Hank and John's We're Here newsletter (2024)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2025-03-28) · last mentioned: 2026-01-02
We're Here is a weekly Nerdfighteria newsletter that Hank helped found, launched in spring 2024 and one year old in March 2025. Looking back on 2025, Hank called it a banger year with very high open rates, and John said it reminds him of old-school Nerdfighteria.
Told alongside: Hank asks viewers to sign up for the Hank and John email newsletter at hankandjohn.com (2013) · Hank and John's email newsletter, sign-up at hankandjohn.com (2013)
About: We're Here newsletter
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-22 | launched | Hank announces the Nerdfighteria newsletter, run for over a decade, is being relaunched as a weekly newsletter called We're Here recommending the best of the internet, related to the brothers or not. | The Internet Needs to Change 00:02:51 |
| 2024-08-16 | milestone | Hank invites viewers to join over 250,000 people getting the brothers' weekly newsletter, linked atop the description and in the first comment, to find cool stuff without going on Twitter. | I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… 00:07:26 |
| 2025-03-28 | milestone | The description marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of the We're Here newsletter. | Is This a Million Dollar Idea? video description |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | John says We're Here, the Nerdfighteria newsletter Hank helped found a couple of years ago, is something he loves getting weekly; it reminds him of old-school Nerdfighteria. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:04:52 |
| 2026-01-02 | looked back | Hank says the same holds for the We're Here newsletter, a human-curated slice of the internet, which had a banger year with very high open rates and fans complimenting him in public. | I Got a New Disease and I Kinda Liked It. 00:04:50 |
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank says the newsletter is not revolutionary but aims for an unusual vibe: a wistful consignment to being part of flawed but beautiful humanity, since every reader is here. — 00:03:21
- 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank says it will be neither a good-news newsletter nor a daily-horrors one, but a 'you're in a bizarre world, might as well be in it' newsletter. — 00:03:45
- 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank says it will share art and articles from people great on social media, so readers need not wade through what the algorithm offers to find them. — 00:03:45
- 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — ask: Hank asks viewers to sign up via the description link (signing up twice does no harm), saying the brothers desperately want another way to communicate and make stuff. — 00:04:15
- 2024-04-12 · Feeling Like a Failure (During an Eclipse) — ask: Hank: Saying they can keep doing basically impossible things, Hank asks viewers who want to be first to know to sign up for the We're Here newsletter, linked in the description. — 00:05:31
- 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — ask: The description asks viewers to subscribe to the newsletter, where Hank wrote this week (week of 10 June 2024) about the problems of having too much information. — video description
- 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — announcement: Hank is keeping a spreadsheet of beef day suggestions and may make a proposal next week (week of 17 June 2024), perhaps in the We're Here newsletter, a podcast or a video. (hedged) — 00:08:15
- 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — announcement: Hank says he wrote about this in a special edition of the We're Here newsletter sent earlier this week (week of 4 November 2024), linked below. — 00:05:01
- 2025-03-28 · Is This a Million Dollar Idea? — announcement: The description announces merch to celebrate the newsletter's anniversary. — video description