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Brotherhood 2.0: May 14: The Evil Baby Orphanage

2007-05-14 · letter vlog · John · 3:11 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Internet & YouTube) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore, civic or action cta

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

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

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
  • ★★ 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
  • ★★ John says he tends to side with the camp that would kill baby Hitler. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:40
  • ★★★ 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

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.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: An Abundance of Katherines · Wikipedia

Also: Adolf Hitler · Baltimore · Brotherhood 2.0 · Evil Baby Orphanage · lonelygirl15 · Looking for Alaska (novel) · time travel

Only in the description or credits: Brooke

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