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2007

2008

  • 2008-01-04 · Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton — announcement: John proposes a motto for the Vlogbrothers in 2008: being less frequent doesn't mean the videos will be better. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-01-04 · Nerdfighting in 2008, Pakistan, and Hillary Clinton — John presents the new intro, which Hank designed, and asks nerdfighters to say in the comments whether they like it. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-01-08 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — announcement: John says one of the brothers will post at least one video per week, and on other days there will be pictures and videos from Nerdfighteria on the Ning. — 00:01:06
  • 2008-01-20 (said on 2008-01-18, implied) · John and Hank on NPR Today! — Hank thanks the channel's 15,000th subscriber, a couple with their own YouTube channel. — 00:02:27
  • 2008-02-11 (said on 2008-02-12, implied) · Nerdfighters Blurbing Book Club! — ask: Hank asks readers to post their blurb in a blog post and send it to him; he will set up a poll, and the winner gets a free Nerdfighter t-shirt and their face saying the blurb on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:02:00
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — John: Asked why the most-viewed Vlogbrothers videos are Hank's, John guesses Hank is funnier, but says one owes its views to a screenshot of two giraffes having sex. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:42
  • 2008-02-27 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song) — Hank says his one spectacularly successful video did well because people thought it would show giraffe sex, so he wrote a song about it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-02-27 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song) — Hank sings that about ten months ago he made a video showing a picture 'of an intimate nature' and only realised its draw a hundred thousand views later. (playful) — 00:00:31
  • 2008-02-27 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song) — Hank: The refrain asks where the Vlogbrothers, and America, would be without people who love giraffes who love giraffes. (playful) — 00:01:00
  • 2008-03-07 (said on 2008-03-08, implied) · Shawty Got Low, Tritube and Blurbing — announcement: Hank: For the 20,000th subscriber, Hank, and possibly John, will video-chat via Stickam on Nerdfighters.com's front page tomorrow night at 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific, 9 Eastern. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2008-03-07 (said on 2008-03-08, implied) · Shawty Got Low, Tritube and Blurbing — Hank can no longer work out who the 20,000th subscriber is because his counting method stopped working; he calls 20,000 subscribers insane. — 00:02:19
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — announcement: Hank tells John he thinks they should make videos more often. (hedged) — 00:03:29
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — John says Hank will be punished too: he lost the Peeps contest without participating and made a video over four minutes without a photo montage, which breaks the rule. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-30 (said on 2008-05-01, implied) · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank says Vlogbrothers videos have been viewed 11 million times at 3.7 minutes each, 40.7 million minutes or 77.4 years: one human lifetime. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-30 (said on 2008-05-01, implied) · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank jokes that he and John have 'killed a man' with YouTube videos, each half-killing him. (joke) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-30 (said on 2008-05-01, implied) · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank guesses the Vlogbrothers audience is mostly girls and wonders whether girls like the channel better than boys. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:13
  • 2008-04-30 (said on 2008-05-01, implied) · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — ask: Hank asks viewers to leave their gender in the comments for an informal demographic analysis. — 00:01:43
  • 2008-04-30 (said on 2008-05-01, implied) · BLOOD! I'm a KILLER! — Hank says YouTube and the internet provide ways to participate, and hopes the Vlogbrothers are something viewers and the brothers do together, not a waste of time. (hedged) — 00:03:18
  • 2008-05-20 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — John reports that 294 of the brothers' 296 videos have been watched by more women than men; the two exceptions have giraffe sex as the thumbnail. — 00:01:10
  • 2008-05-20 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — ask: John asks the men of YouTube to explain in the comments what fascinates them about giraffes who love giraffes. (playful) — 00:01:10
  • 2008-06-04 · VEEPSTAKES! — ask: John asks Nerdfighters, and potentially Barack if he reads the channel's comments, to say who should be vice president. — 00:03:44
  • 2008-06-08 · Monkeys!!! (with pants) — Hank says he likes zoos for giraffes who love giraffes, but the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has no giraffes, which disappointed him. (playful) — 00:01:29
  • 2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — announcement: Susan Carlson (quoted): The report says that after a year of video-only messages the brothers communicate in other ways again, but the vlogs will continue. — 00:03:27
  • 2008-08-21 · INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH — announcement: John says in the report they will keep making the videos for as long as people will watch them. (hedged) — 00:03:27
  • 2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — John reads YouTube's most-subscribed directors list: the Vlogbrothers have 41,818 subscribers and Oprah 41,365, so they have 'pwned' Oprah. (playful) — 00:00:50
  • 2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — John credits the awesomeness of Nerdfighteria and of Hank for passing Oprah on the most-subscribed list. — 00:02:50
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — announcement: Hank says the Nerdfighters' punishment is for the brothers to vlog Brotherhood 2.0-style for an entire month. — 00:01:01
  • 2008-11-04 · Election Night In Indianapolis! — Hank: Holding Willy, Hank says the Vlogbrothers are not political, but sometimes you have to show your true colors. (playful) — 00:01:45
  • 2008-12-11 · The 2008 Project for Awesome!!! — announcement: Hank announces that he and John have both decided to put up a thousand dollars to donate to a P4A charity, chosen on the quality of the charity and its video. — 00:02:38
  • 2008-12-18 · Introducing...The Awesome — Hank says the brothers have bridged the distance with video blogs on YouTube for a few years, but the project has long not been just about them. — 00:00:00

Also named in: A Short History of the PUPPY SIZED ELEPHANT, A HORRIFYING OVERSIGHT!!!!, Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE., Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11!

2009

  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank reads 'Auld Lang Syne' as asking whether Hank and John should make more videos in 2009, and answers yes. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank restages his first Brotherhood 2.0 video from two years ago, including the camera glitch and the eye reflection, admitting he then did not know how to make videos. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Restaging his first video, Hank reverses its no-textual-communication line: this time the brothers will be communicating through textual means. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Sunday for the year, John will send Hank a video about a current news event he considers vitally important and Hank is probably ignorant of. — 00:01:19
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank wants John's Sunday news videos to be good, comprehensive and in-depth, though John may also eat toilet paper or smear peanut butter on his face. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Tuesday one brother sends the other a video blog of any kind. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every other Wednesday Hank will perform an original song: Song Wednesdays are back. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Later in the week there may be a surprise video, so viewers who like surprise and those who like structure both get what they want. (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: A brother who fails to keep up these responsibilities will be punished; Hank jokes the punishment could be sticking a needle in his eye. — 00:02:17
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank sums up: at least one vlog a week, news on Sunday, songs every other Wednesday, more structure and more videos because everybody wanted more videos. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank adds there will be more BlogTV appearances and open days for doing whatever they want. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-03 (said on 2009-01-02, implied) · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — John agrees and, as previously noted, says people love giraffes who love giraffes, maybe because giraffe mating habits are fascinating. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:27
  • 2009-01-03 (said on 2009-01-02, implied) · Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED — John says male giraffes nudge females with their heads to make them urinate, then drink the urine to taste whether the females are ovulating. (playful) — 00:00:36
  • 2009-01-04 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! — John: Because the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night, John feels he has to discuss it on Newsday although it makes him miserable, and shows puppy footage to counter that. (hedged) — 00:00:02
  • 2009-02-18 · Fake Movie Talk With A Sock — Hank says the Nerdfighter whose proposal he relayed on Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 hid in his girlfriend's attic, waiting for her to check vlogbrothers, CuteWithChris and Stuff on My Cat. — 00:01:31
  • 2009-02-24 · How to Make Guys Like You — John says all their videos except those with giraffe sex as the thumbnail are watched by nearly three times more women than men. (playful) — 00:00:34
  • 2009-03-01 · Free Will Fetish — announcement: John reveals, whispering, that the vlogbrothers now have more subscribers than Google, the company that owns YouTube. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • 2009-06-17 · The Fathers of the Founding Fathers — Hank thanks dads, especially his own, who 'created the vlog brothers', and wishes everyone a happy Father's Day. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • 2009-06-23 (said on 2009-06-22, implied) · Fighting the Flame War! — Hank says the brothers are not in the same room: they started the project because they live across the country from each other and wanted to talk more. — 00:01:29
  • 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John notes that in their two-and-a-half-year conversation the brothers have uploaded more than 500 videos, watched many times thanks to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:10
  • 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John says not everyone watching is awesome and reads comments posted on Vlogbrothers videos in the last week, replacing each curse word with a famous American poet's name. (playful) — 00:00:22
  • 2009-07-01 · Most Subscribed: A Song — Hank sings that KevJumba stole the brothers' giraffe-sex thumbnail. (joke) — 00:00:27
  • 2009-07-03 · TRUTH OR FAIL!!! Episode 2 (New and Improved) — announcement: Hank says Truth or Fail videos will be posted on the host's channel and at youtube.com/truthorfail, with future hosts other than the vlogbrothers; the first other host is not yet announced. — 00:00:33
  • 2009-07-14 · Sell Outs! — John says YouTube can't survive without advertising, and as vlogging becomes more their job neither can they, since he assumes no one wants to pay for Vlogbrothers videos. (hedged) — 00:02:37
  • 2009-07-15 · This Isn't Hogwarts! A Harry Potter Song — Hank says it is nearly the third anniversary of 'Accio Deathly Hallows', the song that kicked the Vlogbrothers into the mainstream. — 00:03:02
  • 2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) · HipPOTATOmus — John announces that the channel has 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-08-11 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John says the brothers have 100,000 subscribers. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-10-28 · We Win When Everyone Wins — Hank says Florence at the peak of the Renaissance had about 60,000 people, fewer than subscribe to vlogbrothers, yet produced Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Raphael and dozens more geniuses. — 00:00:51
  • 2009-10-28 · We Win When Everyone Wins — announcement: Hank says that as soon as Anne's students produce videos, they'll be featured on nerdfighters.com and possibly on vlogbrothers. — 00:03:08
  • 2009-12-08 · Announcing the 2009 Project for Awesome!!! — ask: Hank says John's punishment is still undecided; he floats John watching every Vlogbrothers video in order without sleeping (about 26 hours) and asks for suggestions in comments. (hedged) — 00:03:04
  • 2009-12-15 · In Which A Secret Is Revealed — announcement: John says he will auction off his one and only pair of nerd glasses, which he wore in most 2008 Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:02:44
  • 2009-12-17 · THE 2009 PROJECT FOR AWESOME!!! — announcement: John is auctioning his nerd glasses, worn in almost every 2008 Vlogbrothers video; the auction is linked in the sidebar and all proceeds go to Malaria No More. — 00:02:03
  • 2009-12-20 · Awesome Project Is Awesome — announcement: John says the Vlogbrothers channel traditionally reinvents itself at the end of each year, and will do so again this year (2009) with viewers' help. — 00:03:04
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — announcement: John says they have made a playlist of twenty Vlogbrothers videos to give newcomers a broader sense of what is going on in Nerdfighteria. — 00:03:06
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — John thanks Nerdfighteria for being awesome and for their support as the brothers continue into their fourth year of making videos. — 00:03:49

Also named in: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA Inaugurated: Some Historical Background, 51 Jokes (in Four Minutes), Nerdfighter MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments, Truth or Fail with John! Famous Authors Edition, Truth or Fail: John Green Books, HAPPY JOHN DAY!!!

