Is the internet a real place, and is online life real life?
Axis: online life is fully real ... online life is lesser / not real
John
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-07-25 | new | Answering a commenter, John asks whether he, the vlog and the commenter are real when known only through the internet, and suggests Harry Potter may be more real than the commenter. | July 25: Brotherhood 2.0's Youtube Comments Are Answered! 00:03:00 |
| 2010-03-02 | restate | John: a YouTube-based community like Nerdfighteria is more real than all of NBC's reality shows combined. | The Marriage Ref SUCKS 00:02:44 |
| 2010-07-06 | restate | John says relationships that began online in Nerdfighteria have proved sustaining and meaningful in real life. | With a private person 00:00:24 |
| 2010-07-14 | restate | John says VidCon felt like his favourite parts of the internet existed in real life for three days. | Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS 00:03:13 |
| 2011-05-27 | restate | John says he is lucky to live in 2011, when with ones and zeros we can build our own relationships and monuments. | Older Than Gravity In Bruges: Thoughts from Places 00:02:30 |
| 2013-02-05 | refine | John: a museum photograph he took for an object calls into question the relevance of seeing actual things when virtual experiences are so compelling; he cannot decide whether sights need seeing or virtual experience is enough. | Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places) 00:03:24 |
Hank
| date | change | position | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-10-17 | new | Hank tells nerdfighters who could not attend the events that the brothers will always be on the Internet, their first and last place. | Vital Status Report from NYC 00:03:29 |
| 2009-09-15 | restate | Hank calls the technology he must occasionally step away from his home, his work, his fun, his play and his soapbox. | Internetless in Maine 00:03:05 |
| 2010-02-27 | restate | Hank says Tom's accident drives home that what they do online is real and made by real people. | Ningmaster Tom 00:03:15 |
| 2010-07-03 | restate | Hank says online video is in the end about online, not the real world, so those who cannot come to VidCon can follow it on the internet. | VidCon by the Numbers 00:03:17 |
| 2010-09-14 | restate | Hank holds that YouTube is not its street address but a real, non-physical place right in front of all of us, made possible by people working in a physical one. | Thoughts from Places: YouTube HQ 00:01:56 |