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Four-minute rule for Brotherhood 2.0 videos (2007)

stage · status: rule-change

About: Four-minute rule

date event what video
2007-03-06 launch Hank makes it a rule that videos must be under four minutes from tomorrow; this is the last longer one. Brotherhood 2.0: Peeps and Genocide 00:04:28
2007-08-24 rule-change Hank says the video is too long but birthday videos are an exception. August 23rd: John's Secret Project Part 1 00:04:58
2010-11-05 rule-change John says that, with Nerdfighteria's permission, the four-minute rule is temporarily suspended for the week of educational videos. God and Grain: The French Revolution, Part I 00:05:18
2010-12-07 rule-change Hank invokes a 'Nerdfighter montage exception' to the four-minute rule for this over-four-minute video, so he stays punishment-free. Tongue Twisters 00:04:12
2011-10-28 rule-change John says Hank permitted this unedited, longer-than-four-minutes live-show video, so Nerdfighters should not punish him; he repeats this at the end. Reading Chapter One of The Fault in Our Stars 00:00:14
2011-11-25 rule-change John says he went over his four-minute limit with Hank's prior permission, so viewers should not punish him; he says the same at the start. Chapter TWO of The Fault in Our Stars 00:23:24
2012-10-23 rule-change In a P.S. John reminds that educational videos are allowed to be over four minutes, an exception to the four-minute rule covering this 6.5-minute video. Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit 00:06:28