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2008

  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — Hank wants to talk about Twitter because he is confused by it. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — Hank describes Twitter as writing down what you are doing at every moment, but selectively only the coolest things, like hanging out with someone famous. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — Hank jokes that his doctor suggested he tweet his poops, explaining he has a dysfunctional colon, and then posts that on Twitter. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:02
  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — Hank argues Twitter is not for telling anyone how you are but for defining yourself through the self the internet lets you create across many platforms. (hedged) — 00:01:39
  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — Hank says Twitter followers are a new, undefined kind of relationship, probably like his with Nerdfighters: not fans, not friends, but in between; some Nerdfighters are now his friends. (hedged) — 00:02:12
  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — Hank says Twitter, like vlogging, is about getting 'currency that's not money', hard to come by; he hopes he provides it for others and thanks viewers for giving it to him. — 00:03:10
  • 2008-03-21 (said on 2008-03-22, implied) · Twitter After School Time — announcement: Hank has kind of decided to try Twitter, going in knowing more about what it is for, and says viewers can follow him there. (hedged) — 00:03:10
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — Hank lists Paper Towns activities: a new Twitter stream of fake Paper Towns spoilers, and a Paper Towns cake baked for John by a Five Awesome Girls member. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: Hank says a Tour de Nerdfighting Twitter stream will constantly broadcast updates from the road, using a device that gets him online in the minivan. — 00:03:14
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — announcement: Hank says he and John will broadcast all the Nerdfighter gatherings on BlogTV, with links in the sidebar for Twitter and BlogTV. — 00:03:41

2009

  • 2009-04-19 · Weekend of Surreality — John recounts that Ashton Kutcher and CNN raced to be the first Twitter account with one million followers; Ashton pledged $100,000 of malaria bed nets if he won, won, and gave it. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-04-19 · Weekend of Surreality — John says he told Nerdfighters following him on Twitter, as a joke, that if they got Ashton Kutcher to follow him he would give $1,000 against malaria, thinking it a safe bet. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-04-19 · Weekend of Surreality — John: Ashton Kutcher is now following John on Twitter; John says he underestimated the power of Nerdfighteria and gave $1,000 to buy bed nets. — 00:00:48
  • 2009-06-14 · Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results — recommendation: John says he is still getting good updates from the Twitter accounts persiankiwi and tehranbureau, and recommends also following y shar and iran09. — video description
  • 2009-06-14 · Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results — John reports that the Twitter link has been shut down, and that Gchat and Yahoo chat have also been shut down in Iran. — video description
  • 2009-06-14 · Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results — recommendation: John links to the Twitter feeds of young Iranians tweeting through the crisis, saying they show 140 characters can say something interesting, e.g. 'If Iran sleeps tonight, it will sleep forever.' — 00:03:41
  • 2009-08-02 · ANNOUNCING: Global Geek Week!!! — announcement: Hank: More information is at globalgeekweek.com, and the Twitter hashtag is Geeks for Good. — 00:01:32
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — announcement: Hank says he has been reluctant to adopt Twitter (the EcoGeek Twitter mostly carries EcoGeek stories) but has now started a personal Hank Green Twitter. — 00:00:23
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — Hank says he isn't sure how Twitter works yet; John told him he needs work on his 'Twittikit' (Twitter etiquette). (playful) — 00:00:53
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — announcement: Hank will use the account for normal Twitter things, such as announcing BlogTV shows and tweeting uninteresting things, which he will try to say in interesting ways. — 00:00:53
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — Hank says Twitter is, as he gathers, for saying things in 140 characters or less. (hedged) — 00:00:53
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — ask: Hank asks viewers to pause the video and follow him on Twitter. — 00:00:53
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — ask: Hank asks everyone on Twitter to send, with the hashtag HankVideo, one sentence, as ridiculous as possible, that they want to see him say in a video. — 00:01:22
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — announcement: Hank promises that if people do this, he will say their sentence in a video. — 00:01:22
  • 2009-08-04 · Twitter Games and Truth or Fail — announcement: Hank hopes to fit all the sentences in, maybe not given his four minutes, and muses about working them into a song 'written by Twitter'. (hedged) — 00:01:22
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John and other Nerdfighters, in a BlogTV room, invented DJ Paige Railstone's identity, history and career; Alan made a website, Karen Kavett photos, plus Twitter and Facebook pages. — 00:01:49
  • 2009-08-18 (said on 2009-08-19, implied) · So Jokes: Video EP — Hank thanks his Twitter followers for sending the photos used in the video's slideshow. — video description
  • 2009-09-01 · I AM COMPUTER MAN!!! — ask: Hank asks viewers to vote in the comments for their one favorite photo, since the photographer is unsure which to use and he may use it on Twitter. — 00:02:04
  • 2009-09-03 (said on 2009-09-02, implied) · WTF IS GOING ON!!! — Hank reveals that the weird lines throughout the video are sentences he asked people on Twitter to give him to say in a video. — 00:01:47
  • 2009-10-21 · Balloon Boy: A Short Song — ask: Hank will probably post the track list on Twitter (twitter.com/hankgreen) and says viewers can also follow him on DailyBooth. (hedged) — 00:03:15
  • 2009-11-25 · Things I'm Not Thankful For — Hank says John has 1 million Twitter followers and he has 10,000; he is really happy with his 10,000, which seems ridiculous to him. (playful) — 00:02:17
  • 2009-12-06 · LOSERS!!!! — announcement: John calls the balloon challenge a way of limbering up for the Project for Awesome, coming as always on December 17th. — 00:02:54
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank says, as he said on Twitter, the team may have found only nine of the ten balloons in the real world. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:36
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank announces the Project for Awesome on December 17th, less than 10 days away since it is December 8th. — 00:02:05
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — Hank explains P4A: a day when YouTubers promote charities in videos with the same thumbnail, and thousands promote them, fooling YouTube's algorithms by commenting, watching, favoriting and rating. — 00:02:35
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — announcement: John says that this year (2009) in the Project for Awesome he will make a video in support of malaria research, joking that it's because curing malaria will make him rich. — 00:02:05
  • 2009-12-13 · Eyelash Malaria — announcement: John tells Nerdfighters to get their commenting and rating fingers ready for the Project for Awesome; a thumbnail for P4A videos can now be downloaded at the Ning. — 00:02:58
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John: Asked how long the Project for Awesome has been going on, John says this will be its third year. — 00:00:05
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — John defines the P4A: an annual tradition where many make videos for charities and many more rate, favorite and comment on them, so for one day YouTube's most popular videos are about decreasing world suck. — 00:00:25
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — announcement: John says P4A videos should be uploaded as close to noon Eastern time (5 p.m. GMT) as possible. — 00:01:17
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — announcement: John announces a live show from Thursday noon to Saturday morning, linked on Thursday morning, to organise going from video to video leaving comments, ratings and favorites. — 00:01:44
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — announcement: Hank says this is his Project for Awesome video and this year (2009) his money goes to his all-time favourite environmental charity, the Nature Conservancy. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-16 · Project for Awesome: The Nature Conservancy — announcement: Hank is auctioning on eBay the original hand-drawn cover of So Jokes and the pen drawings for the CD, by the album artist and signed by both; links are in the sidebar. — 00:01:25
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John announces that it is time for the 2009 Project for Awesome. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — John defines the P4A as an annual event where the YouTube community makes videos about charities and rates, favorites and comments on them to push them to the top of YouTube. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John explains the P4A is organised through Livestream this year (2009) because, though imperfect, it puts everyone in the same room; chatting only needs a Twitter account. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — announcement: The description lists P4A auctions (bobbleheads for Malaria No More and charity: water; So Jokes cover and disc art for the Nature Conservancy) and says Fall of Autumn Distro matches donations to Save the Music. — video description
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says the 2009 Project for Awesome was the awesomest ever, putting three years worth of awesome into 48 hours. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says #P4A trended above the movie Avatar for most of the P4A; Avatar cost $250 million to make, the P4A zero dollars. (playful) — 00:00:27
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John says there were more than 2,000 Project for Awesome videos this year (2009) and participants commented on them more than a million times. — 00:00:27
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John thanks the livestream hosts, from Maureen Johnson and Natalie Tran to several Five Awesome Girls, Liz, Karen Kavett and Alan of Fall of Autumn Distro, and the 2009 logo designer. — 00:01:22
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — announcement: John says several P4A items are still auctioned on eBay, including a nerdfighter's bobblehead of John benefiting charity: water; links are in the doobly-doo. — 00:01:51
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — John thanks Hank for inventing the idea of the Project for Awesome and for all the work he did to make it happen. — 00:02:21