2010

  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — John argues professional hurdlers respect the utility of rules; rules stand between us and chaos, which is why he now brushes regularly and why their video blog needs rules. (playful) — 00:01:45
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John announces rule one: every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of 2010 the brothers alternate videos (Hank Wednesday, John Friday, Hank Monday...), except on major holidays and during John's paternity leave. — 00:01:45
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John says his paternity leave will begin whenever the baby is born, which should be quite soon, and will last about three weeks. (hedged) — 00:02:09
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John announces rule two: videos may not exceed four minutes, with the usual exceptions. — 00:02:09
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John announces rule three: whoever has the Monday video may announce a theme, and that week's videos must follow it; this week (week of 4 January 2010) has no theme. — 00:02:09
  • 2010-01-04 · It Hurts In My Toof: The 2010 Rules — announcement: John announces rule four: breaking any rule brings a punishment chosen by Nerdfighters and the other brother, to be completed within one week of being assigned. — 00:02:39
  • 2010-01-11 · Ecosystem Services 101 with Hank — announcement: Hank announces the week's theme, teaching, which he says he wanted to do since before they had themes. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-01-20 · OMG MY BROTHER HAD A BABY — announcement: Hank declares John's paternity leave begun and tells Maureen Johnson he will see her on Friday. — 00:03:15
  • 2010-02-10 · HOW TO GET AN AGENT — announcement: Maureen Johnson: Maureen says this is her last video for vlogbrothers. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-02-12 · Google Search Stories: Harry Potter — Hank thanks Maureen Johnson for being part of vlogbrothers during John's paternity leave. — 00:01:46
  • 2010-02-15 · Hello Baby!! — announcement: John says Hank won't see a ton of Henry in the coming vlogs, though not none, because he wants Henry to choose whether he has a private life. — 00:01:31
  • 2010-03-22 · Top 10 Weirdest Diseases — Hank presents, in no particular order, the top 10 weirdest diseases he could find on the internet. — 00:00:12
  • 2010-03-22 · Top 10 Weirdest Diseases — announcement: Hank tells John the theme for this week (week of 22 March 2010) is Top 10 Lists, and this video was his. — 00:03:43
  • 2010-03-24 · Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES — John: Praising Hank's Monday list, John presents his own entry for the theme week: the top 10 animal power moves. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-03-24 · Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES — John reminds Hank how he loves giraffes before ranking the giraffe's kick ninth. (playful) — 00:00:19
  • 2010-03-26 · Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions — Hank says Top 10 week has turned out to be quite fun and hopes they do it again sometime. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-03-26 · Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions — Hank: John's list got Hank thinking about the biggest and most awe-inspiring explosions of all time, which he lists in rising size. — 00:00:11
  • 2010-03-26 · Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions — announcement: Hank points viewers who missed the other two Top 10 videos to an annotation link. — 00:03:48
  • 2010-04-21 · The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to plant seeds, saplings or plants on Hank's behalf ('Hank trees and Hank plants'), photograph or film it and email it to him for a big vlogbrothers Hank tree planting video. — 00:01:05
  • 2010-04-23 · VidCon: User Generated Conference — ask: Hank asks viewers to leave their ideas as video responses to the version of this video at youtube.com/vidcon, not the vlogbrothers one, and get people to like them; most-liked ideas are most likely to happen. — 00:01:38
  • 2010-06-09 · Should We Sue Viacom? — ask: Hank tells subscribers they can now have YouTube email them whenever a Vlogbrothers video goes up, but asks first viewers not to comment 'first'. — 00:02:32
  • 2010-07-14 · Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS — announcement: Hank cuts in to announce that the Vlogbrothers have just broken into the top 100 most-subscribed YouTube channels, thanking Ray William Johnson, Charlieissocoollike and Meekakitty. (playful) — 00:03:33
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — Hank says he feared all of YouTube would hate the brothers after VidCon, from people sick of hearing about it or over some epic failure. (hedged) — 00:00:33
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — Hank says that after VidCon nobody seems to hate them; in fact many people seem to like them more. (hedged) — 00:01:01
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — announcement: Hank says the Vlogbrothers are in the 300,000-subscriber club and in the top 100 most-subscribed YouTube channels of all time. — 00:01:01
  • 2010-07-16 · VidCon, Oil Spill, Punishments, Shane Dawson, and my Balls — ask: Hank asks viewers to suggest punishments or vote on suggested ones in the YouTube Moderator module below the video on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:02:42
  • 2010-07-20 (said on 2010-07-19, implied) · I Like Balls — John concedes the brothers lack the moral high ground, since their three most-viewed videos are, in order, giraffe sex, giraffe sex and giraffe sex. (playful) — 00:01:14
  • 2010-07-20 (said on 2010-07-19, implied) · I Like Balls — John says his proudest day as a Nerdfighter came last week (week of 12 July 2010), not when the Vlogbrothers hit 300,000 subscribers, but when Nerdfighters came together with Esther and helped the Harry Potter Alliance win $250,000. — 00:01:43
  • 2010-07-24 (said on 2010-07-23, implied) · Grammar School with Snooki — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to keep suggesting punishments for Hank in the comments; he reads them all. — 00:03:26
  • 2010-08-02 · I Love Hank: Esther Day 2010 — John says that when he met Esther in Boston, he promised her that on her birthday, forever, the brothers would make videos about whatever she wanted. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-08-04 · Family, Love and BISON ATTACKS! — Hank says the Vlogbrothers are now the 81st most subscribed channel on YouTube and are about to be passed by Toby Turner; he jokes 81st is as high as they will go. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-08-10 (said on 2010-08-09, implied) · JOIN THE PEN15 CLUB!! — Hank reports that despite Toby Turner's efforts the Vlogbrothers did not stay 81st; they are now 83rd, passed by Toby Turner and Freddie Wong. — 00:02:50
  • 2010-08-23 · Make-up Tutorial: Katniss Everdeen Look — Hank says this is the third time he has put on makeup for a vlogbrothers video. — 00:02:46
  • 2010-08-27 · Rest In Awesome, Esther — announcement: John says vlogbrothers videos will look vlogbrother-y again from Monday and he will do his punishment on Wednesday (1 September 2010). — 00:02:24
  • 2010-09-22 · Non-VIrgin...a Lexical Gap? — Hank says that while reading the vlogbrothers comments he saw a reference to nerds dying virgins, a common statement among trolls. — 00:00:20
  • 2010-09-27 (said on 2010-09-28, implied) · Stop Embarrassing Yourself — Hank says the common Vlogbrothers comment 'you lose the game' is often misspelled (shown on screen), so instead of losing the Game he thinks of the failure of the American education system. (joke) — 00:01:19
  • 2010-10-01 · Supernote and Charlie's Birthday — announcement: Hank announces that the Vlogbrothers are taking part in SuperNote; viewers join the Vlogbrothers team via Rhett and Link's SuperNote site. — 00:00:00
  • 2010-10-01 · Supernote and Charlie's Birthday — announcement: Hank says the male and female team members with the longest SuperNote win the right to introduce a vlogbrothers video by saying 'Good morning Hank' or 'Good morning John'. — 00:00:25
  • 2010-10-01 · Supernote and Charlie's Birthday — announcement: Hank says there is also a prize for the cumulative team effort, so if all of Nerdfighteria posts SuperNotes the team could become SuperNote champions of the world. (playful) — 00:00:54
  • 2010-10-19 (said on 2010-10-18, implied) · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) — John says the three most viewed Vlogbrothers videos all feature giraffe sex, yet the brothers have never actually made a video about giraffe sex, which he will now fix. (playful) — 00:00:01
  • 2010-10-22 · Making Adorable Music — ask: John tells Nerdfighters there is only one week left to pre-order Hank's shirt celebrating giraffes who love giraffes, with the link in the doobly-doo. — 00:02:04
  • 2010-10-25 · Rocky Horror + Glee = ? — Hank tells John this matters to him because what the brothers do likewise has little to do with them and is a big deal because of the people doing it with them. — 00:01:30
  • 2010-10-29 · Hank Has Questions — Hank jokes that in the worst case, in 20 years John writes vampire novels and Hank plays an afternoon Vegas lounge show, singing his quark song to five people who don't know him. (joke) — 00:00:58
  • 2010-10-29 · Hank Has Questions — Hank says the best case for the Vlogbrothers in 20 years looks a lot like now, making videos that are 'informational' and 'educational', and says to shoot for that. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — announcement: John announces that beginning Friday and continuing all next week (week of 8 November 2010), the brothers will make a solid effort to be educational. — 00:02:46
  • 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — announcement: John says the French Revolution video is part of a four-video series testing whether the brothers can make genuinely educational videos that help people learn the big things they have to learn in school. — video description
  • 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — announcement: John says Hank will teach him something on Monday. — 00:05:15
  • 2010-11-05 · God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I — announcement: John says that, with Nerdfighteria's permission, the brothers have temporarily suspended the four-minute rule to get through the week of educational videos. — 00:05:18
  • 2010-11-08 · Probability 101 — announcement: Hank says he looks forward to John educating him more on Wednesday. — 00:08:29
  • 2010-11-10 · Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II — announcement: John says his last French Revolution video will be uploaded tomorrow and Hank will educate them further on Friday. — 00:05:54
  • 2010-11-26 · p4a, Space Pasta, and Giant Squids of Anger — John says the idea was to take over YouTube so that for one day it would be about charity rather than kittens on Roombas or giraffe love. — 00:00:31
  • 2010-12-01 · Makin' Babies: A Song — Hank: The song says male giraffes have more sex with each other than with females. (playful) — 00:00:31
  • 2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — Hank says it feels like a long time since there's been a vlogbrothers video; skipping one day gave him 'Vlogbrothers withdrawal'. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — ask: Hank asks anyone who got or bought vlogbrothers, DFTBA or Nerdfighter t-shirts to send photos of themselves wearing them to hankandjohn@gmail.com, which may go on the website. — 00:00:39
  • 2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — ask: Hank asks Nerdfighters what they most enjoyed about the vlogbrothers in 2010 and what they would like the brothers to do with their time on the channel. — 00:03:08
  • 2010-12-27 · To: You - - From: The Vlogbrothers — announcement: Hank says the brothers restructure the channel every year, are discussing it now, and have ideas viewers will be excited about for doing more awesome things in 2011. — 00:03:18

Also named in: Cute OVERLOAD: The Ultimate Concern Edition, Net Neutrality in the Shower, Positive Prank Calls!!

2011

  • 2011-01-03 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — John wishes Hank a happy four-year YouTube anniversary and says he dressed up because it is their special day. — 00:00:00
  • 2011-01-03 · Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color? — announcement: John: Thanking Nerdfighters for sticking with them, John says the vlogbrothers will continue Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos in 2011 and, having heard viewers, will make more question videos, Thoughts from Places and 'info-tational' videos. — 00:02:24
  • 2011-02-09 · NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) — John lists more feats: Nerdfighters broke the email inbox of Warner Chilcott's CEO, determined that moon pasta is more efficient than Earth beef, and transcribed every vlogbrothers video at nerdfighteria.info. (playful) — 00:01:44
  • 2011-02-16 · This Video Brought to you by Nyquil — Hank feels the brothers have been unfair to the giraffes and thinks they can make it up to them. (playful) — 00:02:28
  • 2011-02-23 · WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD — John says vlogbrothers videos have been viewed about 122 million times, with an average video length of about 3 minutes 30 seconds. — 00:00:36
  • 2011-04-06 · Live on YouTube — announcement: Hank announces that YouTube has let the vlogbrothers into live streaming and that they will start doing livestreams today. — 00:00:11
  • 2011-04-06 · Live on YouTube — ask: Hank announces John is doing a livestream today from 2:30 to 4:30 Eastern time and thinks viewers should come. — 00:00:29
  • 2011-04-06 · Live on YouTube — announcement: Hank describes the planned livestreams: John reading nineteenth-century poetry, Hank talking theoretical physics, browsing Reddit together, reading books and playing songs. — 00:00:39
  • 2011-04-06 · Live on YouTube — ask: Hank points viewers to John's livestream, 2:30-4:30, at youtube.com/vlogbrothers, the brothers' YouTube channel. — 00:00:50
  • 2011-04-06 · Live on YouTube — announcement: Hank says the brothers will do more livestreams in the future and hopes viewers enjoy them. — 00:00:56
  • 2011-04-13 · 31 Jokes for NERDS! — Hank says the Vlogbrothers is all about self-improvement, becoming more nerdy every day of your life, and calls that a really good tagline. (playful) — 00:03:32
  • 2011-05-20 · How to Vlog: From the Vlogbrothers — Hank says the vlogging voice takes time to hone; early vlogbrothers videos show that the brothers sucked too when they started. — 00:01:01
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank jokingly claims a share of the credit: 'you' means 'us', because he made half of their 875 videos. (playful) — 00:00:12
  • 2011-07-01 · Humping the Town — Hank says Wall Street Journal readers are very important people who could affect John's career and are probably coming to the channel now, so he must put their best foot forward. (playful) — 00:00:43
  • 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — ask: John tells viewers who want a Vlogbrothers video of Hank saying their ten words to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle and await emailed instructions. — 00:01:27
  • 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) · HARDCASTLED! — Hank makes toy giraffes from LeakyCon mate, remarking that from what they have learned about giraffe love it should be two males. (joke) — 00:00:54
  • 2011-08-12 · The Fair: Testacular! — Hank muses that 'Good morning, John' may be the most important words in the videos: it reminds him John is the key audience member and links every Vlogbrothers video to every other. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-08-19 · Outtake Insanity and NERD FACTOR — ask: John asks Nerdfighters who recently made an awesome video deserving a wider audience to post it as a video response; the brothers will watch all and feature a few in a future video. — 00:02:02
  • 2011-09-12 · Adorable Baby and Insufficient Cartography — John tells Hank and Nerdfighteria that the maps they make with vlogbrothers videos will always be distorted and insufficient. — 00:01:43
  • 2011-10-03 · The LHC and Alex's Survey — Hank proposes 'The coolest thing that happened to me like ever' as a new Vlogbrothers segment. (playful) — 00:02:36
  • 2011-11-02 · LECTROJOG! — John jokes that the video will alienate new viewers; understanding it takes 894 Vlogbrothers videos, the Swoodilypoopers, some Hank and Katherine play videos and joining Tumblr. (playful) — 00:02:15
  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John: Anticipating angry comments that Nerdfighteria will die, John says Vlogbrothers videos aren't changing: same Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule and basement shooting. — 00:02:42
  • 2011-11-11 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — announcement: John says the Vlogbrothers have never done paid product placement and never will. — video description
  • 2011-11-18 · Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████ — Hank argues the PROTECT IP Act would let a corporation have a vlogbrothers video taken down without human review, leaving creators powerless, as if the MPAA were a law enforcement body. — 00:02:35
  • 2011-12-02 · F#*%? An Explanation of Curse Words — ask: Hank: The new YouTube lets you tag top-ten subscriptions; since vlogbrothers starts with a V it would sit below the fold, so Hank jokingly asks viewers to tag only five. (playful) — 00:03:18
  • 2011-12-16 · Project for Awesome Logistics — ask: Hank: Other ways to take part: donate to the P4A Fund or a charity you care about, and follow the live show at youtube.com/vlogbrothers, hosted by Hank, John and surprise guests. — 00:01:45
  • 2011-12-21 · 2011 Presidential Anagrams!! — Hank: In 2008, in the vlogbrothers' first year, Hank anagrammed the presidential candidates' names; now, nearly in 2012, he anagrams this year's (2011) Republican presidential hopefuls. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2011-12-30 · How to Tip Properly — announcement: Hank will see John on Monday, when John celebrates the brothers' fifth anniversary. — 00:03:33

Also named in: Punishments, Floods, and Pink Hitler Babies, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN!

