Bizarre Beasts: Hank's weird-animal videos for John (2019)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2025-10-17) · last mentioned: 2025-12-09
In July 2019 Hank began sharing bizarre animals with John, then made it a monthly video with a pin for Bizarre Beasts Pin Club members. After the twelfth, in June 2020, it moved to its own Bizarre Beasts channel, which in 2025 carried Complexly's new show Endlings.
Parts: Hank: return to less familiar animals in the next Bizarre Beasts video (2020) · Hank: only a couple more Bizarre Beasts videos are left on Vlogbrothers (2020)
Told alongside: Hank asks viewers to sign up for DFTBA Pin Pals before its limited openings fill (2018) · DFTBA Pin Pals: DFTBA's pin subscription club (2018)
About: Bizarre Beasts, Bizarre Beasts Pin Club
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-05 | launched | Hank will start occasionally sharing a bizarre beast with John to ease his own mind and maybe make everyone feel better about life on this planet. | You Need to Know About This Ridiculous Fish 00:00:40 |
| 2019-08-02 | rule change | Following up his mola mola promise to bring John weird animals more often, Hank will make one video a month for the next year about a weird, amazing animal. → refers to You Need to Know About This Ridiculous Fish | The Cutest Octopus 00:00:00 |
| 2019-09-13 | milestone | The Bizarre Beasts Pin Club was so successful that this month (September 2019), one time only, members get two pins: the caterpillar and the moth; Hank thanks everybody who signed up. | You Need to Know About This Caterpillar 00:03:41 |
| 2019-10-11 | milestone | The description says Hank loves the pins from the Bizarre Beasts Pin Club, which is closed to new members to avoid overproducing pins. | Your Life Will be Better After you Know About Frogmouths video description |
| 2019-11-04 | milestone | Hank names Pallas's cat this month's (November 2019) Bizarre Beast and says the Bizarre Beasts pin club reopens until the end of Pizzamas, with a new beast's pin and info card every month. | This Cat Makes No Sense 00:03:24 |
| 2020-01-24 | milestone | The description invites viewers to sign up to be notified when Bizarre Beasts reopens. | Horses are Very Weird video description |
| 2020-05-15 | milestone | Hank says the Bizarre Beasts Pin Club is closed to new members, apologises, and says they will try to figure out something in the future. (hedged) | Lookin' Kinda Dumb! 00:03:39 |
| 2020-06-26 | milestone | A year ago Hank decided to make a monthly video about a weird animal on the vlog, each with a pin for Bizarre Beasts Pin Club members; this is the twelfth. | You Might as Well Swim! 00:00:00 |
| 2020-06-26 | rule change | Hank isn't ending it: he announces a new YouTube channel, Bizarre Beasts, co-hosted with Sara Suta, one weird animal a month, with the Pin Club continuing and opening to more people. | You Might as Well Swim! 00:03:22 |
| 2020-08-14 | milestone | The second episode of Bizarre Beasts is up on its own YouTube channel, hosted by Sarah Suda and about the hoatzin, one of Hank's favorite birds. | Hit The Ground Running 00:03:19 |
| 2025-10-17 | milestone | Hank announces Complexly's new show Endlings on the Bizarre Beasts channel, a series about the last surviving members of species meant to teach ecology, biology and humans' relationship with the world. | We Never Know What Anything Means 00:00:31 |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | John notes B could have been Bizarre Beasts, a Complexly YouTube channel about unusual organisms, and C could be Crash Course or Complexly. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
1 statement, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-06-26 · You Might as Well Swim! — Hank says it has been such a fun project, and he has loved getting a new pin in his mailbox every month. — 00:02:57