Days Since Hank Green Last Started a New Thing

A fan website (dayssincehankgreenlaststartedanewthing.com), born of a running joke among some people on Twitter, that counts the days since Hank Green last started a new thing and links a list of his projects, which Hank calls impressively long and riddled with failure.

Origin on the channel: Hank explains the fan website counting the days since he last started a new thing, a joke among some people on Twitter; it stands at seven days, since the Life's Little Lies TikTok launched. — A Thought is Not an Idea 00:00:00

running bit (website) · in 7 videos, 2021–2026 · peak 2021 (3 videos) · still in use in 2026

First in the videos: 2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea 00:00:00
Last in the videos: 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie 00:01:17
Running bit: Hank's habit of constantly starting new things, tracked by the 'days since Hank Green last started a new thing' website (2021) — 1 origin, 5 callbacks, 1 joke on it
Entity page: Days Since Hank Green Last Started a New Thing
Related threads: Hank: all the projects on his plate will get done, though not perfectly (2021) (Sep 2021) · John: Hank's next project will start with a Z, and soon (2025) (Dec 2025)

Videos per year: 2021: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2026: 1

Forms heard

How the speakers say this one item, as transcribed from the videos, in order of first appearance.

form	videos	first heard	last heard
“days since hank green started anewthing.com”	2	2021-04-09 · A Thought is Not an Idea 00:00:00	2023-05-23 · Rough Week 00:00:43
“days since hank green last started anewthing.com”	1	2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie 00:01:17

Every video

2021

date	video	use	what is said
2021-04-09	A Thought is Not an Idea 00:00:00	origin	Hank explains the fan website counting the days since he last started a new thing, a joke among some people on Twitter; it stands at seven days, since the Life's Little Lies TikTok launched. · “days since hank green started anewthing.com”
2021-09-03	What the Heck am I doing? 00:00:00	callback	Hank noticed the website counting days since he last started a new thing hasn't updated in 81 days, but he hasn't been doing nothing, so he lists what he is doing.
2021-12-21	NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… 00:01:27	callback	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.

2022

date	video	use	what is said
2022-02-04	How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:00:00	callback	Hank notes that a website tracks how long it has been since he started a new thing, but it does not list all his ideas, since John shoots most down.

2023

date	video	use	what is said
2023-05-23	Rough Week 00:00:43	callback	With Hank's enthusiastic encouragement, the website counting days since Hank started a new thing reset to zero, the new thing being not a channel or soap company but chemotherapy. · “days since hank green started anewthing.com”

2025

date	video	use	what is said
2025-12-09	Hank Green, from A to Z 00:05:50	joke	Having found no Z project, John gives Hank an assignment. — “In short, Hank, your next project better start with a dang Z.” → John: Hank's next project will start with a Z, and soon (2025) (came true, 2025-12-12)

2026

date	video	use	what is said
2026-10-09	The Productivity Lie 00:01:17	callback	Hank admits pride that the days-since-he-last-started-a-new-thing website sits at 42 days, which he calls significantly higher than average: by the site's count, his average gap between new things is about 50 days over 20 years and under 30 over the last five. · “days since hank green last started anewthing.com”