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Top 10 Week: a vlogbrothers theme week of top-10 list videos (2010)

project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2010-03-26) · last mentioned: 2022-02-04

In the week of 22 March 2010 the brothers made top-10 list videos as the vlogbrothers theme; Hank found it fun, and in 2022 recalled that the videos did about ten times better than average but did not grow the community.

Part of: Vlogbrothers in 2010: the channel's end-of-year reinvention (2009)

Parts: Hank asks viewers to share their bizarre diseases in the comments (2010) · John asks Nerdfighters for their favorite animal power moves in the comments (2010)

Later, under the same rule: Hank asks John to teach him something for the teaching theme week (2010)

About: Theme week

date event what video
2010-03-22 launched Hank tells John the week's theme is Top 10 Lists, his weird-diseases list being the first. Top 10 Weirdest Diseases 00:03:43
2010-03-24 milestone John posts the second Top 10 week video, his top 10 animal power moves, after praising Hank's Monday list. → refers to Top 10 Weirdest Diseases Top 10 Animal POWER MOVES 00:00:02
2010-03-26 outcome Hank says Top 10 week has turned out to be quite fun and hopes they do it again sometime. (hedged) Top 10 Freaking Amazing Explosions 00:00:00
2022-02-04 (happened 2010-03) looked back Hank says the term comes from a Vlogbrothers week of top 10 lists: the videos did about 10 times better than average but did not grow the community or teach anything. How John and I Talk About Ideas 00:02:18

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