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Twitter Games and Truth or Fail

2009-08-04 · letter vlog · Hank · 3:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Internet & YouTube, Personal life, Science & nature) · mode: Curiosity & trivia · tags: recurring series, timely hook, civic or action cta, self promotion, community lore

Hank, back home but still on his old camcorder, launches a personal Twitter and asks followers to tweet ridiculous sentences (#HankVideo) that he promises to say in a video, then starts a Shark Week edition of Truth or Fail.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Part one: back in his house; camcorder still broken, filming on the old one

  • ★★ Hank is back in his house, with much still to put away; his expensive camcorder still isn't working, so he films on the old one. — 00:00:00

00:00:23 — Part two: Hank's new personal Twitter and the #HankVideo project (tweet sentences for Hank to say in a video)

  • ★★★ Hank says he has been reluctant to adopt Twitter (the EcoGeek Twitter mostly carries EcoGeek stories) but has now started a personal Hank Green Twitter. — 00:00:23 · Twitter, EcoGeek
  • ★ Hank says he isn't sure how Twitter works yet; John told him he needs work on his 'Twittikit' (Twitter etiquette). (playful) — 00:00:53 · Twitiquette, Twitter
  • ★★ Hank will use the account for normal Twitter things, such as announcing BlogTV shows and tweeting uninteresting things, which he will try to say in interesting ways. — 00:00:53 · Twitter
  • ★ Hank says Twitter is, as he gathers, for saying things in 140 characters or less. (hedged) — 00:00:53 · Twitter
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to pause the video and follow him on Twitter. — 00:00:53 · Twitter
  • ★★★ Hank asks everyone on Twitter to send, with the hashtag HankVideo, one sentence, as ridiculous as possible, that they want to see him say in a video. — 00:01:22 · Twitter
  • ★★★ Hank promises that if people do this, he will say their sentence in a video. — 00:01:22
  • ★★ Hank hopes to fit all the sentences in, maybe not given his four minutes, and muses about working them into a song 'written by Twitter'. (hedged) — 00:01:22 · Four-minute rule, Twitter

00:01:51 — Part three: Shark Week and the Shark Week edition of Truth or Fail (whale shark vs tiger shark)

  • ★★ Hank describes Shark Week as Discovery Channel packing all its shark footage into one week to scare viewers who cannot stop watching. (playful) — 00:01:51
  • ★★ Following Shark Week, Hank presents a Shark Week edition of Truth or Fail. — 00:01:51
  • ★ In the Truth or Fail intro, Hank says a friend of his was once attacked by a small shark and has a great scar. — 00:02:25
  • ★★ Hank says Discovery Channel exploits our deepest fears in the name of conservation and selling airtime, but sharks are unquestionably awesome creatures. (playful) — 00:02:25
  • ★★ Truth or Fail candidate fact one (one of the two is false): the whale shark is the biggest fish that has ever existed. (playful, unsure) — 00:02:55
  • ★★ Truth or Fail candidate fact two: tiger sharks eat almost anything, including humans; one was found with chickens, still in their coop, in its stomach. (playful, unsure) — 00:02:55

Humor (significant)

  • Hank waxes nostalgic about the little buttons of his old camcorder. — 00:00:00

    “It's like eating a corn dog.”

  • Hank starts reading the whale-shark fact and is startled mid-sentence. — 00:02:55

    “I thought that was a real shark for a second. What's the deal with that? Jesus.”

  • A tiger shark was found with chickens in its stomach, which Hank says is not the strange part. — 00:02:55

    “The strange part is that they were still in their chicken coop.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: shark · Shark Week · Truth or Fail · Twitter

Also: BlogTV · Discovery Channel · EcoGeek · Four-minute rule · tiger shark · Twitiquette (“Twittikit”) · whale shark

Also centred on shark: The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks

Also centred on Truth or Fail: Truth or Fail! START HERE · TRUTH OR FAIL!!! (START HERE) (re-try...with more info) · TRUTH OR FAIL!!! Episode 2 (New and Improved) · Truth or Fail with John! Famous Authors Edition · Truth or Fail: John Green Books · Truth or Fail: DRUGS!

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