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INTERNET SENSATION B$%CH

2008-08-21 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

Hank plays a Chicago CBS 2 news report about the brothers' 8/8/08 library event and Nerdfighters, mocking its 'internet sensation' framing and correcting that they stopped all textual communication, not just texting.

What is said

00:00:00 — Hank riffs on being called an 'internet sensation', his blue-construction-paper blue screen and his dislike of local news

  • ★★ Hank says he is not a big fan of local news and would like more people to watch this video on YouTube than the TV report, to prove they're better. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:00 · YouTube

00:00:46 — CBS 2 report by Susan Carlson with Hank's commentary: textual communication vs texting, 13.5 million viewers, John on the community's message, the Chicago library crowd, the non-existent prize, air quotes, JT, fans and a parent on Nerdfighters

  • ★ Hank says he enjoyed the report, which turns out to be mostly about John, but it has several factual inconsistencies he wants to comment on. — 00:00:46 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank corrects the report: the brothers did not merely stop texting a year earlier; they gave up all textual communication, which is different. — 00:01:20 · No textual communication, Brotherhood 2.0 > «Textual communication is different from texting, Susan.»
  • ★★ The report says the brothers' public video communication became a YouTube sensation with 13.5 million viewers to date. — 00:01:43 · YouTube
  • ★★★ John, interviewed in the report, says the brothers are trying to bring people who feel like outsiders into a place where they feel like insiders. (hedged) — 00:01:43 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ The report says John was already a successful teen author whose fame skyrocketed through the internet, and that he was back in Chicago, where he once lived, promoting his books at the library. — 00:02:08 · John Green, Chicago
  • ★★ The report says about 400 young adults came to the library event, some waiting over two hours to meet the brothers. — 00:02:08
  • ★★ Hank awards today's non-existent Nerdfighter prize to fans seen in the report, identified only as 'Mrs. Pink Hair and DFTBA Trucker Cap' (one or two people, unclear). (playful) — 00:02:08
  • ★★ A fan in the report says the appeal is having somebody with so much in common with them, like valuing reading and education and thinking that's cool. — 00:02:58 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★ A parent in the report says the brothers send a strong message about young people in America growing up as individuals. — 00:02:58

00:03:27 — Report's close: the vlogs will continue 'as long as people will watch'; Hank's jab at John; WWTF News sign-off

  • ★★ The report says that after a year of video-only messages the brothers communicate in other ways again, but the vlogs will continue. — 00:03:27 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ John says in the report they will keep making the videos for as long as people will watch them. (hedged) — 00:03:27 · Vlogbrothers
  • ★ Hank jokes that he and John never discussed continuing the vlogs before John announced it to the world. (playful) — 00:03:27

Humor (significant)

  • Hank mocks the report's 'internet sensation' label by pointing to his makeshift blue screen. — 00:00:00 > «I'm enough of an internet sensation that I've just taped several pieces of blue construction paper behind me»
  • Hank reads the news report's description of the brothers as an internet sensation. — 00:00:00 > «Internet sensation, b****! It says so right there!»
  • Hank addresses the reporter about how she pronounced 'Nerdfighters'. — 00:02:08 > «really the Velociraptor air quotes were not necessary»
  • The report says Nerdfighters aren't obsessed with Britney Spears or Justin Timberlake. — 00:02:58 > «Just to be clear, that is not entirely true. I kind of have a JT thing.»

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