him. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Hank says Nerdfighters would have pre-ordered even a horrible book, but John instead wrote an amazing book. (playful) — 00:00:51
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Hank says Time Magazine said John was 'damn near genius', then teases him about the 'near'. — 00:01:27
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — both: The brothers banter about the tour shows: a show line 'my greatest accomplishment is being your brother' is called a favourite joke, and one brother gets shocked almost every night instead of the other (speakers unclear). (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: Asked what he does backstage before a show, John says he mostly watches Hank play the same Chameleon Circuit song over and over; the brothers then joke about nerves and practising the set songs. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: In his final words John says he hopes viewers like The Fault in Our Stars and thanks them for being awesome. (hedged) — 00:02:29
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John's description thanks everyone who came to the tour, the independent bookstores and theaters that hosted it, and the Nerdfighter who held the camera. — video description
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night (30 January 2012) they were signing in Seattle. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John: Like the internet, the tour went by very fast, like pressing the down key on Tumblr; John says a problem with the internet is that things pass too fast to really experience them. — 00:00:30
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John tells Hank the video is for their future selves: this is what the tour was like and how it felt; a montage follows with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank says someone on tour suggested he redo 'An Awful Lot of Running' as 'An Awful Lot of Driving', and he did; he sings the parody about tour life. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank: In the song Hank describes the tour bus, playing Xbox 360 and beating John, waiting stage left every night, and stopping at 17 places in 21 days on cookies and gas station food. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank tells John that he and Katherine kept saying 'we did it' after the last show, at the hotel, the airport, landing in Missoula and getting into their own bed. — 00:00:54
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank wants to look back on the three weeks but can't: asked for a fun tour story he can't think of one; the tour feels like it lasted forever and took no time at all. — 00:01:35
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank thanks the many people who made the tour possible, especially those who came out and were enthusiastic, and says he doesn't know how he got so lucky. — 00:03:18
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — announcement: John gives the blog for readers who have finished The Fault in Our Stars as a Tumblr whose password is the last word of the book's acknowledgements, case sensitive. — video description
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — announcement: John: For readers who have finished The Fault in Our Stars, and only for them, John has created a password-protected blog with his answers to questions, where they can comment and discuss the book. — 00:01:57
  • 2012-02-21 · Life is Weird. Also beautiful. — John says Miss Peregrine was an instant bestseller; a few months later The Fault in Our Stars came out, and next week (week of 27 February 2012) their books will be #1 and #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. — 00:02:25
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John says he will be involved in the TFIOS movie in any way he can be helpful, but he is not a movie person. — 00:00:10
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — announcement: John says Fox 2000 optioned the movie rights to The Fault in Our Stars; hopefully they will make it, but it is too soon to get excited. (hedged) — 00:00:16
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John says The Fault in Our Stars is currently number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, behind only Hugo Cabret, a book he really liked. — 00:01:41
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John names Zeno as his all-time favorite Greek philosopher, maybe obvious to readers of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:02:15
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John explains Hazel's name: hazel is an in-between color and she has an in-between life, between health and sickness, adolescence and adulthood, swimming and drowning. — 00:02:49
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John woke on Saturday in Amsterdam extravagantly jet-lagged, then walked with Henry's old babysitter to the apartment where he lived while finishing The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: With two free hours, John raced through the Begijnhof, paid to pee, ate Flemish fries and herring, signed books, nearly got hit by a tram and a cyclist, and bought season two of Sherlock. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John thanks the Dutch Nerdfighter community for its support and his Dutch publisher Lemniscaat for bringing him back to Amsterdam, the city he loves so much. — video description