2010

  • 2010-01-22 · ThisIsNotJohn — ask: Maureen Johnson: Maureen asks viewers to send comments on her performance to her on Twitter rather than by mail, and says she will read them. — 00:01:05
  • 2010-02-15 · Hello Baby!! — John says Amanda Bynes tweeted that she hates being misquoted, then less than 24 hours later tweeted a line attributed to Albert Einstein, which he calls a misquotation. — 00:00:46
  • 2010-02-17 · WRONG WRONG WRONG — John, phoning in, says Amanda Bynes did write the tweets and apparently deleted them afterwards. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:44
  • 2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — John: Googling himself, John found that a line he wrote years ago in An Abundance of Katherines has gone viral on Twitter, tweeted more than 10,000 times. — 00:01:03
  • 2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — John says the line ('what is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable') was meant as a joke: it is what Colin Singleton believes at the start and spends the book learning is bull. — 00:01:17
  • 2010-03-29 · Quotations (And Holden Hats) — John says that, painful as it is in a soundbite, Twitter world, text means nothing without its context. — 00:02:00
  • 2010-05-10 · Advice on Dumb Boyfriends, Going to College, and More — John says he asked Nerdfighters on Twitter whether they had any problems, and it turns out they do. — 00:00:09
  • 2010-05-31 · Farmville!!!!! A Song — Hank thanks people who submitted 'photomatronifications' for the video: Photomatron is software he is working on, still in beta (his Twitter followers had learned about the Photomatron beta), and it does not yet work in Firefox. — 00:02:11
  • 2010-06-02 (said on 2010-06-01, implied) · The Case of the Poopy Nintendo — John: To test Hank's theory, John asked on Twitter for miniature dachshund owners to measure the dogs' anus height; several dozen nerdfighters did. (playful) — 00:00:50
  • 2010-06-18 (said on 2010-06-19, implied) · You just lost THE GAME! — Hank, with Nerdfighteria, stages a mock intervention: John must cut back on soccer, since making a second Twitter account to tweet about the World Cup is too much. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-06-23 (said on 2010-06-24, implied) · GOOOOOOOL!!!! — Hank: Reading in bed with his wife in hot Missoula, windows open, Hank heard simultaneous screams across his neighborhood and checked Twitter on his Droid: every tweet said goal. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-06-23 (said on 2010-06-24, implied) · GOOOOOOOL!!!! — Hank quips that Twitter knows the news before the news knows the news. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-07-24 (said on 2010-07-23, implied) · Grammar School with Snooki — John: After Hank's video on Wednesday about meeting Snooki, a reality TV star John only half knew, John checked her Twitter, and what he found troubled him. — 00:00:19
  • 2010-08-11 · College Advice From an Expert — John says he tweeted Nerdfighters the day before asking for questions; they answered en masse, mostly about college. — 00:00:04
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — John: As examples John cites Esther's playful Formspring answer about naming her butt cheeks and a contemplative tweet about words going into her brain. — 00:00:46
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — recommendation: John links Esther's Twitter and YouTube accounts; she vlogged through much of the last month and her vlogs are hilarious, charming and very touching. — 00:02:14
  • 2010-09-17 · Positive Prank Calls!! — Hank thanks his Twitter followers: he asked them for encouraging statistics about the world, and they suggested most of the facts he used. — 00:02:56
  • 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank tweeted, as a joke rather than a serious question, asking for the word for when there should be a word for something but there isn't. — 00:01:09
  • 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank says Nerdfighters, 'because Nerdfighters know this stuff', quickly tweeted back that there is a phrase for it: lexical gap. — 00:01:19
  • 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank: After another follower suggested 'lacuna', Hank explains that for linguists a lacuna is a missing word that should exist; with non-linguists, 'lexical gap' is clearer. — 00:01:54
  • 2010-09-24 · Dumping My Girlfriend — John says that, as Hank pointed out on Twitter, the best antonym for 'virgin' suggested in the comments by far was 'virg-out'. (playful) — 00:00:28
  • 2010-10-19 (said on 2010-10-18, implied) · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — announcement: John says Hank designed and tweeted a cute image of giraffe love, which is now a t-shirt available for pre-order at DFTBA.com. — 00:00:19
  • 2010-10-29 · Hank Has Questions — Hank just got Fable III; before buying it he asked Nerdfighteria on Facebook and Twitter whether he should, given he'd likely be unproductive for weeks, and the overwhelming answer was yes. — 00:01:27
  • 2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song — announcement: Hank shows a new end screen the brothers are thinking of using: the left side (shirts, Truth or Fail) will change, while previous/next, subscribe, Twitter and Facebook stay; he asks for opinions. (hedged) — 00:03:03
  • 2010-12-07 · Tongue Twisters — The description links Nerdfighters' tongue-twister videos in many languages, among them Danish, Norwegian, Croatian, Cantonese, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Amharic and Japanese. — video description
  • 2010-12-07 · Tongue Twisters — Hank says he asked Nerdfighteria on Twitter for tongue twisters in their native languages and shares a montage of submissions (captioned as Palestinian Arabic, Dutch, Icelandic, Amharic, French, Cantonese and Norwegian). — 00:03:00

Also named in: Henry's Pee and My Gut, PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2010: Save the Children and Partners in Health

2011

  • 2011-01-28 · Is Hank Green Batman? — Hank reveals to Twitter followers the two truths and a lie he posted (first gray hair; trombone in high school; closet Alan Jackson fan), with the answer behind a click. (playful) — 00:03:23
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John notes much conversation on Tumblr, the Ning, YouTube and Twitter about Nerdfighteria changing as it grows and how to keep the community strong, and offers his two cents. — 00:00:56
  • 2011-02-11 · 200 People in Your Pants — Hank asked on Twitter for Your Pants logos and got a lot, many really great; 'the consensus in my heart' goes to Vondell Swain's logo, which invites people to make the YP sign with their pants, with a friend. — 00:02:27
  • 2011-03-07 · This Machine Pwns n00bs Video LP — announcement: Hank says the songs can be streamed free all day and night by anyone with a YouTube connection, and shared on Tumblr, Twitter or a weblog. — 00:00:12
  • 2011-03-28 · Participatory Geometry — John: Quoting a tweet that loves when he brandishes random things like black Santas in his videos, John brandishes. (playful) — 00:00:40
  • 2011-04-29 · Peanut Butter Face Question Tuesday — John: Helen Hunt has not yet heard Hank's Helen Hunt song, John says, pointing out that Helen Hunt has a Twitter. — 00:02:01
  • 2011-05-02 · Osama Bin Laden is Dead — Hank: While Katherine was in the bathroom during a Mario Kart Wii game, Hank checked Twitter and ended up watching Obama's address with the Mario Kart music playing. — 00:00:31
  • 2011-05-02 · Osama Bin Laden is Dead — Hank: Despite Jack Bauer trending on Twitter, Hank says bin Laden's death involved no rogue agents, weird intelligence activities, broken international treaties or torture. — 00:01:18
  • 2011-05-06 · Happy Birthday To Me! — Hank reports that on his birthday (5 May 2011) Helen Hunt tweeted at him that she had seen his videos. — 00:00:09
  • 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 — 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
  • 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — Hank: Asking on Twitter, Hank mostly got the list of criteria apparently taught in schools: move, respire, sense, reproduce, excrete and nourish. (hedged) — 00:00:41
  • 2011-06-13 · Google Is Alive! — Hank's own definition is 'life wants': if thing X needs thing Y to keep existing and tries to get Y, X is alive. — 00:01:06
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — ask: In the description Hank asks punishment suggesters to think more 'challenge' and less 'horrible death-defying punishment'. — video description
  • 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
  • 2011-08-03 · I Love My Brother — announcement: Hank says Your Pants is still down after being hacked, so ideas go in the YouTube comments or on Twitter with the hashtag punish Hank. — 00:02:55
  • 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
  • 2011-08-22 (said on 2011-08-23, implied) · Thoughts from a Butterfly Hatch — Hank says the very tame butterfly in his close-ups puzzled him, so he asked Twitter; the consensus is 'probably an eastern comma', but anglewings look so alike that they would probably need to examine its genitalia to be sure. (hedged) — video description
  • 2011-08-24 · HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN! — Hank: As mock presents Hank 'gives' John the week's news: a potential end to Gaddafi's rule, an embarrassed East Coast, Liverpool beating Exeter City 3-1, Hurricane Irene, a Barbie set, a Twitter founders' product. (joke) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John tells a young Twitter user whose boyfriend hasn't kissed her in almost five months of going out that kissing happens with you, not to you, so she should talk honestly with him. — 00:00:27
  • 2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — John says the great thing is that the brothers are not the only Nerdfighters: thousands work together through YouTube comments, Twitter, Tumblr, the Ning and Your Pants to improve the maps, making better maps than anyone could alone. — 00:01:50
  • 2011-10-03 · The LHC and Alex's Survey — Hank says he talked with Joe about the neutrino that supposedly went faster than light; he hasn't discussed it, though asked on Twitter, because he is reserving judgment and finds faster-than-light matter hard to accept. (unsure) — 00:03:05
  • 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — announcement: Hank: Answering FAQs gathered on Twitter, Hank says VidCon is in Anaheim, across the street from Disneyland at the Anaheim Convention Center, with lots of cheap hotels. — 00:01:31
  • 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — ask: Hank asks all of Nerdfighteria to dress poorly in commiseration with John and post photos tagged 'signing psychosis', preferably on Tumblr or Twitter, so they can laugh at them. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-10-24 · Signing Psychosis Takes Over — John thanks everyone for joining in Signing Psychosis: Nerdfighteria's fashion sense is getting worse along with his, which makes him feel better. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — Hank says the video comes in 27 parts, with an on-screen label for each, and that people he asked on Twitter supplied topics. — 00:00:00
  • 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
  • 2011-12-23 · 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
  • 2011-12-28 · Goats Mating — announcement: John: There are some new tickets to the Boston Tour de Nerdfighting event, and its venue has changed. — video description

