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Brotherhood 2.0.0.9: the vlogbrothers' 2009 schedule and rules (2009)

project history · status: past edition (2009; looked back on in 2014) · last event: milestone (2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied)) · last mentioned: 2014-07-18

Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 set the vlogbrothers' schedule and rules for 2009, starting with John's Sunday news videos. During the year the channel passed Google in subscribers, 500 videos and 100,000 subscribers.

Parts: John: post his late Sunday video the next day (May 2009) · John: eat a viewer-voted fat sandwich for missing his Sunday video (2009)

Punishments and asks under this rule: John asks viewers to vote on whether he should be punished for his late Sunday video (May 2009) · Hank asks viewers to post punishment ideas for John's missed video (June 2009) · Hank asks Nerdfighters to vote on the recipe for John's Carl's Jr. punishment (2009)

Later, under the same rule: Hank asks John to answer his annual friends-and-family survey (2007) · John: punishment for accidentally CC'ing Hank on an email (2007) · Hank's 2007 punishment voted by viewers (for textual communication) · John asks Nerdfighters to suggest Hank's punishment for his email slip (2007) · Hank: embarrassing moment sock puppet theater (2007 punishment) · Hank: write a song every two weeks (2007 challenge from John) · Hank asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas after the brothers' instant-message slip (2007) · John asks Hank to help pick John's punishment on the forum (2007) · Hank: recreate his goth photo as punishment (2007) · John: do a half-naked dance in a golden bow tie as punishment (2007) · Hank asks John to clarify Hank's punishment by Friday (2007) · John asks viewers to suggest a song for his punishment dance (2007) · John: eat a blenderized Happy Meal, wax a leg and lick a cat, for a textual communication (2007) · John asks Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for Hank (2007) · Hank: eat a blenderized Christmas meal or give a one-hour public concert, as voted by Nerdfighters (2007) · John asks Nerdfighters to vote between two punishments for Hank (2007) · John: punishment for missing the Question Tuesday deadline (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for John and Hank (2008) · Hank: punishment for losing the Peeps contest and a video over four minutes (2008) · John: a video every day for a week, as punishment for his week and a half without videos (2008) · Hank: punishment for his over-four-minute 'Eight Days of Awesome' video (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for passing Oprah (2008) · John and Hank: Brotherhood 2.1, the Nerdfighters' punishment for passing Oprah (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to vote for their favourite punishment options for passing Oprah (2008) · Hank asks viewers to vote on whether he should be punished for his late video (2008) · John asks Nerdfighters to vote on whether Hank should be punished for his 4:16 video (2008) · Hank: dress as Carrie Bradshaw, punishment for his 4:16 video (2008) · Hank asks viewers for suggestions for his punishment for the 4:16 video (2008) · John: ride the Frog Hopper, punishment for Nerdfighters finding Gus Is a Bug (2009) · John asks Nerdfighters to suggest and vote on Hank's punishment (2009) · Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) · Hank asks Nerdfighters to suggest punishments for John (2009) · Hank asks viewers to suggest and vote on punishments for the brothers on YouTube Moderator (2010) · John: Fitness for Nerds workout video, punishment for a missed video (2010) · Hank: do a YouTube-style makeup tutorial by September 1 (2010) · Nerdfighters asked to suggest punishments for John's skipped Wednesday video and the Helen Hunt punishments (May 2011) · John: punishment for not posting a video on Wednesday (May 2011) · John: punishment earned by Nerdfighters getting Helen Hunt to see Hank's Helen Hunt video (2011) · Hank: punishment earned by Nerdfighters getting Helen Hunt to see his Helen Hunt video (2011) · Hank asks Nerdfighters to suggest gross ingredients for John's punishment sandwiches (June 2011) · Hank: punishment for missing a video (August 2011) · John asks viewers to suggest a replacement for his sandwich punishment, for Hank to pick (2011) · Live Question Tuesday at Carnegie Hall: electric shock for whoever is talking when time runs out (2012) · John: surprise punishment from Hank that will 'strike when he least expects it' (2012) · John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in case Hank misses his VidCon-week Friday video (2012) · John: outstanding 2012 Kiva-deal punishment, ultimately an inkless tattoo (2012–2015) · Hank: his punishment owed under the 2012 Kiva deal, performed as the science of pain (2012) · John and Hank: a week of Brotherhood 2.0-style daily vlogs as punishment (2012) · Grace Helbig: punished for an over-four-minute guest video (2013) · John: punishment for his over-four-minute health-insurance video, ruled not educational by Our Pants (2013) · John asks Nerdfighters for punishment suggestions in comments (2013) · John asks Nerdfighters for punishment suggestions for Hank in the comments (2014) · Hank asks viewers to suggest John's punishment in the comments (2014) · John asks Hank to name the punishment John owes (2014) · John asks viewers for tattoo ideas for his inkless tattoo punishment, in comments (2015) · John: punishment for his over-four-minute P4A 2015 video (2015) · John asks Nerdfighteria whether they will really punish him for his over-four-minute video on refugee camps in Ethiopia (2015) · Hank: punishment for his over-four-minute tenth-anniversary video, to be performed live at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria (2016) · John asks Nerdfighters for suggestions for Hank's NerdCon: Nerdfighteria punishment in comments (2017) · John asks viewers, by survey, to grant him three weeks of unpunished vacation per year (2018) · Hank: a makeup challenge in a shock collar as punishment (2018) · Hank: punishment for accidentally uploading an over-four-minute Hank's Channel video to Vlogbrothers (2019)