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John walks toward the Vondelpark to relive Gus and Hazel's wish, showing the novel's places: the Hotel de Filosoof, the tree Hazel looks at, Peter Van Houten's house, the Anne Frank House and the canal-side bench. — 00:00:43
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John says the trip supported the publication of the Dutch edition of The Fault in Our Stars; he gave a series of interviews in the hotel library. — 00:01:13
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: On the trip John visited the Central Library of Amsterdam, where he wrote much of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:13
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: At a theater John heard a presentation on the mathematics in The Fault in Our Stars, covering Venn diagrams and Hazel's incorrect assumption that there are more whole numbers between 0 and 2 than between 0 and 1. — 00:01:13
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: At the theater event, Lidevi and Lotta sang John a song about homoerotic Sherlock watercolors and gave him 'Hulock' artwork. — 00:02:01
  • 2012-03-30 · Springtime Hunger Games Zit Bully Walk — Hank: Recalling John's broccoli-and-ice-cream point in The Fault in Our Stars (happiness does not depend on sadness), Hank says enjoying spring would not depend on its absence; he would still enjoy constant spring. (hedged) — 00:01:56
  • 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — announcement: John notes that the movie rights to The Fault in Our Stars were optioned by Fox 2000, and that the script is being written by the writers of (500) Days of Summer. — video description
  • 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — John goes to get his movie deal notarized, calling it the day of the best errands ever; the description says it is the movie option for The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:23
  • 2012-06-05 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked whether he will cast nerdfighters in a Fault in Our Stars movie, John says if Fox makes it he will have exactly as much say in casting as viewers, and should not be trusted with it. — 00:02:27
  • 2012-06-12 · Chris Colfer, John Green, Mob Wives, and Jeffrey Eugenides: Thoughts from Places Book Expo — John: The Fault in Our Stars got quite a bit of attention at BEA, shown off on camera by a woman John calls extraordinary; he corrected someone who listed "The Fate in Our Stars" as a favorite. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2012-07-31 · Nerd Olympics — announcement: John announces that Friday is Esther Day, honoring Esther, who inspired much of The Fault in Our Stars and Nerdfighteria, by telling people we love that we love them. — 00:02:03
  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — John says The Fault in Our Stars is out in many other languages, including Bulgarian, Danish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Catalan, both Portugueses, Hebrew and Swedish. — 00:00:58
  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — John: Expecting an unpopular opinion, John loves the Swedish TFIOS cover: bold, weird, pulpy, all love, death, grenades and sacrifice, the cover Augustus would want. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2012-10-16 · Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday — recommendation: John: As the best book you've never heard of, John recommends Peter De Vries's The Blood of the Lamb, which inspired large parts of An Imperial Affliction by Peter Van Houten. — 00:01:31
  • 2012-10-16 · Burning Peeps, My OTP, and Velociraptors: It's Question Tuesday — announcement: John says the box set comes out on October 25th, with a limited edition in which both The Fault in Our Stars and Looking for Alaska are signed; link in the description. — 00:01:43
  • 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — announcement: John announces that Amazon.com named The Fault in Our Stars one of the ten best books of 2012 overall, not just for teenagers, right behind Dave Eggers and ahead of Junot Díaz. — 00:00:05
  • 2012-11-20 · Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story — announcement: John: To celebrate the first anniversary of The Fault in Our Stars, Penguin has rented Carnegie Hall for the brothers to have an evening of awesome of reading, talking and music. — 00:01:33
  • 2012-11-27 · Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers — recommendation: John: For readers who liked his The Fault in Our Stars, John thanks them and recommends Peter De Vries's The Blood of the Lamb. — 00:00:58
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says Time Magazine has just named The Fault in Our Stars first on its list of the top ten novels of 2012, ahead of Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz and J.K. Rowling, and he is overwhelmed. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-12-07 · Thoughts from Dead Animals — Hank congratulates John on being on best-book-of-the-year lists, saying he knew it was one as soon as he read it. — 00:03:40
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John: After two years of selling zombie stories for P4A, John will share an e-book of stories with contributors, including a semi-autobiographical story, the first thing he wrote on the road to The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:02:49