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John marks five years since he uploaded his first Vlogbrothers video, on January 2, 2007, with a deliberately terrible jump cut. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — announcement: John: Change four: in 2012 there will be two Vlogbrothers videos a week, John's on Tuesday and Hank's on Friday; John apologises to viewers. — 00:01:08
  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says the main reason is that he is still sick and his doctors want him to scale back on work, so he is going to try to honour their wishes. (hedged) — 00:01:08
  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — John says the other reason is that, in trying to make three videos a week, they let slide the project-based nerdfighter work of increasing awesome and decreasing world suck. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-01-06 · Kill your TV — announcement: Hank says he and John offer at least six YouTube videos a week across vlogbrothers, SciShow and Crash Course (launching January 25), more than doubled with HankGames and Truth or Fail. — 00:03:06
  • 2012-01-06 · Kill your TV — Hank: Signing off, Hank says 'I will see you on Tuesday' sounds so weird, reflecting the new twice-weekly schedule. (playful) — 00:03:29
  • 2012-01-20 · Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans — Hank notes he made a video about this about two months ago, joking that Vlogbrothers is 'extraordinarily ahead of the curve'. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-10 · How Big is the Universe? — ask: Hank: On the end screen Hank says this video is what SciShow is all the time, with nicer production values, and suggests subscribing at youtube.com/SciShow. (hedged) — 00:03:10
  • 2012-04-06 · Can I be Space President? — Hank proposes that his title at 'Vlogbrothers Enterprises' become 'Hank Green, President of Space, Nerdfighteria' and asks John whether he can be president of space. (playful) — 00:01:01
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — announcement: Hank says this video is part of a series he calls 'vlog extra days in April', which he hopes John will join. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank says the project is very different from his vlogging: he prefers to vlog alone, but this needs actors, a sound guy, production people and writers, which is totally new to him. — 00:01:25
  • 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank feels Vlogbrothers is a story but not an intentional one; with this series they are deliberately telling a story, splitting and writing it and moving it into the present day. (hedged) — 00:01:42
  • 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John thanks Hank for increasing awesome through Vlogbrothers, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow, Crash Course, HankGames, VidCon, DFTBA Records and EcoGeek, and says he does too much. (playful) — 00:02:12
  • 2012-06-01 · Adorable Squirrel and Table Topics — John: Asked his dream job, John says he already has it: making video blogs with his brother and writing novels. (playful) — 00:00:57
  • 2012-06-08 · How to be More Productive...With Hank! — Hank says the project with John taught him that he likes to collaborate and be on a team, though none of his collaborators is as good as John. — 00:02:51
  • 2012-06-15 · Flinching in the Shower — ask: Hank asks people to leave the problems they see, from small ones like YouTube's subscription system to big ones like hunger, with (not actual) points for uniqueness and for rarely commenting. — 00:02:51
  • 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — Hank: After acting out a skit, Hank says he dreamed last night of a Vlogbrothers video idea: a man who can put his ear to the ground and hear everybody. (playful) — 00:00:18
  • 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — sponsor: Hank says his new tripods are from Ravelli, which didn't pay him to say so, since no one ever pays him to say anything; he jokes about charging $5 per message. (playful) — 00:01:58
  • 2012-08-03 · I Don't Understand My Life — Hank: When Esther was really sick, John told her the brothers wanted to celebrate her birthday every year the channel existed; after about two weeks she chose a day for saying 'I love you' to family and friends. — 00:02:19
  • 2012-08-24 · Happy Birthday John Green! — Hank says the brothers are about seven videos away from their 1,000th vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-09-04 · The Five Worst Places to Vomit — John: To Nerdfighters wondering whether the brothers will only make profound videos now, John offers this video. (playful) — 00:03:20
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank recalls that 2,083 days ago he posted the first Vlogbrothers video, and John posted his a day later to a different channel because they did not understand YouTube. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank announces that he and John have made 1,000 videos and says he is proud of them both. — 00:00:30
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank says each video averages 250,000 views, a quarter of a billion in total, which watched through would be 1,500 years of human life. — 00:00:40
  • 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank has never missed a scheduled Vlogbrothers day; John has missed only one, which Hank forgives because John was in the hospital. — 00:02:35
  • 2012-10-02 · What To Do With Your Life — John says the brothers' best decision as videobloggers was also their first: to collaborate with each other. — 00:03:03
  • 2012-10-05 · 21st Century Sherlock: A Sherlock / Doors Song — ask: Hank asks viewers who are not subscribed to the brothers' other channels to check them out. — 00:01:29
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — announcement: Hank announces that the Harry Potter Alliance and the Vlogbrothers are teaming up on DFTVA, 'Don't Forget to Vote, America', for anyone who cares about the election. — 00:01:41
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — ask: Hank asks viewers to spread the DFTVA graphic far and wide so everyone who can will vote, to do their civic duty, and to post it everywhere, especially on election Tuesday. — 00:01:41
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — ask: Hank asks viewers to go to their polling place, pose doing the Nerdfighter sign, and post the picture to get a free DFTVA sticker. — 00:02:19
  • 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — announcement: Hank: Under-18s who can't legally vote get a sticker too, for being excited about elections, and people who already voted can photograph themselves at their polling place. — 00:02:48
  • 2012-11-23 · Black Friday: An Accident of History — Hank thanks YouTube and Google for funding SciShow and Crash Course and for supporting Vlogbrothers and all the brothers' endeavors over the years. — 00:02:51
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says he and Hank were also privileged to have internet access in 2007 and $249 for cheap video cameras at the end of 2006; without that, Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, SciShow, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and VidCon would not exist. — 00:00:58
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John introduces the sixth annual Project for Awesome: every year on December 17th the Nerdfighter and YouTube communities come together to decrease world suck. — 00:01:27
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says a 48-hour P4A livestream will work to find and promote P4A videos by commenting, liking, favoriting, tweeting and tumblring. — 00:01:56
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says money raised for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck goes to the organizations in the five most-voted videos, at the discretion of an all-Nerdfighter P4A board, so a rigged vote cannot win. — 00:01:56
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says the P4A already has more than $15,000, thanks to Nerdcrafteria donations and to the Evil Baby Orphanage card game makers, who quietly donated part of their proceeds. — 00:02:26
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John announces that four anonymous donors will match every dollar donated to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, up to $50,000. — 00:02:26
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — announcement: John says an Indiegogo page will go up around December 16th; donations are not tax deductible, but all proceeds go directly to the P4A charities. — 00:02:55
  • 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — announcement: John: Wearing a suit and a Holden Caulfield hat, John delivers the Bank of Nerdfighteria's 'quarterly' report, now more annual, because the Project for Awesome is coming up. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John says the foundation now has $15,000 in the bank plus $60,000 in pledges, which he says should be bigger than last year (2011). (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2012-12-11 · Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS — John sums up: the lending arm is going like gangbusters and the giving arm is ready for the Project for Awesome. — 00:02:37
  • 2012-12-14 · I Got Nothin… — announcement: Hank says projectforawesome.com will be the central place for the P4A and the livestream will be on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:55
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John announces the sixth annual Project for Awesome: today people all over YouTube are making videos about their favorite nonprofit organizations. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says a 48-hour livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel will comment on, share and like P4A videos, making the internet about charity for a couple of days. — 00:00:23
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says that for this year's (2012) Project for Awesome he is supporting Save the Children. — 00:02:20
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — announcement: John says that, with no overhead, 100% of donations through the Foundation to Decrease World Suck go to P4A charities, which viewers partly choose. — 00:02:49
  • 2012-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2012 IS HERE! Save the Children. — ask: John asks viewers to head to projectforawesome.com, watch the livestream and comment like crazy, since every comment on a P4A video is a penny he has to donate to charity. — 00:02:49
  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: Hank says P4A 2012 drew a huge number of charity videos and that Indiegogo told them the campaign broke a number of the site's records. — video description
  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — Hank says the staff offered to donate their time shipping out items for the Project for Awesome. — 00:01:45
  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: Hank reports the P4A 2012 Indiegogo campaign raised $397,000 and, with other donations across the internet, more than half a million dollars. — 00:01:45
  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — announcement: Hank reports more than 700,000 P4A comments, each costing John a penny, more than 15,000 individual donors and thousands of P4A videos. — 00:02:32
  • 2012-12-28 · Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome raised more money than anybody expected. — 00:01:50
  • 2012-12-28 · Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! — announcement: Hank says the plan was to split the money among the charities in the top five P4A videos, but with so much raised they are talking about expanding to ten charities. (hedged) — 00:01:50
  • 2012-12-28 · Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING! — Hank says they think it might be nice to have more winners and that the money would do more good spread across more charities. (hedged) — 00:02:19

2013

  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John notes that the day marks the sixth anniversary of Vlogbrothers. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John: In a P.S. John marvels at six years of the channel and thanks the American government for running well enough that he can make videos in his basement for Nerdfighters. (playful) — 00:03:44
  • 2013-01-08 (said on 2013-01-05, implied) · Addicted to the Internet — ask: John tells Nerdfighters without Carnegie Hall tickets that a link in the doobly-doo lists hundreds of places worldwide to gather, watch the event livestream and meet other Nerdfighters. — 00:01:59
  • 2013-01-11 · On the Ownership of Ideas — Hank says that in 2007 John's friend Katie put DFTBA at the end of her to-do list; the brothers took it, popularized it through the vlog, and Hank is proud of and identifies with it. — 00:00:52
  • 2013-01-15 (said on 2013-01-14, implied) · North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall — ask: John reminds viewers they can watch the show live at youtube.com/vlogbrothers on Tuesday at 7 PM Eastern, or at viewing places around the country and world (links in the doobly-doo). — 00:01:32
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank: Asked what most decreased world suck, Hank names P4A but recalls their first-year visit to a microfinance organization in the Dominican Republic; microfinance seems to really work. (hedged) — 01:55:09
  • 2013-01-18 · Thoughts from Carnegie Hall — recommendation: Hank says the Evening of Awesome is preserved on the channel for those who missed it; it runs a couple of hours and he thinks it is worth watching (link in description). (hedged) — 00:01:44
  • 2013-01-22 · How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday — John thanks Nerdfighters who were at Carnegie Hall or watched An Evening of Awesome at home: it was the highlight of his professional career; he thanks Hank for making it fun and surprisingly relaxing. — 00:02:41
  • 2013-01-29 · Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters — John says people and ideas still need some copyright protection; otherwise a network like CBS could take the Vlogbrothers videos, air them and keep all the money. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John: The P4A charities have not been announced because the total is not yet known; John expects to know in a couple more weeks, after working out PayPal and shipping costs. (hedged) — 00:01:05
  • 2013-03-05 · The Gray Speckled Walls Encroach: The Perks and Liabilities of Frequent Flying — announcement: In the description John says he made the video before vlogbrothers hit 1,000,000 subscribers, thanks viewers for the community, and says he feels lucky to be a nerdfighter. — video description
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank's video for his own channel walks through all the Vlogbrothers channel designs since late 2007. — 00:00:29
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank: The Internet Archive's first capture of the Vlogbrothers channel, on December 1st, 2007, eleven months in, showed just under 10,000 subscribers, then a huge deal to them. — 00:00:29
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank says the Project for Awesome has been a huge success every year, and this year (2013) raised over $400,000. — 00:00:58
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank: The P4A money goes to the Office of Letters and Light, Not Forgotten, the Wildlife Waystation, the Alzheimer's Society, the Harry Potter Alliance, Save the Children, BGSU Dance Marathon, Uncultured Project, a charity heard as 'Taycho', and Love146 Dayton Task Force. — 00:01:27
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — announcement: Hank says Vlogbrothers reached a million subscribers this week (week of 4 March 2013), plus 300 million video views. — 00:01:27
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank: Though a million subscribers is a huge, impossible-feeling deal, Hank feels about the same about the project now as he did at 10,000 subscribers, and is happy about that. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — ask: Hank asks viewers to say in the comments what their first Vlogbrothers video was and when they watched it. — 00:03:01
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank jokes that he was the first Vlogbrothers viewer, a 'hipster', says viewers are watching before it is cool, and hopes it never will be. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:30
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — Hank notes YouTube and Vlogbrothers have always been changing; as YouTube becomes a bigger cultural force drawing attention from people "in big cities with suits on", he wonders what will happen to it. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-03-15 · Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes — Hank says one P4A perk was choosing a Vlogbrothers video topic; many such videos will be uploaded unlisted, but one donor asked for a video on something the brothers care about, so this is it. — 00:00:58
  • 2013-04-02 · TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video — announcement: John says he will take a four- or possibly five-week paternity leave from Vlogbrothers and everything else, except probably Tumblr. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2013-05-03 · 17 Rants in 4 Minutes — Hank says that once a year he likes to get furious, for not very good reasons, and today he will deliver 17 rants in four minutes. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-05-17 · GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN! — announcement: Hank says he and John will never put their content behind a paywall. — 00:01:33
  • 2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups — Hank says that is why Vlogbrothers has no pre-roll ads and why hard work making new things never gets old: they feel deeply indebted to viewers. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-05-28 · NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr) — John says advertisers value the number of views over their quality: Thoughts From Places videos are the channel's least viewed, yet Nerdfighters say they are among their favourites. — 00:00:32
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — John will step away not only from vlogbrothers but also from writing and travelling, and (jokingly) from his careers as amateur historian, trivia buff and semi-professional FIFA player. (playful) — 00:00:41
  • 2013-06-04 · A New Nerdfighter Baby — announcement: John: Every Tuesday there will still be a 'John video' on vlogbrothers, with John played by others: Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Craig (WheezyWaiter), Maureen Johnson and two Nerd Factor winners. — 00:01:25
  • 2013-06-11 · How To Be John Green — Craig Benzine: Craig tells Hank and John it is an honour to be on their channel, so he had to step up his usual game (he shows a clip of himself shirtless). — 00:01:26
  • 2013-06-18 · 50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter — Grace Helbig: Grace says the Vlogbrothers inspire her (very smart, articulate, nurturing, progressive, community-driven) and that filling in for one of them is stressful. — 00:00:36
  • 2013-06-21 · New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News — Hank says Grace's video went over four minutes, but he is unsure whether the four-minute rule covers videos on the Vlogbrothers channel or only videos made by the Vlogbrothers. (unsure) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-08-03 · Esther Day 2013 — John recalls telling Esther the brothers would hold Esther Day on her birthday as long as they make Vlogbrothers videos; she chose love between family and friends as its theme. — 00:01:19
  • 2013-09-06 · Undigested Lump (A Song) — Hank says a Vlogbrothers video averages about 12,000 likes and 100 dislikes; his songs get about double the dislikes, still only 200 of 200,000 viewers. — 00:00:31
  • 2013-10-08 · Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now — announcement: John says he might post a special bonus video before Friday, since the government shutdown has thrown off the Vlogbrothers schedule. (hedged) — 00:05:54
  • 2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria — John says the brothers' new videos have averaged over 600,000 views in the past month, views being the easiest metric of a video's success. — 00:00:32
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says last year's (2012) P4A raised more than $400,000 for organizations fighting illiteracy, domestic violence and global poverty, among other things. — 00:00:39
  • 2013-11-26 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — ask: John urges anyone who has never taken part in P4A to start making videos for December 17th. — 00:00:47
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank announces that the Project for Awesome happens around December 17 and starts tomorrow at noon Eastern; this video explains what it means. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank's description says the P4A Indiegogo campaign is live and some of the perks are already sold out. — video description
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — Hank explains that since 2007, every December 17, Nerdfighteria and the wider internet community spend one day of their internet experience on making the world a better place instead of fandom and cat gifs. — 00:00:24
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — Hank says last year (2012) P4A raised $400,000, and this year (2013) an anonymous donor matches donations up to $125,000. — 00:01:41
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says the livestream also starts at noon Eastern on December 17: everyone hanging out, watching and commenting on videos, voting for favorites, and slowly degenerating into madness. (playful) — 00:01:41
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — announcement: Hank says that after voting, the charities featured in the top-voted videos split the Indiegogo money, minus processing, shipping and printing costs. — 00:02:10
  • 2013-12-16 · Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?! — ask: Hank invites viewers to join the livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel and get their commenting fingers ready. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — announcement: John announces the 2013 Project for Awesome; its 48-hour livestream begins at noon Eastern today on youtube.com/vlogbrothers. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — John writes that each comment and tweet during the 48-hour livestream is worth a penny to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck, which every year gives all its funds to the charities the community chooses in P4A. — video description
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — John says 100% of the money raised goes to organizations the community chooses by voting at projectforawesome.com, so it is up to everyone to be good stewards of it. — 00:00:24
  • 2013-12-17 · THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US! — announcement: John says P4A videos can be found by searching YouTube for 'Project for Awesome 2013', and every comment on a P4A video or tweet with #projectforawesome is worth a penny. — 00:00:40
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank: During the livestream a voice (apparently Hank) announces that P4A 2013 has just raised $525,000. — 00:02:42
  • 2013-12-20 · Best Moments of the Project for Awesome — Hank thanks everyone who commented, watched the livestream, made a video or donated, plus the calendar participants and the volunteer support staff who stayed up with them. — 00:03:24