Also named in: QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition

2012

  • 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 — 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
  • 2012-01-13 (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
  • 2012-01-17 · 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 — 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
  • 2012-01-31 · 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
  • 2012-02-24 · CUTE-OCALYPSE! — Hank proposes a mock cute tax on over-quota viewers, Emergency Puppy followers, Reddit subscribers and Pinterest otter searchers, to balance the national psyche and budget. (satire) — 00:02:13
  • 2012-04-13 (said on 2012-04-14, implied) · This is How You Load a Dishwasher - A Song — Hank notes that only twenty of Twitter's one hundred million active users turned out not to know about the Titanic. — 00:03:16
  • 2012-04-20 · Thoughts on Growing up — Hank thanks John for his well-received video answering questions on sex and relationships; out of sibling rivalry he answers Facebook and Twitter questions on adulthood and growing up. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says this dependence means companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter and Tumblr have to listen to their users, which is good. — 00:00:59
  • 2012-05-22 · You ARE The Product — John says everyone using Facebook, Twitter, Google or Angry Birds has agreed to be commodified: not necessarily a bad decision, but one to make thoughtfully and consciously. — 00:02:15
  • 2012-08-04 · EXTRA! Thoughts from Tour — ask: Hank invites viewers to join him on Sunday night, when he will live-tweet the landing from the SciShow Twitter. — 00:03:14
  • 2012-08-13 · John and Rainn Wilson Talk Romance — John says that, like Ze Frank and Wheezy Waiter, he recently got to talk to Rainn Wilson, and he asked Twitter for romantic problems they could solve together. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-09-18 (said on 2012-09-16, implied) · Existential Airport Anxiety — John: Recalling Montag's line about walls yelling at him, John says we literally live in a world of shouty walls, and his phone holds billions of voices on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. — 00:01:01

2013

Also named in: Addicted to the Internet

2014

  • 2014-01-17 · 54 JOKES! In Four Minutes! — In the description Hank thanks the Nerdfighters on Twitter who helped with the jokes and the jokes' original creators, and says he has now told 289 jokes across his jokes videos. — video description
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John: Joking, John invokes a 'rule of Twitter following' he just made up: you may call anyone you follow on Twitter by first name — like Barack, Beyonce and Ellen. (joke) — 00:00:46
  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John grants that the regulations and redistributive tax policies that improve equality of opportunity elsewhere limit innovation, partly why Apple, Twitter, Google and In-N-Out Burger began in the US. — 00:02:31
  • 2014-03-28 · New Album, New Channels, New Fabric, New Internet Thing! — ask: Hank, who loves personal book recommendations, proposes Reviewsday Tuesday: every Tuesday people photograph a book and review it on Instagram, Tumblr or Twitter. — 00:03:10
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — announcement: John invites viewers to follow the World Cup with him on his sports Twitter, @sportswithjohn. — 00:02:38
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank has a head cold, but John has just come home from hospital with viral meningitis, so Hank will suck it up and try to entertain him. — 00:00:01
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank tells confused viewers that John, his brother, got viral meningitis last week (week of 28 July 2014); he is home from hospital and fine, though still in significant pain. — 00:01:46
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John apologises that the video may be disjointed: the linings of his brain and spinal cord are inflamed. — 00:00:02
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: Last week (week of 4 August 2014) John messaged that he would miss his Vlogbrothers video because he was in hospital, then went back to being in the worst pain of his life. — 00:00:06
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: While he lay in pain, the internet 'diagnosed' him with Ebola: 'John Green Ebola' trended on Twitter and people he knew texted to ask if it was confirmed. (playful) — 00:00:14
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: Ten days before falling ill with what turned out to be viral meningitis, John was in Ethiopia, on the same continent as Guinea and Sierra Leone, where Ebola is spreading. — 00:00:31
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: In hospital, doctors worried he might have meningitis, malaria, typhoid or dengue fever, all potentially fatal, but were not worried about Ebola. — 00:01:04
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: It turns out John almost certainly caught meningitis not in Ethiopia but in Florida, in Orlando, the city of his youth. (hedged) — 00:03:31
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — announcement: John: Recovery will take a while, so John apologises in advance if he is not around as much in the coming weeks. — 00:03:41
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — announcement: John then rode in a helicopter with Bill Gates, which was terrifying and hilarious, and will tell Hank about it next week (week of 25 August 2014) unless he gets meningitis again. (playful) — 00:03:49
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John argues most humans love metaphors because so much human thinking is symbolic, e.g. imagining a meningitis headache as a vice gripping the head. (hedged) — 00:01:46
  • 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says the poor are voiceless in too much contemporary discourse: the boy's mother has no Twitter or YouTube channel, so we hear her challenges less directly than others'. — 00:01:04
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John recalls his amazing trip to Ethiopia in the last couple of months, for which he is grateful, and then getting meningitis. — 00:00:27
  • 2014-12-16 · Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome — John: In the livestream highlights John does peanut butter face with banana eyes and Sarah does jelly face; John recalls when #bananaeyes trended on Twitter: 'Happier days'. (playful) — 00:01:49
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — recommendation: Hank says that with help from people on Twitter he made a playlist of 2014's most important YouTube videos, including Emma Watson's and Malala's speeches and CGP Grey on why jobs may not exist in future. — 00:02:51

Also named in: Going to College (in Ethiopia)

2015

  • 2015-01-13 · On Writing, Looking for Alaska Turning 10, and Winning the Project for Awesome — John relays Nerdfighter Temerity Jane's Twitter quip that Looking for Alaska is now like a fifth grader, and riffs that it could read itself. (playful) — 00:00:30
  • 2015-01-27 · Will Life Get Better for the Poor? — John says we do not actually live in two worlds; it only feels so because no one in his neighborhood, or whom he follows on Tumblr, Twitter or Instagram, has stunted kids. — 00:02:34
  • 2015-02-13 · Draw My Life + 16 Other Suggestions — Hank says that, with nothing pressing to make a video about, he turned this one over to the Nerdfighters of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit to decide what he would do. — 00:00:01
  • 2015-02-17 · Places I've Never Been — John: After his last video a Nerdfighter asked who wore it better, Tom Hanks in Cast Away or John, and a commenter said the puff had migrated south; John says he has trimmed his beard. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — Hank tells Nerdfighteria they are really important in his life, so it feels wrong not to talk about important things happening to him, on video or social media. — 00:00:59
  • 2015-05-22 · 15 Rants in Four Minutes — Hank, wanting to make John feel better, asked Twitter whether to make a rant video or a joke video; the answer was overwhelmingly rants. — 00:00:01
  • 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John tells German Nerdfighters he will post on Twitter if more Berlin tickets become available and hopes they enjoy 'Margos Spuren'. — 00:00:17
  • 2015-06-19 · 19 Ways to Not Suck on the Internet — Hank says many people on Twitter and Tumblr pointed him to Wheaton's Law, basically 'don't be a jerk', which he likes but finds a little subjective. — 00:02:49
  • 2015-07-21 · PAPER TOWNS IS HERE AND JOHN IS A BALL OF ANXIETY — John thanks people on Twitter and Snapchat who helped him pick his premiere suit and says he may need help choosing a tie. (playful) — 00:00:41
  • 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria — John says he took the Nerdfighter Census yesterday and it was a great survey, but jokes that some questions weren't inclusive of him, such as whether he follows John on Twitter. (playful) — 00:00:49
  • 2015-08-25 · Question Tuesday: The Goat Edition — both: John asks why all the questions are about goats; Hank admits he asked for questions and also asked people to ask about goats, and John finds his tweet 'Goat questions preferred'. (playful) — 00:01:15
  • 2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — announcement: John: Breaking his hiatus to check Twitter, John learns Hank launched a new company: DFTBA Games, co-founded by Hank, has a Kickstarter for its first game, the card game Wizard School. — 00:02:26
  • 2015-10-09 · The Surprising Truth About FLORIDA MAN! — Hank: After reading three Florida Man headlines, Hank says the Florida Man headline has become a cliche, with a Twitter account devoted to Florida Man's adventures. — 00:01:15
  • 2015-11-10 · It's a Pizzamas Miracle! (Pizzamas Day 2) — John: After John got meningitis last year (2014), Bill Gates sent him a get-well-soon orchid, a thoughtful gesture John really appreciated. — 00:01:26
  • 2015-11-13 · Feeling About Paris — Hank has a friend in Paris right now who has not tweeted or posted on social media, which is terrifying. — 00:00:40
  • 2015-11-13 · Feeling About Paris — Hank says whatever response people have is appropriate: disengaging, staring at live feeds from Twitter and Reddit, or being terrified for friends, family, themselves or just people. (hedged) — 00:01:20