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2013

Also named in: Thoughts from Carnegie Hall

2014

Also named in: John and Chris Meet in the Middle, Is the American Dream Real?

2015

  • 2015-01-23 · Interviewing the President — Hank: After the interview Hank says he did it, keeps a copy of The Fault in Our Stars, and has to talk to press instead of sleeping. (playful) — 00:02:56
  • 2015-01-23 · Interviewing the President — John tells Hank he did such a good job, is proud of him, and asks whether that is the copy of The Fault in Our Stars the President touched. — 00:03:41
  • 2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John: Shailene Woodley won best actress for her role in The Fault in Our Stars; her kindness about John in her speech made him cry, and Nat teased him for it. — 00:02:23
  • 2015-04-14 · A Long Good Day — John: The Fault in Our Stars won Best Movie, and John made the acceptance speech, as everyone had urged, so that he could thank Esther. — 00:02:38
  • 2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — John is nostalgic for 2007-2009, when everyone who met him on the street was a nerdfighter, though that is terrible since good things followed: his children, his book's success and film. — 00:01:41
  • 2015-05-12 · Becoming Someone Else — ask: John: In a P.S., John says Penguin UK has a Fault in Our Stars-themed project raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust and asks UK and Ireland viewers to check it out. — 00:03:31
  • 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY — announcement: John: Correcting himself, John says the movie is already out in Brazil, Australia and elsewhere, critics have seen it and reviews are great; Variety said it was better than The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:27
  • 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY — John says that on tour exactly zero interviewers said the title of The Fault in Our Stars correctly. (playful) — 00:01:36
  • 2015-07-28 · Paper Towns, Agloe, and Touring: Thoughts from (Many) Places — John: In Columbus John met Cara, who reluctantly beatboxed in a TV interview; John was told the anchors really liked his book, 'No Fault in These Stars'. (playful) — 00:02:21
  • 2015-12-01 · John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays! — recommendation: John: For literary-fiction readers John recommends Hanya Yanagihara: her strange first novel is excellent, but A Little Life is better, and sadder than The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:20

Also named in: Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff, Question Tuesday: My Social Media Hiatus, My Excellent German, and Books!

2016

2017

  • 2017-04-14 · ★★★★ Review: The TFiOS Bench - Amsterdam — Hank finds the Fault in Our Stars bench on Google Maps with 75 reviews and an average rating of 4.3, as good as the Van Gogh Museum. — 00:00:54
  • 2017-04-14 · ★★★★ Review: The TFiOS Bench - Amsterdam — Hank: In his review Hank finds it weird and amazing that his brother wrote a book that made a bench famous enough to have 75, now 76, Google reviews. — 00:02:31
  • 2017-06-13 · Cheyenne, Wyoming — John spent about a year in Cheyenne finishing The Fault in Our Stars, but also several months a few years ago only to realize the book he'd worked hard on wasn't good and wouldn't be published. — 00:01:36
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — John says his previous book, The Fault in Our Stars, came out more than five and a half years ago, so this one has been a long and winding road. — 00:00:13
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — John thanks people, especially his family, for their patience and kindness over five and a half years: he often worried he would never publish another book, and without their support wouldn't be. — 00:00:48
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Signing all pre-orders means signing the whole first printing; for The Fault in Our Stars that was 150,000, charted on a 2011 poster Sarah made, and John signed almost all its pre-orders. — 00:00:46
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Amazon might be onto something: for about a year after The Fault in Our Stars came out, unsigned copies were much rarer than signed ones. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:43
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: A selfish reason: for 2,000 days or so of writing this book John rarely knew if his work would make it in or bring him closer; signing, he knows people will like it and each one gets him closer to done. (hedged) — 00:01:14
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: His hand doesn't hurt: very effective physical therapy for his ulnar nerve entrapment during the Fault in Our Stars signing means he can now sign all day. — 00:01:40
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — announcement: John reveals the cover of Turtles All the Way Down, designed by Rodrigo Corral, who did the cover of The Fault in Our Stars; he calls it beautiful. — 00:00:01
  • 2017-08-29 · 40 — John says next week's (week of 4 September 2017) video, his reading of the first chapter of Turtles All the Way Down, will be over four minutes but is not punishable, citing precedents from 2011 and 2008 when he read the first chapters of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:02:51
  • 2017-11-21 · Two Love Stories — John: On the January 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour, at a hotel ballroom outside Washington, DC, Nerdfighters Sara and Luis met before the show, hit it off and later began dating. — 00:00:11
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says he almost didn't sell the film rights to The Fault in Our Stars, partly after bad experiences in Hollywood and partly because the book was very close to him. — 00:01:05
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says The Fault in Our Stars held parts of him people knew about, like his friendship with Esther Earl, and parts of traumatic experiences he had never told anyone. — 00:01:22
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says imagining a movie of his book was exciting but also scary, with some of that coded material on a big screen for many people. — 00:01:30
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says he sold the rights and got very lucky: Elizabeth and Erin at Fox 2000 were perfect stewards, with amazing producers, screenwriters and cast, and a movie he really loved. — 00:01:54
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John: Isaac, producer of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, pointed out that obsessive thoughts are also non-linguistic, which didn't stop John writing the book. — 00:02:43

