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May 21st: Comment Bashing, Anniversaries and EBO Ladies

2007-05-21 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life, Internet & YouTube, Projects, Books & writing) · mode: Curiosity & trivia · tags: community lore, self promotion

Hank shares news (Katherine back at work, John's first wedding anniversary), laughs off mean Gizmodo comments on his EcoGeek video, announces EcoGeek content on Yahoo's new green site, and argues the Evil Baby Orphanage needs secrecy and female evil babies.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Greeting and news: Katherine back at work; John married a year; Hank's EcoGeek video on a NASA flapping-bird plane picked up by Digg and Gizmodo; the comments

  • ★★ Hank says Katherine is back at work for the first time in a long time, leaving him alone in the house all day. — 00:00:10 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank notes John has been married for an entire year and says there will be more on that tomorrow. — 00:00:10 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank made a deliberately silly EcoGeek video about a NASA project he calls a flapping bird plane; Digg and then Gizmodo picked it up. — 00:00:10 · EcoGeek

00:00:57 — Reading mean Gizmodo comments ('you are not Ze Frank', talons, killing)

  • ★★★ Hank reads mean Gizmodo comments on his video ('Annoying: 11 of 10', 'you are not Ze Frank', wishes he be attacked by taloned bird planes or killed) and asks why they are so mean. (playful) — 00:00:57

00:01:36 — 'They're jealous'; EcoGeek content featured on Yahoo's new green.yahoo.com after a secret deal

  • ★ Hank jokes that the commenters are jealous of his face on Gizmodo and not yet ready for his craft. (joke) — 00:01:36
  • ★★★ Hank announces that Yahoo's new site green.yahoo.com features EcoGeek content alongside NRDC, Amory Lovins, TreeHugger and Worldchanging. — 00:01:36 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ Hank says the Yahoo deal took a long time and was secret, so he couldn't tell John; it worked out and Yahoo now sends EcoGeek lots of traffic. — 00:01:36 · EcoGeek

00:02:20 — Evil Baby Orphanage: keep the proposal secret despite no text communication; too few evil baby girls; need female leads and love interests; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank worries about discussing the Evil Baby Orphanage proposal publicly: for him the biggest thrill of a book, movie or TV show is secrets assembled slowly. (hedged) — 00:02:20 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ Hank says the no-text-communication rule makes keeping the proposal secret harder, but he thinks they can, though he doesn't know how. (hedged) — 00:02:49 · No textual communication
  • ★★★ Hank's issue with the Evil Baby Orphanage idea: there aren't very many evil baby girls. (playful) — 00:02:49 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★ Hank floats a gay evil baby orphanage, claiming many evil people in history were repressed homosexuals, but says he doesn't want to go there. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:17 · Evil Baby Orphanage
  • ★★★ Hank wants female characters and leads in the Evil Baby Orphanage and says the brothers must work out where evil female babies and the love interests come from. (hedged) — 00:03:17 · Evil Baby Orphanage, John Green

Humor (significant)

  • Hank reads comments wishing him killed by taloned bird planes and asks what he ever did to them. — 00:00:57

    “I'm going to have some chocolate or something.”

  • After reading mean Gizmodo comments, Hank decides the commenters must be jealous of him. — 00:01:36

    “They're jealous and they don't understand my craft. They're not ready for me yet.”

  • Hank raises a plot problem with the Evil Baby Orphanage. — 00:02:49

    “There aren't very many evil baby girls. Uh-oh.”

  • Hank lists what he wants in the Evil Baby Orphanage: female characters, female leads. — 00:03:17

    “I want there to be hot chicks.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: EcoGeek · Evil Baby Orphanage · Gizmodo · online disinhibition effect · Yahoo!

Also: People: Amory Lovins · Katherine Green · Ze Frank

Organizations: Digg · NASA · Natural Resources Defense Council · TreeHugger · Worldchanging

Rituals: No textual communication

Also centred on Evil Baby Orphanage: Brotherhood 2.0: June 8: Studying the Clues · The EVIL BABY ORPHANAGE Returns for North Korea · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? · I Don't Have a Favorite Pony

Also centred on online disinhibition effect: Comment Haters and Christmas · Watermelon Internet Trolls

Also centred on Yahoo!: March 14: Becoming a NerdFighter

Later videos replying to this one

Part of an exchange of 5 videos, 2007-05-21 – 2007-05-30.