Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters
stage · status: retro
About: Punishment, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), No textual communication, The Continuum History of Apocalypticism, YouTube
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007-01-02 | launch | Hank launches Brotherhood 2.0: no more textual communication, alternating daily video blogs from January 1st for the year, punishments for a missed weekday video. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 1st 00:00:43 |
| 2007-01-02 | propose | Besides the agreed punishments, John proposes the brothers periodically set each other challenges and suggests Thursdays and Fridays as challenge days. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 2nd 00:01:19 |
| 2007-01-03 | propose | Hank floats performing a version of 500 Miles on the show and asks whether it should be a punishment, project or challenge. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 3rd 00:01:56 |
| 2007-01-04 | propose | John suggests letting a Brotherhood 2.0 viewer who just had a baby pick a project or challenge for the brothers as a baby present. | Brotherhood 2.0: Eating Toilet Paper 00:02:05 |
| 2007-01-11 | propose | Hank proposes adding punishment options to choose from, letting people suggest punishments, and suggests three of his own besides the existing 500 miles punishment. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 11th 00:01:11 |
| 2007-01-12 | propose | John proposes punishment options for failing to update, drawn from his living room. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 12, 2007 00:01:01 |
| 2007-01-15 | milestone | Hank presents the new Brotherhood 2.0 website at brotherhood2.com and invites suggestions. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 15th 00:00:00 |
| 2007-01-25 | propose | Hank proposes that the brother not being punished decides which punishment the other gets. | Brotherhood 2.0: January 25th 00:01:05 |
| 2007-02-03 | milestone | Hank greets the maker of the first Brotherhood 2.0 reply video on YouTube. | Brotherhood 2.0: February 2nd 00:00:03 |
| 2007-02-21 | milestone | Brotherhood 2.0 now has a MySpace page, which already has about 69 friends. | Brotherhood 2.0: February 20th: Computer Trouble 00:00:59 |
| 2007-05-07 | milestone | Neil Gaiman posts a link to Brotherhood 2.0 on his blog; John phones Hank with the news. | May 7th: Birthday Extravaganza 00:01:10 |
| 2007-07-02 | milestone | John marks July 2 as the first day of the second half of Brotherhood 2.0. | Brotherhood 2.0: July 2nd: The Law of Compound Nerdfighting 00:00:03 |
| 2007-07-09 | propose | John proposes a punishment rule: the brothers cannot veto their own punishments, but their wives may veto punishments suggested by nerdfighters; he hopes Hank agrees. | July 9: The Punishment Fiasco 00:02:47 |
| 2007-11-21 | rule-change | Hank sets the Thanksgiving week schedule: John posts Wednesday, Hank Friday, nobody Thursday. | November 20th: A White Thanksgiving 00:03:29 |
| 2007-12-04 | milestone | Hank announces Brotherhood 2.0 has reached its 10,000th subscriber (actually 10,022). | December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project 00:00:10 |
| 2007-12-14 | milestone | In a phone message to Hank, John reports that Vlogbrothers has finally cracked YouTube's all-time most-subscribed directors list. | December 13: Mailing Shopping Thanking. It Must Be Christmas 00:03:33 |
| 2007-12-29 | retro | In his last Brotherhood 2.0 video John looks back: he is grateful mainly because he now knows Hank as an adult, and says they would never have finished if people hadn't watched. | Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video 00:01:34 |
| 2007-12-31 | retro | The brothers' farewell song looks back on Brotherhood 2.0: how John proposed it after falling for 'Zay' in 2006, the year's YouTube moments and in-jokes, and asks whether they are closer than a year ago. | Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 00:00:03 |
| 2007-12-31 | milestone | The song states that the project is ending, with its rules seemingly in need of amending. | Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 00:03:00 |
| 2008-07-09 | retro | John recalls that Brotherhood 2.0 was his idea and that Hank judged it 'not terrible', so they did it. | Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer 00:00:25 |
| 2009-01-02 | retro | Hank looks back on Brotherhood 2.0, restaging its first video and calling John's news videos one of the coolest things they did; this year's rules are more complicated than the first year's. | Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 00:01:19 |
| 2010-05-17 | retro | Hank recalls that John convinced him to do something ridiculous they thought would be about two people, and it turned out to be about many more. | My YouTube Story is Short 00:01:55 |
| 2012-01-02 | retro | John marks the fifth anniversary of his first Vlogbrothers video, uploaded January 2, 2007. | Changes to Vlogbrothers 00:00:00 |