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July 26: The Price of Fame

2007-07-26 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · reflection essay

Hank celebrates his song's YouTube front-page feature (over 200,000 views), then describes the price of YouTube fame: a flood of comments whose extremes are way too mean or way too nice, which is stressful, though he sees most commenters are nice and supportive.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; welcome to new viewers; Hank can't stop doing his happy dance; clip of the happy dance

  • ★★ Welcoming new viewers to Brotherhood 2.0, Hank says he can hardly stop doing his happy dance, even in the shower, and shows a clip of it. (playful) — 00:00:03 · Happy dance, Brotherhood 2.0

00:00:51 — Why: 'Accio Deathly Hallows' featured on the YouTube front page, watched over 200,000 times

00:01:21 — The price of YouTube fame: one comment per 100 views, the bell curve of comments and its mean and too-nice extremes, how mom, wife and self read them, stress and tempering it

  • ★★★ Hank says the price of YouTube fame is comments: for every 100 views a video gets, there will be one comment. (playful) — 00:01:21 · celebrity, YouTube
  • ★★★ Hank says a few comments can be taken one by one, but 2,000 of them form a shape: a bell curve of mostly nice comments with two extremes, way too mean and way too nice. — 00:01:21 · celebrity
  • ★★ Hank says that with a sample this big every person sees the comments differently: 'your mom', 'your wife' and 'you yourself' each notice different parts (shown on screen). — 00:01:53
  • ★★★ Hank finds the comments stressful - half seem to call him gay, half want his babies - but has tempered it by seeing that most people are very nice and supportive. (hedged) — 00:02:22 · celebrity
  • ★ Hank concedes the commenters who say he mispronounced 'Accio' are right. — 00:02:22 · Accio Deathly Hallows

00:02:51 — 'The people are very jokes': Hank takes up John's 'jokes' for 'cool'; glad John is feeling better; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank takes up John's proposal and agrees it would be good to say 'jokes' instead of 'cool'. (playful) (hedged) — 00:02:51
  • ★ Hank is glad John is feeling better. — 00:02:51 · John Green

Humor (significant)

  • Hank does his happy dance at the store, in the street and in the shower. — 00:00:03 > «even though it's really dangerous because there's no traction in my tub»
  • Hank names his featured song after commenters argued over how to pronounce 'Accio'. — 00:00:51 > «Axio, Accio, Oscio, Oscio, Oshkosh, Bagachio, Deathly Hallows»
  • Half the commenters seem to call Hank gay and half want to have his babies; he notes the irony. — 00:02:22 > «But in either case, your wife is upset!»
  • Hank tries to use John's 'jokes' for 'cool' and garbles it. — 00:02:51 > «yes, I do think it would be jokes if we use the word jokes instead of jokes whenever we said jokes»

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