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People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes (The Song)

2008-02-27 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, community lore

Hank sings a comic song thanking 'people who love giraffes who love giraffes', since his most successful video did well because viewers expected giraffe sex; he closes by plugging the blurb vote and a new forum.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Why Hank wrote a song about his giraffe-sex video's success

  • ★★★ Hank says his one spectacularly successful video did well because people thought it would show giraffe sex, so he wrote a song about it. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:31 — Song: 'People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes' (animal romance)

  • ★★ Hank sings that about ten months ago he made a video showing a picture 'of an intimate nature' and only realised its draw a hundred thousand views later. (playful) — 00:00:31

  • ★★★ The refrain asks where the Vlogbrothers, and America, would be without people who love giraffes who love giraffes. (playful) — 00:01:00 · Vlogbrothers, United States

    “Where would the Vlogbrothers be without people who love giraffes, who love giraffes?”

  • ★★ The song says love is beautiful across animals but can be 'pretty screwed up' (a duck, a dachshund with a cat, bunnies with chickens), which Hank isn't down with. (playful) — 00:01:28

00:02:58 — Frightening Google searches for the song; haircut quip to John

  • ★★ Hank says he has never done so many frightening Google searches; SafeSearch is pretty good, but technically clean results can still be things you don't want to see. (playful) — 00:02:58 · Google
  • ★ Hank quips to John that at haircuts the stylist offers to just take a guess, when you want to see what they're doing. (playful) — 00:02:58

00:03:29 — Haircut punchline; Slaughterhouse-Five, post blurbs for a vote, new forum

  • ★★ Hank tells John he is excited about reading Slaughterhouse-Five again. — 00:03:29
  • ★★ Hank asks everyone to post their blurbs at nerdfighters.com and says there will be a vote next week (week of 3 March 2008). — 00:03:29 · nerdfighters.com
  • ★★ Besides nerdfighters.com news there is now a forum; Hank tells viewers to go 'foruming' and says he and John will be on there. — 00:03:29 · nerdfighters.com

Humor (dominant)

  • After a lyric list of loving animals (and onion rings) and 'even people too', Hank reassures viewers. — 00:01:28

    “You didn't think that I was gonna show porn, did you?”

  • Hank sings that love can be pretty screwed up. — 00:01:28

    “Like that homosexual necrophiliac duck”

  • Hank describes how he searched for the song's pictures. — 00:02:58

    “Type in search term, click, close eyes, peek through, close eyes, close eyes, back, back, back, back, back.”

  • Hank complains about haircut places where the stylist just takes a guess. — 00:03:29

    “Fantastic Sam, my ass!”

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Mentioned

Central: giraffe

Also: Blurbing Book Club · Fantastic Sams · Google · nerdfighters.com · Slaughterhouse-Five · United States

Also centred on giraffe: Giraffe Love and Other Questions ANSWERED · Giraffe Sex: A Terrifying Introduction to Nature at Work (and Play) · How Giraffes Mate, and Why It Matters · Giraffes are Way More Complicated Than We Thought

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