John asks viewers to buy a physical copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get a ten-word Hank video (2011)
ask · status: promotion (not a request) · last event: result reported (2011-07-27) · owner: John
When Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle came out in July 2011, John asked viewers to buy a copy to get their own ten-word video from Hank. A week later Hank reported that buyers had put the album on the Billboard charts.
Part of: Hank's album Ellen Hardcastle: release (2011)
Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters to prove Helen Hunt has seen Hank's song about her (2008) · The Harry Potter Alliance's Helping Haiti Heal raffle (2010) · Hank: film a video of each physical Ellen Hardcastle buyer's ten-word script (2011)
About: Ellen Hardcastle, Billboard
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-07-13 | asked | John tells viewers to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle to get their own ten-word Hank video, with emailed instructions. · also in: John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated | ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video 00:01:27 |
| 2011-07-15 | thanks | Hank thanks the people who have bought Ellen Hardcastle. | Harry Freaking Potter 00:03:48 |
| 2011-07-20 (said on 2011-07-21, implied) | result reported | Hank tells viewers that their buying the album made Ellen Hardcastle chart on Billboard. | HARDCASTLED! 00:03:36 |
| 2011-07-27 | result reported | John lists other Nerdfighter feats: getting Hank's album on the Billboard charts, chartering airplanes of medical supplies to Haiti, and getting Helen Hunt to hear the Helen Hunt song. | 150,000 Autographs 00:01:15 |
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What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-07-13 · ELLEN HARDCASTLE IS HERE! A Reunion Video — ask: John tells viewers who want a Vlogbrothers video of Hank saying their ten words to buy a copy of Ellen Hardcastle and await emailed instructions. — 00:01:27
- 2011-07-15 · Harry Freaking Potter — announcement: Hank shows his album Ellen Hardcastle, thanks buyers and says he looks forward to making videos with their scripts. — 00:03:41