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2018

  • 2018-03-02 · The Best (Recent) Book Covers Including MINE! — Hank: Admitting bias, Hank calls Rodrigo Corral's cover for The Fault in Our Stars one of the best of the decade: a departure that leveled up young adult literature. (hedged) — 00:02:24
  • 2018-03-02 · The Best (Recent) Book Covers Including MINE! — Hank says the TFIOS cover feels almost branded and started, or was part of, a really important and necessary trend in cover design. (hedged) — 00:02:36
  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). — 00:00:35
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John reveals an inside joke with himself: each of his books has a prime-minus-one number of chapters; TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down have 24, Will Grayson, Will Grayson and An Abundance of Katherines 20. — 00:01:12
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — John: After John sold The Fault in Our Stars film rights to Fox 2000, they could have set the movie on Mars. (playful) — 00:00:40
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — John: Fans were very mad when Nat Wolff was cast as Isaac, who is blond in the book, and John was concerned too, but Wolff turned out to be the perfect Isaac. — 00:01:06
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — John's first reason: he and Hank don't need money, having well-paid jobs: his is having written a book seven years ago that became popular, Hank's is having 40 jobs. (playful) — 00:01:19

2019

  • 2019-03-19 · Writing and Marriage Advice from Michelle Obama — John tells Michelle Obama her writing on marriage resonated because his life changed very suddenly when The Fault in Our Stars was published, though not on a presidential level. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John: The Fault in Our Stars was very nearly titled 'The Sequel' or 'The Sequels'; in April 2011 emails Julie told John, politely, that it was not a good title. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John was eventually convinced The Fault in Our Stars was better; as a play on a Shakespeare line it nearly quenched his thirst to call a book 'More Light Than Heat'. — 00:01:56
  • 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

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2020

  • 2020-02-28 · I'M FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE — Hank says he was watching John's 2011 video of signing The Fault in Our Stars very quickly, when John was a little frazzled, and admits he is a little frazzled too. — 00:00:50
  • 2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: As he did with The Fault in Our Stars, John says he will sign the entire first printing of the American and Canadian edition. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-10-20 · How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times — John recalls that in 2011, signing the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars, he listened to Moby Dick. — 00:00:53
  • 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John: Biden told John his family loved The Fault in Our Stars and it helped them process his son's cancer diagnosis; he asked about Esther, with tears in his eyes as John talked. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: After finishing Textbook, Amy learned she had cancer and called John, who knew many gravely ill young people after The Fault in Our Stars, to ask how her kids and husband would cope. — 00:12:46
  • 2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John told Amy what he thinks is true: love survives death. — 00:13:00
  • 2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John should have said her family won't be okay but will go on, as will her love; instead, crying, he said 'How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.' — 00:13:45
  • 2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: Dying people collect stories of stupid things the healthy say, but John knows none as idiotic as his; he hopes Amy got narrative mileage from it, knows he failed her, and wishes he had said something useful or nothing. — 00:14:09