Also named in: Introducing Subbable, Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition

2014

  • 2014-01-03 · The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! — Hank: In a mock news bulletin Hank reports that the Golden Gate Bridge did not collapse today: 110,000 vehicles crossed its 8,000 feet, after more than 76 years of weather and vibration. (playful) — 00:00:03
  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — announcement: John announces a book launch event on February 1st in Boston with Nerdfighters, wizard rockers and Esther's family, livestreamed on youtube.com/vlogbrothers. — 00:01:06
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John: Among the P4A winners, John notes the World Food Programme is where Free Rice's money goes and Feeding America works with food banks around the US. — video description
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John says Nerdfighters raised more than $860,000 in this year's (2014) Project for Awesome. — 00:00:50
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — announcement: John: After paying to make and ship perks, the remaining P4A money goes to charities chosen by Nerdfighteria; John announces ten winning charities that each receive $50,000. — 00:00:53
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — announcement: John: The ten $50,000 winners: Harry Potter Alliance, This Star Won't Go Out, Not Forgotten, Save the Children, Liberty in North Korea, Child's Play, Thirst Project, Water.org, Partners for Mental Health, TECHO. — 00:01:07
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — announcement: John says all ten organizations will receive $50,000 apiece from the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck. — 00:02:00
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — announcement: John: Of the remaining $360,000 (not pizza and corn dogs), some pays for producing and shipping perks like t-shirts and the Women of YouTube calendar; most is split among ten more charities. (playful) — 00:02:03
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — announcement: John: The ten further winners: To Write Love on Her Arms, Office of Letters and Light, World Food Programme ('World Food Project'), Feeding America, Wayne Foundation, Pencils for Kids, Women for Women International, First Book, Kiva, Doctors Without Borders. — 00:02:20
  • 2014-02-11 · A Middle Aged Man — John announces an 'old school' vlogbrothers video in which he sits down with no idea what he is going to talk about. — 00:00:01
  • 2014-02-18 · 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — recommendation: John recommends Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, which inspired an early Vlogbrothers video and is excellent. — 00:03:01
  • 2014-02-21 · Ranting about Books — Hank: Ironically listing faults books don't have (batteries, pop-up ads, pre-rolls), Hank declares books a far superior medium to most, except Vlogbrothers videos. (playful) — 00:03:11
  • 2014-03-11 · Question Tuesday: TFIOS Movie, Existential Crises, and Symbolism — John says participating in The Art Assignment is the most fun he has had in a long time, like early Vlogbrothers: a tight-knit community doing projects and responding to each other's work. — 00:01:36
  • 2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — John says Ze Frank's The Show inspired most vlogbrothers conventions, like jump cuts and 'Good morning', but Ze never had a consistent sign-off. — 00:00:25
  • 2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — John says Hank remembering the phrase after 20 years shows how hugely Shoales influenced them: everything he did in 1985 is what they try to do now. — 00:01:56
  • 2014-06-06 · Thoughts from the TFiOS Premiere! — Hank says Vlogbrothers has done the opposite from the start: his real office, no makeup, T-shirts from a local printer with the process shown, set videos, and how both brothers feel. — 00:02:39
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John says the Project for Awesome raised more than $800,000 for charity last December. — 00:01:30
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John: Five: vlogbrothers has never run pre-roll ads because the brothers find pre-rolls annoying; it has only display ads. — 00:01:59
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John says pre-roll ads are about 99% of YouTube's revenue, and that with them vlogbrothers could earn five or six times what it does now (he can't give actual numbers). (hedged) — 00:02:08
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John asks whether and how to run pre-rolls; options: keep things as they are, delete ads entirely, or run pre-rolls and give all the money to the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck or to education and Nerdfighter projects, or a mix. — 00:02:17
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — ask: John asks Nerdfighters to take the survey linked in the doobly-doo on ads and on what they want from Crash Course and education content on YouTube. — 00:02:50
  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — announcement: John reports that tens of thousands answered his question from last week (week of 7 July 2014); they voted overwhelmingly to turn on vlogbrothers pre-roll ads and split the income between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund for educational video projects. — 00:00:13
  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — announcement: John says the brothers will do what the vote decided and promises Nerdfighters updates on how the money is spent. — 00:00:25
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: After 2007 the brothers abolished the textual communication rule, changed the schedule, and exempted educational videos, montage videos and 4:01 videos (YouTube adds a second) from the time limit. — 00:01:32
  • 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
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank says that, for a first time ever on Vlogbrothers, he has three videos in a row, because of Esther Day and John's missed video; it's like the Hank Show and he doesn't like it. (playful) — 00:01:59
  • 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
  • 2014-08-22 · Kidneys, LlamaJohn, Frankenstein, Back to School, and The Nerdfighter Online Video Workshop! — announcement: Hank sets up a framework to practise each skill: a writing workshop on Wattpad plus a video of him writing a script, an unedited vlogbrothers video to edit and share for critique, and scripts for on-camera practice. — 00:02:04
  • 2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John wonders whether he has already told that story in a vlogbrothers video, admitting he does not know what has been in his own videos. (playful, unsure) — 00:01:42
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — announcement: John says he filmed several conversations with Bill Gates in Ethiopia and will upload them every Tuesday for about a month, a couple of hours before his regular Vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:08
  • 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
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — announcement: Hank says vlogbrothers has run pre-roll ads for over a month, building a pile of cash the brothers are distributing to awesome creators. — 00:03:22
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — announcement: Hank: The first recipients are YouTube's Physics Girl, who gets an equipment grant, and Kelly Kend, who is making a documentary about consent and sexual assault. — 00:03:29
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — Hank says he found Kelly's work, reached out, and offered her some of Nerdfighteria's money; she is very excited. — 00:03:42
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — announcement: The description calls the video a special bonus video. — video description
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank shows his newly set-up office, with areas for Games with Hank and Vlogbrothers and his actual desk. — 00:00:01
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank says he felt a little down yesterday and is better now; high among the things he is grateful for because of vlogbrothers is that it is always there to motivate him to get out of bed and make things. — 00:03:06
  • 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
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John asks whether he should focus on Mental Floss, Crash Course, The Art Assignment, Vlogbrothers or the Wimbly Womblys, and whether doing all of them means doing none well. (unsure) — 00:01:38
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John says viewers also wanted more Vlogbrothers videos and science education, showing the community's values and the brothers' still line up. — 00:03:24
  • 2014-10-10 · I Kinda AM Batman — Hank thanks John, tongue in cheek, for making their most disliked Vlogbrothers video ever, apparently just by insulting a fictional vigilante. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says the foundation now has about $45,000, partly from Nerdfighter projects like Nerdcrafteria (he says 'Minecrafteria') and more Vlogbrothers income - its best shape ever going into P4A. — 00:01:44
  • 2014-10-17 · MY FACE ON A BUS — Hank says he is extremely happy Vlogbrothers is too weird ever to be mainstream, and that they are dedicated to keeping it weird. (playful) — 00:03:29
  • 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank says one of the central things of the whole project for him is that you can do serious things and silly things, and they are not contradictory. — 00:00:58
  • 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank recounts Pizzamas: a few years ago limited-edition Pizza John designs, named Pizzamas, with no extra videos; last year (2013) different products; now both new designs and products plus extra Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:02:38
  • 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank says Vlogbrothers is a video project between two brothers talking to each other, though their lives are weirder now, and a community sharing values: equality and knowing the world deserves to be understood complexly. — 00:03:10
  • 2014-11-12 · The History of Pizza John! — Hank: Asked how long he will keep doing this or what his five-year plan is, Hank says he will be doing it forever, picturing a toothless 81-year-old Hank mumbling about Pizzamas 2061. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — Hank: internalising this has been a lifelong process and only works where he is among people he trusts and feels confident around, as on the Vlogbrothers channel and in Nerdfighteria. — 00:02:07
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — announcement: Hank introduces a special episode of Ryder Burgin's show A Brief History, airing on Vlogbrothers as a Hank-Ryder collaboration; the topic is Homestar Runner. — 00:00:00
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — announcement: Hank notes the year is ending and his next Vlogbrothers video will be made in 2015. — 00:00:02
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank thanks everyone for another great year at Vlogbrothers. — 00:03:05

2015

  • 2015-01-02 · Why is The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? Eight Completely Arbitrary Things — ask: Hank thanks John for his video on racism this week (week of 29 December 2014) and points viewers who haven't seen it to youtube.com/vlogbrothers. — 00:03:46
  • 2015-02-20 · Why Are Fewer People Studying Science and Engineering? — sponsor: Hank says Vlogbrothers has never done a branded video and this is not one; the sponsor does not know he is making it. — 00:00:17
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — Hank tells John they have been making videos for over eight years, over 1,200 on this channel alone. — 00:00:01
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — Hank says he has shared his deepest fears and most embarrassing moments on the channel, so little about him is left private; he likes it that way. — 00:00:10
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — Hank says Vlogbrothers has always been about honesty and authenticity: being who you are, feeling what you feel and talking about what is happening. — 00:02:28
  • 2015-03-20 · A Sacrifice of Individuality and the Internets — Hank says about 200,000 people will watch this video, an audience many would call 'the crowd'. — 00:02:15
  • 2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — announcement: both: Hank wants his video this week (week of 4 May 2015), also for his birthday, to be a Vlogbrothers Olympics; John names it a 'quadragocon', which Hank declares has fourteen events, the first being who wins Blue Steel. (playful) — 00:03:22
  • 2015-05-19 · Pain Destroys Language: John after the Dentist — John says he is the highest he has ever been while making a vlogbrothers video. (playful) — 00:00:10
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John: Bank of Nerdfighteria update: Vlogbrothers ad revenue is split in half between the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and a fund sponsoring online educational content such as Physics Girl and The Financial Diet. — 00:02:05
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — John: So far this year (2015) the Foundation to Decrease World Suck has raised about $40,000, mostly from people watching ads on Vlogbrothers; John thanks viewers for 'ingesting' the advertising. — 00:02:18
  • 2015-07-14 · On Exhaustion — John: So even vlogging over unchosen music and making videos that aren't that good, John will 'just keep swimming', because Nerdfighteria is a big part of what keeps him going. — 00:02:42
  • 2015-07-17 · Is YouTube Good for Humanity? — Hank: To distract himself Hank wrote four Vlogbrothers scripts in the last week but felt dishonest using them instead of talking about VidCon. — 00:00:19
  • 2015-07-17 · Is YouTube Good for Humanity? — Hank says that with Vlogbrothers the brothers can actively 'de-mainstreamify' themselves by making more off-the-cuff, weird content that is less popular but still rewarding for the existing community. (hedged) — 00:02:44
  • 2015-07-24 · From the Main Stage of VidCon! — Hank is surprised the brothers have only been doing this for eight years. — 00:00:18
  • 2015-07-24 · From the Main Stage of VidCon! — John notes there are people at VidCon younger than the first vlogbrothers video, which makes him aware of how old he is. — 00:00:48
  • 2015-07-31 · Why Paper Towns is Awesome — Hank is making this video without a script, which he usually does not do. — 00:00:04
  • 2015-08-18 · The Cold War of Nerdfighteria — John says the brothers use the Census every year to choose Crash Course topics and Vlogbrothers videos and to understand Nerdfighteria's interests, and thanks everyone who fills it out. — 00:01:37
  • 2015-08-21 · Book Towers for Miles — Hank sets off to get on an airplane with Katherine, teasing her that she's never on Vlogbrothers but always on Snapchat; John appears for the sign-off. (playful) — 00:03:08
  • 2015-09-15 · John Gets a Tattoo — John: Though he spent the last several weeks fearing it, John says this turned out to be the least punishing Vlogbrothers punishment ever. — 00:01:29
  • 2015-10-16 · Post-NerdCon Haze — Hank says in 2007 the Vlogbrothers imposed an artificial four-minute limit on their videos, as arbitrary as the 24-hour day, and it's great they stuck with it. — 00:03:28
  • 2015-10-20 · Nerdfighteria's Resident Comptroller? — John recalls that in 2007 the brothers' YouTube channel had a resident mathematician, Daniel Biss. — 00:00:01
  • 2015-10-23 · Benghazi: Explained — Hank says they have made videos like this since the beginning of Vlogbrothers; he likes being able to go past the time limit, but they are hard and stressful to make. — 00:07:31
  • 2015-11-06 · Announcing VidCon 2016! June 23 - 25 (and Pizzamas 2015!) — announcement: Hank explains Pizzamas: as last year (2014), two weeks of Brotherhood 2.0-style videos, one every weekday from Hank or John, starting Monday. — 00:03:22
  • 2015-11-09 · Enjoy My Stupid Dancing! (Pizzamas Day 1) — Hank opens Pizzamas with a rap: vlogbrothers videos every day except weekends, before conceding that Hank Green rapping is always a bad idea. (playful) — 00:00:06
  • 2015-11-09 · Enjoy My Stupid Dancing! (Pizzamas Day 1) — Hank says he is getting a little worried the channel will acquire so many traditions that eventually every day will have something from Nerdfighteria history prescribed. (playful) — 00:00:28
  • 2015-11-09 · Enjoy My Stupid Dancing! (Pizzamas Day 1) — Hank explains the Project for Awesome, run by him and John since 2007, the first year of vlogbrothers: instead of a usual upload, people upload a video about a charity they think does good work. — 00:01:24
  • 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
  • 2015-11-19 · Is Success a Bad Idea? (Pizzamas Day 9 of 10) — Hank says his life has become weird, cool, wonderful and complicated over eight or nine years of Vlogbrothers; he is professionally respected and fairly well known, so one might call him a success. — 00:00:13
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John says the Foundation already has $80,000 before P4A starts, mostly from Nerdcrafteria and Vlogbrothers ad revenue, half of which sponsors online educational projects and half goes to the Foundation. — 00:02:42
  • 2015-12-29 · How to Give Away Over a Million Dollars — announcement: John says this is his final Vlogbrothers video of 2015. — 00:02:07
  • 2015-12-29 · How to Give Away Over a Million Dollars — ask: John asks Nerdfighteria to answer in the comments what they want more or less of on Vlogbrothers next year (2016), and whether the rules and the schedule should change. — 00:02:10

Also named in: Places I've Never Been, Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece, Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling

2016

Also named in: Literally Hitler

2017

Also named in: When Will You Die?, Where are Whale Balls? Question Tuesday: Pizza Edition, Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday

2018

  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — announcement: John wants to collaborate with his wife Sarah in 2018 on at least four episodes of a new YouTube series, Cooking History, uploaded at least initially on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:18
  • 2018-01-30 · Hank, I Have Some Advice — John: Hank has worked on the book for years and people want to know about it; Vlogbrothers shouldn't become a booktube channel about one book, though. — 00:01:58
  • 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
  • 2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Hank says he and John have both been shying away from cultural criticism on the channel, as he feels drawn to stability and to compassion for people who are intolerant without knowing it. — video description
  • 2018-02-27 · Ode to a Dog — John: Willy has been a constant amid big family changes; though his barking has ruined many Vlogbrothers takes, his companionship has been a profound gift, especially in hard times. — 00:01:57
  • 2018-03-09 · John's Best Gift to Me — Hank quote-tweeted it: his older brother thought it was a good idea to make video blogs, which Hank stresses is not an exaggeration. — 00:00:28
  • 2018-04-03 · On Punctuality — John says this is the 323rd consecutive Tuesday he has made a Vlogbrothers video, except one Tuesday with meningitis and another with labyrinthitis. — 00:00:01
  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John: Hank and John have made Vlogbrothers videos for more than 11 years; the community around them calls themselves nerdfighters because they fight for intellectual engagement and celebrate unironic enthusiasm. — 00:03:08
  • 2018-05-11 · Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things — Hank says it's season 12 on Vlogbrothers, something that doesn't happen in TV. — 00:01:08
  • 2018-05-11 · Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things — Hank: What goes up must come down: on Vlogbrothers the brothers have seen enough ups and downs not to tie their self-worth to it, though getting there was a process. — 00:02:28
  • 2018-05-25 · Please Unsubscribe — Hank: Even on Vlogbrothers, a repeat-viewer channel with YouTube-savvy viewers, only about 30% of first-day views come from subscriptions, falling to about 15% over the video's life. — 00:00:29
  • 2018-06-05 · WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY — John has looked for the book for an entire day and couldn't write a Vlogbrothers script, so the search became the topic of the video. — 00:01:32
  • 2018-06-26 · How's the Water? — John: In old and probably recent vlogbrothers videos John tries to assume the wise-fish role, doling out advice and pronouncements about where social media is taking us. (hedged) — 00:01:21
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John's real concern is how 'our YouTube' ends: someday the channel won't be here, as we won't, and he wonders when and how to say goodbye online. — 00:01:42
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John is not unhappy and does not want to stop making Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:01:54
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John: In 2007 John would have been incredulous and horrified that 40-year-old him still made videos; yet he is grateful for 11 and a half years of conversation, hopes it long continues, and hopes it ends well. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John: Hank recently pointed out that if Vlogbrothers were a TV show it would be in its 12th season, a long run for TV and for a YouTube channel. — 00:02:23
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John: Over time even good shows become less broadly relevant and serve a smaller but deeply engaged audience; John feels that happened to Vlogbrothers and it has been really good news. (hedged) — 00:02:33
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John: Thinking about how the channel will end, John mostly thinks about keeping the conversation sustainable and fun for the brothers and the audience. — 00:02:55
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — ask: John asks viewers what they get out of Vlogbrothers videos, what makes them meaningful, what makes time with nerdfighters valuable, and what the brothers should change or keep. — 00:03:06
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — ask: John: Having worked for 'this company' for 12 years, John requests three weeks of unpunished vacation per year, not to be used now or all at once; that, he says, is why he made the video. (playful) — 00:03:21
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — In the description Hank says 'this ends in death' means everything eventually, not so much Vlogbrothers. (hedged) — video description
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — Hank is very uncomfortable with the idea that the Vlogbrothers channel will end in the death of one of the brothers and doesn't know how to feel about it, which he guesses is a pretty big part of the human experience. (unsure) — video description
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — Hank: The survey results say people are fine with the brothers taking three weeks of vacation. — 00:00:40
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — Hank: The comments left on John's video after he asked what people get out of Vlogbrothers were life-giving to Hank; he can return to them whenever he needs a lift, and thanks John and the commenters. — 00:03:30
  • 2018-09-14 · Our Rivalry — Hank thinks the videos got better because the brothers tried to outdo each other, wanting to make a better joke, not to be more successful. (hedged) — 00:01:53
  • 2018-09-14 · Our Rivalry — Hank calls this a valuable gift, given to him at least in part by this community and this project, and is very thankful. (hedged) — 00:02:23
  • 2018-09-21 · The Parable of the Perfect Pot — Hank: This is more or less Hank's philosophy for the last 11 years, and it worked well: make a pot, present it for judgment, use the feedback to make another. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2018-09-21 · The Parable of the Perfect Pot — Hank says his hundreds of Vlogbrothers videos were a good writing apprenticeship, much of it creative nonfiction. — 00:02:09
  • 2018-09-25 · You Did It! — John lightly edited the first poem because his kids watch Vlogbrothers now. — 00:00:58
  • 2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — The description says this is probably the longest Vlogbrothers video and certainly the one with the most curse words, as the tradition demands. (hedged) — video description
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — Hank: Long ago the brothers cut to one video a week each to free time for other things, which Hank says 100% happened. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — Hank: Switching to one video a week also made it feel like much more pressure to make that video really good, and Hank felt bad when it wasn't: less work, more pressure. — 00:00:32
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says linear television has eight minutes of ads for every 22 minutes of content, so Vlogbrothers on TV would have three 30-second commercials per video. (playful) — 00:02:05
  • 2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — John says he recently discovered that all Vlogbrothers comments can be searched, so they will find out what commenters say the brothers look like. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John — The description says having hundreds of thousands of comments on the channel is an amazing honor, and reading old comments was wonderful and very funny. — video description
  • 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
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — John says half of this YouTube channel's revenue goes to the Foundation, thanking viewers for watching ads or subscribing to whatever YouTube Red is now called. — 00:00:42
  • 2018-11-09 · I Don't Know What Work Is — Hank says he turned reading novels into work, just as VidCon made watching YouTube work, SciShow his science obsession, Vlogbrothers his interest in online communities, and Dear Hank and John being dumb with his brother. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2018-11-16 · Doing This Makes Me Happy, but Maybe it Doesn't' Seem that Way? — Hank stresses that he wouldn't make Vlogbrothers if it weren't bringing him joy. — video description
  • 2018-11-16 · Doing This Makes Me Happy, but Maybe it Doesn't' Seem that Way? — Hank says Vlogbrothers has never felt like maintenance or keeping a thing alive to him: it is a creative outlet with freedom and complete control over the process. — 00:02:36
  • 2018-11-16 · Doing This Makes Me Happy, but Maybe it Doesn't' Seem that Way? — Hank: The obligation Hank feels on the channel is never frustrating, only freeing. — 00:03:06
  • 2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — announcement: Hank says he is doing his punishment while recording his vlogbrothers video: a makeup challenge while wearing a shock collar. — 00:00:00
  • 2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — Hank: Asked when he and John were first in a Vlogbrothers video together, Hank guesses it was in the Dominican Republic. (speculative) — 00:02:55

Also named in: Making Bad Decisions with My Dad, HAIRMERGENCY!

2019

2020

  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — announcement: The description says a cut part of the video, about how mindlessly acquiring something once valued beyond its utility creates more stress than it alleviates, became mostly about money, so Hank is saving it for later. — video description
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says the last ten years have been big: he has changed a lot, and so has what the brothers do on the channel. — 00:00:09
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says that over ten years he and John have grown less interested in optimizing the channel for growth and new audiences; newcomers are welcome, but they aren't trying to grow it. — 00:00:26
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says Vlogbrothers at its core is not about entertainment but about doing and thinking about things together. — 00:01:36
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says SciShow and Crash Course long ago eclipsed Vlogbrothers in subscribers and views, but Vlogbrothers, without which they wouldn't exist, has had more impact despite a smaller audience. — 00:02:00
  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank says Crash Course should grow as much as it can because its goal is to reach people with educational content, but Vlogbrothers doesn't need to. — 00:02:54
  • 2020-01-07 · Endings · Beginnings — John wants to continue exercising at least 150 minutes a week, making Dear Hank and John every Monday and a Vlogbrothers video every Tuesday. — 00:03:09
  • 2020-01-14 · Foolish · Beautiful — John says he still uses Hank's line from the very first vlogbrothers video, 'auto power off, still some glitches to work out', whenever the camera goes wrong 13 years later. — 00:02:14
  • 2020-01-17 · It's Like Shark Tank, but for Charity — announcement: Hank says Vlogbrothers channel revenue has always been split between charity and supporting smaller educational video channels. — 00:01:14
  • 2020-02-04 · practice — John: Early on, John often finished books with no idea what to say about them, and often hit vlogbrothers deadlines without ideas for videos. — 00:02:27
  • 2020-02-04 · practice — John: After over 13 years of making videos consistently, John's brain knows that from Saturday it must find an idea, works on it, and almost always has one by Monday (10 February 2020) night. — 00:02:56
  • 2020-02-25 · A weird YouTube thing? — John says that for over a year almost every Vlogbrothers video has drawn one like for every 10 views in its first 24 hours, which must be coincidental but is very strange. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-02-25 · A weird YouTube thing? — ask: John: In a pinned comment John asks viewers to like this video, saying he hasn't asked that in years and won't ask again for years, but is very curious. — creator comment
  • 2020-02-25 · A weird YouTube thing? — John gives examples (75,700 views and 7,600 likes; 99,000 views and 9,900 likes) and says it holds for Hank's and John's videos and for high- and low-view videos alike. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-02-28 · I'M FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE — Hank enters the Vlogbrothers tradition of signing tens of thousands of sheets of paper and signs one on camera. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — Hank recalls launching SciShow and Crash Course in 2011; both are now way bigger than Vlogbrothers, with over a billion views each. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-05-08 · The years start coming and they don't stop coming! — Hank's parents-in-law watched the Nerdfighter-made All Star mashup of Vlogbrothers clips, their first exposure to Smash Mouth's All Star. — 00:01:58
  • 2020-05-15 · Lookin' Kinda Dumb! — announcement: Hank says Bizarre Beasts is a series he is doing on Vlogbrothers, with only a couple more episodes left. (hedged) — 00:02:55
  • 2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — John: Told in comments that the All Star lyric video titles keep coming, John playfully claims to have no idea what this refers to; to another commenter who noticed the lyric titles he says "You're on to us." (playful) — creator comment
  • 2020-05-19 · Didn't Make Sense Not to Live for Fun — John thinks All Star might be a song about celebrity by people who didn't not want fame, which isn't quite wanting it; if so, its lyric is a great double negative. (hedged) — 00:03:24
  • 2020-05-22 · The Meteor Men Beg to Differ // Judging by the Hole in the Satellite Picture — Hank says 'the meteor men beg to differ, judging by the hole in the satellite picture' is a forced rhyme that misunderstands climate science, but is less intrusive because it isn't emphasized. — 00:01:01
  • 2020-06-02 · --- — John apologizes for pausing the brothers' silly title bit because he is immensely sad today. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-06-09 · i could use a little fuel myself — announcement: John says YouTube asked him weeks ago to join its Class of 2020 celebration; he shares his video to encourage students, teachers and anyone, since we could all use a little fuel. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — John: From the White River in Indianapolis, John kayaks to a cool place almost nobody knows about, to show it to Hank. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-06-23 · You'll Never Shine if You Don't Glow — John: Told the All Star titles give a commenter a feeling, John says he has no idea what they are referring to. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2020-06-26 · You Might as Well Swim! — Hank has felt limited by Vlogbrothers' four-minute limit, because there is a lot to say about these animals. — 00:02:57
  • 2020-07-03 · My World's on Fire — Hank: About ten years ago Hank bought a softbox and has used it in every Vlogbrothers video filmed at home since, until today. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star — announcement: John: Hank's second novel comes out today, and Hank and John will be live at 7 p.m. Eastern on the Vlogbrothers channel to celebrate. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-07-07 · You're a Rock Star — announcement: John: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor is available now wherever books are sold, and they launch it tonight at 7pm at youtube.com/vlogbrothers. — 00:03:13
  • 2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John: Thin ice has become such a cliche that we forget how terrifying it is: gliding from shore ever less sure the ground will hold, which John finds a fair metaphor for 2020. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — Replying to a comment about the titles, John says he is not sure what 'these titles' refers to, but All Star is one of his favorite pop songs. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2020-07-14 · The ice we skate is getting pretty thin. — John: Solving the cube wasn't a Vlogbrothers video, a podcast episode or answering overdue emails, but John says it also wasn't time wasted. — 00:02:55
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: Asked his favorite line of All Star, John says it is weird that people keep asking him about this 19-year-old pop song, then names a favorite line. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: Last year (2019) Nerdfighteria voted to give the brothers three weeks of vacation per year; John has not used much of it. — 00:03:21
  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — announcement: John is taking next week (week of 27 July 2020) off because his brain requires it, and hopes that is okay. — 00:03:21
  • 2020-07-24 · Could I Spare some Change for Gas? — announcement: Hank will see John not this Tuesday (28 July 2020) but next, because John is taking Tuesday off. — 00:03:33
  • 2020-07-31 · Your Brain Gets Smart, but Your Head Gets Dumb — announcement: Hank: Answering a viewer asking why John posted no video on Tuesday, a channel comment says John is fine and just took the day off. — creator comment
  • 2020-08-07 · Her Finger and Her Thumb in the Shape of an 'L' on Her Forehead — Hank says some people criticize Vlogbrothers videos for using jump cuts, and the brothers are not going to stop. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-08-14 · Hit The Ground Running — Hank describes deciding to do a thing and loving it at first: its greatness fills your tank so you hit the ground running and sprint for weeks or months without questioning it. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-08-14 · Hit The Ground Running — Hank: Told by a commenter, apropos of nothing, that they still like the song All Star, Hank replies he's not sure why they brought it up but feels the same way. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2020-08-14 · Hit The Ground Running — Hank: When the fuel runs out or the world changes annoyingly, you may have to decide, even three quarters through, whether to keep going; continuing is the default, so stopping is hard. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-08-14 · Hit The Ground Running — announcement: Hank: The second episode of Bizarre Beasts is up on its own YouTube channel, hosted by Sarah Suda and about the hoatzin, one of Hank's favorite birds. — 00:03:19
  • 2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: Told the title is bad, John says he also hates this title thing, but they are 85% through the nightmare and, as Hank said on Friday, they are not giving up now. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — John says humans trust information from people they trust, which is why so many sentences start with what someone told us; online this rumor- and anecdote-driven sorting runs wild. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank's lesson about dreams: we can only dream what we've seen, so we want to walk our idols' paths, forgetting that they didn't follow paths but created them. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-09-01 · get the show on — John says 'I have a new book coming out' would make a great title if he hadn't made an absurd, increasingly ridiculous title commitment several months ago. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-15 · All That Glitters Is Gold — John notes the lyric 'all that glitters is gold' appears in Led Zeppelin's 1971 Stairway to Heaven and reappears years later in Smash Mouth's All Star. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-15 · All That Glitters Is Gold — John says he has been thinking a lot about the lyric 'all that glitters is gold' for roughly the last 21 weeks. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-15 · All That Glitters Is Gold — John says when Smash Mouth repurposed the lyric 28 years later, it seems to be just about rock-star life: you get the show on, you get paid. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-09-25 · i said yep — Hank recalls the brothers saying a while back that they don't have to make a video every day and can take some days off. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-09-25 · i said yep — Hank says the channel is clearly not focused on growth right now and hasn't been for a while; it is something everybody here is doing together. — 00:00:46
  • 2020-09-25 · i said yep — Hank reflects that we don't know what we sign up for: John asked him to do this in 2007, he said yep, and here they are in 2020. — 00:01:19
  • 2020-09-25 · i said yep — Hank says the channel would not exist, or would be deeply different, without the people who engage with it, even just by clicking and watching. — 00:01:45
  • 2020-09-25 · i said yep — Hank is not making a video this week (week of 21 September 2020) and knows it's okay, but it feels really weird, since he has made a video every week on his day for more than 10 years. — 00:03:13
  • 2020-09-29 · How 'bout Yours? — John says the true observation is never 'this bridge is terrifying'; all you can say with certainty is 'my bridge is terrifying. How about yours?' — 00:01:32
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank celebrates that after five months of titles taken only from Smash Mouth's All Star, with this not-great title they have used every word in the song. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says being done feels good; it means nothing, but they assigned value to it and he is amazed and proud of them. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — The description says this title is the leftover interstitial bits of All Star not yet used in Vlogbrothers titles, so they are done; Pizzamas begins next week (week of 5 October 2020). (playful) — video description
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says they began the idea on April 21, 2020, as everyone was getting used to a big deal changing their lives for a long time. — 00:00:32
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says the first reason was that constraint is inspiring: not every constraint, but adding constraints can juice up the creative process. — 00:01:01
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says the more important reason was that both brothers wanted to prove they really don't want to grow the channel anymore; saying it differs from enacting a policy that limits growth. — 00:01:30
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says the goal of Vlogbrothers is creating a community, which feels less real past some size: a breeding ground for ideas, weirdness, community and change that enables things like Crash Course. — 00:02:13
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says that although they gave up titling their videos, the channel's audience has not fallen at all over the last five months. — 00:02:44
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says that is how he knows this channel is a different, special thing. — 00:03:13
  • 2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — John: In a P.S., John says Hank's video on the All Star project left out that it was inspired by YouTube comments, especially one from Maddie. — 00:03:18
  • 2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — John: Five months ago, on John's video Hey Now, Maddie commented that Hank should title his next video You're an All Star and use the rest of the lyrics as titles, calling it Vlogbrothers 2.0 nonsense. — 00:03:18
  • 2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — John thanks Maddie and the others who made similar comments, adding that you never know when you will change the world with a YouTube comment. — 00:03:18
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John says that at the time their videos got around 300 views, and about 200 people sent in pictures or videos of themselves with stuff on their heads. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John says he then realized they weren't making videos for an audience but with an audience. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John notes Hank's recent video alluded to their decision a couple of years ago to stop maximizing views, which informed five months of titles from a 'not very good' 19-year-old pop song. — 00:00:29
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John says that for several years almost every Vlogbrothers video ended up on the trending page, introducing many new people to the channel and their other work. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John asks when the golden age was: March 2007, when over half their viewers joined the first community project, or May 2014, when the channel was perilously close to US pop culture. — 00:02:55
  • 2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John says different viewers would name different golden ages, but for him it's now; he has needed this space in 2020 more than ever. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-10-08 · The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain — In a channel comment John welcomes the many visitors arriving from Reddit, warns this is probably the peak of their Rax content, and points them to Pizzamas. — creator comment
  • 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John notes that right after his video on no longer trying to maximize Vlogbrothers views, Hank made a video that hit Reddit's front page and got lots of views. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2020-10-27 · The time I met Joe Biden — John: Calling this a political video, John answers those asking when Vlogbrothers got so political: they have talked politics since mid-January 2007, though he understands the concern. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-11-13 · How We Teach: Individualist Stories — Hank picks up John's point that great accomplishments are told as stories of individual genius rather than collective progress, a theme the brothers have discussed a lot and Hank wrote a couple of books about. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-01 · The Utah Monolith, What It Means, Why It Matters, and Whether It's Aliens — John: Asked why the brothers address each other, John comments that the channel began thirteen years ago as their conversation; he still addresses videos to Hank and sees him as his first audience. — creator comment
  • 2020-12-04 · The Christmas Creature — announcement: Hank says the Vlogbrothers Project for Awesome 2021 calendar, designed by Megan Toenyes, is available now, and he loves it. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John says starting a collaborative video blog back in 2006 was his idea. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John's small goals, exercising at least 150 minutes a week and making Dear Hank and John every Monday and a Vlogbrothers video every Tuesday, were not easy, but he did them. — 00:02:19

