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500,000 Subscribers (Almost...and Thank You)

2011-04-22 · letter vlog · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life) · mode: Personal update · tags: community lore, self promotion

With his planned video blocked, Hank rambles to camera: his rotating wall posters (starting with the 1972 Narnia map from his third video), a DFTBA poster idea, and thanks to Nerdfighteria for supporting his projects.

What is said

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

00:00:00 — Planned video can't go online; old-school talk to camera; props (hundred pennies, nerd-jokes duct tape)

  • ★★ Hank had a finished video ready for today but, for reasons he cannot yet explain, cannot put it online, so he makes an old-school talk-to-camera video. — 00:00:02
  • ★ Hank shows props: a hundred pennies in a cup for the video that could not go up, and duct tape from his nerd jokes video. — 00:00:22

00:00:34 — Rotating wall posters: the 1972 map of Narnia from his third video (January 5), worth $80-100 on eBay

  • ★★ The poster behind Hank is the map of the Realm of Narnia, which appeared with him in his third YouTube video, on January 5. — 00:00:47
  • ★ Hank recently learned the Narnia map was made in 1972 and sells on eBay for $80-100, so he will be more careful with it. — 00:01:16

00:01:34 — New poster every video; DFTBA Records posters idea; asks for poster designs

  • ★★ Hank, who has been rotating his wall posters for a while, will now show a new poster in every video; the first comment naming it wins nothing. — 00:01:34
  • ★★ DFTBA Records has not made posters so far; Hank, a fan of posters, wants to do posters and will look into it. — 00:01:46 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers for good poster design ideas in the comments. — 00:01:53 · DFTBA Records

00:01:56 — The Cheat toy and Strong Bad poster; spinning chair; leg-crossing trick

00:02:20 — Thanks to Nerdfighteria for supporting his schemes: Humpy Hank, P4A, Haiti; almost 500,000 subscribers

  • ★★★ Rewatching the Narnia video brought home to Hank how long the brothers have been doing this and how much has happened and been accomplished because of it. — 00:02:20
  • ★★★ Hank says without Nerdfighteria as a launching platform he could not have done anything with his idea; Nerdfighteria supports his hare-brained schemes. — 00:02:32 · Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank says Nerdfighteria's support runs from that to him humping things on Tumblr; he admits he did not mention it in his last video but was impressed. (playful) — 00:02:47 · Tumblr
  • ★★ More seriously, Hank credits the community for the Project for Awesome and for his trip to Haiti to examine nonprofits' work there. — 00:02:52 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Hank cannot express how thankful he is to make videos; this should be the 500,000-subscriber video, but he needs no special occasion to thank viewers. (hedged) — 00:03:02 · Nerdfighteria

00:03:21 — No sponsored videos; 2D Glasses on Amazon; Portal 2 on HankGames; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says the brothers do few sponsored videos because they have their own things to sell. — 00:03:21
  • ★★ 2D Glasses can now be bought on Amazon, for people without or not wanting a PayPal account. — 00:03:24 · Amazon
  • ★★ Hank's Portal 2 play-through is going well; he just uploaded the second episode, later than he wanted. — 00:03:33

00:03:44 — End screen: photo of skinny John throwing a dart in Hank's college dorm

  • ★ End screen: Hank shows a photo from his college dorm room of John, just out of college, very skinny, throwing a dart. — 00:03:44 · John Green

Humor (significant)

  • Hank announces a prize for the first comment that names each new poster. — 00:01:38

    “you will get... nothing.”

  • Mid-sentence about his Strong Bad poster, Hank's chair starts spinning on its own. — 00:01:56

    “why is my chair doing this?”

  • Hank thanks ticky-tacky for holding his posters on the walls, then adds a disclaimer. — 00:03:19

    “3M is not sponsoring this video.”

  • End screen photo from Hank's college dorm: John throwing a dart. — 00:03:54

    “he's super freakin' skinny!”

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Mentioned

Central: Hank's wall poster · Map of the Realm of Narnia

Also: Projects: DFTBA Records · Project for Awesome

Works: Portal 2

Organizations: 3M · Amazon · eBay · PayPal · Tumblr

Concepts: sponsorship

Places: Amsterdam · Haiti

Characters: Strong Bad · The Cheat

Only in the description or credits: 2D Glasses

Also centred on Hank's wall poster: 2011 Presidential Anagrams!!

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