Hank in FAMY

2009-11-22 · challenge / punishment · John · 2:53 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Sports) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: punishment or challenge, community lore, timely hook, civic or action cta

John declares Hank's four-minute-two-second video a rule breach worth punishing, using Thierry Henry's handball in France's World Cup qualifier to argue that rules must be enforced even when people think breaking them only counts if caught; he asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Fake opener about a Marxist revolution in Benin ('Are the new viewers gone yet?'); today is a day that will live in 'fummy'

★ John opens by pretending the video is about a Marxist revolution in Benin, asks 'Are the new viewers gone yet?', then admits he made it up. (joke) — 00:00:00
★★ John declares November 22nd a day that will live in 'fummy' (famy), which he explains as the opposite of infamy. (playful) — 00:00:00 · famy

00:00:29 — Nerdfighteria has waited to punish Hank, who keeps the rules; his seven-minute Severed Hands of Star Wars upload and last week's 4:02 video with its 'subscription screen' excuse

★★★ John says Nerdfighteria has long wanted to punish Hank, but Hank keeps the rules: a video every Wednesday, a song every other Wednesday, never more than four minutes. (playful) — 00:00:29 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment, Song Wednesday, Four-minute rule, Hank Green
★★ John says that when Hank does break the rules, as when he briefly uploaded a seven-minute version of his Severed Hands of Star Wars video, he argues he broke the letter but not the spirit of the law. (playful) — 00:00:59 · Hank Green, Four-minute rule
★★★ After Hank posted a video of four minutes and two seconds last week (week of 9 November 2009), he called John saying the overrun was only the subscription screen and that he is on tour. (playful) — 00:00:59 · Hank Green, Four-minute rule, Tour de Hank

00:01:28 — Thierry Henry's handball sends France to the World Cup; people think breaking rules doesn't count until caught; so Hank is getting punished

★★★ John recounts that in a closely fought match Thierry Henry handled the ball and passed to a teammate who scored, so France went to the World Cup by cheating. — 00:01:28
★★ John says that is what happens in a world without enforced rules; he may have to live with it in real life but will not stand for it in Nerdfighteria, and is still mad about the handball. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:28 · Nerdfighteria
★★★ John argues that people, in sports and in life, tend to think breaking the rules isn't really breaking them unless and until they get caught. — 00:01:57
★★★ John announces that Hank is getting punished, and says he doesn't mind his own punishment since Hank is being punished too. (playful) — 00:01:57 · Hank Green, Punishment

00:02:27 — Asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in comments and to thumbs-up the best; sign-off and beard coda

★★★ John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in comments and to read through them and thumbs-up the ones they like most. — 00:02:27 · Nerdfighteria, Punishment
★ In a coda John says his beard has become very beardy but still cannot grow over one area. (playful) — 00:02:27

In the description and comments

★★ John credits the infamy/famy idea to E. Lockhart's novel The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks, which he calls brilliant. — video description · famy

Humor (significant)

Announcing Hank's punishment day, John inverts 'a day that will live in infamy'. — 00:00:00

“is a day that will live in fummy.”
John opens with a grave news topic, the Marxist revolution in Benin, to see if new viewers leave. — 00:00:00

“partly because I made it up.”
John complains that Hank reliably keeps every rule of the vlog. — 00:00:29

“They're never more than four minutes long. It's incredibly annoying!”

Threads in this video

first use · John's 'famy' (opposite of infamy) bit (2009) — John introduces 'famy' (heard 'fummy'), the opposite of infamy, declaring Hank's punishment day one that will live in famy. (00:00:00)
set · Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) — Citing Hank's four-minute-two-second video last week (week of 9 November 2009) as a breach of the four-minute rule, John declares that Hank is getting punished. (00:01:57) → refers to Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!)
asked · John asks Nerdfighters to suggest and vote on Hank's punishment (2009) — John asks Nerdfighters to leave punishment ideas for Hank in comments and to thumbs-up the ones they like most. (00:02:27)
update · John grows a Movember beard for prostate cancer research (2009) — In a coda John says his beard has become very beardy but still cannot grow over one area. (00:02:27)
callback · Severed hands in Star Wars: Hank's count of 13, revisited in John's 'Zero Severed Hands' (2016) — John says that when Hank does break the rules, as when he briefly uploaded a seven-minute version of his Severed Hands of Star Wars video, he argues he broke the letter but not the spirit of the law. (00:00:59)

Where the stories that moved here went next

John asks Nerdfighters to suggest and vote on Hank's punishment (2009) — reported back; last: result reported, 2009-12-01
Hank: 15 hours in the Missoula Target for his 4:02 video (2009) — performed; last: looked back on, 2014-07-18
John grows a Movember beard for prostate cancer research (2009) — told 2×, last update 2014; last: retold, 2014-11-12

Mentioned

Central: Four-minute rule · Thierry Henry

Also: Benin · famy · FIFA World Cup · France · Punishment · Song Wednesday · Tour de Hank

Only in the description or credits: E. Lockhart · Ireland · The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks · Ze Frank

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