2021

  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — announcement: Hank: The Project for Awesome, a 48-hour charity livestream with guests and goofs held every year since 2007, starts one week from today on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-02-05 · The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year! — Hank: Less than a week to make a video is fine: every vlogbrothers video is made in less than a week. (playful) — 00:02:26
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — John: A chunk of Vlogbrothers ad revenue sponsors educational video projects, and John often discovers new favourite channels that way. — 00:00:56
  • 2021-02-12 · Doing Better — announcement: Hank: The P4A livestream runs for 48 hours on the Vlogbrothers channel. — 00:03:07
  • 2021-02-26 · Arbitrary but Useful — Hank says this is usually where a Vlogbrothers video ties the little thought to viewers' lives or the world, imagining a viewer amazed that his silly noises led to Robinhood and GameStop stocks. (playful) — 00:02:45
  • 2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — John: Making a video every Tuesday gives John's week structure; without Vlogbrothers he is not sure he would know it is Tuesday. — 00:00:10
  • 2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — John: Making one thing a week makes it easier to make other things: many ideas in John's books, and many Anthropocene Reviewed essays, began in Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:00:35
  • 2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — John: Taking a week off would also raise questions, and John doesn't want to, since he benefits from making Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:02:10
  • 2021-03-09 · Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing — John: People who left many artifacts online, from tweets to YouTube videos, now have a similar experience: John's March 2007 vlogbrothers self is both familiar and quite distant. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-03-12 · A Crisis of Branding — Hank didn't start out a professional performer: his 2007 videos are not professional caliber, yet none of those people aren't him. (playful) — 00:02:04
  • 2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — John: Last Tuesday (6 April 2021), behind on everything and short of time before picking up the kids, John calmed himself with positive self-talk and then shot his vlogbrothers video. — 00:02:00
  • 2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: Alexandre Daly's website sends you to a random Vlogbrothers video out of the 1,923 uploaded so far; clicking it brought John lovely memories. — 00:03:13
  • 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
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — John: Alexandre Daly recently published an analysis of Vlogbrothers views by year and of the most and least viewed video of every year since 2007. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — John says the brothers didn't really invent Nerdfighteria, those newcomers did, and without Accio Deathly Hallows Vlogbrothers would not still exist. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — John really loves the Vlogbrothers community right now, and that is the metric that matters most to him. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — announcement: John: Since 2008, whenever either brother has a book out, the author reads its first chapter in a Vlogbrothers video; this continues soon with an animated video of The Anthropocene Reviewed's opening. — 00:03:24
  • 2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John's favorite of 14 years of Vlogbrothers in-jokes: Hank left an I out of 'communication' in their 2007 intro and explained there is no I in brotherhood. — 00:00:12
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — In a channel comment John says his strategy is very different: he writes 800-850-word scripts and cuts while filming and editing, yet they end up in exactly the same place. — creator comment
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank says most Vlogbrothers videos since about 2010 are scripted; he writes scripts of about 650 words for four minutes and, he learned today, says about 110 words more. — 00:00:35
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: Though the channel, community and projects are an amalgam of both brothers and the viewers, Hank had still imagined that what he and John do is pretty different. — 00:01:20
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: Despite his last video, Hank says the brothers are not the same people: Vlogbrothers is cool because they experience the world very differently but share many values. — 00:02:05
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank argues the brothers influenced each other so much that neither created the form of the Vlogbrothers video: they did it to each other. — 00:02:20
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: This video will almost certainly not have 759 words, Hank says, but one data point can't show reality; together the data points tell a really specific story. — 00:02:35
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: Unintentionally, everything John makes is also very much something Hank made and vice versa; the collective nature of the project shows in the data. — 00:02:52
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The video continues a tradition from 2008, when John read Paper Towns' first chapter; the brothers have since read first chapters of seven books; for this one John and Rosianna asked Meitar Almog to make art. — video description
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Getting better, John returned to a weekly Tuesday video and a weekly podcast with Hank but did not write: that fall and winter was his longest stretch without writing for an audience since he was 14. — 00:07:02
  • 2021-06-29 · Sneezing is not normal. — John: Besides Vlogbrothers, John says, the brothers have a podcast, Dear Hank and John, answering listener questions with dubious advice and news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. — 00:00:01
  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — John has made almost a thousand Vlogbrothers videos, but for each one at least one is abandoned as too personal, too self-indulgent, or never reaching its point. — 00:00:03
  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — John says it took him long to understand that Vlogbrothers videos are not about their topics but about Nerdfighteria being a productive community where people feel fulfilled and connect. — 00:02:43
  • 2021-08-06 · Remembering What's Special — Hank says Crash Course has four times more subscribers than Vlogbrothers and reaches far more people. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-08-06 · Remembering What's Special — Hank: Crash Course is by any measure a bigger deal than Vlogbrothers, but not to Hank: Vlogbrothers is the core of what they do, and without it Crash Course would not exist. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John: The easy answer is that creators own it, so Vlogbrothers money is the brothers'; but that quickly gets complicated, since YouTube owns the channel and is part of the value equation. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John says the brothers' share also seems high, because the money belongs to Nerdfighteria, not to them; that is why half goes to grants for educational creators and half to charity. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John stresses the 'in part': the brothers can afford not to make money from Vlogbrothers and DFTBA only because they earn elsewhere, John from books and Hank from his many jobs. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-08-17 · Who Owns Nerdfighteria? — John: That other work is bound up in Nerdfighteria: John talked about his books on Vlogbrothers, they reached a wider audience, and he kept much of the royalties; he asks where the line is and should be. — 00:02:55
  • 2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John has been making Vlogbrothers videos for almost 15 years: since the George W. Bush administration, before the iPhone, before his children, one now in sixth grade. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John: In late 2006, after An Abundance of Katherines came out, John quit his day job to write full time, found himself still inconsistent and the empty days terrifying, and three months later invented an unpaid job, this channel. — 00:01:34
  • 2021-09-14 · I do this every. single. tuesday. — John treated Vlogbrothers as a job, with work due at set times: a missed book deadline has no consequence, but a missed vlog deadline might mean eating a blenderized Happy Meal. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-10-05 · Why the Heck am I on TikTok??? — Hank says TikTok doesn't scratch the itches YouTube does, especially Vlogbrothers, which is unlike any other place on the internet, and that is not just nostalgia for 2007. — 00:03:01
  • 2021-10-12 · Fine, I'll take the bait. — John: About 48 terabytes flowed through the whole internet in 1992, the year John first got online; Vlogbrothers alone now generates more information flow every year. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-10-14 · Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday — John: Asked why he stopped making videos about 'unerotic giraffe sex', John first notes there is no other kind of giraffe sex. (joke) — 00:01:27
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank says they made videos like this every week in 2007, so he understands how they did it then, but not how they are still doing it now. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank says Pizzamas, Vlogbrothers and Nerdfighteria fit no well-defined box and are unlike a normal YouTube community: hard to talk about, but it keeps them under the radar, which he likes. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-10-15 · What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend — Hank says that after all these years making a Vlogbrothers video never feels like going to work: the goal isn't productivity, just making things and seeing if people like them. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says he has about one idea every five years: Vlogbrothers in 2006, Crash Course five years later, The Anthropocene Reviewed five years after, and he awaits his fourth. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — announcement: John: Recording on Thursday, October 28, John reveals he secretly pre-made a batch of Vlogbrothers videos and took November off as a sort of mini-sabbatical. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — announcement: John is taking a month away from Vlogbrothers, Dear Hank and John and some meetings to focus on obligations that are not economically productive but actually productive. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — John once made a Vlogbrothers video saying the most important time of his day was chatting with his kids after school pickup, yet that day he was too busy to pick them up: misaligned priorities. — 00:00:58
  • 2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — John wants to focus on his mental health without neglecting Vlogbrothers; he could have paused it, but values the conversation too much. — 00:01:56
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — Hank remembers the tweet about being stuck inside about 20 t-shirts: it was for a Vlogbrothers video, an attempt at something like a world record that was not even close, so just a challenge, and he could not get out of them alone. (playful) — 00:00:28
  • 2021-12-10 · What Was Early YouTube Like? (with Hank and John) — Hank: Neither brother knows who has the Vlogbrothers play button; Hank thinks it is on the wall at Complexly in Missoula. (hedged) — 00:01:55
  • 2021-12-10 · What Was Early YouTube Like? (with Hank and John) — Hank remembers being on a plane when they hit 1 million subscribers and the incredible feeling; now he never thinks about it. — 00:01:55
  • 2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — John: During his semi-secret sabbatical John got a fair amount of writing done and loved it in a way he had kind of forgotten. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John says Hank has so many ideas that a website tracks days since he started a thing, and in a recent video John said Hank has an idea every 20 minutes and John's job is to say when they are bad. — 00:01:27
  • 2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — announcement: John: Hank and John will both take next week (week of 27 December 2021) off from Vlogbrothers, so this is John's last video of 2021. — 00:02:55