2016

Also named in: On Not Seeing Hamilton

2017

  • 2017-01-06 · Too Excited about Pears! (Question Tuesday with Hank) — announcement: Hank says answering even one hard question on Vlogbrothers takes too long for a Question Tuesday, so he might edit his hard-question answers into smaller videos for Twitter, Facebook or Hankschannel if he has time. (hedged) — video description
  • 2017-01-06 · Too Excited about Pears! (Question Tuesday with Hank) — Hank says he asked people on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to ask him hard questions. — 00:00:16
  • 2017-01-13 · Top 10 Best Dogs Ever — Hank asked Twitter on Wednesday to pick among three video topics; many wanted none, and a much-liked tweet suggesting puppies gave this video its subject. — 00:00:01
  • 2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — The description recalls that on US election night Hank tweeted his most retweeted tweet ever: he knows many wonderful people dedicated to improving the world, which won't change. — video description
  • 2017-01-24 · On Motivation — John says the characters in An Abundance of Katherines hopefully spend the novel learning that an unremarkable life can be fulfilling and meaningful. (hedged) — 00:00:40
  • 2017-02-03 · Are We Making Things Worse? — Hank: Last weekend Hank offered on Twitter to donate $5 to the ACLU for every hand-drawn message of support for immigrants and refugees; he got over 2,000, some beautiful art. — 00:02:01
  • 2017-02-17 · As Cold as The Milk: Learning Spanish with Luzu — Hank says he asked on Twitter for suggestions of things for him and Luzu to do. — 00:00:57
  • 2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John recalls that at VidCon, while he scrolled his Twitter feed checking everyone was having a good time, a friend said he seemed stressed and he answered 'Twitter'. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John coins 'twittering', his word for the buzzing misery the social internet fills him with: a brew of outrage, worry, exhaustion and not being able to look away. — 00:00:10
  • 2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John thinks Twitter and Facebook are useful, important and in pockets beautiful, and he has benefited a lot, but most of the time his feeling on the social internet is 'ahhh'. (hedged) — 00:00:35
  • 2017-03-21 · My Information Diet — John: On a friend's advice, a month later after an egregious bout of twittering, John made his phone a dumb phone: no Twitter, Facebook, email or Reddit, and he deleted Pokémon Go, breaking his son's heart. — 00:00:49
  • 2017-03-28 · Why Can't America Have a Grown-Up Healthcare Conversation? — Aaron Carroll (quoted): Dr. Carroll, quoted by John from Twitter: however you reform health care there will be trade-offs, and those who promise you everything are lying. — 00:06:45
  • 2017-04-18 · Framing — John says making videos, even ones without your face, is often a kind of self-portraiture, as are your Twitter and Facebook: it is you, but framed. — 00:01:50
  • 2017-06-20 · FIRST! Green Brothers Reunited Again — John reveals Hank's first tweet, from June 2007 on his EcoGeek handle: writing up stories for EcoGeek and wondering when Google would buy Twitter. — 00:03:06
  • 2017-06-23 · Reviewing Musicals from their Wikipedia Pages — Hank realises from his calendar that he cannot possibly make a video next week (week of 26 June 2017) because he will be all over Los Angeles, so he asked Twitter what to do. — 00:00:02
  • 2017-07-28 · Why You Haven't Started a Business — Hank's Twitter survey of his followers found 15% of those over 18 had already started a business, 55% had considered it, and only 11% were not at all interested. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-08-11 · Life is not a Job Training Program — Hank asked on Twitter what people wanted him to talk about on Vlogbrothers; many asked about college, so he collected college questions. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — The description says Hank wishes he could talk finances with Chelsea and Lauren all day and links their channel, blog, Twitters and a longer cut. — video description
  • 2017-09-22 · How to Invest (and other money questions with The Financial Diet) — recommendation: Hank urges viewers who want more to watch The Financial Diet on YouTube; they are also on Twitter and have a blog. — 00:03:33
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — John: Watching Hank perform at his old high school, John thinks of Hank's kindness: a month away from family and jobs to tour with him, his Twitter profile turned into turtles, and constant support since high school; John is lucky and grateful. — 00:01:56
  • 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
  • 2017-11-21 · Two Love Stories — John: In October 2012, before John's Cincinnati library event, Kenny tweeted asking whether to skip business law class to come; John said no, school matters more, but he came anyway. — 00:01:29
  • 2017-12-01 · Let's Talk About Stress! — Hank says flight is reading about linguistics or going on Twitter or Facebook, and asks what fighting is, since he can't punch his email inbox. — 00:02:08
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says now is the time to start inundating him with casting suggestions, because no one ever reads his Twitter bio. (joke) — 00:03:10
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — John says he has been feeling 'blech': he is kind of fed up with 2017 and finds large swaths of the social internet disheartening. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — John: By some measures 2017 is the best year in history (not Twitter's): absolute poverty is at its lowest share, schooling and adult literacy at their highest, and cancer death rates are down globally. — 00:00:48

