Twitter

platform · in 325 videos (2008–2026)

Social platform Hank described in 2008 as a new kind of relationship with followers; in 2009 Nerdfighters got Ashton Kutcher to follow John there.

Videos by year: 2008: 3 · 2009: 17 · 2010: 21 · 2011: 26 · 2012: 14 · 2013: 15 · 2014: 14 · 2015: 15 · 2016: 19 · 2017: 19 · 2018: 23 · 2019: 24 · 2020: 17 · 2021: 21 · 2022: 17 · 2023: 14 · 2024: 27 · 2025: 11 · 2026: 8

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The most important statements of each year; all statements.

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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
2008-11-03 · 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
- 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 · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated
…and 1 statement more in 2008 — all statements of 2008

2009

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
2009-08-04 · 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
2009-08-06 (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
2009-09-03 (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
2009-12-06 · 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!!! — announcement: Hank announces the Project for Awesome on December 17th, less than 10 days away since it is December 8th. — 00:02:05
2009-12-13 · 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
2009-12-15 · 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
- 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
2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John announces that it is time for the 2009 Project for Awesome. — 00:00:00
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
…and 31 statements more in 2009 — all statements of 2009

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
2010-02-17 · 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
- 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
- John says that, painful as it is in a soundbite, Twitter world, text means nothing without its context. — 00:02:00
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
2010-06-18 (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
2010-07-24 (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
2010-09-17 · 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
2010-09-24 · 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
2010-10-29 · 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
2010-12-07 · 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
…and 14 statements more in 2010 — all statements of 2010

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

2011

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
2011-05-06 · 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
2011-06-13 · 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 — announcement: Hank admits he missed a video, entirely his fault, so viewers get to punish him and can suggest punishments. — 00:02:55
2011-08-26 · 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
2011-12-09 · 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
2011-12-19 · 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
…and 27 statements more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

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
- 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
- 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
2012-01-31 · 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
- 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
- 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 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
2012-05-22 · 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
2012-08-13 · 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
…and 19 statements more in 2012 — all statements of 2012

2013

2013-01-04 · 53 Terrible Jokes! — Hank thanks everybody on Twitter for suggesting the jokes; the description says they came almost exclusively from a Twitter search. — 00:03:53
2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John announces a live Question Tuesday: two teams, questions sent on Twitter read by teammates, and whoever is talking at the end is punished with mild electrocution. (playful) — 01:43:42
2013-02-22 · Translating Dance Songs — Hank: Obsessed with what the words meant, Hank recruited translators through Twitter to translate the meaning rather than word for word, and crammed it into English covers of the songs. — 00:00:13
2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank lists his day: Twitter, filming SciShow, readying P4A perks, a Hank's channel video, folding mug boxes with Katherine at the warehouse, a DFTBA Records video, editing Hank Games Live, Tumblr, a Kiva loan. (playful) — 00:00:00
2013-05-21 · Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art — John says Ai was detained by police and beaten so badly he suffered a subdural hematoma, and uploaded the selfie to Twitter. — 00:01:12
2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups — Hank says Twitter is said to be worth ten billion dollars, which makes little sense to him because 'it doesn't do anything'. — 00:00:00
2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank writes that it is really weird to lose John not just from YouTube but largely from Tumblr and Twitter too, and asks viewers not to forget about him while he is gone. — video description
2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace Helbig: Grace's media markers: NPR as a car preset, a specific favorite Simpsons episode, finding the new Arrested Development season more nostalgic than groundbreaking, reblogging the New Yorker, Wes Anderson, Ira Glass, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ken Jennings on Twitter, Alanis Morissette's misuse of 'ironic'. (satire) — 00:03:15
2013-07-23 · Watermelon Internet Trolls — ask: Maureen Johnson: She tells viewers to follow her on Twitter, saying she is not great at videos but very, very good at Twitter. (playful) — 00:03:39
2013-07-26 · Introducing Subbable — Hank says the problem, as someone on Twitter put it, is that advertisers value views, not viewers: they only care that you are watching, not how much you care. — 00:00:37
2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam — Hank says Nerdfighteria is his biggest inspiration: when he lacks a video idea he asks on Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, and this video is made from their suggestions. — 00:00:10
2013-09-17 · Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie) — John does a Question Tuesday in the woods with Nat Wolff, who plays Isaac in the movie, asking him questions viewers submitted on Twitter. — 00:00:10
…and 2 statements more in 2013 — all statements of 2013

