DFTBA Pin Pals: DFTBA's pin subscription club (2018)
project history · status: last documented in 2020 · last event: rule change (2020-06-26)
DFTBA Pin Pals, DFTBA's pin subscription club, opened in January 2018 and was stopped in November 2018 in favour of the quarterly Flair Club. It returned in August 2019 as the Bizarre Beasts pin club, raising money for the community's work against maternal mortality in Sierra Leone.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to sign up for DFTBA Pin Pals before its limited openings fill (2018)
Told alongside: Bizarre Beasts: Hank's weird-animal videos for John (2019) · Awesome Socks Club: monthly sock subscription (2016) · DFTBA's Flair Club: quarterly surprise box replacing the sock and pin clubs (2018)
About: DFTBA Pin Pals, Mars Pathfinder
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-19 | launched | Until the end of January viewers can join DFTBA Pin Pals, DFTBA's new pin subscription, with free shipping worldwide; the third pin will be Mars Pathfinder. | Many Years Ago, Someone Gave Me a Whole Bitcoin...then I lost it. 00:03:22 |
| 2018-11-23 | paused | DFTBA is stopping the sock club and the pin club and replacing them with the Flair Club, a quarterly box with more stuff per box. | Four Jokes from a Two year Old 00:03:08 |
| 2019-08-02 | restarted | To raise money for the community's work decreasing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, DFTBA Pin Pals launches a Bizarre Beasts pin subscription club. | The Cutest Octopus 00:03:05 |
| 2019-08-09 | milestone | Hank repeats that it is the last chance to sign up for the DFTBA Bizarre Beasts Pin Pal Club. | Decluttering the Somewhat Embarrassing Nightstand of a 39 Year-Old Best-Selling Author 00:03:12 |
| 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 |
| 2019-11-04 | 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 |
| 2020-03-27 | milestone | Hank tells Bizarre Beasts pin club members that feather star pins were sent out early instead of armadillos, implying the mix-up was his fault. (playful) | Take a Break with Some Feather Stars 00:03:20 |
| 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 | 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 |
What is said about it
3 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-01-19 · Many Years Ago, Someone Gave Me a Whole Bitcoin...then I lost it. — Hank calls Mars Pathfinder, the first rover on Mars, an extremely important object in his life. — 00:03:35
- 2020-03-27 · Take a Break with Some Feather Stars — Hank thanks pin club members and says all the money from it goes to help some of the most vulnerable people in the world. — 00:03:29
- 2020-06-26 · You Might as Well Swim! — ask: Hank asks viewers to follow him to Bizarre Beasts, subscribe now, and sign up for the Pin Club if they want. — 00:03:22