2018

  • 2018-01-09 · Your Attention — Samuel Ashworth (quoted): Samuel Ashworth wrote that no Twitter user needs telling why it is the worst: it is an endlessly self-renewing bonfire of outrage and confusion. — 00:00:18
  • 2018-01-09 · Your Attention — John thinks that is true not only of Twitter but of YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and so on. (hedged) — 00:00:28
  • 2018-01-09 · Your Attention — John says Twitter is structured not to make us better informed or happier but to keep us on Twitter, and the same is true of Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and cable news. — 00:02:30
  • 2018-02-02 · What is That Plane Rainbow? (It's Question Tuesday) — Hank's first question from Twitter is whether numbers are real or made up; he balks that they started out hard when question videos should be easier. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:14
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank recalls that four years ago, lacking a video idea, he asked Twitter for ideas, and Shaina Joseph told him to interview a sidewalk, which he did. — 00:00:06
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John asks whether real power lies with the Twitter user choosing tweets and follows or the algorithm choosing what they see, and with people making markets work or markets making people work. — 00:03:31
  • 2018-03-30 · The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Thoughts from Amsterdam — announcement: Hank loves his new podcast, Delete This, in which Katherine reviews his Twitter feed; links and maybe some coupon codes are in the description. — 00:02:24
  • 2018-03-30 · The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Thoughts from Amsterdam — Hank wants more chances to examine the stories he tells himself: a weekly hour on his Twitter feed with someone who cares, travel and time-lapses, and gatherings of like-minded people. — 00:02:35
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank says listeners of Delete This, the podcast he does with his wife, know that he and Katherine are at opposite ends of that spectrum. — 00:00:44
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank asked Twitter and Facebook for great things he might be missing and offers a list of sources of respite from other people and his own brain. — 00:01:51
  • 2018-05-08 · Old Man Yells at Cloud — John doesn't think the internet used to be amazing (1994 AOL chat rooms make 2018 Twitter look civil and sophisticated); he thinks he has changed. (hedged) — 00:02:13
  • 2018-05-08 · Old Man Yells at Cloud — John: Without a sense of obligation John doesn't think he would be on Twitter, Reddit and the rest, and maybe he shouldn't feel obliged to be in virtual spaces that make his life worse. (hedged) — 00:02:21
  • 2018-05-08 · Old Man Yells at Cloud — John: The internet pulls John back: he doesn't want to miss out, wants to share his work, books he loves and causes he cares about, and feels an almost physical urge to check. — 00:02:32
  • 2018-05-08 · Old Man Yells at Cloud — John: If John is quiet on Twitter or elsewhere, viewers should know he is probably in his garden and quite content. (hedged) — 00:03:30
  • 2018-05-18 · Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday — Hank is in Florida for his in-laws' 50th wedding anniversary and tweeted that he needed to make a fun, quick, not stressful video so he could get back to celebrating. — 00:00:40
  • 2018-05-25 · Please Unsubscribe — announcement: Hank almost made this video on Hank's channel, where he has been goofing off for weeks, but John gave him permission on Twitter to goof off here. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2018-05-25 · Please Unsubscribe — Hank: Since subscriptions are a smaller and shrinking piece of the pie, you would think people would freak out less when someone said on Twitter their sub feed was suddenly not chronological. — 00:00:46
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — announcement: John will live-tweet every game of this year's (2018) World Cup from his sports Twitter, @sportswithjohn. — 00:03:50
  • 2018-06-19 · My Signature Move — announcement: The description warns that the Kirkus review contains spoilers and points to a spoiler-free version on Hank's Twitter, alongside the full review. — video description
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John asks whether that is how things end online, still present but relevant only as nostalgia, and whether it will happen to Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. (speculative) — 00:00:52
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — ask: Hank asks whoever finds the hammer he hid in the bushes to let him know, preferably on Twitter, so people know it has been found. (playful) — video description
  • 2018-08-03 · How Do Adults Make Friends? — Hank asked on Twitter this week (week of 30 July 2018) for questions about family and friends, to get at something he has been thinking about. — 00:00:21
  • 2018-08-10 · My Giant Robot Suit — Hank writes that we all wear robot suits now and are more powerful than we think, so it is easy to go too hard, whether you have built your suit for a decade or just have a Twitter account. (hedged) — video description
  • 2018-08-17 · My Worst Job Search Fail — Hank asked on Twitter, and in an AskReddit post, for unexpected ways candidates had disqualified themselves, and got many good replies. — 00:02:13
  • 2018-08-17 · My Worst Job Search Fail — recommendation: Hank: Since many hirers cite bios like 'lazy procrastinator', Hank tells job seekers to pause self-deprecating Twitter bios during the job hunt. — 00:02:48
  • 2018-08-24 · The Top 10 John Green GIFs — announcement: Hank: To celebrate John's career, Hank presents John's life 'as decided by the hive mind': the top 10 GIFs from searching John's name in Twitter's GIF search. — 00:00:19
  • 2018-09-04 · The Eisenhower Matrix — John: Unimportant, unurgent things should be skipped, for John every minute on Twitter; but Twitter makes many people happy and we must leave room for happiness. (playful) — 00:02:15
  • 2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — announcement: Hank says, as Twitter followers may already know, he used part of his book advance to fund independent artists to make art based on the book; the pieces are on his Instagram. — 00:18:56
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — recommendation: Hank and his wife have a podcast, Delete This, about his social media use; it has been really good for him and a ton of fun because she is hilarious. — 00:02:50
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — John recalls Hank saying on Twitter that he loves Coca-Cola but wishes it didn't exist; that is how John feels about Twitter. — 00:00:29
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — John thinks many people use these platforms productively and fulfillingly, and that they connect people and give more people a voice in public discourse. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — John's first problem: he lacks the willpower to resist the allure of Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter. — 00:01:27
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — announcement: John will take a year off: he will block Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter from his browsers and truly dumb down his phone so he cannot access them. — 00:02:26
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — announcement: John: The year off starts next month (December 2018) when the Project for Awesome ends; on YouTube things stay much the same, with a Vlogbrothers video every week. — 00:02:55
  • 2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off — ask: John asks viewers who have tried a version of this, or have tips for him, to tell him. — 00:03:24
  • 2018-11-07 · A New Thing? — Hank: Earlier this year (2018) Hank tweeted a 'really bad idea': what if you had to go to a place to watch a YouTube video? The most common response was 'thanks, I hate it'. — 00:00:00
  • 2018-12-28 · The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) — announcement: Hank asks Katherine whether she is excited to be at PodCon and to do a live Delete This there. — 00:00:50
  • 2018-12-28 · The Cutest Thing My Son Has Done and More (With Katherine) — announcement: Hank points viewers to their podcast Delete This: it is free and recorded in this room, usually on the couch, sometimes from their bed. — 00:02:06

2019

Also named in: Book News!

2020

  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John also wants to continue not losing large swaths of his life scrolling through Twitter as dread washes over him. — 00:03:09
  • 2020-01-14 · Foolish · Beautiful — John asks Hank whether he should go back to his sports Twitter account, @sportswithjohn, rather than regular Twitter. — 00:03:11
  • 2020-01-14 · Foolish · Beautiful — John jokes that since he left Twitter Liverpool have not lost a Premier League game, so why would he go back. (playful) — 00:03:19
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank asked on Twitter, and someone identified a device in the ad as a microbiological air sampler, a real science instrument. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-02-14 · Ending The Great Airplane Seat Debate — Hank says that without good ways to resolve conflict or handle imperfect situations, people end up angry, irrational and going viral on Twitter. — 00:02:36
  • 2020-02-28 · I'M FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE — Hank: Asked by Kilko on Twitter how he copes, Hank says a new season of RuPaul's Drag Race is coming, which will help; we're working through it, as a species and individually. — 00:03:09
  • 2020-03-13 · The Anxious Scroll — Hank finds Twitter's reminder that stress lowers your immune system a little dubious and complicated, and it doesn't make him less stressed. — 00:01:58
  • 2020-03-20 · The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation — Hank could find no English word for the feeling, so he wrote to Susie Dent, his favorite game show linguist, who replied on Twitter. — 00:03:19
  • 2020-05-08 · The years start coming and they don't stop coming! — Hank says he did not write the song: an eight-year-old child wrote it and went viral on Twitter; he only added a beginning and an end. — 00:01:29
  • 2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star — John: Hank's first book, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, was the main reason John quit using the social internet in 2018. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John has focused his life on being productive with a very narrow definition: YouTube videos count but woods walks with his kids don't, email but not Twitter, good artists' art but not his. — 00:01:27
  • 2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank says Facebook is also a big media player, yet he spends about 15 minutes a month there; his posts there are just reposted tweets. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank grants TikTok has problems but questions whether it is more of a security concern than Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. — 00:00:46
  • 2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank says about a month earlier Twitter had a hack that exposed all of its users' direct messages to hackers, which he calls about as bad as it gets. (doubtful: all of the direct messages of all of its users) — 00:00:58
  • 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John says the brothers have talked about the Rax Guy so much in the last ten years because he was like the first Twitter user, posting short observations to his fence. (playful) — 00:01:50
  • 2020-10-13 (said on 2020-10-05, implied) · Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle — John: On 5 October 2020, among vague predictions that are always accurate, John predicts Twitter, Reddit and Facebook will be dumpster fires he can't stop refreshing unless he physically leaves the internet. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2020-12-04 · The Christmas Creature — announcement: Hank shares a book by Erin Kubo that he saw as a Twitter thread twelve months ago and loved so much he turned it into a video: a reading of The Christmas Creature. — 00:00:03
  • 2020-12-04 · The Christmas Creature — Hank says he rarely asks Twitter creators to license their work, yet here he had Sam animate it, licensed music and recorded narration for about two hours to get two minutes. — 00:02:48

