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Comment Haters and Christmas

2008-12-30 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Internet & YouTube · personal update

Hank says front-page exposure brought hateful comments, which Nerdfighters now answer, often with Shakespearean insults; he recaps Christmas, explains the delayed So Jokes shipping and asks for volunteers for a project.

What is said

00:00:00 — Front-page hate comments; what a Nerdfighter is; Nerdfighters answer haters with Shakespearean insults; many haters are the same few people

  • ★★ Hank says that after being featured on YouTube's front page he started getting hateful comments, such as one asking if he is 'some kind of gay nerd homo sapiens activist'. — 00:00:00 · YouTube
  • ★★ Hank accepts the label: if the commenter calls being a gay nerd homo sapiens activist a bad thing, then he'll be one. (playful) — 00:00:00 > «If you want to call that a bad thing, then I'll be one.»
  • ★★ Hank says that when he and John started on YouTube probably 50% of their comments were negative; now the Nerdfighters generally say kind, supportive things. (hedged) — 00:00:00 · John Green, YouTube, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★★ Hank explains Nerdfighters: people who watch John, Hank and other Nerdfighter programming, made of awesome inside, fighting for nerds' rights, intellectualism and accepting people. — 00:00:00 · Nerdfighteria, nerdfighter, made of awesome > «instead of being made of bones and organs and stuff, on the inside are actually made of awesome.»
  • ★★★ Hank says front-page exposure brings many non-Nerdfighters and reminds him how hateful YouTube can be; the difference now is that Nerdfighters pounce on the haters. — 00:00:53 · YouTube, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says Nerdfighters are good at insulting people and often invoke Shakespeare, reading one commenter's Shakespearean reply to an offensive comment. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:53 · Nerdfighteria, William Shakespeare
  • ★★★ Hank says he is a big fan of answering haters' comments with Shakespearean insults, and sees it as proof of a great well of awesome in the world just being uncapped. (hedged) — 00:01:22 · William Shakespeare
  • ★★ Hank says many haters seem to be the same person commenting again and again, which makes him feel better about YouTube: a few evil people, not tens of thousands. (playful) (hedged) — 00:01:22 · YouTube

00:01:51 — End of the haters bit ('Zac Efron for life'); Christmas: John's personal trainer, Hank's weight, Hank's gift

  • ★★ Hank says he heard John had a pretty good Christmas and received, among other things, a personal trainer. — 00:01:51 · John Green, Christmas
  • ★ Hank says he weighs about 15 pounds more than he used to, so he may go down that road eventually too. (hedged) — 00:01:51

00:02:21 — Christmas gifts (Rock Band, ukulele for Katherine, thanks for the llama butts); housekeeping: So Jokes shipping delay, volunteers for an environmental-technology / social-news project, a coming 2009 plans video

  • ★★ Hank says he received Rock Band for Christmas; it has been fun but hard, and his wrists hurt. — 00:02:21
  • ★★ Hank says he gave Katherine a ukulele and hopes viewers will see a Hank and Katherine duet in the future. (hedged) — 00:02:21 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank thanks John for 'all of my llama butts', saying he can hardly imagine life before them. (playful) — 00:02:21 · John Green
  • ★★★ Hank says So Jokes orders are delayed: shipping large quantities at once needs a special device and license, which they are acquiring; he has no estimated date and apologizes. — 00:02:21 · So Jokes
  • ★★ Hank says orders were received and several hundred copies of So Jokes are about to be sent; people who haven't ordered can do so at DFTBA.com. — 00:02:58 · So Jokes, DFTBA Records
  • ★★★ Hank asks for people interested in environmental technology and people active in social news sites like Reddit and StumbleUpon to email him about a project he and a friend are working on. — 00:02:58 · Reddit
  • ★★ Hank says he will see John soon in a video discussing the future of nerdfighting on YouTube for 2009, with amazing plans. — 00:03:27 · John Green, nerdfighter, YouTube

Humor (significant)

  • Hank accepts a hater's label 'gay nerd homo sapiens activist'. — 00:00:00 > «My wife might get a little bit angry about the gay part, but everything else, I'm sure she will be 100% in favor of.»
  • Hank finds comfort that many haters are the same person commenting over and over. — 00:01:22 > «at least it's not tens of thousands of evil people, it's just, you know, ten evil people commenting thousands of times each.»
  • Hank muses about a mean commenter named 'Zac Efron for life' and realises the commenter is probably a girl. — 00:01:51 > «maybe Zac Efron for life is a girl hater.»
  • Hank thanks John for his Christmas present of llama butts. — 00:02:21 > «I'm having a hard time imagining my life before I had those llama butts. How did I live?»

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