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Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS

2010-07-14 · list · John, Hank · 3:49 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Internet & YouTube (also: Nerdfighteria, Projects) · mode: Personal update · tags: song or performance, guest or collab, community lore

Back from the first VidCon, John counts down his ten favourite moments, from Ze Frank's keynote and the Nerdfighter mass hug to Hank singing about particle physics; Hank cuts in to celebrate the Vlogbrothers entering YouTube's top 100 most-subscribed channels.

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 (1,400 people said hello at VidCon), it is Wednesday; John introduces his top 10 VidCon moments

  • ★★ John says he is just back from VidCon and has compiled his top ten VidCon moments for Hank. — 00:00:07 · VidCon

00:00:12 — Moments 10-7: dancing to All Caps' 'Don't Unplug Me'; Meekakitty's velociraptor; Dan Brown's Dan 3.0 announcement; hiimrawn's turkey costume and Batman

  • ★ John's number ten is dancing to the All Caps song 'Don't Unplug Me'; he says he can't dance but is passionate about it. (playful) — 00:00:12
  • ★ John's number nine is Meekakitty's velociraptor: scary, but also alluring. (playful) — 00:00:28
  • ★★ Dan Brown (quoted): In a clip, Dan Brown announces Dan 3.0: for one year he is putting complete control of his life in viewers' hands. — 00:00:34
  • ★★ John thinks Dan 3.0 will be a fascinating social experiment, though he fears that if the brothers did it people would make them put unicorns on their heads all the time. (hedged) — 00:00:43
  • ★ John's number seven: hiimrawn asked him to dress as a turkey for his musical production, and when John asked what to do, Rawn told a man dressed as Batman to be a leader. (playful) — 00:00:50

00:01:07 — Moments 6-5: John sings on stage with Hank; the mass hug at the Nerdfighter gathering

  • ★★ John's number six is singing on stage with Hank, which he calls the first and last time in his life. (playful) — 00:01:07 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John's number five is the mass hug at the Nerdfighter gathering, involving hundreds of Nerdfighters. — 00:01:29 · Nerdfighteria, VidCon

00:01:34 — Moments 4-2: Ze Frank's keynote on why we make videos; how nice everyone was; the Gregory Brothers' Double Rainbow song

  • ★★ John says Ze Frank gave the most astonishingly brilliant keynote address he has ever heard. (hedged) — 00:01:34
  • ★★★ John, endorsing Ze Frank's keynote, says we don't make or watch videos for money, subscribers or views, but to feel what it's like to be other people and let others feel what it's like to be us. — 00:01:39 · empathy
  • ★★ John says that although YouTubers are mostly introverted, nerdy people, everyone at VidCon was incredibly nice, famous people did not act famous, and the vibe was supportive and collaborative. — 00:01:51 · celebrity, VidCon, YouTube
  • ★★ John's number two is 'Double Rainbow': the Gregory Brothers of Auto-Tune the News singing a song they had written mere hours before. — 00:02:08

00:02:49 — Moment 1: Hank singing about particle physics to a thousand people; thanks to Hank for making VidCon

  • ★★ John's number one is seeing Hank sing about particle physics in front of a thousand people who loved every second of it. — 00:02:49 · Hank Green
  • ★★★ John thanks Hank for the thousands of hours he spent making VidCon and says it felt like his favourite parts of the internet existed in real life for three days. — 00:03:08 · Hank Green, VidCon

00:03:18 — Ask: favourite parts of VidCon and wishes for VidCon 2011

  • ★★ John asks those who were at VidCon, in person or on the live stream, to say what their favourite parts were and, if Hank does it again, who and what they want at VidCon 2011. — 00:03:18 · VidCon, Hank Green

00:03:33 — Hank interrupts: the Vlogbrothers enter the top 100 most-subscribed channels; thanks; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank cuts in to announce that the Vlogbrothers have just broken into the top 100 most-subscribed YouTube channels, thanking Ray William Johnson, Charlieissocoollike and Meekakitty. (playful) — 00:03:33 · Vlogbrothers, YouTube

Humor (significant)

  • John admits he can't dance but is very passionate about it. — 00:00:18

    “The same way I felt about French kissing in high school.”

  • John likes Dan 3.0 as a social experiment but imagines what viewers would do if the brothers handed over their lives. — 00:00:46

    “people would just make us put unicorns on our head all the time.”

  • John, in a turkey costume, asks hiimrawn whether he is supposed to dance or get on stage. — 00:01:04

    “Batman, I'm going to need you to be a leader in this situation.”

  • As John signs off, Hank interrupts him in the manner of a famous awards-show interruption. — 00:03:33

    “I'm happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but the Vlogbrothers have one of the most subscribed YouTube channels of all time!”

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Mentioned

Central: VidCon

Also: People: Dan Brown (creator) · hiimrawn · Meekakitty · Ze Frank

Projects: Stuff on Heads

Works: Don't Unplug Me · Double Rainbow Song · Strange Charm

Organizations: YouTube

Groups: ALL CAPS · The Gregory Brothers

Concepts: celebrity · empathy

Characters: Batman

Only in the description or credits: Charlie McDonnell · Ray William Johnson

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