Reply threads in 2020

Every pointer from a 2020 video to an earlier video, by month. Bold words are the relation the annotator recorded; a thread event in parentheses means the pointer sits on that thread. All years · Exchanges · Pushback

15 of 108 videos point back to an earlier one (16 pointers): John answers Hank 6×, Hank answers John 5×, self-continuations 5.

January

• 2020-01-10 · The Thing I would Like to End (Hank) continues Endings · Beginnings (John, 2020-01-07) — “Beginnings and endings. I like it. I like this frame.” (00:00:00)
• 2020-01-14 · Foolish · Beautiful (John) refers back (callback on Hank's 'Auto power off, still some glitches to work out' line from the first vlogbrothers video (2007)) Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st (Hank, 2007-01-01) — “In the very first vlogbrothers video ever, the camera turns off and you say” (00:02:14)
• 2020-01-28 · Looking Away (Again) (John) continues (retell on John keeps looking away while filming sick children and worried mothers in Ethiopia (2014)) Looking Away (John, 2014-09-23) (self-continuation) — “Six years ago, I made a video from Ethiopia called Looking Away” (00:02:20)

March

• 2020-03-24 · Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There (John) answers The Sudden Obliteration of Expectation (Hank, 2020-03-20) — “I loved your video on Friday.” (00:00:00)

June

• 2020-06-23 · You'll Never Shine if You Don't Glow (John) continues Only Shooting Stars (Hank, 2020-06-19) — “I really liked your video about shooting stars” (00:00:00)

July

• 2020-07-24 · Could I Spare some Change for Gas? (Hank) imitates Somebody Once Asked . . . (John, 2020-07-21) — “And I'm taking a cue from you, because Question Tuesday sounded good to me.” (00:00:00)

August

• 2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm (Hank) continues What Game of Thrones is Really About (Hank, 2019-05-03) (self-continuation) — “Last year, I made a video about how Game of Thrones can be seen as an allegory for climate change” (00:00:00)

October

• 2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! (John) continues (callback on Vlogbrothers videos titled with Smash Mouth's All Star lyrics (2020)) I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and (Hank, 2020-10-02) — “there's one thing you didn't mention in your wonderful video about our All Star project” (00:03:18)
• 2020-10-07 · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers (John) continues (callback on Vlogbrothers videos titled with Smash Mouth's All Star lyrics (2020)) I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and (Hank, 2020-10-02) — “Hank, in a recent video you alluded to the fact that a couple years ago we decided to stop trying to maximize views on this YouTube channel” (00:00:29)
• 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy (John) continues The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers (John, 2020-10-07) (self-continuation) — “immediately after I made a video about why we're not trying to maximize views on Vlogbrothers anymore” (00:00:29)
• 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy (John) continues (retell on Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood)) The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain (Hank, 2020-10-08) — “you made a video that went to the front page of Reddit” (00:00:29)
• 2020-10-14 · John Predicts the Future! (Hank) answers (wrong on John: on October 13, 2020 it will be unseasonably warm in Indianapolis (2020)) Me from the Past: A Pizzamas Miracle (John, 2020-10-13) — “I started out your video yesterday” (00:00:00)

November

• 2020-11-13 · How We Teach: Individualist Stories (Hank) continues On Immunity, Inoculation, and Individuals (John, 2020-11-10) — “In your last video you were talking about how often stories of great accomplishment are told as stories of individual genius rather than, like, collective progress.” (00:00:00)
• 2020-11-17 · Our Biggest Project Yet: A One Year Update (John) continues (milestone on Maternal Center of Excellence: the brothers' Partners In Health project in Sierra Leone (2019)) Why We're Donating $6,500,000 (John, 2019-10-22) (self-continuation) — “Or at least that's what I said a year ago.” (00:00:29)

December

• 2020-12-11 · The /W/orst Letter (Hank) answers A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically (John, 2020-12-08) — “John, at the end of your last video you asked, what's next?” (00:03:41)
• 2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals (John) continues (kept on John: edit and host 46 episodes of a new Crash Course History series about Europe (2019); update on John writes his first nonfiction book, The Anthropocene Reviewed (2020); wrong on John: finishing the Maternal Center of Excellence fundraising may not be realistic in 2020 (2020)) Endings · Beginnings (John, 2020-01-07) (self-continuation) — “back in January I made a video setting out my goals for the year 2020” (00:00:00)