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2022

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2023

  • 2023-01-03 · TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH — John notes that on January 3, 2023, Vlogbrothers turned 16 and so can drive; some viewers were born after it began. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-01-03 · TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH — John says making a Vlogbrothers video every Tuesday can feel natural but is a gift newly given each week: making things with his brother and a community he cares about. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-01-03 · TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH — John's rule: when he gets short with loved ones, defines himself by his work or image, or panics over a deadline, take it down a notch; nobody dies if a Vlogbrothers video is weaker. — 00:02:55
  • 2023-01-10 · Introducing: The Format — announcement: The description says Hank is not alone in his ability to make a weird Vlogbrothers video: John now makes one too. — video description
  • 2023-01-10 · Introducing: The Format — announcement: John's comment says he and Hank have created a playlist called The Format, so it might become something. (hedged) — creator comment
  • 2023-01-10 · Introducing: The Format — John thanks Hank for keeping Vlogbrothers fresh for 16 years and counting. — 00:03:06
  • 2023-01-17 · John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions — announcement: In a comment, John says he has an idea to follow Hank's formats for the whole year, finding the concept hilarious, though it will probably fall apart. (hedged) — creator comment
  • 2023-02-03 · My Mid-Afternoon Existential Crisis — Hank: Apologising for the glitch, Hank quotes 'a man' who once said there are still some glitches to work out. (playful) — 00:00:43
  • 2023-02-07 · Mid-Morning Existential Crisis: The Format Returns — In a comment, John jokes that he has to keep doing this ridiculousness for another 11.75 months. (playful) — creator comment
  • 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 says that almost every Thursday he leaves the whole day unblocked to make a Vlogbrothers video to his own standard and have a good time. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank does not know whether he will make Vlogbrothers videos, Dear Hank and John, SciShow or Tangents during treatment; he is playing it by ear. (unsure) — 00:06:14
  • 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank hopes this is not his last Vlogbrothers video for four months, but will not pressure himself if it is. (hedged) — 00:13:00
  • 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank expects John will probably take some time off, since posting only John on the channel would be weird; they will play it by ear. (hedged) — 00:13:00
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John enjoyed a Tumblr post wondering which line of All Star Hank would have used as a title had this happened in the Vlogbrothers All Star era; John guesses Hank would pick an abstract one. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 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
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John lists Hank's roles: CEO of Complexly and DFTBA.com, founder of the Awesome Socks and Coffee Clubs and Sun Basin Soap, host of Crash Course, SciShow, Journey to the Microcosmos, Vlogbrothers and an advice podcast. — 00:00:08
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John says he did come up with the idea for Crash Course: he loved making educational videos on Vlogbrothers but wanted to do it bigger and better, and knew they couldn't do it alone. — 00:00:29
  • 2023-06-02 (said on 2023-06-01, implied) · Chemo is Weird, Y'all — announcement: Hank says the schedule suits Vlogbrothers: a full week of recovery before his first video (maybe next week (week of 5 June 2023)), then two weeks before the next. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — announcement: In a channel comment John says the four-minute rule is off at least until Hank gets better, since 4-minute videos take too long with the current workload. — creator comment
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John jokes that Hank kept working anyway: making ads for the Socks Club and Crash Course Coin, shooting SciShow, pitching business ideas daily and making Vlogbrothers videos while in pain. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — recommendation: John praises DFTBA merch: Nathan Zed's Good Enough Hoodies, Ariel Bissett's I'm Thinking About Books shirt, Tyler Thrasher's Cicada Plushie and Kurzgesagt's Timeline of Complex Life. — 00:02:45
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John says Hank pre-made a Vlogbrothers video because he knew he would be too sick to make one this week (week of 19 June 2023). — 00:04:45
  • 2023-06-30 · Bon Your Vivant — Hank: The brothers note they forgot to ask viewers to like or subscribe for the last seven years and have been between three and four million subscribers for about twelve years. (doubtful: three and four million; doubtful: twelve years) — 00:00:21
  • 2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank: Parodying the statement, Hank says he misplaced his normal Vlogbrothers lens and is shooting on a 50mm, which is why the video looks weird. (playful) — 00:01:24
  • 2023-07-14 · The Good News Video — Hank calls this the best news video in all 15-plus years of Vlogbrothers. (playful) — 00:07:15
  • 2023-09-08 · Giraffes are Way More Complicated Than We Thought — Hank recalls that in 2007, when YouTube picked the exact middle frame as thumbnail, he deliberately held up a giraffe picture from a book at the midpoint, and the video got many views. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-09-29 · Like Apocalyptic Horsemen — John says he has changed a ton in adulthood too, including since starting this project. — 00:03:33
  • 2023-10-05 · America's Second Favorite Fourth Tier English Soccer Team — announcement: John has to take next week (week of 9 October 2023) off from Vlogbrothers because he will be traveling with his family. — 00:00:21
  • 2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank says that for over ten years half of the Vlogbrothers channel's ad revenue has gone to grants for small educational internet creators, since getting started is harder than it used to be. — 00:07:20
  • 2023-10-06 · I Quit — Hank names past grant recipients: Alexis Nikole, Answer in Progress, The Financial Diet, Wendover Productions, Real Engineering, and Kurzgesagt in the first year. — 00:07:20
  • 2023-10-06 · I Quit — ask: Hank invites people making mostly long- or short-form educational video, or who know someone who is, to apply via the description link; grants are usually $1,000 to $3,000. — 00:07:58
  • 2023-10-20 · My 'Injury' — Hank says this morning, watching an old Vlogbrothers video with him, his son Orin said that was Dada before his injury, and Hank did not know what to say. — 00:00:00
  • 2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John recalls creating, at the dawn of Vlogbrothers in 2007, an alternative to NaNoWriMo: NaFaDoYBIMSCoM, National Finish a Draft of Your Book I Mean Seriously Come On Month. — 00:02:14
  • 2023-11-07 · NaFaDoYBIMSCoM — John used to be open about his writing process, but after The Fault in Our Stars he felt he couldn't be, even on Vlogbrothers: people pressured him and guessed release seasons, with implications for a publicly traded corporation. — 00:02:44
  • 2023-12-22 · Let's Talk About Death — announcement: Hank says he will upload a weird video to Vlogbrothers on Christmas Eve and is curious what everyone will think. — 00:03:57
  • 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Hank: On paternity leave with his son Orin, Hank says the most surprising thing about having a baby is the noise of the poops. — 01:06:29
  • 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — recommendation: both: For newcomers, the brothers point to a playlist of 20 Vlogbrothers videos giving a broader sense of Nerdfighteria. — 02:20:08

Also named in: So, um.... GOOD NEWS?!?!?!

2024

  • 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John notes that on January 2, 2024 it is 17 years since he uploaded his first Brotherhood 2.0 video, in 2007. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John says their public conversation has lasted over a third of both their lives; each has uploaded over 1,100 videos, viewed over 980 million times in total, less than one-fifth of Gangnam Style's views. — 00:00:58
  • 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — announcement: John: After 17 years John knows how to show up for the work, so from now on he won't make a video in weeks he doesn't want to, even if it hurts subscriber or view growth. — 00:03:22
  • 2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — The description says Hank wants to keep doing this, but not after he stops wanting to. — video description
  • 2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — Hank says the brothers are still doing Vlogbrothers because the song isn't over and is still delivering. — 00:02:28
  • 2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — Hank thinks many people make YouTube videos mainly because it rewards them, often as income; Vlogbrothers used to be like that but isn't anymore. — 00:02:35
  • 2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — Hank says they now make Vlogbrothers because it is creatively rewarding, though the inspiring part is creating the project and the community, not the videos. — 00:02:45
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John has said 'Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday' about 1,200 times in 17 years; Hank has said his greeting more often because he takes fewer vacations. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says he won't always be saying 'Good morning Hank, it's Tuesday', because everything ends, or at least everything observed seems to. — 00:00:12
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says Grey's Anatomy has run 19 years, about a year and a half longer than Vlogbrothers, and Law and Order SVU 25 years, but these are exceptions. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says it is amazing they have stayed in the league since 2007, and most amazing that they still love it. — 00:02:38
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John thinks a lot about how Vlogbrothers will end; maybe in death, and he would be okay with that if it became an archive of what two people thought and experienced. (hedged) — 00:02:43
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John is not convinced death is Vlogbrothers' ideal ending; the ideal is that, like Tom Scott, they complete the project, though he doesn't know what completion looks like. — 00:02:54
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John: In Vlogbrothers' 18th season John would be lying to call this the first half of the project, but he loves and respects the YouTube game. — 00:03:38
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank made a spreadsheet scoring his activities on about ten categories (fun, goofy, good for family); the P4A scored highest by far, above Vlogbrothers, as a measure of desire, not impact. — 00:03:24
  • 2024-02-16 · How Much Does it Cost to be a Nerdfighter — Hank: A Nerdfighter named Alys made zines adapting Vlogbrothers videos into art; after she made one on her own, Hank paid her to make more as P4A perks. — 00:06:33
  • 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — In a channel comment, Hank again asks for recognition for having invented the format. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank: The zoo's nightkeeper is a huge nerdfighter who wore a NerdCon: Nerdfighteria hoodie and had John's face on her shoelaces; Hank says nerdfighters are everywhere. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-17 · John and Hank FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE!!! — announcement: Hank explains that he and John recorded a New York Times Connections games race in Indianapolis; the edit was too much for him, so his friend Milo, who edits Hank's Channel videos, made the video. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — announcement: Hank inserts that short, unusual video into this one: for the first time, a Vlogbrothers video inside a Vlogbrothers video. — 00:01:56
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says the channel usually constructs videos so they have a point, but the point of this one is that right now he doesn't know the point. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — announcement: John: In a P.S., John says that on Saturday at noon Eastern the brothers will host a livestream on the Vlogbrothers channel about Partners In Health's work, honoring young nerdfighter Amit, who died of cancer and left part of his estate to PIH, trying to raise money to match his gift. — 00:05:30
  • 2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank: His first solution was staying in existing structures, making Vlogbrothers videos and tweeting about science; it helped but was work, with an undercurrent of 'why'. — 00:01:40
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — announcement: John is taking time off; in 17 and a half years of making videos he has never had to do this, and he feels really bad about it. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — announcement: John will be at VidCon this weekend and online for a few days, then take July away from the internet entirely to see if it helps, and see how he feels in August. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-06-25 · taking a break — John feels this less on Vlogbrothers than anywhere else on the internet. — 00:02:26
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — Hank says his TikTok star shone brightly, then he got cancer and Vlogbrothers had its biggest subscriber day in ten years. (playful) — 00:08:09
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John says Vlogbrothers faces the same pressure: making viewers who have seen Tuesday and Friday videos for 18 years feel this one is new. (playful) — 00:21:14
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Proof News's searchable database shows SciShow, Crash Course, Eons and Vlogbrothers are all in the training data, and probably any YouTuber a viewer likes. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says his company has more videos in the dataset than almost anyone: Marques Brownlee 9, MrBeast 19, Mark Rober 24, MinutePhysics 85, against Vlogbrothers 188, SciShow over 300, Crash Course 982. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says he has been online a long time and the channel will soon turn 18. — 00:06:28
  • 2024-09-26 · Something Very Strange Has Been Happening to Me — In a channel comment, Hank reminds viewers that he invented the Format and John popularized it. (playful) — creator comment
  • 2024-10-02 · What I learned from the weirdest day of my life — Hank: By 2009 Vlogbrothers was becoming Hank's full-time job, so he had no reason to mourn the lost opportunity and never thought of it as a false summit. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-10-11 · October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) — Hank sets a game: he reads a video title and John says whether it is a real Vlogbrothers video or something Hank made up; John expects to get all of them right. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-10-11 · October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) — John correctly identifies 'Don't Suck on That Bone' as a real Vlogbrothers title. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-10-11 · October 11, 2024 - Goofing off with John (a Vlogbrothers Video) — John says there is lots to look forward to on Vlogbrothers, but their 18 years of history together is not for nothing. — 00:04:13
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank says he is freaking out about stuff and needs John's help; he is not in therapy or taking medication right now. — 00:55:32
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank says he has been ignoring the tension of the moment on Vlogbrothers because he doesn't know what to do or say about it, and he is sad. — 00:57:47
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — ask: Hank asks for applications for the Vlogbrothers sponsorship: half of their money helps newer educational creators on any internet platform. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — ask: John: Hank points to the description for P4A art, the Vlogbrothers grant and the New York Times article; John adds a link to pre-order his new book. — 00:09:20
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank sorts his work into buckets; the first is Hank Green stuff: making things fast, doing weird things, understanding platforms, living online professionally, mostly through Vlogbrothers. — 00:07:00
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: Maybe Hank hasn't vlogged enough: too many of their videos are produced video, as YouTube now is, and too few just him talking for 40 minutes. (hedged) — 00:18:57
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John teases that Hank's extra Sunday video is like trying to get extra credit in Vlogbrothers class when he already has an A. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John: Hank's video made John wonder why he still makes YouTube videos after almost 20 years, when most colleagues have moved on, and whether that is longevity or creative stasis. — 00:00:00

