Reply threads in 2021

Every pointer from a 2021 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

16 of 106 videos point back to an earlier one (17 pointers): John answers Hank 3×, Hank answers John 7×, self-continuations 7.

January

• 2021-01-01 · In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are (Hank) continues Looking Back at My 2020 Goals (John, 2020-12-29) — “In the last video, you walked us through what you thought 2020 was going to be like a year ago and how you feel like you did.” (00:00:00)
• 2021-01-05 · SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS (John) continues (callback on Superior fish beings: 10-year-old Hank's prediction for 2012 (2021); mention on 10-year-old Hank writes an essay and timeline predicting life up to 2020 (1990)) In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are (Hank, 2021-01-01) — “In your video last week about what 10-year-old you thought would happen before the year 2020” (00:00:00)
• 2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board (John) continues (launch on John's weekly 2021 vision board (2021)) SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS (John, 2021-01-05) (self-continuation) — “last week's vision board” (00:00:29)

March

• 2021-03-12 · A Crisis of Branding (Hank) answers (callback on Hank's rebranding away from being the corndog-loving brother (2021)) Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing (John, 2021-03-09) — “So you say that I have successfully rebranded myself away from being a corndog lover” (00:00:00)

April

• 2021-04-16 · Gene Editing and Intelligence: A Bad (Hank) answers My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk (John, 2021-04-13) — “your video made everyone I know laugh very hard.” (00:00:00)

May

• 2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. (John) refers back (callback on The brothers' 'no I in brotherhood' explanation for the I missing from 'communication' in the 2007 intro (2007)) August 30th: A Secret Project for Nerdfighters (John, 2007-08-30) (self-continuation) — “Hank left an I out of the word communication in our 2007 intro” (00:00:12)
• 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind (Hank) refers back (callback on Hank's star-rated reviews of things not normally reviewed, borrowing John's Anthropocene Reviewed idea (2017)) Hank Reviews Everything (Hank, 2017-11-02) (self-continuation) — “I made a video called Hank Reviews Everything” (00:01:35)
• 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind (Hank) continues Are We The Same Person? (Hank, 2021-05-07) (self-continuation) — “Despite what I said in my last video, we're not the same people.” (00:02:05)
• 2021-05-21 · The 19 Best Facts (Hank) answers Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While (John, 2021-05-18) — “come back from your very good, very emotional video” (00:00:00)

August

• 2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. (John) continues (variant on An AI chatbot built from the brothers' words answers as Hank and John (2021)) Question Tuesday Except I'm an AI (Hank, 2021-08-20) — “Hank, in your last video, you had an AI based on us answer questions from our viewers” (00:00:58)

September

• 2021-09-07 · My Two Favorite Jokes (John) continues The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals (John, 2021-08-31) (self-continuation) — “Just like last week's video about stuffed animals.” (00:03:47)

October

• 2021-10-12 · Fine, I'll take the bait. (John) answers The Fastest Things in the Universe (Entirely According to Me) (Hank, 2021-10-11) — “I think a bunch of different people could have this same title for a video and make very different videos. All right, challenge accepted.” (00:00:00)
• 2021-10-13 · The Web of Care (Hank) answers (mention on John paces his friend Craig for 17 miles of a 100-mile trail race (2021)) Fine, I'll take the bait. (John, 2021-10-12) — “and you say that you ran those 17 miles slowly?” (00:00:00)

November

• 2021-11-05 · We Have Invented Something Marvelous (Hank) corrects enough (John, 2021-11-02) — “You don't like throw that in a couple of sentences into the video and expect to not hear about it.” (00:00:00)
• 2021-11-19 · How do We Get Anything Done At All? (Hank) continues Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas (John, 2021-11-09) — “go watch your video from last week” (00:03:02)
• 2021-11-23 · I have been playing a small trick on you. (John) refers back (update on John wears a boot (2021)) Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas (John, 2021-11-09) (self-continuation) — “this whole, uh, boot situation” (00:01:27)

December

• 2021-12-24 · 29 Days of Astronomical Terror (Hank) continues Top 5 Awesome Things About the Webb Telescope (Hank, 2011-02-02) (self-continuation) — “I made a video about the James Webb Space Telescope and how amazing it is going to be on this channel 10 years ago” (00:00:00)