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Changes to Vlogbrothers

2012-01-02 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · announcement promotion

On the fifth anniversary of his first video, John announces changes for 2012: saying 'twenty twelve', Your Pants returning, more 'huzzah', and a cut to two Vlogbrothers videos a week because of his illness and to make time for community projects, alongside Crash Course and the SciShow launch.

What is said

00:00:00 — Fifth anniversary of John's first video; change for the better; Nerdfighteria, P4A, In Your Pants, Evil Baby Orphanage; Luzon as the orphanage site

  • ★★ John marks five years since he uploaded his first Vlogbrothers video, on January 2, 2007, with a deliberately terrible jump cut. — 00:00:00 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ John says he hates change, but looking back over five years he thinks things have changed for the better; for instance, he now has a kid who can say 'awesome'. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John says five years ago he would never have guessed there would be a Nerdfighteria, a Project for Awesome, In Your Pants jokes or an Evil Baby Orphanage (which still doesn't exist but should). — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, Project for Awesome, in your pants, Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John proposes the perfect site for the Evil Baby Orphanage, once they have a time machine and have collected the evil babies: the island in a lake on an island in a lake on Luzon. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★ John says the Philippine island of Luzon contains a lake which contains an island which contains a lake which contains an island. — 00:00:00

00:00:39 — Change one: say 'twenty twelve'

  • ★★ Change one: John proposes calling the year 'twenty twelve' rather than the 'two thousand' form used for 2007-2009; he admits it isn't important but it saves syllables. (playful) — 00:00:39

00:01:08 — Changes two to four: Your Pants returns, say 'huzzah', two videos a week (Tuesday/Friday) because John is still sick

  • ★★★ Change two: John says the Your Pants forum has been down for several months because of Russian hackers but is coming back this week. (playful) — 00:01:08 · Your Pants
  • ★★ Change three: John thinks they should say 'huzzah' more often, not so much that it becomes a thing, but enough to be a secret thing. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:08
  • ★★★ Change four: in 2012 there will be two Vlogbrothers videos a week, John's on Tuesday and Hank's on Friday; John apologises to viewers. — 00:01:08 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★★ John says the main reason is that he is still sick and his doctors want him to scale back on work, so he is going to try to honour their wishes. (hedged) — 00:01:08

00:01:37 — Second reason (community projects); Crash Course and SciShow launch; Willy interrupts

  • ★★★ John says the other reason is that, in trying to make three videos a week, they let slide the project-based nerdfighter work of increasing awesome and decreasing world suck. — 00:01:37 · Nerdfighteria, world suck
  • ★★★ John says there will be more Vlogbrothers content than ever in 2012 because the brothers will teach biology and world history on their channel Crash Course. — 00:01:37 · Crash Course
  • ★★★ John says Hank is launching SciShow today, a show where he talks about science, and that Hank is very funny. — 00:01:37 · SciShow, Hank Green

00:02:06 — Hank's goatee in SciShow; ask for comments on 2012; sign-off; a child of the brothers upstairs

  • ★ John notes the first SciShow episodes were filmed in November, so Hank has the 'hideous' goatee many viewers liked, and regrets Hank never filmed one with his policeman mustache. (playful) — 00:02:06 · SciShow
  • ★★★ John asks Nerdfighters to say in the comments what they would like to see more of from the brothers, and in the community, in 2012. — 00:02:06 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John acknowledges that change sucks and says he hopes Nerdfighters understand. — 00:02:06 · Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • John finds the perfect location for the Evil Baby Orphanage: Luzon's island in a lake on an island in a lake. — 00:00:39 > «That's the island on which we should put the evil baby orphanage.»
  • Announcing that the Your Pants forum is returning after a hack, John phrases the outage as an 'in your pants' joke. — 00:01:08 > «for the past several months your pants have been down due to Russian hackers»
  • Signing off, John says he's going to go play with 'that guy', pointing upward. — 00:02:06 > «It sounded like I was talking about God, but I was talking about a child of the brothers.»

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