2021

  • 2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John recalls signing 150,000 times for The Fault in Our Stars: at the end he signed 12 or 14 hours a day and doubted he could do it, until the purple Sharpie reminded him he had made this promise and would keep it. — 00:03:05
  • 2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: 2007 John wasn't the author of The Fault in Our Stars, a resident of Indianapolis, an AFC Wimbledon supporter, Crash Course's co-founder, best friends with Chris and Marina, or a jogger. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-04-02 · John's World Record — Hank: All first-edition copies of The Fault in Our Stars were signed except a tiny number of misprints, which makes unsigned first editions extremely rare and more valuable. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-04-02 · John's World Record — Hank: John went from 150,000 signatures for The Fault in Our Stars to 200,000 for Turtles All the Way Down and now 250,000 for The Anthropocene Reviewed, flooding the market. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — John: Views surged in 2013 and especially 2014 as the success of The Fault in Our Stars drew Nerdfighteria toward broader pop culture, and many people went back to watch the 2007-2012 videos. — 00:00:00
  • 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
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Tempting as it is to make labyrinthitis a metaphor for a life lacking balance, John wrote against such symbolization of disease in his novels: OCD and cancer are illnesses to live with as well as one can, not battles or character flaws. — 00:05:41
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The Amsterdam bench where a scene of The Fault in Our Stars film was shot now has hundreds of Google reviews; John's favorite, three stars, reads in full: it is a bench. — 00:09:40
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — In a comment John says popular fan-made covers left people feeling betrayed by the slick real TFIOS cover; it was a huge mess that cost him sleep, but the cover became popular and influential. — creator comment
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — The description says John will stop covering Hank's face with covers of his books 'when never', using a 2011 joke construction; the full 22-minute session is mostly laughing. (playful) — video description
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John: Hank's tweet about the TFIOS cover, with John's name as big as the title, dates from October 2011, just after he first saw it; the book came out in January 2012. — 00:01:53
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John recalls a lot of negative response to the TFIOS cover, which Hank tried to spin positively; it turned out to be a good cover. — 00:01:53
  • 2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — In a comment John says the drug-lord draft of The Fault in Our Stars is probably among his papers at the University of Southern Mississippi. (hedged) — creator comment
  • 2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — John: Most of John's wandering thoughts are terrible: the first draft of The Fault in Our Stars had a girl and her favorite author team up to take down a drug lord, and he never thought it stupid. (playful) — 00:02:26

2022

  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — announcement: John: The Fault in Our Stars was first published ten years ago yesterday (10 January 2012). — 00:00:00
  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John still doesn't know how to make sense of being its author, except that he is extremely grateful it is still in print and still finding new readers. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John: Such explanations, John says, always put the fault in the self, never in the stars, echoing his book's title. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John dislikes the genre convention in which sick people get sick so healthy people can learn lessons, so he wanted to write a book with no healthy kids in it. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John thanks readers for keeping Hazel and Gus around all these years; it means a lot to him. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — John: Asked if he has read fan fiction of his books, John says yes: there is a lot of Isaac-related Fault in Our Stars fan fiction, and versions of the fan fiction Daisy writes in Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-06-21 · On Disease — John saw his hand doctor because his hand isn't working perfectly; the doctor recalled advising him to sign less, after which John signed 250,000 copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2022-08-16 · cars vs. covid — John says his misspoken 'the smartest car in the squid' beats the most famous line he ever wrote, about falling in love slowly and then all at once, which he still likes. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2022-09-28 · How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People — John has seen a huge, lovely surge of fan mail from older people who have never heard of him through TikTok or The Fault in Our Stars but like the book. — 00:02:53

