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Tumblr: The Musical

2012-07-27 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · comedy performance

Hank performs a comic song, made with the YouTube musical channel AVbyte, about getting lost scrolling Tumblr, then explains the collaboration, lists his tour, LeakyCon and Mars-landing plans, and advises viewers not to spend their whole lives on Tumblr.

What is said

00:00:00 — Intro: Hank wanted to make an epic video but has no time

  • ★ Hank says he wanted to make a complicated, epic video but has no time, and not because he is busy; the song that follows blames Tumblr. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Tumblr

00:00:07 — The song 'Tumblr: The Musical': dopamine scrolling, cats, memes, fandoms, GIFs and reblogs

  • ★★ In the song Hank portrays Tumblr as a compulsive, dopamine-chasing scroll that keeps him glued to his screen, full of cats, memes, fandoms and GIFs. (playful) — 00:00:07 · Tumblr
  • ★ The song ends with the claim that everyone can agree Tumblr is the place for him. (playful) — 00:01:36 · Tumblr

00:02:23 — Story behind the song: AVbyte's weekly musicals, co-writing, 74 emails

  • ★★ Hank found the YouTube channel AVbyte, which makes a new musical every week, after someone linked him their Instagram musical; he emailed them proposing a Tumblr musical starring him. — 00:02:23
  • ★★ Hank and AVbyte wrote the lyrics together, AVbyte did the music and they made the video together; a long process with 74 emails exchanged. — 00:02:40

00:02:50 — Hank's next weeks: brief tour with Harry and the Potters, Missoula, LeakyCon, the Mars Science Laboratory landing and his SciShow video

  • ★★ Hank is going on a brief tour with Harry and the Potters; Oregon and Washington dates are in the description. — 00:02:52
  • ★ After the tour Hank will have a couple of days back in Missoula and then go to LeakyCon. — 00:02:58 · Missoula, Montana, LeakyCon
  • ★★ The run-up to the Mars Science Laboratory landing is intense for Hank; his video about it goes live on SciShow this weekend and he is scared and excited. — 00:03:01 · SciShow

00:03:17 — Thanks to John for talking about Hank's buffness

  • ★★ Hank thanks John for talking about his buffness; now everyone wants to see him shirtless, which he says would be very unimpressive. (playful) — 00:03:17 · John Green

00:03:28 — The song is coming to iTunes; Hank will tweet it and post it on his Tumblr

  • ★★ The song is not on iTunes yet but will be shortly; Hank will tweet it and put it on his Tumblr. — 00:03:29 · iTunes, Tumblr

00:03:34 — Tumblr is weird but fun; don't spend your whole life there; sign-off and outtake

  • ★★ Hank calls Tumblr a weird but very fun place and urges viewers not to spend their whole lives there but to go do other, even outside, things. (playful) — 00:03:34 · Tumblr

Humor (dominant)

  • Scrolling Tumblr, the singer finds the President has joined and reacts like a hipster — 00:00:38 > «I can't believe Obama's tumbling. Ugh, lame. It's so mainstream.»
  • The song settles the GIF pronunciation debate and the cast immediately argues back — 00:01:07 > «You know that it's pronounced like jif. No. Yep. No way. Yes.»
  • After John praised his buffness, everybody now wants to see Hank with his shirt off — 00:03:24 > «which would be a tremendously unimpressive experience for everyone»
  • Hank urges viewers to leave Tumblr and go do outside things — 00:03:43 > «with your computer though»

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