Told alongside: Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters · Pwning Google Challenge (2009) · Song Wednesday: Hank performs a song on Wednesdays (2007)

About: Brotherhood 2.0, Song Wednesday, Punishment, No textual communication, Newsday, Google

date event what video
2009-01-01 launched Hank launches Brotherhood 2.0.0.9: news videos from John on Sundays, free videos on Tuesdays, his original songs every other Wednesday, surprise videos, punishments for missed duties, and textual communication allowed again. Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 00:01:19
2009-01-04 milestone John makes the first Sunday news video of Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 ('It's Sunday, it's Newsday'), on the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! 00:00:02
2009-03-01 milestone John reports the vlogbrothers now have more YouTube subscribers than Google. (playful) Free Will Fetish 00:02:12
2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) milestone John notes that the brothers have now uploaded more than 500 videos in their two-and-a-half-year conversation. GAY is NOT an INSULT 00:00:10
2009-08-10 (said on 2009-08-09, implied) milestone The vlogbrothers channel reaches 100,000 subscribers. HipPOTATOmus 00:00:00
2014-07-18 looked back After 2007 the brothers abolished the textual communication rule, changed the schedule, and exempted educational videos, montage videos and 4:01 videos (YouTube adds a second) from the time limit. EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! 00:01:32

Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).

What is said about it

12 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).

  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — Hank reads 'Auld Lang Syne' as asking whether Hank and John should make more videos in 2009, and answers yes. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Restaging his first video, Hank reverses its no-textual-communication line: this time the brothers will be communicating through textual means. (playful) — 00:00:37
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Sunday for the year, John will send Hank a video about a current news event he considers vitally important and Hank is probably ignorant of. — 00:01:19
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank wants John's Sunday news videos to be good, comprehensive and in-depth, though John may also eat toilet paper or smear peanut butter on his face. (playful) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every Tuesday one brother sends the other a video blog of any kind. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Every other Wednesday Hank will perform an original song: Song Wednesdays are back. — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: Later in the week there may be a surprise video, so viewers who like surprise and those who like structure both get what they want. (hedged) — 00:01:48
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank: A brother who fails to keep up these responsibilities will be punished; Hank jokes the punishment could be sticking a needle in his eye. — 00:02:17
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank sums up: at least one vlog a week, news on Sunday, songs every other Wednesday, more structure and more videos because everybody wanted more videos. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-01 · Brotherhood 2.0.0.9 — announcement: Hank adds there will be more BlogTV appearances and open days for doing whatever they want. — 00:02:41
  • 2009-01-04 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! — John: Because the Israeli army invaded the Gaza Strip last night, John feels he has to discuss it on Newsday although it makes him miserable, and shows puppy footage to counter that. (hedged) — 00:00:02
  • 2009-06-29 (said on 2009-06-28, implied) · GAY is NOT an INSULT — John notes that in their two-and-a-half-year conversation the brothers have uploaded more than 500 videos, watched many times thanks to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:10