Also named in: Gifts That Changed My Life, So Much to Do

2021

  • 2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: Under 'read books, not tweets', John says reading Annie Dillard, Terry Tempest Williams or even Paul Farmer's upsetting book on Sierra Leone and Ebola leaves him informed and engaged, without Twitter's panicky dopamine rush. — 00:02:45
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — ask: Hank: First way to take part: join the livestream and tell people about it, for example by changing your Twitter bio. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-02-16 · A Lovely Winter Walk — John is grateful to everyone who took part: donating, making P4A videos, voting for charities, and the jokes and memes shared in chat. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-03-12 · A Crisis of Branding — Hank's affinity for pelicans isn't a thing anywhere else; he talks about pelicans on Twitter only a little. — 00:01:20
  • 2021-03-19 · How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change? — ask: Hank has posted a blank alignment chart; viewers can fill out their own and post it on Twitter with a hashtag given in the description. — 00:02:44
  • 2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea — Hank mentions a website, born of a running joke among some people on Twitter, that counts the days since he last started a new thing; it stands at seven days, since the launch of the Life's Little Lies TikTok. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed is essays in the form of in-depth Yelp reviews, reviewing things like viral meningitis, a photograph and the first five minutes of Penguins of Madagascar. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-04-30 · Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse — Hank heard on The Ezra Klein Show the claim, which he has made to John and John has disputed, that Twitter is both indispensable and dystopian. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-04-30 · Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse — Hank says Twitter is dystopic: a room without walls where everyone must perform for everyone, with no space for careful, thoughtful, de-escalating conversation. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-04-30 · Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse — The description says the most interesting thing is the tweets' traction: the conversation they created was never less extreme than the original tweet, always more extreme. — video description
  • 2021-04-30 · Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse — Hank says Twitter is indispensable: much culture is made there, especially in politics and journalism, and powerful conversations start there, though its structure strips their nuance. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-04-30 · Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse — Hank reports the original tweets' pitch: storytellers want viewers less concerned about problems and more about policing the tactics used to fix them. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-04-30 · Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse — Hank says that lone-ruler thought is also kind of a Twitter thought. — 00:03:20
  • 2021-05-07 · Are We The Same Person? — Hank searched Twitter for four words (Hank, John, Green and same) and found that a lot of people think he and John are the same person. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-05-21 · The 19 Best Facts — The description says the thread got a further 900 replies with more facts he would have listed: spacewalking astronauts often lose their fingernails for unknown reasons, sharks predate Saturn's rings, and Abraham Lincoln is in the wrestling hall of fame. — video description
  • 2021-05-21 · The 19 Best Facts — Hank: Because he likes to share knowledge and learn things, Hank tweeted asking for people's best fact, read over 900 replies, and selected the best facts by his own judgement. — 00:00:14
  • 2021-05-21 · The 19 Best Facts — Hank: The fact most liked on the tweet: Arctic comes from the Greek for near the bear, so Antarctic roughly means not near the bear, and indeed the Arctic has bears and Antarctica has none. — 00:02:38
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank notes John, not very active on Twitter, is a little more active than he used to be, and welcomes him back. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — The description says Hank has no good answer: everyone's experience of Twitter differs, and there are reasons to be pretty angry right now. (unsure) — video description
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: Twitter offers a followable 'John Green actor' topic for John, an inaccurate one; Hank doesn't follow it, since following his brother as a topic is too much. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: There is an active discussion about abandoning Twitter, which Hank understands: it brings him little joy, is stressful and heightens his and everyone's emotions. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank doesn't know that heightened emotions are helping right now; maybe they are, it's not clear. (unsure) — 00:00:45
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: To those who say Twitter can't be fixed without leaving it, Hank answers that it doesn't work, because Twitter remains a tremendously important cultural force with or without him. — 00:00:56
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: Unfortunately a place can be both apocalyptically bad and vital, necessary and unavoidable. — 00:01:05
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: Knowing John may disagree, Hank thinks he can stay on Twitter and bring perspective on how to use the platform better. — 00:01:22
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: Twitter's norms have changed and will keep changing; maybe they will change in ways that make us better at this. (hedged) — 00:01:30
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank has seen no real evidence of improvement: daily trending topics are the hottest thing in the hottest light, and if nothing is there, someone manufactures it, even digging up something from four years ago. — 00:01:38
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: Clicked from Twitter the article is paywalled, though Googling it makes it readable, so Twitter users get only the headline and subhead. — 00:02:10
  • 2021-06-04 · Is Twitter Redeemable? — Hank: The headline manufactured a discourse unlike the one the article intended, and it became a big hot thing on Twitter; such things are unsurprising because they work. — 00:03:05
  • 2021-07-16 · Should You Abandon Social Media? — The description says Hank thinks about Twitter a lot, probably too much. (hedged) — video description
  • 2021-07-16 · Should You Abandon Social Media? — Hank: Rejecting the usual choice of staying on or leaving Twitter, Hank proposes a third: use Twitter the way you wish other people used it, which is hard but possible. — 00:00:51
  • 2021-07-16 · Should You Abandon Social Media? — Hank: Since around January this year (2021) Hank has used Twitter in a way he enjoys: making jokes, talking about things he loves and his life, and joining productive discussion of less heated topics. (hedged) — 00:01:19
  • 2021-07-16 · Should You Abandon Social Media? — Hank says that is hard because either Twitter's culture or its structure seems to want to draw users into the hottest thing of the day. (hedged) — 00:01:19
  • 2021-07-16 · Should You Abandon Social Media? — Hank says two days ago Lindsey Graham tweeted he would go to war for Chick-fil-A's values, a tweet so well designed to create screaming that this is clearly its goal; Hank began composing a reply. — 00:01:45
  • 2021-07-16 · Should You Abandon Social Media? — Hank deleted his tweet because this is exactly what Twitter is worst at: attention to such a controversy only lends power to divisive politicians who chip humanity apart to create engaged anger. — 00:02:14
  • 2021-07-27 · Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns — John is often obsessed with what's next and with feeling busy and engaged with the right now; Twitter's box asks 'what's happening?', and he has wanted to be part of it. — 00:02:31
  • 2021-08-20 · Question Tuesday Except I'm an AI — Hank: The AI says it likes Twitter because it goes there first thing in the morning and it blurs news and not news, which made Hank feel a little too seen. (playful) — 00:03:00
  • 2021-08-27 · Is it Better Not to Know? — Hank saw a New York Times tweet being shouted about on Twitter and quote-tweeted the article, saying he didn't know why people were upset: would you rather not know at all? — 00:00:00
  • 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank: During Facebook's outage a tweet claiming Facebook might be gone got 400,000 likes and retweets; Hank says it rested on a misunderstanding of how websites work. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank says platforms, viewers and he himself are all bad at this: it is a revolution in human-to-human communication and a baby, with no systems yet for many-to-many decentralized communication. — 00:04:55
  • 2021-10-07 · We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong — Hank: The real danger and power of platforms is not hosting but deciding what gets new eyeballs; promoting is an active editorial decision by the company, even when made by an algorithm. — 00:16:18
  • 2021-10-14 · Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday — John: Dave is doing Dave stuff: John used to feel bad that Dave had no Twitter or YouTube, but now thinks Dave maybe just achieved enlightenment. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2021-11-19 · How do We Get Anything Done At All? — Hank's point: some things definitely don't matter, and we know it, yet they jar us when others do them differently, like light-mode Twitter, noseless smileys or dubbed Cowboy Bebop. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-11-19 · How do We Get Anything Done At All? — Hank: We think our way is how everyone should do it and invent reasons; people prefer whichever Cowboy Bebop they watched first, and what bugs us is not the rationalizations but just the difference. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-11-30 · Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST — John recalls Hank recently tweeted that he doesn't feel guilty for his thoughts, then sent John a worried follow-up text explaining it. — 00:01:12
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John and Hank planned to look at their 2011 tweets, but John deleted all his 2011 tweets long ago, so they read Hank's ten-year-old tweets instead. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John: On Hank's 2011 tweet that communication is being revolutionized, John says it was exciting like going up a roller coaster; now it is like going down further than you went up. — 00:03:10