Also named in: Addicted to the Internet

2014

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
2014-08-08 · 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
2014-08-19 · 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
2014-12-26 · 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
…and 8 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

Also named in: Going to College (in Ethiopia)

2015

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
2015-03-13 · 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
2015-06-19 · 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
2015-08-18 · 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
- 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
…and 4 statements more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

2016

2016-01-19 · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday — ask: John invites Hank and viewers to follow his Davos trip on his Twitter, Instagram or Snapchat, though he doesn't know how to log on to his Snapchat. — 00:00:31
2016-04-15 · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT — ask: Hank shows Twitter testimonials from a search for 'Hank Green concert' and invites viewers to come along. — 00:03:47
2016-06-03 · Redefining What it Means to Matter — Hank's Twitter poll on whether people would rather be happy or make a difference split almost exactly 50/50, and many said they couldn't imagine being happy without making a difference. — 00:01:17
2016-06-17 · Hey, Let's Change Some Things — Hank, who found it hard to believe, says congressional staffers agree that letters and phone calls matter more than Twitter and email because they show the constituent cares more. — 00:01:09
2016-06-24 (said on 2016-06-21, implied) · Questions (and Announcements) from VidCon — Hank thanks everyone who did his homework assignment: he got many letters on Snapchat, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. — 00:03:27
2016-07-19 · Pretty Bad Ways to Start a Conversation — John admits he does this too: he tweeted that 40% of US gun sales involve no background checks, a totally unsupported statistic, spreading misinformation before checking. (doubtful: 40%) — 00:01:48
2016-08-12 · AMERICA, DAMMIT! - Thoughts from Glacier National Park — Hank says it's easy to forget what the country has built and what it cost; stop looking at Twitter for a few hours and look at what we've built. — 00:02:32
2016-09-13 · YouTube's New Thing (and a New Thing of Our Own) — John says they have always had to build homes off YouTube for non-video community stuff: Art Assignment submissions go via other sites, Crash Course lacks worksheets, and P4A needs social media. — 00:01:19
2016-10-28 · Give Me Your Tweets, I'll Give You My Phone · Last Video Before Leave! — announcement: Hank sets the tweet contest rules: at most 130 characters including the handle, a winner he picks subjectively by how funny he finds it, old tweets allowed, no plagiarism, and GIF or image instructions welcome. — video description
- Hank has scheduled #pretweet tweets but can't fill six weeks, so he asks viewers to leave tweet ideas of about 120 characters in the comments, with their Twitter handles. — 00:01:58
2016-12-02 · Logging Off — Rosianna Halse Rojas: Rosianna wonders whether Twitter was a shortcut that didn't quite work, and whether we need more long hard work to get its benefits, like hearing more voices and community organizing, instead of seeing the pyramid as complete. (speculative) — 00:03:28
2016-12-23 · 41 Dad Jokes in 4 Minutes! (with special guest star...) — Hank: After a run of butter puns, Hank says it really happened: Organic Valley sculpted him out of butter because enough people voted on Twitter. — 00:03:23
…and 10 statements more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

Also named in: On Not Seeing Hamilton

2017

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
2017-03-21 · 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
2017-04-18 · 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
2017-06-23 · 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
2017-10-17 · 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
- 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
2017-12-12 · 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
- 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
…and 14 statements more in 2017 — all statements of 2017

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
- 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
2018-03-30 · 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
2018-05-08 · 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
2018-06-12 · 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
2018-07-03 · 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
2018-08-10 · 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
2018-08-24 · 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
2018-10-12 · 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
2018-11-06 · 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
- 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
2018-12-28 · 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
…and 27 statements more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2019

