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Google Verb! A Meme.

2009-01-21 · challenge / punishment · Hank · 2:17 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: civic or action cta

Inspired by a meme John posted on his website, Hank plays 'Google Verb', reading the odd search results for 'Hank' plus a verb, and invites viewers and five tagged YouTubers to play it in video replies.

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; same clothes, different hair

  • ★ Hank opens by noting he has a new haircut but is wearing the same clothes as yesterday. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:11 — The video honours John's website meme; Hank misses old Myspace memes and names the game 'Google Verb'

  • ★★ Hank dedicates the video to John, who put the meme up on his website. — 00:00:11 · John Green
  • ★★ Hank says he is a big fan of old Myspace memes, wishes they had not gone away and brings one into Brotherhood 2.0. (hedged) — 00:00:11 · Brotherhood 2.0

  • ★★★ Hank names the meme 'Google Verb': you google your name with a verb and find out what you did. — 00:00:23 · Google Verb, Google

    “You google your name with a verb. And then you find out what you did.”

00:00:31 — Hank reads the Google results for 'Hank' plus each verb

  • ★★ Hank reads results such as 'Hank looks like a pretty princess', which he says really was about him: a video title referring to his 'World Wide Web Girl' video with pigtails. (playful) — 00:00:40
  • ★★ Other results have Hank preparing a body for shipping, watching men pee on Flickr, eating bacon grease, rafting the Zambezi and robbing a Greek bank; he insists he isn't making them up. (playful) — 00:01:07
  • ★ The last result is 'Hank loves Smosh'; despite the misspelling, Hank says he does still love Smosh. — 00:01:41

00:01:47 — Invitation to play the meme in video replies; Hank tags five YouTubers; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to play the Google Verb meme too, with the questions in the sidebar, and post their videos as replies to his. — 00:01:47 · Google Verb, Google
  • ★★ Hank tags five YouTubers to do the meme because he thinks it would be funny: Nerimon, Dr. Noise, Sistersalad, Short sisters and pilocrates. — 00:02:02

Humor (dominant)

  • The 'Hank looks like' search result. — 00:00:40

    “Hank looks like a pretty princess.”

  • After the bacon-grease result, Hank insists he is not making these up. — 00:01:02

    “I hope Hank is not a person. I hope Hank is a dog.”

  • The 'Hank likes' search result. — 00:01:14

    “Hank likes to watch men pee on Flickr.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Google Verb

Also: People: Alex Day · Bill Martin · Stefan Chin

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0

Works: song (ToyBox, 'World Wide Web girl')

Organizations: Google · Myspace

Groups: Short sisters · Sistersalad · Smosh

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