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My Pants: the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007)

project history · status: last documented in 2009 (looked back on in 2011) · last event: milestone (2009-02-18 (said on 2009-02-17, implied)) · last mentioned: 2011-02-09

Parts: Hank: make a forum for Brotherhood 2.0 (2007 challenge from John) · John: give away Book Expo swag on Brotherhood 2.0 once Hank launches it (2007) · Hank asks viewers to suggest sections for the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007) · Hank asks viewers to report remaining spam on the Brotherhood 2.0 forum (2007)

Told alongside: Brotherhood2.com: site problems and relaunch as a new site (2007) · Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters · 'In your pants' suffix game (2007) · The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) · Hank's song 'Accio Deathly Hallows' (2007) · Your Pants (yourpants.org): the Nerdfighter forum, its hacker outage and return (2011)

About: Brotherhood 2.0 forum

date event what video
2007-05-31 proposed John thinks Brotherhood 2.0 needs a forum because the comments are too many and too confused to follow, and challenges Hank to make one if viewers favour it. (hedged) Brotherhood 2.0: May 31: Yogurt eating 00:01:45
2007-06-01 announced Hank thanks John for challenging him to make a forum and says he is working on it. June 1: Barack Saabama 00:03:42
2007-06-04 proposed John asks whether he has mentioned the forum enough times today, pressing Hank to launch it. (playful) Brotherhood 2.0: June 4th: The First Nerdfighter Wedding! 00:03:00
2007-06-05 launched Hank launches the Brotherhood 2.0 forum 'My Pants' at the site's /mypants address: registration required, in addition to (not replacing) the comments, with sections and sub-forums. Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum 00:02:06
2007-06-06 milestone About eight hours after launch, the forum 'My Pants' has 200 posts and nearly 100 registered users. June 6th: Lindsay Lohan's Bikini and My Pants 00:01:06
2007-06-07 milestone Overnight the forum 'My Pants' reaches over 300 registered users and about a thousand posts. June 7: Weather and My Pants 00:01:46
2007-06-27 setback Hank reports that spammers bombarded the forum and that he thinks he has deleted all the extremely gross posts, so the forum should be spam-free. (hedged) June 27: Good Morning John, it's Wednesday 00:02:11
2007-08-20 setback So many Nerdfighters are in the forum that the site sometimes goes down; John thanks Hank for working on it. (playful) August 20th: Winner, South Dakota 00:02:22
2007-09-04 milestone John praises Hank for turning the Brotherhood2.com problems into the new Brotherhood2.com: the WikiWikiWookie is back and the forum 'my pants' is busy again. (playful) September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome 00:02:17
2007-10-01 milestone Hank reports the Brotherhood 2.0 forum 'my pants' is fully restored and apologises for the outage. October 1st: Stuff on Heads...dot com??? 00:02:01
2007-10-05 setback Hank says Brotherhood2.com and the forum 'my pants' may be down this weekend because they are moving to a new server. (hedged) October 5th: Feuding, Goonies and Politics 00:03:08
2007-10-12 milestone John counts more than 116,000 posts in the Brotherhood2.com forum 'my pants' and totals 154,244 hours of viewing, commenting and posting. October 12th: Carbon Re-Neutralizing Brotherhood 2.0 00:02:31
2007-12-28 looked back John is grateful for the project mainly because he now knows Hank as an adult: smart, funny, clever, with ideas both brilliant (naming the forum 'My Pants') and diabolical (making John wax his chin). Dec. 28th: John's Last Brotherhood 2.0 Video 00:01:34
2007-12-31 looked back The song lists the year's in-jokes: thinking about 'my pants' (the forum) makes them do their happy dance, along with 'Peels' (unclear), shirtless pictures and wax on John's chin. (playful) Dec 31: Goodbye Brotherhood 2.0 00:01:24
2008-07-18 milestone Hank says he thinks he has fixed 'my pants': the spam filter had locked many people out, and he gives the forum back as a thank-you. (hedged) Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song 00:00:51
2009-02-18 (said on 2009-02-17, implied) milestone Three forum moderators, Panny (a supermod on a big Zelda forum), Jennafighter (with a Nerdfighter licence plate) and Chip (on the forum since its creation), will feature forum content on weekends. Winners and Winners and Ningmasters 00:02:33
2011-02-09 looked back John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, like the old forum My Pants but yours; hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org, for friendships and decreasing world suck. (hedged) NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) 00:02:23

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