Keep It or Shave It: Hank's facial-hair vote with dollars for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011)
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2011-11-09) · last mentioned: 2023-12-24
In November 2011 viewers voted with dollars on whether Hank should keep or shave his goatee, raising money for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck ahead of the Project for Awesome. Keep It narrowly won, raising almost $3,000, and years later the brothers called the goatee a huge mistake.
Part of: P4A 2011 edition
Parts: Hank asks viewers to vote with dollars at fightworldsuck.org on keeping or shaving his facial hair (2011) · Hank invites viewers to keep donating to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck at fightworldsuck.org (2011) · Hank: keep his facial hair until the end of November, then shave it (2011) · Hank: post the full video of shaving off his facial hair on hankschannel (2011)
Told alongside: SciShow: launch of Hank's science channel (2011)
About: Foundation to Decrease World Suck, Neanderthal November
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-11-04 | launched | Hank launches the keep-it-or-shave-it vote: viewers vote with dollars at fightworldsuck.org, into a 'shave it' or a 'keep it' pile, raising money for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck before P4A; result in his next video. | You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! 00:02:57 |
| 2011-11-09 | outcome | Hank reports Keep It ($1494.43) narrowly beat Shave It ($1449.98), raising almost $3,000 for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck; a $100 donation from his high school English teacher, Leanne Spillane, decided it. | 27 Part Video 00:03:10 |
| 2012-01-02 | looked back | John notes the first SciShow episodes were filmed in November, so Hank has the 'hideous' goatee many viewers liked, and regrets Hank never filmed one with his policeman mustache. (playful) | Changes to Vlogbrothers 00:02:06 |
| 2021-12-07 | looked back | Reading Hank's 2011 tally tweet, the brothers recall the keep-it-or-shave-it vote: keeping it was a huge mistake, and the first SciShow and Crash Course episodes were filmed with the goatee. (playful) | Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets 00:00:28 |
| 2023-09-29 | looked back | John recalls the great goatee debacle of 2011 as having aged poorly, and uses it to argue that a post-Pizzamas mustache would age poorly too. (playful) | Like Apocalyptic Horsemen 00:02:14 |
| 2023-12-24 | looked back | From a 2011 tweet, Hank recalls a donation vote to keep or shave his goatee ($993 to $879) that he calls a huge mistake, since the first SciShow and Crash Course episodes were filmed with it. (playful) | John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated 00:16:34 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-11-04 · You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! — Hank: Because of many comments saying people like his goatee and do not want him to shave it, Hank has kept it for now. — 00:00:17
- 2011-11-04 · You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! — ask: Hank: Calling the choice too big to make alone and a chance to fill the Foundation to Decrease World Suck before P4A, Hank asks viewers to vote with dollars at fightworldsuck.org on keeping or shaving his facial hair. — 00:02:44
- 2011-11-04 · You CAN Judge a Book by its Cover! — announcement: Hank says that, based on whether the 'shave it' or 'keep it' pile wins, he will say in his next video whether he will do 'Neanderthal November'. — 00:03:27
- 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — Hank reports the Keep It / Shave It fundraiser result: Keep It $1494.43 beat Shave It $1449.98, together almost $3,000 for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck. — 00:03:10
- 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John reads Hank's 2011 tweet tallying the keep-it-or-shave-it vote, $993 to keep it and $879 to shave it, with Keep It making a comeback. (playful) — 00:00:28