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Hello Baby!!

2010-02-15 · letter vlog · John · 3:43 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Personal life (also: Internet & YouTube) · mode: Personal essay · tags: guest or collab

Back from paternity leave, John introduces his three-week-old son Henry and gives three reasons Henry will appear only a little in the vlogs: public lives get misquoted (Amanda Bynes misquoting Einstein), embarrassing stories, and not every viewer is a nerdfighter.

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 on Monday with baby Henry on camera

00:00:14 — Driving to the dentist; mouth hurts afterwards; who Amanda Bynes is

  • ★ John drives to the dentist; once home, his mouth hurts. — 00:00:14

00:00:46 — Amanda Bynes complains of being misquoted, then misquotes Einstein; misquoting Einstein as the internet's most common sin; public lives get misquoted

  • ★★ John says Amanda Bynes tweeted that she hates being misquoted, then less than 24 hours later tweeted a line attributed to Albert Einstein, which he calls a misquotation. — 00:00:46 · Twitter
  • ★★ John complains, calling it the internet's most common sin, that people keep misattributing quotations to Einstein, who was a physicist, not a quotation-generation machine. (playful) — 00:00:59
  • ★★★ John argues that people who make their lives public will be misquoted, and those who dislike that should make their lives private. — 00:01:25

00:01:31 — Three reasons Henry won't appear much in the vlogs: his choice of privacy, embarrassing baby stories (Mom's photo album, anachronism bit), not every viewer is a nerdfighter (the 'hot videos' message)

  • ★★★ John says Hank won't see a ton of Henry in the coming vlogs, though not none, because he wants Henry to choose whether he has a private life. — 00:01:31 · Henry Green, Vlogbrothers
  • ★★ Reason two: John recalls their mom showing his high-school girlfriends his baby pictures and doesn't want embarrassing stories about Henry reaching a large audience. (playful) — 00:01:43 · Sydney Green, Henry Green
  • ★ John jokes that Hank never had a girlfriend in high school. (joke) — 00:01:48 · Hank Green
  • ★★ Reason three: not everyone watching is a nerdfighter, as a YouTube message asking them to upload 'hot videos like kisses and other' shows; John doesn't want that sender seeing much of Henry. (playful) — 00:02:30 · Nerdfighteria, YouTube, Henry Green

00:03:22 — Henry and Aunt Katherine's quilt; thanks to Hank, Maureen and Nerdfighters; questions about the baby in comments; sign-off

  • ★★ John thanks Maureen for standing in as John Green, and thanks Nerdfighters for everything. — 00:03:26 · Maureen Johnson, Nerdfighteria
  • ★ John invites questions about the baby and says he'll try to answer them in the comments. (hedged) — 00:03:32 · Henry Green

In the description and comments

Humor (significant)

  • John quizzes Hank on the internet's most common sin, offering wrong guesses before 'misquoting Albert Einstein'. — 00:01:04

    “Exposing yourself on chat roulette?”

  • John imitates their mom showing his high-school girlfriends his baby pictures. — 00:01:58

    “Look at his tiny little penis!”

  • Mortified, John calls Mad-Eye Moody for a disillusionment charm; a second John, filmed from another angle, objects to the anachronism. — 00:02:13

    “Harry Potter hadn't been published!”

  • A viewer's message asks the brothers to upload 'hot videos like kisses and other'; John finds the premise funniest. — 00:03:05

    “And he thinks the only way to rectify this problem is to reach out to the Vlogbrothers.”

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Mentioned

Central: Albert Einstein · Amanda Bynes · Henry Green

Also: Chatroulette · Harry Potter (book series) · Katherine Green · Mad-Eye Moody · misinformation · Sydney Green · Twitter · YouTube

Only in the description or credits: Maureen Johnson

Also centred on Albert Einstein: WRONG WRONG WRONG

Also centred on Amanda Bynes: WRONG WRONG WRONG

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