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Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage

2007-05-14 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

John reports that Hank's baby-Hitler question split the commenters until a commenter proposed the Evil Baby Orphanage, which John loves; then, after finding a fictional plot summary of An Abundance of Katherines and no entry for Hank on Wikipedia, he pledges with the Nerdfighters to make Hank one.

What is said

00:00:00 — Baltimore librarians; Hank's Friday video sparks a comment debate on killing baby Hitler; two camps; commenter Brooke's Evil Baby Orphanage

  • ★ John shows Hank something 'the librarians in Baltimore' did (visible only on screen). — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John says Hank's Friday video sparked an intense debate on Brotherhood2.com over whether Nerdfighters should build a time machine and kill baby Hitler. — 00:00:00 · Brotherhood 2.0, Nerdfighteria, Adolf Hitler
  • ★★ John says commenters fall into two camps: baby Hitler is just a baby who has not done evil yet, versus 'we need to go back in time and kill baby Hitler'. — 00:00:00 · Adolf Hitler
  • ★★ John says he tends to side with the camp that would kill baby Hitler. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:40 · Adolf Hitler
  • ★★★ A commenter, Brooke, proposed the 'evil baby orphanage': go back in time, take evil babies from their bad homes and raise them as heroic nerdfighter babies; John loves it. (playful) — 00:00:40 · Evil Baby Orphanage, Nerdfighteria

00:01:12 — What the orphanage would do; asks for ideas; begins reading a deleted Wikipedia summary of An Abundance of Katherines

  • ★★ John says something has to be done with the evil baby orphanage idea but he doesn't know what, and hopes Hank or someone else has ideas. (hedged) — 00:01:12 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ John reads a deleted, entirely fictional plot summary from the Wikipedia entry for An Abundance of Katherines, about a young actor, and says it is not the book he wrote. — 00:01:12 · Wikipedia, An Abundance of Katherines

00:01:41 — The fictional plot summary; little about the brothers on Wikipedia, no entry for Hank; John and the Nerdfighters will make one

  • ★★ John says Wikipedia has little on either brother; the LonelyGirl15 wiki's entry about him is in many ways more informative than his Wikipedia entry. — 00:02:10 · Wikipedia
  • ★★ John says there is no Wikipedia entry at all about Hank Green and calls that unacceptable. — 00:02:10 · Wikipedia, Hank Green
  • ★★★ John says that with the Nerdfighters' help he will make Hank a Wikipedia entry, because he has earned it. (playful) — 00:02:10 · Wikipedia, Nerdfighteria, Hank Green

00:02:47 — Improve the entries for John and his books; sign-off; P.S. more than $300 raised for Randy's family

  • ★★ John hopes people will also improve the Wikipedia entries for him, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines. (hedged) — 00:02:47 · Wikipedia, Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines
  • ★★★ In a P.S. John says more than $300 was raised in the last week for the family of a viewer's friend who died, and donations continue all week. — 00:02:47

Humor (significant)

  • The pro- and anti-baby-Hitler-killing camps seemed unable to reconcile. — 00:00:40 > «a split among the nerdfighters that could possibly lead to a nerdfighter civil war»
  • John reads a fake Wikipedia plot for his novel about an actor experimenting with homosexuality. — 00:01:41 > «that sounds like a fairly good book, but it doesn't sound like the book I wrote.»
  • John is outraged that Wikipedia has no entry on Hank. — 00:02:10 > «Wikipedia has never even tried to fathom the inky blue depths of Hank Green's genius.»
  • John justifies the Nerdfighters writing Hank's Wikipedia entry. — 00:02:47 > «It's about brothers creating Wikipedia entries for brothers.»

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