The brothers' 20Q (20q.net) bit: the AI guesses Hank is Perez Hilton (2009)
running joke · status: running joke (last seen 2009) · last event: callback (2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied))
In July 2009 John said the 20Q website's AI guessed Hank was Perez Hilton; Hank answered by playing 20Q as John, himself and Michael Collins. By August Nerdfighters were playing a lot of 20Q too.
Told alongside: DJ Paige Railstone: Nerdfighters invent a person to see how real she can become (2009)
About: 20Q, Perez Hilton, Neil Armstrong
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-07-19 | first use | John has 20Q guess Hank from honest answers and it guesses Perez Hilton, the one guy Hank would least want to be. (joke) | Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life 00:02:43 |
| 2009-07-21 | variation | Hank plays 20Q as John (Neil Armstrong, Rodney Mullen, then 'John Green, author'), accepts its Perez Hilton guess for himself, gets Joe Jonas as himself, and tries it as Michael Collins. (joke) | Twenty Questions and Michael Collins 00:00:00 |
| 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) | callback | John says Nerdfighters have been playing a lot of 20Q at 20q.net, a site whose AI guesses the person you are thinking of from 20 questions. | Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone 00:00:40 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
9 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-07-19 · Harry Potter Nerds Win at Life — John describes a website Nerdfighters have been discussing where an artificial intelligence plays 20 Questions, and says it is astonishingly often right but fails badly when wrong. — 00:01:39
- 2009-07-21 · Twenty Questions and Michael Collins — Hank says he played 20Q.net thinking of John; it asked off-base questions and guessed Neil Armstrong and Rodney Mullen. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2009-07-21 · Twenty Questions and Michael Collins — Hank reports 20Q then guessed 'John Green, author', and declares this the definition of famous: John is now officially famous. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2009-07-21 · Twenty Questions and Michael Collins — Hank says 20Q knowing John is definitely the Nerdfighters' doing, and he is under no illusions about it. — 00:00:56
- 2009-07-21 · Twenty Questions and Michael Collins — Hank says 20Q noted other users said John isn't part of a team, which Hank disputes. (playful) — 00:00:56
- 2009-07-21 · Twenty Questions and Michael Collins — Hank finds Rodney Mullen is a super awesome skateboarder, accepts the Perez Hilton guess for himself, and reports 20Q thinks he is Joe Jonas when he plays as himself. (playful) — 00:01:38
- 2009-07-21 · Twenty Questions and Michael Collins — Hank plays 20Q as Michael Collins: it first guesses Neil Armstrong at question 17 and Buzz Aldrin at question 20, which he calls Collins's whole life summed up. (playful) — 00:02:22
- 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John: A Nerdfighter emailed that 20Q guessed Flava Flav for Holden Caulfield; John jokes that the two have a lot in common. (playful) — 00:00:40
- 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John: Nerdfighters taught 20q.net about Hank. — 00:01:08