The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series (2012)
project history · status: last documented in 2022 (looked back on in 2026) · last event: milestone (2022-04-22) · last mentioned: 2026-10-23
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a video-blog adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, began in April 2012; it passed 50,000 subscribers and 50 episodes that year, won Streamys, ran a top-funded Kickstarter and won an Emmy in 2013, and the brothers still recalled it years later as the show that won Hank his Emmy.
Parts: Hank asks viewers to watch and share The Lizzie Bennet Diaries so it can continue (2012)
Told alongside: John asks Nerdfighters to prove Helen Hunt has seen Hank's song about her (2008) · The Brain Scoop: Emily Graslie's YouTube show from the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum (2012)
About: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Pride and Prejudice, William Darcy, Kickstarter, Zach Braff, Emmy Award
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) | launched | Hank introduces The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a vlog-based adaptation of Pride and Prejudice; eight episodes are made and the first two are out. | Introducing Lizzie Bennet 00:01:04 |
| 2012-06-08 | milestone | Hank reports that The Lizzie Bennet Diaries just passed 50,000 subscribers. | How to be More Productive...With Hank! 00:00:03 |
| 2012-06-22 | milestone | Hank says The Lizzie Bennet Diaries gets about the same number of views every episode, rare for a web series: around 70,000, roughly 30,000 short of paying for the show. | Hank is Maybe Crazy 00:02:39 |
| 2012-09-14 | looked back | Hank lists his songs about quarks, ponies, Harry Potter and Helen Hunt, notes Helen Hunt tweeted him about hers, and recalls inventing 2D glasses and turning Pride and Prejudice into a video blog. (playful) | 1000 VIDEOS!!! 00:01:36 |
| 2012-09-28 | milestone | The Lizzie Bennet Diaries hits its 50th episode. | THE EYE OF LONDON: Thoughts from Northern Montana 00:03:08 |
| 2012-11-02 (happened 2012-11-01) | milestone | Hank notes that yesterday was Darcy Day, the big reveal of William Darcy on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. | Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! 00:00:43 |
| 2012-12-21 | looked back | Hank says he is grateful to have worked with so many amazing people on projects like the P4A, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA Records and VidCon, and that he just loves to create and to help people create. | Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) 00:03:01 |
| 2013-01-15 | milestone | John introduces a reading from The Fault in Our Stars, now past the first pages, by actors from The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a YouTube web-series adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. | An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall 00:38:22 |
| 2013-02-15 | milestone | Hank reports The Lizzie Bennet Diaries won two Streamys at the pre-awards, with more possible. | Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week 00:02:26 |
| 2013-04-26 | milestone | Hank reports the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter is the fifth top-funded film and video project of all time (fourth that morning, before Zach Braff's). | Cat GIF Critique 00:02:21 |
| 2013-08-27 | milestone | John reports that The Lizzie Bennet Diaries won an Emmy and congratulates Hank. | On the TFIOS Movie Set 00:01:28 |
| 2013-08-30 | milestone | In song, Hank says the Lizzie Bennet Diaries idea won an Emmy award. (playful) | Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam 00:00:57 |
| 2013-10-11 | looked back | Hank reports The Lizzie Bennet Diaries did very well, with tens of millions of views and an Emmy. | TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc 00:01:51 |
| 2022-04-22 | milestone | Hank shows the Lizzie Bennet Diaries DVD set and notes that this month (April 2022) is the 10-year anniversary of the show's first episode. | My Life is on My Walls 00:02:17 |
| 2023-01-17 | looked back | John says Hank won an Emmy for helping make The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. | John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions 00:00:29 |
| 2025-12-09 | looked back | John says The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a YouTube-based Pride and Prejudice adaptation that became wildly popular about 13 or 14 years ago, won Hank his Emmy. | Hank Green, from A to Z 00:02:26 |
| 2026-10-23 | looked back | When the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a show Hank produced on YouTube, won an Emmy, he did not pay to get a statuette for himself, which he now feels very dumb about. | The Best Email I Ever Got 00:00:36 |
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
18 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — announcement: The description says the first two episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries are out now. — video description
- 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank wanted to do something no one had done before: an adaptation in online video, transferring a previous work into the new medium; he knows of no examples. (hedged) — 00:00:36
- 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank calls Pride and Prejudice the best story of all time, a wonderful romance with evolving characters; he would never have cared without Katherine, a huge fan and basically a scholar. (playful) — 00:01:09
- 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank says the project is very different from his vlogging: he prefers to vlog alone, but this needs actors, a sound guy, production people and writers, which is totally new to him. — 00:01:25
- 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — Hank feels Vlogbrothers is a story but not an intentional one; with this series they are deliberately telling a story, splitting and writing it and moving it into the present day. (hedged) — 00:01:42
- 2012-04-12 (said on 2012-04-13, implied) · Introducing Lizzie Bennet — announcement: Hank: They have made eight episodes; to make more they must prove people want to watch, either to get a sponsor or to get enough views to pay for it. — 00:02:25
- 2012-06-08 · How to be More Productive...With Hank! — announcement: Hank lists his many jobs: VidCon is coming up at the end of the month, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries just passed 50,000 subscribers, plus SciShow, Crash Course, Truth or Fail, EcoGeek and DFTBA Records. — 00:00:03
- 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — ask: Hank asks 30,000 viewers to go and watch all the episodes of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. — 00:02:58
- 2012-09-14 · 1000 VIDEOS!!! — Hank says they started educational channels that both have more than 200,000 subscribers, plus a record label, a web series and a conference. — 00:02:11
- 2012-11-02 · Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA! — recommendation: Hank made his first playlist, linked in the description, of about half an hour of videos on the news, including him and Katherine on Darcy Day; it works only on computers. (hedged) — 00:02:48
- 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John introduces Hank as co-founder of VidCon, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and DFTBA Records and founding editor of EcoGeek.org. — 01:01:29
- 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John gets several emails a day praising his work on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which he is not involved with at all, though he is happy to take credit. (playful) — 00:02:56
- 2013-04-26 · Cat GIF Critique — Hank thanks backers of the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter, the fifth top-funded film and video project ever; it was fourth that morning until Zach Braff's campaign. — 00:02:21
- 2013-04-26 · Cat GIF Critique — Hank says he loves Scrubs and watches it when he feels down, so he would not have wanted to be displaced by anyone else. (playful) — 00:02:21
- 2013-10-11 · TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc — Hank: At the warehouse, Hank says DFTBA Records is going well and preparing for Christmas and the Lizzie Bennet Kickstarter, whose rewards he apologises have not been sent yet. — 00:01:20
- 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was deeply enjoyable and deserved its Emmy. — 00:02:26
- 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank says he skipped the Emmy statuette because he just didn't care then, but now he does and gets it. — 00:01:01
- 2026-10-23 · The Best Email I Ever Got — Hank did not care about winning an Emmy: what mattered was the Lizzie Bennet Diaries getting lots of YouTube views and fan reactions on Tumblr and Twitter, the people whose judgment he cared about. — 00:01:01