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2025

  • 2025-02-21 · No Video Today!! — Hank says a normal Vlogbrothers video would introduce ideas and resolve them, but this one only introduces ideas and moves on because it is not a real Vlogbrothers video. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says reading a new book's first chapter is a Vlogbrothers tradition since he read Paper Towns' first chapter in 2008; both brothers have done it since. — 00:09:27
  • 2025-03-14 · Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life — Hank says having John as his brother is a tremendous benefit, and everyone can have a bit of it through the vlogbrothers channel and the book. (playful) — 00:04:27
  • 2025-03-18 · ITS ALL HAPPENING — John says live morning TV is the most stressful part, and now he goes back to the hotel to make a Vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:54
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: Hank has made a long recording of the waterfall, will upload it to the Vlogbrothers channel and will donate all the money the video makes to Partners In Health. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: Hank tells John he will upload the 12-hour waterfall video right after this one: John can fall asleep to it while all the money goes to making the world better. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-03-28 · White Noise For Charity - Torc Waterfall in Ireland - Sleep, Study, Focus!! — announcement: The description presents the video as a quality-controlled white-noise video over 12 hours long. — video description
  • 2025-05-02 · I Found the Dumbest Time Zone — The description says Hank wanted a normal 4-minute Vlogbrothers video but feels he has lost that skill: it is hard to tell a story that fast and cut good material. — video description
  • 2025-05-20 · The Double — John recalls that he and Stuart completed the double before, a day so magical he made a Vlogbrothers video about it and his suit lining depicts that day at Wembley. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-06-10 · 90,000,000 Lives for $20 — John announces he is going to curse for the first time in 18 years on Vlogbrothers. (playful) — 00:03:24
  • 2025-08-03 · Why I Actually Love My Brother — Hank says his first instinct was to praise Vlogbrothers for making videos they know will not do well but think important, rather than ones that get views, but that is not why he loves John: it isn't conditional on a cool project together. — 00:02:28
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — announcement: John says he is doing something new in Vlogbrothers' 18 years: Stan, his Crash Course Humanities co-creator, called him One Take Johnny because he could do nothing in one take, but this video with Hank is one take. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — announcement: Hank commits the brothers to continuing the quadrennial Vlogbrothers Quadragocon, starting with the first event right away: holding fingers exactly 12 inches apart. — 00:02:21
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — Hank lists their week: a Good Store photo shoot, talks with DFTBA, making Vlogbrothers and Quadragocon events. — 00:04:41
  • 2025-08-05 · ONE TAKE JOHNNY — John refuses to add a Quadragocon link to the description: part of the one-take rule is uploading in one take. (playful) — 00:05:10
  • 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
  • 2025-09-16 · Don’t tell John. Let him have this. — Hank says John just made a video he believes will get the channel to four million subscribers, seven years after it reached three million. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-09-16 · Don’t tell John. Let him have this. — ask: Hank doubts John's video will do it and asks viewers to subscribe quickly, implicitly so John can believe his video worked. (playful, unsure) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says he will tell Hank about the most impressive YouTube feat the channel has ever accomplished. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John: After almost 19 years John still checks every video's view count, though he has tried to focus on meaningful metrics such as lives changed or TB test prices. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says each brother has made 1,250 Vlogbrothers videos, and Hank many more counting Hank's channel. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says the channel had about 9,000 subscribers after its first year and about 640,000 when Crash Course launched in early 2012 with The Fault in Our Stars, and only reached a million in March 2013. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says growth then sped up: the two millionth subscriber came in mid-2014 as The Fault in Our Stars movie took off, the three millionth in May 2017. — 00:01:56
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says that in the seven years since, the channel has not reached a four millionth subscriber. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John says this makes him happy, not sad: slow growth means the audience has stayed, many for over a decade, and a seat at the table in their lives is his profession's great privilege. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — announcement: John says that after seven years in the three millions the channel is very close to its four millionth subscriber, which astonishes him at their age. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — ask: John: Saying something he has not said in many years, John asks viewers to like and subscribe and comment when they started watching Vlogbrothers. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-09-16 · After seven long years… — John thanks viewers, from those who came in 2007 to the coming four millionth subscriber, and hopes the channel stays worth their time. — 00:04:22
  • 2025-09-19 · Let's Just Be Stupid For a Moment — announcement: John: Replying in the comments to a viewer's congratulations on reaching four million subscribers that week, the channel celebrates four million. — creator comment
  • 2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — Hank calls Pizzamas the weirdest vacation, work nostalgia: a simpler era of work when he can clear his schedule and be 2007 Hank. — 00:06:45
  • 2025-09-26 · I've Not Been Doing Well — announcement: Hank says that for the next couple of weeks he will just try to enjoy being a vlog brother. — 00:07:43
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank finds that the brothers, the Vlogbrothers channel and Nerdfighteria each have a Wikipedia page, as do Crash Course, SciShow and John's books. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank: Offering a full history of Vlogbrothers from its first video to yesterday's, Hank says the most interesting thing about the project has been watching a community construct itself. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says that is why he and John quietly take no profit distributions from DFTBA or Complexly and give away all the revenue from the channel. — 00:05:35
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says a lot of the channel's revenue goes to small educational creators through grants. — 00:05:45
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank says the grants have supported channels that became much bigger than Vlogbrothers, one bigger than Crash Course. — 00:05:51
  • 2025-10-03 · Is It Time to Retire? — John knows many viewers will be disappointed when Vlogbrothers ends, but they will go on doing amazing things, and many connections formed by the community will outlive Vlogbrothers by decades. — 00:03:20
  • 2025-10-03 · Is It Time to Retire? — John says they started the channel hoping to become closer to each other and definitely succeeded; he really values having a project with Hank. — 00:03:50
  • 2025-10-06 · The Web is Going to Die — Hank asks how many once-thriving YouTube channels are now ghost towns, and how hard the brothers have worked to keep that from happening here. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-10-10 · Maybe This is My Problem — Hank notes that Vlogbrothers airport aesthetics have changed: the new wing of the Missoula airport has plain white walls, not gray speckled ones, which he fears will soon look dirty. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-10-21 · Is Book Publishing Dying? An Author's Perspective — John recalls making a Vlogbrothers video around 2007 or 2008 arguing a movie costs $10 for two hours of entertainment while a book costs $10 for 14 hours. (hedged) — 00:03:23
  • 2025-12-02 · The Meaning of Life with Hank and John — John says this Question Tuesday has only one question, the meaning of life, which in 19 years of Vlogbrothers they have never directly addressed. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John names a wildly popular YouTube channel that Hank somehow updates often because vlogbrothers and other duties don't consume him enough. (playful) — 00:01:29
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John describes Nerdfighteria as the made-of-awesome community that grew up around this YouTube channel. — 00:02:55
  • 2025-12-12 · The Economics of a YouTube White Noise Video — Hank: Eight months ago Hank uploaded a white noise video; he uses YouTube white-noise videos to concentrate or to occupy parts of his mind that would wander. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-12 · The Economics of a YouTube White Noise Video — Hank: A normal 12-hour video would earn a lot from ad placements, but Hank excluded mid-rolls, which would defeat the purpose; the video only starts with one ad. — 00:00:58
  • 2025-12-16 · John Green's Brother — announcement: John is taking a couple of weeks off from Vlogbrothers for family time at the end of the year, so this is his last video of 2025. — 00:04:18
  • 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — Hank: Whether or not 'John Green's brother' is his correct honorific, Hank points to his longest-held LinkedIn job, younger brother at Vlogbrothers, and says being a professional brother is great. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-19 · My Big 2026 Prediction is...Not Fun — announcement: Hank is taking next week (week of 22 December 2025) off, so this is the brothers' last video of the year. — 00:00:13

2026

  • 2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John notes Vlogbrothers turned 19 last week (week of 29 December 2025), making the project older than the iPhone or a future AFC Wimbledon superstar (name unclear). (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2026-01-06 · Hope Is Not a Feeling — John says his marriage is older than Vlogbrothers, predating their videos by about seven months. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-01-23 · Two Unrelated Destroyers of Trust — Hank jokes he is happy the brothers have a hip podcast for teens, calls it a podcast in-joke and apologizes to Vlogbrothers viewers who don't listen. (joke) — 00:02:31
  • 2026-02-06 · One week until P4A! — ask: John invites viewers to join the Project for Awesome from February 13 to 15 on the vlogbrothers YouTube channel. — 00:00:31
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — John tells Hank the channel, the Project for Awesome and everything grown from them exist because he wanted to get closer to Hank through a shared project, which has worked for almost 20 years. — 00:03:47
  • 2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag — ask: John invites Hank and Nerdfighteria to the P4A livestream at projectforawesome.com/live, starting noon Eastern on Friday. — 00:05:08
  • 2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?! — ask: Hank asks viewers to watch the livestream on Vlogbrothers or at projectforawesome.com/live. — 00:09:53
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John: When a viewer makes the original Nerdfighter joke, John says he still thinks of 'auto power off, still some kinks to work out' all the time, because his camera still makes the same noise. (playful) — 01:57:42
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — Hank: To send subscribers a notification, Hank records a Vlogbrothers video on the stream, telling John it is the last hour of the Project for Awesome and asking everyone to join, then edits and uploads it. (playful) — 03:35:31
  • 2026-02-15 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 5! — John says Vlogbrothers videos are known for the best comments because they have the best moderators; livestream chats are not known for quality, but P4A conversations are meaningful and full of wonder and hope thanks to good mods. — 03:39:56
  • 2026-03-03 · The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received — John shows the physical tapes on which early Vlogbrothers videos were recorded: all of 2007 and 2008, plus material he deleted, before transfer to a computer. — 00:04:38
  • 2026-03-03 · The Best Fan Mail I Ever Received — John is thankful they started making YouTube videos in 2007, or they never would have made it: now you have to be so good, then you just had to be there. — 00:04:56
  • 2026-03-10 · Is Hank Green Running for Congress? — John says the brothers' first question for any big professional decision is whether it would be bad for vlogbrothers, and if so they don't do it; he worries Hank in Congress might be. — 00:02:36
  • 2026-03-13 · Pain — Hank says he has missed plenty of Vlogbrothers videos, but during chemo he never missed one, partly because he was not feeling too bad to make them. — 00:01:47
  • 2026-03-13 · Pain — Hank says a weird part of the Vlogbrothers channel is that it is two guys being humans. — 00:03:04
  • 2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — John says that in 19 and a half years on Vlogbrothers he has discussed almost everything but rarely pooping. — 00:01:56
  • 2026-05-01 · Despair is Not Wisdom — Hank says John's video this week (week of 27 April 2026), about lots of people working to make life better, ends up viewed by around a third of the people who see most Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:04:42
  • 2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green — John: Often siblings connect over aging parents; for them it is Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, Dear Hank and John and more, and working with someone you trust all the way down is beyond a gift. — 00:01:56
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — announcement: The description lists grant eligibility: primarily informational or educational content, a project already in progress and online, and regular uploads. — video description
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank recalls a weird decision he and John made long ago: just as they never felt Complexly's value was theirs, they felt the same about the money the Vlogbrothers channel generates. — 00:01:51
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank recalls YouTube going from no ads to sidebar ads to pre-roll ads; the brothers left pre-roll off for over a year, until it became normal and the money was just sitting there. — 00:03:31
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — Hank says the brothers justified taking the ad money by putting half into a pool granted to small educational creators, first YouTubers and now on multiple platforms: over 10 years, dozens of grants. — 00:05:20
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — announcement: Hank announces that applications for the Vlogbrothers Educational Creator Grants open on Monday, June 1. — 00:05:20
  • 2026-05-29 · Chemo Cow Body Odor YouTube Helen Hunt Commute — ask: Hank asks viewers who know a good candidate, or are one, to check out the grants via the description. — 00:05:20
  • 2026-06-05 · The Things We Don't Discuss — Hank still spends at least an hour in the comments on the day of every Vlogbrothers upload, to see the people-y parts. — 00:04:28
  • 2026-06-05 · The Things We Don't Discuss — Hank says comments and John feel like people, and Vlogbrothers remains among the most people-y things he has done online. — 00:04:57
  • 2026-06-05 · The Things We Don't Discuss — John says he chose to be public about OCD only in ways he fully controls, like a Vlogbrothers video, and then loses all control because he has been 'very public'. — 00:10:10
  • 2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — announcement: The description says the Vlogbrothers Educational Media Grants are open through June 30. — video description
  • 2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — John: The Vlogbrothers sponsorship program is open: part of the channel's ad money supports educational online video; past grant recipients include This Glorious Clockwork and Kurzgesagt. — 00:03:20
  • 2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover — ask: John asks viewers to apply for a Vlogbrothers grant, or to have creators they watch apply, via the link in the description. — 00:03:50
  • 2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — announcement: The description says the Vlogbrothers Educational Media Grants are open through June 30th. — video description
  • 2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — Hank explains the Vlogbrothers Creators Grants: part of the channel's ad money goes into a pool, and every year creators of somewhat educational content apply for small grants. — 00:04:38
  • 2026-06-19 · You Have to Poop in the Eiffel Tower — ask: Hank asks viewers to tell creators they know who make educational media on the internet, not only YouTubers, about the grants; information is in the description. — 00:05:07
  • 2026-06-26 · No Video Today!! — announcement: Hank makes one of his Vlogbrothers videos whose purpose is to say he is not making a Vlogbrothers video. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-06-26 · No Video Today!! — Hank says the brothers' parents have made occasional appearances both in the channel's lore and on the channel. — 00:01:51
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says the phenomenon of TFIOS drove John, and to a lesser extent Hank, to retreat to higher-barrier corners of the internet like Vlogbrothers, with its decades-long history of tiny chickens, Projects for Awesome and bean Furbies and videos not expected to draw many viewers. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-07-10 · How Status Destroys Us — Hank says that once again they are goofing in a space with no money or status tied to it, which he thinks is where they are at their best. — 00:05:55
  • 2026-07-17 · The Terrors of Middle Age — Hank: A Hank-specific sign: people tell him he helped them in high school, and one said they had watched the Vlogbrothers video uploaded the day they were born. — 00:01:14
  • 2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — announcement: The description says John reads the first chapter of Hollywood, Ending, out everywhere September 22, the eighth part of a series since 2008 in which the brothers read first chapters. — video description
  • 2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — John says reading a new book's first chapter is a tradition going back to 2008, when he read the first chapter of Paper Towns before it came out. — 00:06:46
  • 2026-08-14 · Pain in the _____ — Hank apologizes that the video will say the word 'ass', noting that Vlogbrothers does not tend to curse much. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-09-04 · This is a Terrible Idea… — sponsor: Hank announces a mid-roll in a Vlogbrothers video: it is brought to you by Good.Store, a store whose profit all goes to charity. — 00:02:26
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Hank says it has been a long time since the Vlogbrothers channel had a guest. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View… — Craig Benzine: Craig says he and Hank have been YouTubers together for a very long time, but he has not been on this channel in a while. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584 — John says that on their channel, consistently over 20 years, one person liked a video for every 10 who watched it: the ratio he once made a video about. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — Hank says John meant the two digits before the K: that gives $690, quite close to what the video has made so far, so for them the trick perhaps still mostly works. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — Hank says that for this channel views and watch time never mattered: the people who come back twice a week are not views but people, in community with others. — 00:08:15
  • 2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — Hank says views may suit brand deals, but Vlogbrothers does none: they make things with people, such as artists' Pizzamas shirts whose money goes to Partners In Health. — 00:08:15
  • 2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views — announcement: Hank says this is the last Vlogbrothers video before Hollywood, Ending is out, and he is pleased but unsurprised by its tremendous reviews. — 00:09:04
  • 2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John says the brothers' bit of making videos back and forth to each other has been the most interesting and important thing in his professional life. — 00:01:57
  • 2026-09-30 · The Point of Life — John says the brothers are okay YouTubers but not brilliant: MrBeast is better, capturing more attention with better thumbnails and understanding of the platform and its algorithms. — 00:04:15
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank: Answering John's video yesterday saying they weren't the best YouTubers, Hank thinks they are good YouTubers but doubts they still are YouTubers, though they used to be. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank sees names differentiating: video essayists, storytime animators, streamers, and explainers or communicators, work he sometimes does on Vlogbrothers and often on Hank's channel and TikTok. — 00:03:08
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank says there is no good word for what the brothers do on this channel, and not because it is new: they have done it for almost 20 years. — 00:03:37
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank thinks the real reason there is no word is that few channels do anything like Vlogbrothers; if there were many, there would be a word. — 00:03:37
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank does not think any individual video on this channel is art, or that any individual video matters. — 00:06:57
  • 2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers? — Hank says his artwork is not video but the channel, the brotherhood, the whole thing: from people unsure which brother is which to people making Hollywood, Ending cakes, fonts and hospitals in Sierra Leone. — 00:06:57
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank: Among the Vlogbrothers things he is proudest of, Hank names the yearly bets on educational creators funded by a piece of Vlogbrothers ad revenue, which he calls the most rational thing. — 00:05:58

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