2023

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says that had The Fault in Our Stars not become a movie he thinks he would have been paid $60,000: a lot of money, but not Hollywood fantasy money. (hedged) — 00:01:27
  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says The Fault in Our Stars movie sold a ton of books. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John: In 2011 John built a large audience on Tumblr, which, as Tumblr grew, sold many copies of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:06
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John: In 2007 John wouldn't even hold up Looking for Alaska on camera; by 2012 he reblogged every piece of Fault in Our Stars fan art with a link to buy the book. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the book is not a young adult novel like The Fault in Our Stars or Turtles All the Way Down; it is not the opposite of his previous work, but it is different. — 00:00:10
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John recalls the 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour: 32 consecutive nights at Holiday Inn Expresses, including a very nice one on a river outside Bend, Oregon; Hank doubts it was near Bend. — 00:53:22
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says the book is very different from Looking for Alaska or The Fault in Our Stars: nobody falls in love, and it is nonfiction rather than fiction. — 00:00:31
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John tells his younger self his books will not last forever, since forever is an incorrect concept, and calls that great news: someday The Fault in Our Stars will be read for the last time and humanity will go on. — 00:01:18
  • 2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:39
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John: After the pain worsened John saw a doctor and it got worse still; without giving medical details, he says he can no longer sign and is not allowed to. — 00:01:12
  • 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John says signing has been a significant part of his life for 12 years, ever since he signed the first printing of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:30

2025

  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — announcement: John says that in D.C. he met and talked with Senator Adam Schiff about democracy, foreign aid and the title of The Fault in Our Stars, and shares the conversation. — 00:00:34
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — Adam Schiff: Schiff asks about The Fault in Our Stars' title, suggesting it was chosen partly because a person who gets sick is not at fault. (hedged) — 00:19:08
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John explains the title writes against Shakespeare's line that the fault is not in our stars: there is much fault in our stars, bad luck and structural injustice. — 00:19:38
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John says that before The Fault in Our Stars he confidently said on the channel his next book would be about kids on a desert island; he wrote most of it, but it had no reason for being, so he wrote the book that became The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:21
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John jokes that a few viewers will be surprised that Crash Course John Green and Fault in Our Stars John Green are the same person. (playful) — 00:01:21
  • 2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says his widely reviewed, award-winning first novel Looking for Alaska never came close to the list until the success of The Fault in Our Stars years later. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says the channel had about 9,000 subscribers after its first year and about 640,000 when Crash Course launched in early 2012 with The Fault in Our Stars, and only reached a million in March 2013. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says growth then sped up: the two millionth subscriber came in mid-2014 as The Fault in Our Stars movie took off, the three millionth in May 2017. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege — John was especially lucky with The Fault in Our Stars: Nerdfighteria and his publisher backed it, adults were reading YA, Time called it the best book of the year, and the movie did well. — 00:03:16
  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege — John does not think The Fault in Our Stars was the best book of 2012, citing Mary Oliver's A Thousand Mornings and Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers; it won a lottery of timing and chance. — 00:03:45
  • 2025-10-21 · Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective — John says his book The Fault in Our Stars costs around $8 for 8 to 10 hours of entertainment, less than a dollar per hour, which he thinks is a good deal. — 00:03:23
  • 2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John says the Financial Times wrote a lovely article about the brothers and their work, but its sub-headline credited the Fault in Our Stars author and his brother. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John says in real life he is Hank Green's brother: at an art show last week (week of 8 December 2025) someone recognised Sarah from The Art Assignment and asked if she was married to the brother. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — John says at least a third of the time he is recognised, it is for being Hank Green, from people thanking him for organic chemistry to a woman shouting 'Hank Green!' in Philadelphia. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank: Whether or not 'John Green's brother' is his correct honorific, Hank points to his longest-held LinkedIn job, younger brother at Vlogbrothers, and says being a professional brother is great. (playful) — 00:00:00

