VidCon 2012 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2012-07-03) · last mentioned: 2013-04-12
Parts: John invites viewers to sign up at VidCon.com for news of VidCon 2012 (2011) · Hank asks viewers to buy VidCon 2012 tickets now (2011) · Hank asks viewers to submit VidCon ideas and questions on VidCon's Facebook page (2011) · Hank invites viewers to enter VidCon and Celebrate the Web's web series pilot contest (2012) · Hank invites designers to enter the VidCon 2012 T-shirt design contest (2012) · Hank asks viewers to answer VidCon-related questions on VYou (2012) · Hank invites musicians to apply for the VidCon 2012 open mic room (2012) · Hank asks VidCon 2012 attendees to bring books for the charity book drive (2012) · Hank screams his way around the VidCon 2012 venue, in 'Screaming Through VidCon' (2012) · John asks viewers who attended VidCon 2012 to share their favorite moments in comments (2012)
Other editions: VidCon 2010 edition · VidCon 2011 edition · VidCon 2013 edition · VidCon 2014 edition · VidCon 2015 edition
Told alongside: VidCon 2011 edition
About: VidCon, Anaheim Convention Center
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-27 | proposed | Hank says next year (2012), 2012, VidCon will have a much bigger venue. | My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety 00:02:39 |
| 2011-07-27 | announced | John announces next year's (2012) VidCon will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center. | 150,000 Autographs 00:03:18 |
| 2011-10-17 | announced | Hank announces VidCon 2012 is happening and releases the website and registration. | VidCon 2012!!! 00:01:04 |
| 2011-10-17 | rule change | Hank sets out the VidCon 2012 plan: Anaheim Convention Center, industry day June 28 and community days June 29-30, and three passes (community, industry, and a new cheap expo-hall-only Expo Pass). | VidCon 2012!!! 00:01:55 |
| 2011-11-28 | milestone | Hank reports VidCon tickets are already partly sold out. | Stuffed with STUFF! 00:01:57 |
| 2012-05-04 | milestone | Hank tours the booked VidCon 2012 venue: VidCon has the whole second and third floors of the Anaheim Convention Center and an arena for the main stage, replacing last year's (2011) basement. | Screaming Through VidCon 00:00:59 |
| 2012-06-22 | milestone | Hank says VidCon 2012 tickets are no longer on sale. | Hank is Maybe Crazy 00:01:27 |
| 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) | launched | Hank speaks from VidCon 2012 in Anaheim while it is under way; most viewers are not there. | Online Video about Online Video 00:00:51 |
| 2012-07-03 (happened 2012-06) | outcome | John looks back on VidCon 2012: Hank's performance, Megan Tonjes' song, educational video and the Monty Hall discussion. | The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon 00:00:37 |
| 2013-04-12 | looked back | Hank says that during VidCon last year (2012) the Anaheim Convention Center held more than a tenth of his town's population. | Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and The Fine Brothers 00:00:32 |
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
22 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — ask: Hank urges viewers to register now, because early-bird registration is only available to the first 1,000 people. — 00:01:31
- 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — announcement: Hank: Answering FAQs gathered on Twitter, Hank says VidCon is in Anaheim, across the street from Disneyland at the Anaheim Convention Center, with lots of cheap hotels. — 00:01:31
- 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — announcement: Hank: The community days are Friday June 29 and Saturday June 30; the industry day is Thursday June 28. — 00:01:31
- 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — announcement: Hank: There are three registration passes: the community pass, as always, for everything on the 29th and 30th; the industry pass adds the 28th, an industry-of-online-video day. — 00:01:55
- 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — announcement: Hank: The new Expo Pass is extra cheap but gives access only to the expo hall. — 00:02:18
- 2011-10-17 · VidCon 2012!!! — announcement: Hank: The ball pits and Nerf guns are coming back to VidCon. — 00:03:24
- 2011-10-21 · Signing Psychosis, BlizzCon, TFiOS, Awesome Adventures, and URLatron — Hank is in Anaheim, where VidCon will be held, during BlizzCon, because he wanted to steal BlizzCon's ideas for making conferences epic. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2011-11-28 · Stuffed with STUFF! — ask: Hank says VidCon is already partly sold out (amount unclear) and tells viewers to get tickets now. — 00:01:57
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — Hank is in Anaheim at the Anaheim Convention Center planning VidCon, on top of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, 2D Glasses, SciShow, Crash Course and DFTBA Records. (playful) — 00:00:00
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — announcement: Hank shows where VidCon 2012 will happen: registration in the main lobby, the Expo Hall, and an arena for the main stage event with floor seating. — 00:00:23
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — Hank says that at past VidCons it was easy to get in front of people only if they already knew you; this year (2012) VidCon is trying to make that easier for talented unknowns. — 00:01:28
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — announcement: Hank: King of the Web is working with VidCon to crown VidCon kings in music, gaming, vlogging and other categories; Hank is pretty sure winners get a free ticket and cash. (hedged) — 00:02:27
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — ask: Hank: VidCon 2012 will raise money for the Project for Awesome and the Foundation to Decrease World Suck through a book drive and a charity auction; attendees should bring books. — 00:02:27
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — announcement: Hank: Attendees can unlock achievements: ribbons for their badges, given at certain events to people who are curious, awesome, creative or costumed. — 00:02:56
- 2012-05-04 · Screaming Through VidCon — announcement: Hank: VidCon will hold an online video costume contest; the winners get to come up on stage. — 00:02:56
- 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — announcement: Hank doesn't want to say much about VidCon because tickets are no longer on sale and viewers would be sad, but it is the biggest thing on his mind. — 00:01:27
- 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — announcement: Hank is getting new business cards for VidCon and has one more Vlogbrothers video to make before VidCon, when he will be in LA. — 00:03:04
- 2012-06-29 (said on 2012-06-30, implied) · Online Video about Online Video — Hank: Since most viewers can't attend VidCon, Hank feels bad missing a video during it, but won't spend the video on VidCon because that would only make them sad. — 00:00:51
- 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John lists the YouTubers seen in the VidCon footage: Watsky, Felicia Day, Vi Hart, Derek, Brady of Numberphile, Meghan Tonjes, the Gregory Brothers and WheezyWaiter. — video description
- 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John says he got to VidCon before the 7,120 other attendees to see the expo hall, the DFTBA booth, the food, the bouncy castle and the stage. — 00:00:03
- 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John recaps VidCon: Hank performed with Felicia Day and George Watsky before thousands, Meghan Tonjes sang about John's book, they met nerdfighters, discussed educational video, watched a Gregory Brother hula-hoop. — 00:00:37
- 2012-07-03 · The Physics of Book Clubs and Vidcon — John thanks Hank for starting VidCon, and thanks the VidCon staff and all the volunteers who made it happen. — 00:02:34