December 3rd: 10,000 Subscribers! and secret project
2007-12-03 · announcement · Hank · 3:37 · watch on YouTube
Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Announcements · tags: community lore, civic or action cta
Hank celebrates Brotherhood 2.0 passing 10,000 YouTube subscribers and says the Nerdfighter project he announced last week must be secret: viewers should join an email list at Brotherhood2.com, and taking part will need a YouTube account for a joint effort to decrease world suck.
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; guitar and new song; a misprinted business card; the 10,000th subscriber
- ★ Hank shows his guitar, says he has been playing his new song, and holds up one of the misprinted business cards he still hasn't figured out what to do with. — 00:00:10
- ★★★ Hank announces Brotherhood 2.0 has passed its 10,000th subscriber; it actually has 10,022. — 00:00:10 · Brotherhood 2.0
- ★ Hank introduces the 10,000th subscriber, a 21-year-old with skydiving on his mind, and invites viewers to thank him on his Myspace page. (playful) — 00:00:10
00:00:59 — Thanks to all 10,000 subscribers; mock favor: 22 people please unsubscribe
- ★★ Hank thanks everyone, all 10,000 people, who has subscribed to Brotherhood 2.0 videos. — 00:00:59 · Brotherhood 2.0
- ★ As a mock favor, Hank asks 22 subscribers to unsubscribe for an even 10,000, or else '9,988 of you, 78' more people to subscribe for an even 20,000. (joke) — 00:00:59
00:01:28 — Or 9,978 more subscribe for 20,000; fan-art screenshot; the real favor about last week's project
00:01:57 — The project must be secret: sign up for the secret project email list at Brotherhood2.com; data promise
- ★★★ Hank says the all-time greatest Nerdfighter project he told viewers about last week (week of 26 November 2007) will have to be secret, since people not taking part must not know about it yet; it has to be a surprise. — 00:01:57 · Nerdfighteria
- ★★★ Hank asks viewers to go to Brotherhood2.com or click the sidebar link and sign up for the secret project email list. — 00:01:57 · Brotherhood 2.0
- ★★ Hank promises that sign-up information will be used only for Brotherhood 2.0 and nerdfighting purposes and not shared with anyone. — 00:01:57 · Brotherhood 2.0
00:02:27 — Go sign up; a YouTube account is required; apology to non-YouTubers
- ★★★ Hank says taking part in the secret project will require a YouTube account, and apologises to non-YouTubers because the project is somewhat YouTube-centric. — 00:02:27 · YouTube
00:02:56 — The audience became YouTube-centric; the project will be awesome and decrease world suck; non-YouTubers will be included
- ★★ Hank says he feels bad about this because the brothers started with a very non-YouTube-centric audience and now have a more YouTube-centric one. — 00:02:56 · YouTube
- ★★★ Hank promises the secret project will be extremely awesome, on YouTube, and a combined effort of many Nerdfighters to decrease world suck. — 00:02:56 · world suck, Nerdfighteria, YouTube
- ★★ Hank says now is a good time to sign up for YouTube, and that a way will be found to involve non-YouTube Nerdfighters who want to take part. — 00:02:56 · YouTube, Nerdfighteria
00:03:25 — Today's scavenger hunt clue is online only and relates to the secret project
- ★★ Hank says today's scavenger hunt clue is online only and has something to do with the secret project. — 00:03:25
Threads in this video
- milestone · Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters — Hank announces Brotherhood 2.0 has reached its 10,000th subscriber (actually 10,022). (00:00:10)
- rule change · Project for Awesome 2007 edition: the final Brotherhood 2.0 project (2007) — Hank says the final Nerdfighter project announced last week (week of 26 November 2007) will be secret, revealed only through an email list, will need a YouTube account, and will be an effort to decrease world suck. (00:01:57) → refers to November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project
- asked · Hank asks Nerdfighters to sign up for the secret project email list at Brotherhood2.com (2007) — Hank asks viewers to go to Brotherhood2.com and sign up for the secret project email list. (00:01:57)
- promised · Hank: use secret-project email sign-ups only for Brotherhood 2.0 and never share them (2007) — Hank promises the secret-project sign-up information will be used only for Brotherhood 2.0 and nerdfighting purposes and not shared with anyone. (00:01:57)
- milestone · Brotherhood 2.0 scavenger hunt (2007) — Hank gives a new scavenger hunt clue, online only and tied to the secret project. (00:03:25)
Where the stories that moved here went next
- Hank asks Nerdfighters to sign up for the secret project email list at Brotherhood2.com (2007) — the project it belongs to reported its result; last: reminder, 2007-12-11
- Hank: use secret-project email sign-ups only for Brotherhood 2.0 and never share them (2007) — standing commitment (last affirmed 2007); last: promised, 2007-12-03
- Project for Awesome 2007 edition: the final Brotherhood 2.0 project (2007) — completed; last: looked back, 2026-02-15
- Brotherhood 2.0: the 2007 year of daily video letters — completed; last: looked back, 2026-09-30
- Brotherhood 2.0 scavenger hunt (2007) — last documented in 2007; last: looked back, 2007-12-28
Mentioned
Central: Brotherhood 2.0
Also: Myspace · Nerdfighter Scavenger Hunt · world suck · YouTube
Replies to
- continues · November 29th: sXePhil, Leaky Brains and a Secret Project — “I told you, last week, about the all-time awesome-est nerdfighter.”
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