2026

  • 2026-01-13 · why we make art — John loves fictions within fictions that exist only in fragments, like An Imperial Affliction in The Fault in Our Stars or the play in Rushmore. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John's background includes a baseball signed by Harry Caray that he got for his 16th birthday, a Swindon Town 2011 FA Cup champions plate given to him, and his MTV Movie Award for The Fault in Our Stars. — 03:10:35
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — Hank: Accepting the chat's answer that some infinities are larger than others, Hank says the way The Fault in Our Stars explains it is not right, because sometimes kids are wrong. — 05:06:18
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John launches a signed mystery book perk: a signed copy of one of his books, such as Turtles All the Way Down, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed or Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 08:08:39
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — John dedicated The Fault in Our Stars to Esther Earl, a Nerdfighter who lived with cancer and in whose memory This Star Won't Go Out was founded; she and her family were and are good friends. — 00:38:42
  • 2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3! — Hank says the first cover for his book looked like a John Green book cover, an aesthetic set by The Fault in Our Stars' success, and he told them they could not do that. — 02:34:42
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank says he is mostly famous as an internet person, while people who do not know him know John because of The Fault in Our Stars; John calls it weirdly one of the best-selling books of all time. — 03:32:36
  • 2026-02-24 · Risk Is a Privilege — John says his safety net lets him risk writing a novel that might not work out; since The Fault in Our Stars he can do pretty much whatever he wants with his time. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-03-17 · Tuberculosis and Hank's Shingles — John says attempts to give pain a meaning can be really harmful to people living in pain, one of the themes of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John says The Fault in Our Stars is tuberculosis: he knew little about TB's contemporary problem when writing it, but was very interested in how 19th-century TB relates to cancer today. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John was thinking about the romanticization of illness and how early-19th-century TB, striking people of any age and feeling capricious, resembles how we think about cancer today. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis — John: Hazel's favorite band in the novel, The Hectic Glow, takes its name from a line in Thoreau's journals calling disease and decay beautiful, like the hectic glow of consumption. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — In a channel comment John says The Fault in Our Stars has sold over 30,000,000 copies. — creator comment
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — In a channel comment John says he makes over 99% of his money from book sales. — creator comment
  • 2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John says, self-deprecatingly, that his cameo was cut from The Fault in Our Stars because he is such a bad actor. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John says he has been lucky with covers (The Fault in Our Stars' became somewhat iconic, his nonfiction covers extraordinary) but never luckier than with Hollywood, Ending. — 00:01:56
  • 2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John recalls writing in the preface of The Fault in Our Stars that neither novels nor readers benefit from divining whether facts hide in a story; readers kept divining, mostly his own fault. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John: In The Fault in Our Stars John invented Peter Van Houten, an author who meets a dying young reader, knowing readers knew the book was partly inspired by his meeting Esther Earl. — 00:04:25
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says only John's remark made him realize how early, and so how defining, John was to authors' relationship with the internet; John being extremely online was part of TFIOS becoming a phenomenon. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says the phenomenon of TFIOS drove John, and to a lesser extent Hank, to retreat to higher-barrier corners of the internet like Vlogbrothers, with its decades-long history of tiny chickens, Projects for Awesome and bean Furbies and videos not expected to draw many viewers. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank: Rereading Hollywood, Ending made Hank think about how TFIOS itself also had elements of being about this. — 00:01:21
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says The Fault in Our Stars is a book without a villain unless you count cancer, which neither he nor the book's characters really do. — 00:01:21
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says the book gives cancer no maliciousness or cunning: it evades control not by being smart or evil but by doing what it does, like a fire burning a home; fire can't be evil. — 00:01:50
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says the characters feel the injury but see Van Houten as an object of pity, made indifferent to others' humanity by his own suffering: bad, but not really villainy. — 00:02:17
  • 2026-09-22 · I Want You to Know Nothing About This — John recalls that when The Fault in Our Stars came out 14 years ago, a few hundred people got it a month early, and he was devastated, expecting the plot to leak online. — 00:03:14
  • 2026-09-22 · I Want You to Know Nothing About This — John: Instead those early readers chose not to share the book, many waited until release day (2012) to read it, and it stayed unspoiled: one of the most generous acts of collective reading John has seen. — 00:03:43