Also named in: Remembering What's Special

2022

  • 2022-04-15 · Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap — Hank says this is sometimes caused by awful people who manipulate others into fear to get views, follows or votes. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-05-06 · Why I Didn't Quit YouTube (yet) — Hank: Sometimes Hank tweets something he has believed since high school and people say he has changed; he has, but not on that. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank recounts that on March 25 Musk polled whether Twitter adheres to free speech; after 70% of 2 million voters said no, he called Twitter the de facto public town square. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — The description predicts Musk will likely back out of the deal once shown how hard it is to balance open speech with a platform people don't flee; otherwise he becomes the bogeyman. (hedged) — video description
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — In a comment Hank says Twitter is a very important tool for speech, like a monopoly on paper, and it is weird for it to have so much power. — creator comment
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank: Not long after the poll, Musk announced an agreement to buy Twitter. — 00:00:30
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank says a concern has borne out: Musk sees Twitter through the atypical lens of a billionaire with 80 million followers. — 00:00:30
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank says Musk does not oppose subjective moderation on Twitter; he wants it to work the way he wants. — 00:02:12
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank: Critics weren't reacting against free speech: where to draw the line is the hard part, and Twitter without subjective moderation cannot function, as Musk took three weeks to learn. — 00:02:12
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank: As of this morning Musk says the deal is temporarily on hold while he investigates Twitter's claims about how many users are bots; Hank doesn't know what this means. — 00:02:12
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank says he was not that interested in talking about what Musk would do to Twitter, since it was not a done deal and Musk had not thought critically about moderation on a many-to-many platform. — 00:02:57
  • 2022-05-13 · What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter — Hank suggests the problem is not Twitter's free-speech dedication but that we invited a private company into the role of de facto town square, which Musk buying Twitter won't solve. (hedged) — 00:03:26
  • 2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John retweeted the story; the reply Twitter showed most people asked how she became unexpectedly pregnant and whether she had sex without protection. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-05-17 · Reasons Not to Care — John: With a new horror in our feeds every 280 characters or 10 TikTok seconds, we can't respond to every crisis, so we look for reasons not to: they did it to themselves, the government's corrupt. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-06-21 · On Disease — John lists the itises he has or has had: orbital cellulitis, eosinophilic esophagitis and viral meningitis, besides ordinary ones like sinusitis and gastritis. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-08-19 · What if a lot of the Cynicism is Unjustified??? — Hank: Repeating his Twitter line, Hank calls voting the butt wiping of democracy: it doesn't solve every problem and isn't all you should do, but it is low-lift and worth doing. (playful) — 00:03:05
  • 2022-08-26 · I Searched for 'Science Side of Twitter' and Answered As Many Questions as I Could — Hank says people used to ask the 'science side of Tumblr' questions and very occasionally ask the 'science side of Twitter'; he searched it and will answer as many as he can in four minutes. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-08-26 · I Searched for 'Science Side of Twitter' and Answered As Many Questions as I Could — Hank: Answering a 2:27 a.m. tweet about waking friends to get a phone charger, Hank says the tweeter doesn't need to be on Twitter anymore: it's bedtime. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2022-08-30 · How to Buy Good Art for Less Than $100,000,000 — John: Russell's prints are $40 on his website, similarly talented artists worldwide sell work, and many take commissions via Instagram or Twitter. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — Hank saw a 'nerd farters' hashtag trending on Twitter and was astounded to find it was an October Nerdfighter art prompt challenge he didn't know existed. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — Hank says he found it through Twitter's trending tab, which he famously dislikes, though the product delivered one useful piece of information. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — ask: The description invites viewers to see the hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers entries on the NerdfArters Twitter account. — video description
  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — ask: Hank points viewers to the nerdfarters hashtag or account on Twitter for the hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers prompt and hopes the video inspires more people to check it out and submit. — 00:02:20
  • 2022-10-14 · The Surprise Revelation of NerdfArters — Hank wishes Twitter's hashtags weren't constantly full of things that make him angry and sad, though sometimes they bring things that make him happy. — 00:03:20
  • 2022-10-21 · This 'Math Test' Changed How I See Humanity — Hank says a math question (9 times 10 is 90, 8 times 9 is 72 and so on; what is 3?) went viral on Twitter because people argued about the answer. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-10-25 · Instantly Debateable — John says videos with higher engagement-to-view ratios on YouTube or TikTok are shown to more people, and the same is true on his Twitter. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-10-25 · Instantly Debateable — John's joke tweet about the former UK Prime Minister got 20,000 likes and generated over 100 new followers. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank recalls arguing months ago that Musk misunderstood content moderation, which, as Nilay Patel says, is a social platform's main product; he thinks he was right about that. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — The description says Hank feels less and less good about being on Twitter. — video description
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — The description suggests Musk thought Twitter's previous owners deliberately exercised power over him, and so feels justified exercising power over others: trolled, he now trolls back. (hedged) — video description
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — The description says Musk wasn't abused, just scrutinised like any powerful person, which is probably hard; making himself even more powerful seems a bad choice. — video description
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank: In a channel comment, the video's author says Musk's first move was to tighten Twitter's parody policy beyond the law and old Twitter, because looseness would hurt revenue. — creator comment
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank: In a channel comment, the video's author says he is not sure how much longer he wants to fight for Twitter. — creator comment
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says Musk's public line was that if people want laws preventing speech they will pass them, and until then Twitter should allow all legal speech. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank admits he was totally wrong to expect Musk's audience to turn on him quickly once Twitter, still a business needing users and advertisers, forced him into subjective moderation decisions. — 00:01:27
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says Musk need not change Twitter's moderation policies to satisfy his audience, because it is about vibes, not policy: not the decisions but who makes them. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says Musk has so far changed no policies, even those he most objected to, though Hank wouldn't put it past him, and his audience seems unconcerned. — 00:01:56
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says Twitter's previous management, for all its failures, tried to listen and make thoughtful, transparent decisions, while Musk is gleefully antagonistic to people who disagree. — 00:02:26
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says that if those people leave, Twitter becomes an $8-a-month subscription to the Elon Musk fan club, which is not a good website. (hypothetical) — 00:02:26
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says Musk was right about a second thing: people flock to Twitter because of his erratic behaviour, wanting not stability but constant reality-TV drama that feels important while mostly inconsequential. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank says leaning into the interesting has helped Twitter's growth but has been very bad for Twitter internally and for advertising dollars. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — Hank has no idea whether a sustainable business can be built this way, but it seems like it would be hard. (hedged) — 00:02:55
  • 2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — ask: Hank says the Awesome Socks Club, unlike Twitter, brings him joy monthly: a pair by a different independent artist each month, free shipping, cancel anytime, ankle or mid-calf crew. — 00:03:24
  • 2022-12-06 · AI tells me if AI will write novels. — John is freaked out that this technology means we are already having vitriolic arguments on Twitter and other sites with people who are not actually people. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-12-16 · What I Would Have Tweeted — The description says Hank feels much better and good about not being on Twitter, which seems messy and increasingly unimportant, though that is probably how it felt to everyone not on it. (hedged) — video description
  • 2022-12-16 · What I Would Have Tweeted — Hank has decided not to use Twitter until January, for a holiday break and a break from whatever Twitter is, with fun and productive things to do instead. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-12-16 · What I Would Have Tweeted — Hank still has the urge and ideas to tweet, so he reads some of the tweets he would have posted. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-12-16 · What I Would Have Tweeted — Hank: A would-be tweet says it's not good to be good at something bad; Hank explains it was about himself being good at tweeting, which doesn't mean he should do it. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-12-20 · The Best Books Get Better — The description says Hank's books managed to foresee everything from ChatGPT to Late Stage Twitter. (playful) — video description
  • 2022-12-23 · You Cannot Trust Yourself (Hank's End of the Year Worries) — Hank thinks fiction, writing and reading are a good place for insight: Elon Musk and Twitter bury him in details, but his character Peter and Altus he understands. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-12-23 · You Cannot Trust Yourself (Hank's End of the Year Worries) — Hank says he is very good at becoming whatever a platform wants him to be: he got good at YouTube, Twitter and TikTok, and just had the top toot of the day on Mastodon. — 00:01:38

Also named in: Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties

2023

  • 2023-01-10 · Introducing: The Format — John says he keeps being astonished that people who behave like a 'first name plus numbers' account on Twitter or Reddit really do have such usernames. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2023-01-17 · John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions — John lists Hank's podcasts: Dear Hank and John, Delete This and SciShow Tangents. — 00:02:26
  • 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John: A while back John decided he didn't need a Twitter and turned his Twitter account into the Awesome Coffee Club's. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John: Feeling the club, not he, should have all those followers, John handed the password to longtime nerdfighter Payton and bid farewell to Twitter. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-01-24 · Behind the Scenes of my TUMBLR MEME LORD ERA — John then missed the social internet: partly making low-quality memes, partly the adventure, the adrenaline and the dread. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-02-03 · My Mid-Afternoon Existential Crisis — Hank says he and Katherine have been enjoying Delete This and fell into a new format, Wet or Dry: one wet thing, one dry thing, and which is better. — 00:02:40
  • 2023-02-28 · Empathy and its Limits — John recalls that when he had meningitis he was rarely alone, except in his fear and pain, where he was always alone. — 00:02:47
  • 2023-03-17 (said on 2023-03-16, implied) · This is a Video!! — Hank: After a wild week, Hank has only just started at 5:59 on Thursday with no ideas, so he asked for help on Twitter and will do what viewers say. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John found it funny that Hank tweeted he was getting chemo and asked for pelican pictures, then minutes later apologized in case that was how people found out. (playful) — 00:00:24
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John: When John was hospitalized with meningitis, his best friend Chris greeted him by saying he thought John had already had all the itises; hilarious from Chris, less so from a doctor. — 00:01:50
  • 2023-05-26 · My Cancer Press Tier List — Hank guesses the NPR author, Tilda Wilson, is already in the community: a They Might Be Giants lyric in the Twitter bio, and they follow him. (playful, speculative) — 00:01:56
  • 2023-07-07 · What to Get for a Cancer Patient — Hank says that, as someone people now want to help, he asked on Twitter, and thousands of people told him what they had and had not appreciated while sick. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-07-07 · What to Get for a Cancer Patient — recommendation: Hank reports that, somewhat surprisingly, the most appreciated thing in the Twitter replies was meal delivery gift cards; people also named gas cards and rides. — 00:01:12
  • 2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank says that after John's video Nerdfighters went nuts on Reddit, Twitter and other social media, with letters and phone calls; he hopes everyone was polite. — 00:00:58
  • 2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — ask: The description asks viewers to let Danaher and Cepheid know how they feel on social media, linking Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. — video description
  • 2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — ask: John asks viewers to spend five minutes calling or emailing via the linked contacts and to tell Danaher on social media they won't accept this injustice. — 00:06:24
  • 2023-09-12 · Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Danaher and Cepheid — announcement: John says Danaher is on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and he and Hank will be in all those places amplifying viewers' messages. — 00:06:44
  • 2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says he has never been a full-time CEO: in that time he also wrote two novels, made countless TikToks and spent far too much time on Twitter. (playful) — 00:01:01
  • 2023-12-15 · Cat...I Farted. — Hank: French people on Twitter told Hank they tend to say "chat" for the internet sense, which makes it "chat, I farted" and keeps the joke intact. — 00:01:58
  • 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — John: After a Houston hotel sold their rooms on tour, the brothers got another hotel's best room, bigger than John's house, with a Picasso print and certificate of authenticity. — 01:56:36

