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Is bronchitis contagious? Is black a color?

2011-01-04 · John · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · comedy performance

Lower-confidence wave

2011 videos did not pass the QA gate (17 %); their analysis is shown but less reliable.

On the vlogbrothers' four-year YouTube anniversary John answers Google autocomplete's 'is b…' questions, mocking celebrity-gossip queries, and announces 2011 plans: Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos, more question videos and Thoughts from Places, and a Question Tuesday on Friday.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting, date (Monday, January 3, 2011) and happy four-year YouTube anniversary; John dressed up

  • ★★ John wishes Hank a happy four-year YouTube anniversary and says he dressed up because it is their special day. — 00:00:00 · YouTube, Vlogbrothers

00:00:06 — Answering Google autocomplete's 'is b' questions: BearShare, Bob Harper, Bam Margera, Beyoncé, Brett Favre, Beezid, bronchitis, Bleach, and whether black is a color

  • ★★ John sets out to answer some of Google autocomplete's common questions beginning with 'is b' (he calls it auto-correct). (playful) — 00:00:06 · Google
  • ★★ John answers a run of autocomplete questions: BearShare is not safe; Bam Margera is technically still married; Beyoncé is not pregnant; Brett Favre is married; Beezid is a rip-off, not a scam; bronchitis is contagious; Bleach is not over. (playful) — 00:00:09
  • ★★ Answering 'Is Bob Harper gay?' (a man on The Biggest Loser), John asks Google whether we'd have a unified theory if we thought as much about quantum physics as about celebrities' sexuality; he thinks so. (playful) — 00:00:13 · Google
  • ★★★ John calls 'is black a color?' the one interesting question: functionally yes, since mixing the primary colors gives near-black, but technically blackness is the absence of light and achromatic. — 00:00:46

00:00:58 — 'Is benj': Natalie Portman's fiancé, Benjamin Button, a headdesk, and whether Benjamin Franklin is a president

  • ★★ Answering 'is Benjamin Franklin a president?', John notes the question's odd grammar and says Franklin was never US president and has died, aged 84, 221 years ago. (playful) — 00:01:13

00:01:51 — 'Is bieb': the a private person autocompletes and what Google thinks we want to know in 2011

  • ★★ After the 'is Bieber' autocompletes (gay, in jail, a girl, really 51, dead, going to North Korea…), John says the answer to all is either no or 'ahhh', and that in 2007 they did not imagine a world where Google thinks we want to know such things. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:51 · Google

00:02:24 — 2011 plans: Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos, more question videos, Thoughts from Places and info-tational videos; Question Tuesday on Friday; mixed-up sign-off

  • ★★★ Thanking Nerdfighters for sticking with them, John says the vlogbrothers will continue Monday-Wednesday-Friday videos in 2011 and, having heard viewers, will make more question videos, Thoughts from Places and 'info-tational' videos. — 00:02:24 · Nerdfighteria, Vlogbrothers, Thoughts from Places
  • ★★ John will do a Question Tuesday video this Friday, asks for questions in the comments, and will answer as many as he can in four minutes. — 00:02:37 · Question Tuesday
  • ★ John signs off to Friday, corrects himself to Wednesday, and jokes that his mental calendar won't improve after four years. (playful) — 00:02:45

Humor (significant)

  • Reaching the autocomplete 'is Benjamin Button real?', John says he has to make a quick journey over to his desk. — 00:01:08 > «Ah headdesk!»
  • John treats 'is Benjamin Franklin a president?' as a question from people who don't know Franklin is dead. — 00:01:39 > «American hero, patriot, non-president, has died»
  • John combines every 'is Bieber' autocomplete into one description of what Google thinks we want to know. — 00:02:12 > «deceased, imprisoned, fifty-one-year-old, gay, bisexual, female, german basketball»

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