2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John: As discussed in a previous video, John aims to post zero times to Twitter, Reddit, Instagram and Facebook; easy in principle, but he is worried he can't do it. — 00:02:17
2019-01-08 · I Quit Social Media. Here's How It's Going — John: Tomorrow John will be one month into his year without social media; he left the platforms because he couldn't regulate his time or experience there and checked his phone hundreds of times a day. — 00:00:03
- John learned that, without being aware of it, he typed Reddit, Twitter and Facebook into a web browser dozens of times a day. — 00:00:58
- Leaving the social internet hasn't been magical: John misses it more than expected, such as funny Reddit soccer threads and camaraderie on Twitter. — 00:02:10
- John will stay off social media for the rest of the year; he doesn't know that he recommends it generally, but it is necessary for him to discover what lies beyond boredom. — 00:03:30
2019-01-18 · Should You Burn Dirty Fuel? — Hank: Before John's video, Hank tweeted asking people who watched his latest video for one healthy and one unhealthy thing that fuels them. — 00:00:29
2019-11-07 · I took a year off social media. Here's what happened. — John likes his life much more now: his average daily phone time has fallen by more than 80% and he is getting more work done. — 00:01:27
- John is not going back to Twitter, Reddit, Instagram or Facebook, not because they are evil but because right now they don't work for him; he is happier and more productive without them. — 00:02:15
2019-11-19 · Kylie Jenner Shows Me What's Wrong with Reddit — John says that story became a tweet, a screenshot and a Reddit post with 129,000 upvotes, and it is entirely false, denied by Jenner and by the t-shirt company. — 00:01:57
2019-11-29 · My Most Controversial Opinion — Hank: Voicing Twitter, Hank says the most-controversial-opinion question is content: an easy format to put your own spin on without coming up with something fresh. (satire) — 00:00:12
- Voicing Twitter, Hank says you're just supposed to say something dumb that everybody will be mad about, to make people mad, because it's engaging. (satire) — 00:00:30
2019-12-10 · On Loneliness — John: Quitting the social internet helped his loneliness, since he used those platforms unhealthily, in superficial connection that left him feeling deeply alone. — 00:03:09
…and 31 statements more in 2019 — all statements of 2019

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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 · also in: Looking Back at My 2020 Goals
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
2020-02-14 · 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
2020-03-13 · 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
2020-10-09 · 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
- 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
…and 6 statements more in 2020 — all statements of 2020

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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
2021-04-27 · 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 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
2021-06-04 · 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
- Knowing John may disagree, Hank thinks he can stay on Twitter and bring perspective on how to use the platform better. — 00:01:22
- 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? — 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
- 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
2021-10-07 · 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
- 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
2021-11-19 · 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
- 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
…and 35 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

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
2022-05-13 · 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
- Hank says Musk does not oppose subjective moderation on Twitter; he wants it to work the way he wants. — 00:02:12
- 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
- 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
2022-10-14 · 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
2022-11-11 · 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
2022-12-16 · 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
2022-12-23 · 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
…and 39 statements more in 2022 — all statements of 2022

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2023

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
2023-02-03 · 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
2023-03-17 (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
2023-07-07 · 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
- 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: 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
2023-10-06 · 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
…and 8 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

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
2024-03-08 · 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
2024-04-23 · 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
2024-05-10 · 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 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
2024-06-25 · 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
- 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 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
2024-08-07 · 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
2024-09-17 · 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
2024-11-22 · 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
…and 28 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

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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
2025-06-03 · 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
- 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
- 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
2025-12-09 · 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
…and 2 statements more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

2026-01-30 · Has Anyone Ever Accidentally Seen me Naked (Question Tuesday on a Friday) — Hank says he had a Twitter relapse but is not still on Twitter. — 00:02:26
- Hank says his three-day Twitter binge produced nothing good; he kind of enjoyed it but does not think it is good behaviour. — 00:02:56
- Hank says that instead of nice, value-adding posts he posts angry rage on Twitter because he is feeling anger and rage. — 00:03:25
- Hank predicts a reversal of fortune for content platforms: in a thousand years Facebook will at most be mentioned in a history book, a relic like gasoline cars. — 00:03:54
2026-02-03 · Does the truth still matter? — John says he doesn't know whether this means he should be on Twitter or X, or whether this video makes anything better or worse. (unsure) — 00:03:24
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he is not convinced Twitter raises much money for the P4A, but knows it makes Hank really unhappy, and would rather see Hank happy. — 03:16:29
2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4! — Hank calls X the worst of the platforms, as if someone asked what would happen if they really did not care about anything. — 02:31:20
- Hank is enjoying J.M. Miro's creepy series with Ordinary Monsters, set in industrial London, which he likens to X-Men but horror. — 05:36:41
2026-03-27 · What is 'Slop' (and why it gives me hope) — Hank cites a Twitter video of a cat flipping noodles onto its head that had 25,000 likes; nobody was confused whether it was real, people just found it funny. — 00:07:09
2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank did not care about winning an Emmy: what mattered was the Lizzie Bennet Diaries getting lots of YouTube views and fan reactions on Tumblr and Twitter, the people whose judgment he cared about. — 00:01:01
2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year — Hank says Twitter and Instagram switched to algorithmic feeds in 2016. — 00:01:59
- Hank says AI controls what we see: not LLMs, though they are increasingly part of it, but AI decides which YouTube thumbnails we see, what is in our Threads, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram feeds, and what comes next when swiping. — 00:07:09
…and 4 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026