2024

  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank's first optimistic thought: unlike content platforms, which met much optimism and little pushback, generative AI is not being allowed to have its way with us. — 00:02:02
  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank calls it a very good sign that people are posting less, leaving Twitter not for Threads but for group chats with friends or for walks. — 00:05:40
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: The Magic Twitter account posted an image of card reprints whose background looked AI-generated; when people noticed, the account doubled down that a human made it. — 00:00:33
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank: The Magic Twitter account later confirmed Hank's suspicion: it had trusted a vendor who said the image was not AI-generated, but it was. — 00:03:45
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank: During a Twitter storm Hank accepted that Jane Goodall had advocated reducing the global population to 500 million, since he knows old-school environmentalists who push population reduction, and he disliked it. — 00:01:47
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank's brain read the graph as showing climate change damage, as Twitter did, though neither NOAA nor the article, which was about disaster preparedness, said so. — 00:05:58
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank: Voicing Twitter critics he found convincing, Hank says the US population grew from 230 million to 340 million since 1980, all requiring building. — 00:06:27
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says NOAA and Scientific American did not misrepresent the data: Twitter users did, and others then attributed that misrepresentation to the two institutions. — 00:06:56
  • 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank admits his finger hovers over the tweet button knowing that pushing it will bring only misery, and then he pushes it. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John notes negative publicity for Danaher in the Washington Post and on Threads, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, including a lower-your-test-prices Flappy Bird he finds utterly addictive. (playful) — 00:03:54
  • 2024-04-19 · I Closed My Boob in a Door — Hank says that when he wrote the line he had searched Twitter for the phrase and found hundreds of people who had closed their boobs in doors, and he reads several examples. — 00:00:59
  • 2024-04-23 · Full Hank — John theorizes that he and Hank give too much of themselves to work for two reasons; the first is 'dread-drenaline', a sought-after feeling between thrill and dread, which he calls the Twitter feeling. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-04-26 · One Year Out. — Hank says rereading his tweets from this time last year (2023) helps: some hinted at illness, but he also tweeted about hockey, Pluto and rereading the Mars trilogy, his first loved novel; he was still himself. — 00:01:58
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says the unglamorous work with no Twitter threads, like enforcing Amtrak's priority, is the work government, especially local government, is doing. — 00:25:12
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John calls Nerdfighteria the most important part of his professional life; it has grown around hubs on YouTube, Discord, Reddit, Twitter and elsewhere. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says nice comments about Crash Course keep popping up: search Twitter for Crash Course and AP and you can scroll forever. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says a tweet or video tearing down people he dislikes would win many likes, views and shares, candy for a candy brain, plus clout in his in-group, and would feel really good. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — ask: Hank asks viewers to tell him what they think of the show in the comments here or on Twitter or Threads, since Dropout has no comments. — 00:07:40
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — John recently spoke with Brotherhood 2.0's resident mathematician Daniel Biss, now mayor of Evanston, Illinois, who explained why he left Twitter. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — Daniel Biss (quoted): Biss thought he brought clean water daily to Twitter's toxic lake, but realized he was only raising the toxic lake's level while ruining a bit of clean water. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — John says that is how he feels about making stuff now, especially on Twitter or TikTok but also everywhere. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says a viral tweet tied the donation to the 69-year-old but linked nothing; it only noted that such a namesake exists. — 00:04:45
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says we scroll because we hate not knowing, and Twitter's many voices give us the illusion that our stories are true and the future knowable. — 00:07:15
  • 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank predicts Americans in 100 years will not know what Twitter was and barely know Facebook or TikTok, but will still carry phones and watch YouTube videos. — 00:03:20
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank, citing his video last week (week of 29 July 2024), says he is convinced YouTube is not past its prime. — 00:15:05
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John agrees YouTube is probably the only social platform with that solidity; he feels Facebook, Twitter and especially TikTok crumbling, Instagram maybe more solid. (hedged) — 00:15:05
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank says the internet is at a fracturing moment: Twitter's X-ification, a possible TikTok ban, and sites shutting the open web to stop AI companies scraping content. — 00:17:30
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says he appears to have uncovered a cool Olympic mystery that no one seems to know about and that he cannot explain, found through silly Twitter discourse. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — ask: Hank invites viewers to join over 250,000 people getting the brothers' weekly newsletter, linked atop the description and in the first comment, to find cool stuff without going on Twitter. — 00:07:26
  • 2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank says he had tweeted about the pattern hoping someone would explain it and no one did; once he made a video, people immediately pointed out the answer. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank says people on Twitter aren't paying much attention, while a video makes people more engaged and connected to the content. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says X recently let Twitter users opt out of having their data used to train its LLMs, with the box checked by default. — 00:25:49
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Hank jokes that having a lot of Twitter followers entitles him to pull rank and have his own governor. (playful) — 00:26:04
  • 2024-09-17 · My Consciousness. Their Capital. — John says the rush of panic was not so different from sensing a threat in a disparaging TikTok comment or a big story breaking live on Twitter: a drama with an unknown ending. — 00:02:43
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he mostly imagines himself through how he imagines others (people he knows, employees, people on Twitter and TikTok) see him. — 00:05:36
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank shows a graph spread widely on Twitter to suggest Joe Biden got oddly many votes in 2020, as if many were fake. — 00:00:13
  • 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
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says printers profited from Martin Luther's cheap pamphlets while Luther, like everyone on Twitter, made no money from them. — 00:09:06
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says the pamphlet war was much more of a Twitter screaming match than he imagined; Erasmus's last letter blamed Luther's arrogant personality for a fatal dissension. — 00:11:45
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says the shift to authoritarians is an internet phenomenon, not a post-COVID one: you cannot imagine Donald Trump without Twitter. — 00:15:41

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2025

  • 2025-03-07 · How Social Security Fraud Actually Works — Hank says everyone in government knows this; Elon Musk may not have known when he posted on Twitter about uncovering the biggest fraud in history, but he has certainly been told by now. — 00:05:04
  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John says he made the mistake of going on Twitter that day and saw things Elon Musk said that nobody should say. — 00:12:12
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John recalls telling Hank, when Hank joined Twitter in 2008, that he would never join because nobody needs to know his lunch; time proved him a liar. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John: After joining Twitter John came to believe that megaphones for everyone and the free exchange of information would inevitably bring a more just world, which proved a little naive. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-06-24 · Am I Cigarettes? — John cannot stop: as he chose Nicorette over cigarettes, he picks the healthier-for-him Instagram and Bluesky over Twitter and TikTok, but he cannot stop using the social internet. — 00:03:26
  • 2025-06-24 · Am I Cigarettes? — John did quit for a couple of years, a very productive time in some ways, but he missed the connection and the high. — 00:03:40
  • 2025-07-18 · OK, but What Are The Other 403 Errors? — Hank says Twitter somewhat famously had a custom error 420 for users sending too many requests, a cannabis-joke way of telling them to chill. (playful) — 00:03:48
  • 2025-08-12 · On Balance — John says he cannot remember what having meningitis felt like, not in the acute way he remembers scents or sights. — 00:03:53
  • 2025-10-06 · The Web is Going to Die — Hank says that someday we will have moved on from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram; he doesn't know to what, but unlike London or Detroit they will not simply evolve. — 00:04:23
  • 2025-10-10 · Maybe This is My Problem — Hank says he no longer posts on Twitter: he does not want to add to its network effects, calls it explicitly harmful, and has no interest in being there. — 00:03:58
  • 2025-10-17 · We Never Know What Anything Means — Hank says the recommendation algorithms of YouTube, TikTok, Threads and Twitter already erode trust without wanting to: told to keep people on websites, they made us hate each other more, fraying society. — 00:03:50
  • 2025-10-31 · We Did It… — Hank jokes that, as farmers grow food and sell it, Twitter grows outrage and sells it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Hank has updated people on his life on X since 2008 and still posts and visits, though he knows it is bad for him and for the social order. (playful) — 00:04:52

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