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Springtime Hunger Games Zit Bully Walk

2012-03-30 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

On a spring walk through Missoula, Hank says The Hunger Games film trivialized violence to get a PG-13 rating while Bully got an R, then finds crocuses and reflects that he loves anticipation and so has come to love change, like online video and Nerdfighteria.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; spring and going outside; not filming at home; nerdfighters worried about Hank's phone-book listing

  • ★ As it starts to feel like spring, Hank takes viewers on a walk outside, but not starting from his house because he doesn't want the internet to know where he lives. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ When Hank had a landline, nerdfighters who phoned him worried that his number was publicly listed, and he had to explain that that is what a phone book is. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria

00:00:29 — The Hunger Games movie, PG-13 ratings that require emotionless violence, the R rating of Bully; aside on his zit

  • ★★★ Hank says he enjoyed The Hunger Games movie but thinks it missed a lot of what it could have been, since it is a moral story. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★ Hank says he talked about this at length on his second channel and viewers can watch that video. — 00:00:29 · hankschannel
  • ★★★ Hank feels that for a violent movie to get a PG-13 rating today it must trivialize violence and take the emotion and suffering out of death, and asks if that is what we protect kids from. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • ★★★ Citing the controversy over the R rating of the documentary Bully, about kids verbally abused until they want to die, Hank suggests the system protects kids from emotion, not violence. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • ★ Hank has a gigantic weird zit on his face, mostly hidden by his glasses: 'my nose has a nose now'. (playful) — 00:00:58

00:01:27 — Searching for budding plants; an old grain building and artist collective, one of his favorite places in Missoula

  • ★★ Hank visits an old, semi-defunct grain building, now a sort of artist collective where he filmed a music video, one of his favorite places in Missoula. — 00:01:27 · Missoula, Montana

00:01:56 — Crocuses found; TFIOS's broccoli and ice cream; loving anticipation and so change; YouTube and Nerdfighteria always changing

  • ★★ Hank finds a yard with crocuses coming up and declares spring official. — 00:01:56
  • ★★ Recalling John's broccoli-and-ice-cream point in The Fault in Our Stars (happiness does not depend on sadness), Hank says enjoying spring would not depend on its absence; he would still enjoy constant spring. (hedged) — 00:01:56 · The Fault in Our Stars
  • ★★★ Hank says what he enjoys most is anticipation; he thinks humans care more about anticipating a thing, like a new game or movie, than about getting it. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • ★★★ Hank says that is why, as he has gotten older, he has come to love change where he used to hate it: change brings new things to experience. — 00:02:26
  • ★★ Hank says YouTube, online video and Nerdfighteria are like that: always changing, but always cool, exciting and breathtaking. — 00:02:26 · YouTube, Nerdfighteria

00:02:55 — A passer-by yells slurs; strangers no longer bother him; best job in the world; sign-off

  • ★★ A passer-by yells slurs at Hank while he films; Hank says strangers yelling such things no longer bother him, and that he is different because he has the best job in the world. — 00:03:17

Threads in this video

  • new · Is change good? — Hank says that as he has gotten older he has come to love change where he used to hate it, because it brings new things; online video and Nerdfighteria are always changing. (00:02:26)

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